My carbon off-sets are unfadeable so don't you try to fade me.
I was poking around on Grist the other day and found this list of "15 Green Movies." It's a little old by now (2007), but I thought it might be fun to take a look at. Surprise picks were the supremely silly The Day After Tomorrow (2004), the always excellent Chinatown (1974), and the whaaa? selection, Steven Segal actioner Fire Down Below (1997).
Weirdly, that most 'opian of dystopian movies, Soylent Green (1973) and Todd Haynes' creepy/sad Safe (1996) were relegated to runner-up status. I'm also wondering if room could be made for Host (2006), Long Weekend (1978), and Monkey Shines (1988), and I think there's an argument for Blade Runner (1982), Them! (1954), and The Birds (1963). Super-duper recent picks: Wall-E and Troma's Poultrygeist (2006), and Herzog's clutch of enviro meta-docs.
What say you, Boothers? And hey - here's an awesome bonus question: which director and/or screenwriter would you like to see tackle the enviro crisis? Me, I'd love to see a Guillermo Del Toro global warming flick...
3 comments:
I think a much cooler green list would include films that actually are green, meaning they utilized various eco-friendly methods of production and distribution wherever possible.
Me? I would love to have seen the great Robert Altman make one of his ever-illustrious tapestries of human life with our environmental crisis in the backdrop. Short Cuts kinda has environmental concerns (the invasion of the medfly and the resulting pesticides) within it, but something more apparent would be interesting a la Altman.
yeah - very neat idea, joaquin: for my always-being-planned earth liberation front pic, i wanted to shoot using equipment and methods that would be as carbon/pollution neutral as possible - i thought a dogme 95 app there might be really rich, a whole new perspective on that movement.
i love the idea of an enviro 'short cuts,' btw...
How about a Wong Kar-Wai love story about global warming? Or a Lynch film about recycling? Imagine the imagery and the sound!
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