Time Out Film Guide on The Unforeseen
The film is playing in the London Film Festival at the moment. This writeup appeared in the Time Out Film Guide. It’s a nice, short and sweet writeup… (Pantheist crack notwithstanding!)
Expanding with an organic sweep, Dunn’s debut eco-doc turns the battle to save a beloved Austin, Texas, swimming hole from ambitious urban developers into an engrossing microcosmic metaphor – first global, then spiritual – for a world eating itself alive in its hunger for growth. Lensed with a lyrical beauty that nods squarely to exec producer Terrence Malick, Dunn’s musings arrive via startling visual symmetries, refocusing gracefully between great (God’s-eye photography, motion graphics) and small (talking heads, glittering underwater footage). Even if the director eventually hard-pedals her pantheist imagery into cliché, this inconvenient truth is discreet, intimate and regularly surprising. Author: Jonathan Crocker
Viennale (Vienna, Austria)
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Viennale!
October 29, 9pm, Metro
October 30, 11am, Kunstlerhaus Kino
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AFI Film Festival - Los Angeles
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Wimberley, Texas screening
Corral Theater, dusk.
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Hill Country screening under the stars….
WIMBERLEY TO PREVIEW NEW FILM BY AUSTIN DIRECTOR LAURA DUNN
The Corral Theatre in Wimberley, Texas, is having a sneak preview of award-winning Austin director
Laura Dunn’s new film, “The Unforeseen,” on October 27 and 28
Sponsoring the film is the Wimberley Valley Watershed Association. Tickets for the Saturday
screening, which features Dunn in a Q&A session, are $20. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Hays
County Community Action Network. Tickets for the Sunday show are $5. The theater opens at 6:30
p.m., and the film starts at 7:30 p.m. Movie goers may need to bring a sweater and lawn chair for this
special screening.
The open-air Corral Theatre, built in 1948, is the only outdoor movie theater in the U.S. that features first-run films. Movies always start at dusk. For more info, click here.
AFI Fest announces 2007 Lineup - “The Unforeseen” in Competition
The film was accepted into the International Documentary competition at AFI Fest in Los Angeles.
- Tuesday, November 6th 9:45pm | ArcLight Theatre 14
- Thursday, November 8th 3:30pm | ArcLight Theatre 14
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Boom, bust in area beset by foreclosures - Yahoo! News
Boom, bust in area beset by foreclosures - Yahoo! News
This is the tale of how America’s real estate boom came to a seemingly ordinary subdivision called the Villages at Queen Creek, where the whipsaw of easy credit has led to some extraordinary times.They were the best of times, for a while. The empty homes, though, raise serious doubts about what comes next.
As the nation confronts skyrocketing foreclosures, and policymakers try to contain a symptomatic credit crunch, what is happening here and in scores of similar neighborhoods is worth considering.
Because while the pressures at work in Queen Creek were extreme, the choices people made — and the consequences of those decisions — are not so different from those faced by thousands of other homeowners and their neighbors.
“Honestly,” says Joy Kessler, a mother of three boys standing on the doorstep of the house she and her husband are surrendering to foreclosure, “if you were in this situation, what would you do?”
(Photo spotted at Canadian Amtrak Station-It seems fitting that Business 2.0, formed in the prior Tech bubble, would give up the ghost as the Real Estate Bubble blows)
Review - Eye Weekly
We really weren’t sure how this would play outside of the US. Hopefully our other imminent international screenings like the film as this Canadian reviewer (From a division of the Toronto Star) did.
Eye Weekly - Feature - 10.04.07
Speaking of weird hybrids, American director Laura Dunn’s The Unforeseen (*****) answers the question “what if Robert Redford and Terence Malick had an HD baby?” Both men have producer credits on this focused yet expansive documentary, which examines the furor over proposed property developments in an extra-liberal section of Austin, Texas, in the early 1990s. A grassroots campaign to protect a community-sustaining hot spring from predatory builders proved successful until a certain rough, smirking beast slouched into the governor’s office and turned the tide.There’s more to it than anti-Bush sabre rattling, however. The Unforeseen is the rare doc that tempers its emotional appeals with formal and intellectual rigour. The blend of conventional tactics (talking heads, including Redford’s grizzled mug) with brilliantly designed graphics and Malickian lyrical interludes keeps the film fresh for its duration, and a slow-cooked metaphor linking urban sprawl to cancer (both are comprised of cells replicating beyond a body’s ability to properly integrate them) hits with furious force. The film is a masterpiece of sorts, proving that agit-prop can work outside of the hectoring, Michael Moore-minted format.
Speaking of Austin 2027…
Austin-post-facelift/implants/tummy tuck/liposuction is now available as a poster (click image to buy)
