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Posted 1 year ago
Code Rush, produced in 2000 and broadcast on PBS, is an inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era. The film follows a group of Netscape engineers as they pursue at that time a revolutionary venture to save their company - giving away the software recipe for Netscape’s browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside software developers.
This is worth your time. It’s one of the more foreboding documentaries I’ve ever seen, particularly in retrospect.
Posted 1 year ago
The Tillman Story - My Thoughts
If I took one idea away from The Tillman Story, it would be Rich Tillman’s quote from his brother Pat’s funeral:
“Pat isn’t with God. He’s fucking dead. He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s fucking dead.”
When Rich spoke at his brother’s service, he was frustrated to a breaking point. It was too much for him to stand complacently by while speaker after speaker aggrandized Pat, painting him with the colors of their own beliefs. It was the purest statement of The Tillman Story.
In Amir Bar-Lev’s directorial follow up to the venerable documentary My Kid Could Paint That, he tackles a much different beast…
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Read the rest of my review on UGO.com - http://www.ugo.com/movies/the-tillman-story-review
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