12:20pm - Collapse - dir. Chris Smith - Starring: Michael Ruppert How is that a talking-head documentary can be described as "an intellectual horror film" or, in the case of Variety, "makes countless other political documentaries look like episodes of "Teletubbies"? Esteemed, credible, critics went gaga at this movie because its subject preaches about a coming Collapse in terms that are disturbingly hard to refute. And what a subject he is - the trailer itself asks you if he's a wacko.
I'm not certain the film's producers made a decision on that one - Michael Ruppert accurately predicted the Global Financial Crisis years ahead of its eventual arrival, and now he's turned his attention to the culture of a post peak-oil world. Refreshingly, he's a chain-smoking, right-wing, former cop. So, not your usual bleeding heart liberal then. As The Onion says, the film's director wisely includes "several exceptionally poignant moments, [which] allows us to see an angry, lonely, vulnerable man whose life epitomizes the title as much as the globe does."
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