Cast:Grace Lee Boggs, Bruce Damer, Chellis Glendinning, Stanislov Grof, Chris Hedges
Running Time:102 Minutes
Rated:NR
Don't get me wrong: I think the environment is a very important issue in today's world. That being said, I have watched so many documentaries and TV shows about this that I feel like they are all saying the same thing all the time. Fall and Winter tells an important story, but I feel it falls into the category of repetitive rather than innovative.
Fall and Winter is more of a photographed story rather than your conventional movie. Most of the images you see and video came from somewhere else. The story tells us about the search of what is causing our unfolding global crisis.
What I did like about the movie compared to other TV shows and movies about the subject is that it does uncovers new strategies for the future while drawing on past ideas and thoughts.
Overall, Fall and Winter is probably something I would have rather watched on Discovery channel. To no fault of the movie, there are just so many movies out now about earth and climate change. While the cinema-photography is well done, it didn't really separate itself from other films. If you at a film festival and you're feeling environmentally conscious, then maybe you will enjoy this film more than I did.
About Stephen Davis
I owe this hobby/career to the one and only Stephanie Peterman who, while interning at Fox, told me that I had too many opinions and irrelevant information to keep it all bottled up inside. I survived my first rated R film, Alive, at the ripe age of 8, it took me months to grasp the fact that Julia Roberts actually died at the end of Steel Magnolias, and I might be the only person alive who actually enjoyed Sorority Row…for its comedic value of course. While my friends can drink you under the table, I can outwatch you when it comes iconic, yet horrid 80s films like Adventures in Babysitting and Troop Beverly Hills. I have no shame when it comes to what I like, and if you have a problem with that, then we’ll settle it on the racquetball court. I see too many movies to actually win any film trivia contest, so don’t waste your first pick on me. My friends rent movies from my bookcase shelves, and one day I do plan to start charging. I long to live in LA, where my movie obsession will actually help me fit in, but for now I am content with my home in Austin. I prefer indies to blockbusters, Longhorns to Sooners and Halloween to Friday the 13th. I miss the classics, as well as John Ritter, and I hope to one day sit down and interview the amazing Kate Winslet.
