Synopsis
Climate change for good.
Academy Award® winning director Charles Ferguson's new film investigates global climate change villains and heroes, and reveals practical solutions to act on.
2015 Directed by Charles Ferguson
Academy Award® winning director Charles Ferguson's new film investigates global climate change villains and heroes, and reveals practical solutions to act on.
I think my teacher really wants to depress us because we've watched 3 documentaries about earth dying in the past 2 weeks.
TIME TO CHOOSE – so which side are you on?
After reviewing the series of quality environmentally-themed documentaries that have been appearing on Rialto Channel over the past few weeks I have to say: it’s a popular subject right now. And with good reason. With all the deniers and corporates still waging war against environmental reforms, there probably can’t be too many of these films being made, so bring it on.
It is Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson’s (INSIDE JOB, NO END IN SIGHT) turn to point his lens at the worldwide climate change challenges in tonight’s film, TIME TO CHOOSE. It treads some familiar ground but also offers new insights that make the sometimes-info heavy film well worth…
From the maker of the masterful ''Inside Job'' comes an underwhelming entry-level doco on climate change. Whether it be the exotic locations shot with sexy aerial photography or the emphasis on corruption in 3rd world governments, the film approaches its subject along a well-worn path at the expense of the viewer's personal identification with an issue that is essentially based in the everyday experience.
In fact, the film has a suspicious corporate agenda of its own - often using images of open-cut mines and other environmental disasters as a hellacious contrast to the shiny new Tesla electric car - suggesting that sustainability is only an act of consumerism away, while conveniently ignoring the problem of latent energy use inherent in such technological innovations.
Check out the French indie doco ''Tomorrow'' instead.
i thought this was a cure for wellness from the poster............i've been deceived!!!!
but for real......why are we such destroyers?
About 10+ different stories/topics explored that could float their own documentary, but Ferguson has a real talent for simplifying and clarifying complicated or unwieldy information.
Counters the doomsday scenarios with real solutions and positivity within the doc, not just a URL at the end.
Really strong work.
As a documentary, I thought it was fine. There are some hard hitting and emotionally resonant things in this but for the most part it seemed a little preachy.
Really fascinating. But I think any film on climate change that doesn't scare the piss out of you didn't quite hit the mark. This one came very close though.
Also Oscar Isaac is trying way too hard to sound like a serious narrator.
A slick, wide-ranging documentary on the primary causes of climate change and what can be done to counteract it, by the writer and director of prior superb activist political documentaries, Charles Ferguson.
In parts narrated, talking heads, and stat-driven, it balances the methods of information delivery well via chaptered segments focusing on particular areas of concern. These latest data points are just more and more shocking with every doc, and it can get depressing how badly we're failing in so many corners of the civilized world.
But while half of each chapter is a downer, the other half tries to be optimistic, showing or describing solutions either in progress or theoretical. Much of this is wishful thinking that can only…
Academy Award®-Winning documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson (Inside Job, No End in Sight) turns his lens to address worldwide climate change challenges and solutions in his new film TIME TO CHOOSE. Featuring narration by award-winning actor Oscar Isaac, TIME TO CHOOSE leaves audiences understanding not only what is wrong, but what can to be done to fix this global threat. Ferguson explores the comprehensive scope of the climate change crisis and examines the power of solutions already available. Through interviews with world-renowned entrepreneurs, innovators, thought leaders and brave individuals living on the front lines of climate change, Ferguson takes an In-depth look at the remarkable people working to save our planet. Solid documentary....
I think my teacher really wants to depress us because we've watched 3 documentaries about earth dying in the past 2 weeks.
From the maker of the masterful ''Inside Job'' comes an underwhelming entry-level doco on climate change. Whether it be the exotic locations shot with sexy aerial photography or the emphasis on corruption in 3rd world governments, the film approaches its subject along a well-worn path at the expense of the viewer's personal identification with an issue that is essentially based in the everyday experience.
In fact, the film has a suspicious corporate agenda of its own - often using images of open-cut mines and other environmental disasters as a hellacious contrast to the shiny new Tesla electric car - suggesting that sustainability is only an act of consumerism away, while conveniently ignoring the problem of latent energy use inherent in such technological innovations.
Check out the French indie doco ''Tomorrow'' instead.
While I already agree with most of what the film has to say, it still felt a little heavy handed to me. I guess it needs to be sometimes because this is a real issue that is very easy to ignore. The film is also just a scratching at the surface, much of the complexity of the solutions are ignored. And there isn't much at all about garbage and waste.
Sadly nuclear power is lumped with the coal and natural gas plants. There is a lot to say for nuclear power. Nuclear is a zero carbon emitter. And the reason it is so expensive is because of regulation and safety precautions not fuel costs. It could be subsidized too. Besides…
Look, this won't change your life, but Charles Ferguson knows how to direct a doc, the editing is real good, and there are worse voices to hear for an hour and a half than Oscar Isaac's.
Another hard hitting climate change documentary. The segment on Nigeria is a mirror for what is happening in other countries - that is many are living in poverty whilst a few are luxuriating from the country's (oil) wealth and are quite happy with the status quo. Let's hope these greedy bastards get a good dose of gout (or something).
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