Al Gore, Sundance's Leading Man

[Rose Siding]

By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 26, 2006; Page A01

PARK CITY, Utah -- Has ever a little indie film faced a greater hurdle? Imagine this sales pitch: Babe, it's a movie about global warming. Starring Al Gore. Doing a slide show.

With charts.

Improbable? Perhaps. So it's all the more amazing that "An Inconvenient Truth" had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday night before an enthusiastic audience that gave the former vice president and his movie a big standing O.

Among the film's lessons: Earth's glaciers are melting, the polar bears are screwed, each year sets new heat records. Al Gore sometimes flies coach. He also schleps his own bags.

The morning after his debut as leading man, Gore pronounces this whole Sundance thing "a most excellent time." He is wearing earth tones again. He seems jolly . He brought Tipper and the kids. He is attending parties and posing for pictures with his fans and enjoying macaroni and cheese at the Discovery Channel soiree. He's palling around with Larry David of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," who says, "Al is a funny guy." But he is also a very serious guy who believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan.......MORE........

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012502230.html

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1. Another excellent review from the Hollywood Reporter

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/awards/sundance/reviews_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001737912

An Inconvenient Truth

By Kirk Honeycutt

PARK CITY -- There are two agendas behind Davis Guggenheim's "An Inconvenient Truth." One is to bring to a much larger audience former Vice President Al Gore's fascinating multimedia presentation of the facts and issues arising from the phenomenon of global climate change. The other is to re-introduce to the American public a man we thought we knew but clearly did not. The film, which is screening in the Spectrum sidebar, succeeds on both counts.

The danger, of course, is that viewership for the film, which is looking for distribution, will divide along red state/blue state lines. Gore does make a strong argument that the need to address global warming is not a political but a moral issue. Time is running out as witnessed by the record number of tornadoes in the Midwest, the torrential flooding in Mumbai, India, and Hurricane Katrina all in one year.

What Gore strives to make crystal clear to anyone in opposition is that the tools and methods to reverse these calamitous changes are at hand -- no new inventions required -- and that the economic consequences of tackling the problem are positive rather than negative. The idea that responsible environmental protection is bad for the economy is exposed here through facts and science for what it is -- a Big Lie.

(more... )

[jab105]

2. Please make this man run for president...

oh my gosh...

every day, the difference between him and * is just so much more obvious and tragically sad for our country...

[Rose Siding]

3. It irks me that within a few opening paragraphs,

both the old "boring" media myth and brown clothes are trotted out, albeit to dispel the former.

[Gloria]

4. Rotten Tomatoes review plus movie poster.....great!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x244437

Rotten Tomatoes review plus a shot of the wonderful poster....

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

:kick: