{"id":4808,"date":"2012-05-02T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2012-05-02T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T01:00:10","slug":"hotdocs-despite-the-gods-chasing-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4808","title":{"rendered":"HotDocs: Despite the Gods + Chasing Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DespiteTheGods_poster_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3098\" title=\"DespiteTheGods_poster_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DespiteTheGods_poster_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>Jennifer Chambers Lynch is best known for three things: she&#8217;s David Lynch&#8217;s daughter, she wrote the best-selling novel &#8220;Laura Palmer&#8217;s Diary&#8221; during her dad&#8217;s <strong>Twin Peaks<\/strong> run on ABC, and she made <strong>Boxing Helena<\/strong> (1993) &#8211; a film so badly received that it pushed her away from making movies for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to laugh at the concept of critical derision pushing a filmmaker into a state of massive inner doubt, but that&#8217;s sort of what happened to David Lean when <strong>Ryan&#8217;s Daughter <\/strong>(1970) was derided and Lean didn&#8217;t make a movie until 1984 &#8211; the rather precious Colonial bore<strong> A Passage to India<\/strong>. Lynch is not Lean &#8211; I&#8217;m not saying that &#8211; but there are some filmmakers who can take the hits (Uwe Boll &#8211; a genuine clod) and still get up and make a film regardless of how much the critics hate them, or they just don&#8217;t give a crap and make movies because it&#8217;s part of their DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Jennifer Lynch will become an indie director of note is a crapshoot because <strong>Surveillance<\/strong> (2008) slipped onto DVD without any fanfare, and her third film, <strong>Hiss<\/strong> (2010), was  released within South Asia in a producer&#8217;s cut &#8211; which of course ought to make any making-of doc about Lynch in India directing a problem-plagued Bollywood horror\/comedy\/drama\/musical an instant curiosity. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/3970_DespiteTheGods.htm\">Despite the Gods<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4788\">M<\/a>] isn&#8217;t horrible, and Lynch doesn&#8217;t come off as a shrill woman-child, but there are issues going on which director Penny Vozniak doesn&#8217;t really address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ChasingIce_poster_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3099\" title=\"ChasingIce_poster_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ChasingIce_poster_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>To the flipside, there&#8217;s Jeff Orlowski&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/c\/3971_ChasingIce.htm\">Chasing Ice<\/a> <\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4799\">M<\/a>] which really should be seen on the big screen, because the cinematography and sound design are superb.<\/p>\n<p>Read the capsule review for further details as to why this enviro-doc and part bio on National Geographic photographer James Balog is so remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Coming next: James Franco IS <strong>Francophrenia<\/strong> (whatever that means).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capsule reviews from the latest HotDocs screenings: Despite the Gods (2012), and Chasing Ice (2012) making it&#8217;s Canadian American premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[1107,1275,1276,1266,1273,1278],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1fy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}