1 week Ago By Sarah Wright
If you haven’t celebrated “Liberation Day” yet, no sweat. The new Errol Morris documentary “Tune Out The Noise” was made for this moment, and I kid you not. It is a super nerdy, wildly academic confab of Nobel Prize-winning economists who pioneered modern finance.
See for yourself:Seriously, this is the one film you ought to see this week, in a “stop-what-you’re-doing-sit-down-and-just-watch-this” kind of way. Why?Because He Alone broke the stock market last week and into this week, and who knows for how long? But science is your friend and mine. Plus, “Tune Out The Noise” has a soothing original score and magnificent contemporary art throughout, mostly of the outdoor-sculpture variety.
If you love MASS MoCA, I am confident you will dig this, too.Featuring 15 stable geniuses who serendipitously met at the University of Chicago eons ago, their timing was a gift. The Great Depression and World War II were over, but the Vietnam War had not quite started.
More importantly, this sweet spot in time equals the dawn of the computer age, which produced tons of data.You can meet the cast here. After watching the film, if you know who my favorite cast member is, please write a Letter to the Editor and explain your reasoning.
Truly, it could not be more obvious, said Woman on the Verge.Anyway, Morris is a gifted interviewer—let alone filmmaker. I loved how he used graphic images to illustrate what his brainy subjects were talking about.
I mean, “stochastic” is not a household word, but you don’t need a Ph.D. to understand the film’s spot-on message.
And as fate would have it, this film quietly demands your attention. After all, do turn out the noise.Photo courtesy of Dimensional.
In other news, I am mourning the death of Val Kilmer. Bad things apparently do happen in threes, if not trillions. First it was David Lynch.
Then it was Gene Hackman. Kilmer nearly killed me. Alas, I watched 1984’s “Top Secret!” over the weekend and laughed out loud.
One look at this poster says it all, right?Courtesy of Paramount Pictures.Finally, last week I said I wanted to share some thoughts about recent controversies surrounding this year’s winner for Best Documentary Feature Film, “No Other Land.”Readers, I have had a change of heart.
The bottom line is I hope you saw this powerful film when it screened at The Triplex. You know I welcome controversy. But “No Other Land” will remain controversial for the foreseeable future, maybe forever.
I sincerely hope not, and I wish the entire “No Other Land” filmmaking team nothing but the best..
