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THE UNFORESEEN. Laura Dunn United States, 2007. Documentary. 93. NOT RATED. Produced in part by Terrence Malick and Sundance founding father Robert Redford, Laura Dunn’s film is a different kind of documentary. Urgent yet without resorting to polemic, the film is a meditative and poetic view of man’s place in the world.
The film opens with Freshman invocation intercut with a custodian cleaning a dorm bathroom.The main thesis of the piece is revealed through these interviews: corporate influences on higher education are rendering a generation apathetic to the plight of poor people. The film culminates with Yale’s 295th Commencement. As graduates march in cap and gown, Jesse Jackson marches in protest with ...
Real estate developer Tom Bradley has a dream: to build a subdivision. But the realization of that dream in Austin, Texas, has results far beyond his own imagining. Bradley's enormous development ...
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But everything about the film, from the rhapsodic imagery to the Wendell Berry quotations, is more in keeping with a reverie than a rallying call. And where most issue-driven documentaries often entail a simplification of the issues, The Unforeseen never stops looking for nuance and complexity, embracing a perspective so vast and themes so timeless it could justifiably be called cosmic.
The fifth performance-based film project by VestAndPage deals with Deep Time and layers of memory in human history and the geological. In prehistoric caves of the UNESCO World Heritage Site at the Swabian Jura and through international collaborations and interdisciplinary processes, science meets performance art, theatre, dance, visual art, and music.
The film concludes by returning to the developer who now finds himself in a federal bankruptcy case. He owes over $80 million and is being tried for filing of false bankruptcy. Courtroom audio is played to imagery of development, farmland and courtroom illustrations while the developer reflects on his strengths and weaknesses. The film draws to a close with the developer reflecting on the the ...
The Unforeseen is 25222 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 26217 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Ice Sharks but less popular than What Did the Lady Forget?.
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