This is wonderful
film-making! Needs to be seen on big screen, don't wait for
DVD release. Film needs to show a good turn out for it to be
continued in commercial theaters. First weekend very
important.
"The Cove"
This Weekend! 2:15, 5:00, 7:30pm showings, Plaza de
Oro Theater, 371 South Hitchcock Way
Jean Michel Cousteau and members of film crew in attendance,
Saturday
(Winner of Sundance Audience Award) Ric O'Barry
was a trainer for the hugely popular1960's television show
"Flipper", now he believes dolphins don't belong in captivity,
where they experience high mortality rate.
A little town with a big secret, Taiji, Japan, where migrating dolphins
are herded into nets for buyers around the world to select for captivity
for aquarium shows, then into a hidden cove, where the largest dolphin
slaughter in the world takes place, the meat being sold in Japanese
supermarkets, and for children school lunch programs, usually mislabeled
as whale meat, and laden with toxic levels of mercury. The Cove is
the first product of the non-profit company, Oceanic Preservation
Society, OPS.
This movie is about the health of our planet and the oceans, told around
a story about dolphins...
Beautiful freediving sequences
http://thecovemovie.com/the_cove/freediving.htm
"The Cove" review (5/5).
Summer's best thriller. A Combination of Flipper and the Bourne
Identity.
- 28 July 2009 10:57 AM, PDT |
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- The number of environmentally themed films crowding
specialty cinemas is staggering and quite honestly many tend to blur
together. Shattering this green trend is director
Louie Psihoyos and
screenwriter Mark
Monroe who set their incredible documentary
"The Cove"
apart by turning their environmental tale into a taut espionage thriller.
Their artistic bravery and willingness to tweak documentary formula
result in the most suspenseful film of the summer. Following a secret
team of activists who risk their safety filming the harvesting of
dolphins in the remote port town of Taiji, Japan, Psihoyos brings to the
film much of what documentary fans expect: beautiful photography,
fascinating subjects and a rallying cause. »
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