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I Cannot Tell You How I Feel
Filmmaker Su Friedrich moves her fiesty mother into an "independent living" facility.
Filmmaker Su Friedrich moves her fiesty mother into an "independent living" facility.
Su Friedrich has taken up the camera again in her ongoing quest to film the battleground of family life. Her mother Lore--who played the lead in The Ties That Bind (1984), a film about her experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War--plays the lead again, this time kicking and protesting against being moved at the age of 94 from her home i...
Filmmaker Su Friedrich moves her fiesty mother into an "independent living" facility.
Su Friedrich has taken up the camera again in her ongoing quest to film the battleground of family life. Her mother Lore--who played the lead in The Ties That Bind (1984), a film about her experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War--plays the lead again, this time kicking and protesting against being moved at the age of 94 from her home in Chicago.
Su and her two siblings fill out the supporting roles, cajoling, comforting, and freaking out, but they cannot deny that their mother is no longer able to care for herself. Lore has severe memory loss and is convinced that her doorman has been robbing her. She often asks Su the same question repeatedly and cannot remember what she ate for breakfast. In an effort for Su and her siblings to be closer to her, they move her from her home of 50 years to an"independent living" facility in Long Island, New York.
I Cannot Tell You How I Feel is heartfelt examination of growing old in today's society, and the responsibility of adult children to their parents.
"By candidly confronting personal struggles, Friedrich's films invite reflections on broader, often universal concerns. This is again the case with her latest, I Cannot Tell You How I Feel, which offers a moving, tragic, frequently funny, and profoundly empathetic consideration of mortality and filial responsibility."--Giovanni Marchini Camia, Fandor
"There's been a recent, very interesting micro-trend among female experimental filmmakers. In the past few years, we've seen films by Chantal Akerman (No Home Movie) and Beth B (Call Her Applebroog) that see each filmmaker dealing with her relationship with her aging mother, and how her mother's past reflects upon the director's present. Su Friedrich's I Cannot Tell You How I Feel is a thoughtful, richly felt addition to the genre." --Dana Reinoos, Screen Slate
"I can tell you how I feel about I Cannot Tell You How I Feel: it is aesthetically unpretentious, ethically adult, and carefully crafted -- and precisely as long as it should be. Its candidness about dealing with aging relatives is an engaging antidote to the usual myths, cartoons, and melodramas about aging so common in movies and on television. As participant director and narrator (in both voice-over and visual text), Friedrich is by turns wryly good-humored, self-involved and self-aware, pained, frustrated, and compassionate. For those who remember The Ties That Bind (1984), Friedrich's breakthrough film about her mother growing up as an anti-Nazi German in the 1930s and 1940s, watching the feisty Lore Friedrich deal with moving to the strange new world of assisted living has particular poignancy." --Scott MacDonald, author of 'Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema'
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Cholesterol, the Great Bluff
For more than six decades, doctors, nutritionists, and public health officials have been waging a war against high cholesterol in an effort to fight heart disease. It's a war that has seen the demonization of saturated fats, the rise and fall of hydrogenated oils, and the introduction of several generations of "mi...
For more than six decades, doctors, nutritionists, and public health officials have been waging a war against high cholesterol in an effort to fight heart disease. It's a war that has seen the demonization of saturated fats, the rise and fall of hydrogenated oils, and the introduction of several generations of "miracle" drugs.
But what if the basic premise linking cholesterol and heart disease is wrong?
CHOLESTEROL, THE GREAT BLUFF convincingly a...
For more than six decades, doctors, nutritionists, and public health officials have been waging a war against high cholesterol in an effort to fight heart disease. It's a war that has seen the demonization of saturated fats, the rise and fall of hydrogenated oils, and the introduction of several generations of "miracle" drugs.
But what if the basic premise linking cholesterol and heart disease is wrong?
CHOLESTEROL, THE GREAT BLUFF convincingly argues that the link between cholesterol and heart disease is tenuous--and that its persistence results from a potent mix of bad science, entrenched interests, and pharmaceutical profits.
The problems date from the earliest days of the cholesterol hypothesis, first proposed by physiologist Ancel Keys, who proposed that a diet high in saturated fight leads to cardiovascular disease. GP and medical journalist Dominique Dupagne cites evidence that Keys cherry-picked his data. But it was too late. Americans were trying to understand what lay behind the soaring rate of heart attacks, and fat seemed like the perfect villain. Once saturated fats were to blame, heavily industrialized products such as "pure vegetable shortening"--the result of a process including emulsification, bleaching, and steam-cleaning--come to be seen as healthier foods.
As the film makes clear, researchers who made any serious attempt to study other hypotheses--that sugar led to vascular disease, for instance--found themselves threatened, their research funding cut and their careers derailed.
CHOLESTEROL, THE GREAT BLUFF deploys an array of authoritative and engaging experts to attack the foundations of the cholesterol hypothesis. Author and nutritionist Sylvain Duval uses markers and easy-to-understand analogies to explain the mechanisms of how cholesterol works and how the body uses different fats. Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz lays out how Keys came to demonize cholesterol, and details the intimidation faced by those who sought alternatives. Cardiologist and nutritionist Michel de Lorgeril, who did the first study on the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, is scathing in his views on the pharmaceutical industry's complicity in propagating faulty research, including the studies that led to the widespread adoption of statins. The film also hears from an array of other researchers, physicians, and writers who, among other things, question the notion of "good" and "bad" cholesterol.
Peppered throughout are vintage and recent clips from advertising (including Tom & Jerry pushing margarine), sponsored films, and newscasts blaring the latest cholesterol breakthroughs.
A rigorous investigation on the cholesterol case, dealing with social, political, scientific and economical issues.
"Clear and pointed."--Télérama
"An explosive investigation."--Films & Documentaires.com
"Exposes and denies all of the accepted ideas about cholesterol. The results are as fascinating as they are surprising."--Télé-Loisirs
"Not to be missed!" --Thierry Souccar Editions
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Chronic Disease, Obesity, and Diet
Chronic diseases are new curse of Western civilizations. We continue to see increases of people in America suffering from such diseases as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, and Alzheimer's.
Chronic Disease, Obesity, and Poor Nutrition Health highlights the difference between chronic and...
Chronic diseases are new curse of Western civilizations. We continue to see increases of people in America suffering from such diseases as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, and Alzheimer's.
Chronic Disease, Obesity, and Poor Nutrition Health highlights the difference between chronic and acute diseases, explains what's at the root of chronic diseases and looks at how poor nutrition is a major cause of chronic diseases....
Chronic diseases are new curse of Western civilizations. We continue to see increases of people in America suffering from such diseases as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, and Alzheimer's.
Chronic Disease, Obesity, and Poor Nutrition Health highlights the difference between chronic and acute diseases, explains what's at the root of chronic diseases and looks at how poor nutrition is a major cause of chronic diseases. Dramatic new scientific findings now point to the food industry as a major cause for the obesity epidemic.
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