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It is a battle over protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal. Mining and burning coal is at the epicenter of America’s struggle to balance its energy needs with environmental and health concerns. Nowhere is that concern greater than in Coal River Valley, West Virginia, where a small.
f you’re a film lover who can’t make it to Park City, Sundance is like the world’s biggest tease: a beautiful woman who kisses your neck and whispers in your ear and then vows not to sleep with you for twelve months. There’s nothing more frustrating than articles about incredible movies you won’t be able to see anytime soon, if at all. The only good news stories out of Sundance are the acquisitions, since they provide hope that, yes, someday we will see these films opening in a theater near us.
With that in mind, I’ve compiled all the Sundance acquisitions I could find into a single list. I decided to organize them by release date, though most still being determined. As more sales leak out, I’ll try to update this as best I can (you can suggest additions to me on Twitter as well). And if you’re sick of being teased, »
My Thoughts: The Last Mountain is a documentary about coal companies and their destruction of Appalachian Mountains in the pursuit of coal. This last year has been pretty bad for mine accidents, with the Chilean miners (though that one at least ended well) and other severe mine accidents in New Zealand and West Virginia. The film doesn’t seem to deal specifically with these kinds of mine accidents so much as the environmental issues that develop outside of mines, bad water, kids with cancer, buildings covered with coal dust. It looks a little more in the vein of something like An Inconvenient Truth rather than Harlan County USA, the way large words cover the screen to make a point and the music in the background suggests that something is definitely amiss. Still it has some elements of the latter, »
If you need something new to be incensed about, “The Last Mountain,” a documentary directed by Bill Haney (of 2007’s “The Price of Sugar”), will do the trick nicely. Its outrage of choice is mountaintop removal (MTR) mining, the considerably controversial practice of deforesting and then dynamiting mountain ridges to extract coal seams, then piling everything back up in roughly the same shape — except nothing ever seems to grow there again. MTR is closely associated with Appalachia, and the film’s primary battleground is Coal River Valley, WV, where locals and activists gather to try to prevent Massey Energy, the country’s fourth largest producer of coal, from mining Coal River Mountain.
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If the issues were only environmental, “The Last Mountain” would be something of a familiar refrain, but the film has more up its sleeve than (to be sure, wrenching) helicopter shots of the decimated moonscapes that are the working mines, barren construction zones permanently altering the face of the countryside. Coal processing plants and sludge dams release toxins into the air and water. The film finds communities cut through with high occurrences of brain tumors, an elementary school coated in silica dust from a nearby facility, families whose homes are destroyed by flooding caused by the rearranged landscape, towns emptied out by broken unions and a changing industry able to up its output while cutting its labor, politicians who are quick to pronounce themselves a “friend of coal” despite what coal extraction is doing to their constituents. Watch The Last Mountain Movie Online
It is a battle over protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal. Mining and burning coal is at the epicenter of America’s struggle to balance its energy needs with environmental and health concerns. Nowhere is that concern greater than in Coal River Valley, West Virginia, where a small.
f you’re a film lover who can’t make it to Park City, Sundance is like the world’s biggest tease: a beautiful woman who kisses your neck and whispers in your ear and then vows not to sleep with you for twelve months. There’s nothing more frustrating than articles about incredible movies you won’t be able to see anytime soon, if at all. The only good news stories out of Sundance are the acquisitions, since they provide hope that, yes, someday we will see these films opening in a theater near us.
With that in mind, I’ve compiled all the Sundance acquisitions I could find into a single list. I decided to organize them by release date, though most still being determined. As more sales leak out, I’ll try to update this as best I can (you can suggest additions to me on Twitter as well). And if you’re sick of being teased, »
My Thoughts: The Last Mountain is a documentary about coal companies and their destruction of Appalachian Mountains in the pursuit of coal. This last year has been pretty bad for mine accidents, with the Chilean miners (though that one at least ended well) and other severe mine accidents in New Zealand and West Virginia. The film doesn’t seem to deal specifically with these kinds of mine accidents so much as the environmental issues that develop outside of mines, bad water, kids with cancer, buildings covered with coal dust. It looks a little more in the vein of something like An Inconvenient Truth rather than Harlan County USA, the way large words cover the screen to make a point and the music in the background suggests that something is definitely amiss. Still it has some elements of the latter, »
If you need something new to be incensed about, “The Last Mountain,” a documentary directed by Bill Haney (of 2007’s “The Price of Sugar”), will do the trick nicely. Its outrage of choice is mountaintop removal (MTR) mining, the considerably controversial practice of deforesting and then dynamiting mountain ridges to extract coal seams, then piling everything back up in roughly the same shape — except nothing ever seems to grow there again. MTR is closely associated with Appalachia, and the film’s primary battleground is Coal River Valley, WV, where locals and activists gather to try to prevent Massey Energy, the country’s fourth largest producer of coal, from mining Coal River Mountain.
Watch English Movies Online
If the issues were only environmental, “The Last Mountain” would be something of a familiar refrain, but the film has more up its sleeve than (to be sure, wrenching) helicopter shots of the decimated moonscapes that are the working mines, barren construction zones permanently altering the face of the countryside. Coal processing plants and sludge dams release toxins into the air and water. The film finds communities cut through with high occurrences of brain tumors, an elementary school coated in silica dust from a nearby facility, families whose homes are destroyed by flooding caused by the rearranged landscape, towns emptied out by broken unions and a changing industry able to up its output while cutting its labor, politicians who are quick to pronounce themselves a “friend of coal” despite what coal extraction is doing to their constituents. Watch The Last Mountain Movie Online
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