Movies: November 2008 Archives

The excitement of documentary filmmaking is that you never know exactly where the story will take you. The makers of startup.com probably never set out to make a morality tale about the outsize egos of internet start-ups, or "the rise and fall of the American dream" as the tagline eventually proclaimed, nor does one imagine that the filmmakers of Holyland Hardball intended to make a movie about cultural separation and the rise and fall of American dreamers. But the end result is a thoroughly entertaining documentary movie about misplaced altruism, about the desire to do something for someone else, without ever stopping to think about whether or not the "good deed" is wanted at all....