Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends shares the same anti-colonial, utterly grim tenor as his Oscar-Nominated Darwin’s Nightmare (2004), an equally outstanding documentary where a swathe of African culture has been clobbered by the vestiges of European colonial powers, and levels of corruption guarantee the average citizen is effective fucked for generations…
Without a formal narrative structure, Hubert Sauper ‘s documentary occasionally uses captions and intertitles as aids, but the story within Darwin’s Nightmare pretty much relies on the words of locals and powerful images to document the social and evolutionary conflicts and catastrophies within a modest Tanzanian town by Lake Victoria…
While California Dreaming may have its fans – it features some nicely shot surfing sequences, and was filmed in the beach town of Avila prior to a major upgrade that mandated razing substantial beachfront area contaminated by petroleum seepage – time hasn’t been exactly kind to this extremely odd beach comedy / dramady / coming-of-age tale that features a unique cast of veteran and up-and-coming faces…
After achieving a meteoric career boost with Grease (1978) and The Blue Lagoon (1980), Randal Kleiser took time off in Greece, and quickly noticed the swathes of young adults arriving by boat and plane, camping on the nude beaches, and engaging in assorted relationships…
Back in 1997, film music magazine Film Score Monthly (FSM) had launched the first volume in what became their only entry in the branded Film Composer Interview Series, and the roughly 50 min. doc provides a rare homey snapshot of Basil Poledouris
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