[perdition79]

The thread title says it all. 12:35 pm EDT on the Sundance channel. Sorry I couldn't post it earlier, just got home from work.

[Offshore]

Post-peak Maracaibo = Water World

Post-peak Baku = Tarkovsky's Stalker

[perdition79]

Good documentary. It's much less sugar-coated than "End of Suburbia" and even included a good portion on resource wars. Kind of disappointing that they didn't get into the Iraq War - Petroeuro angle, or the WWI - Basra angle.

[teky]

I heard about this film! I also heard that is coming to the UK next month!! I am looking forward to see it. I am so glad this issue is getting the mainstream attention it deserves because it proves what the so-called’ War on Terror’ is really about. The true reasons for conflict were based on the lack of oil reserves in rich countries and political interests rather than on those which were presented to us.

[Grifter]

I bought it off LATOC because I felt guilty after Matt had a go at carlhole for not paying for it.

I lent it to a guy from work after he started talking about oil depletion(well kind of). He wants more info now. Must be good. I'm not telling him to visit LATOC though, he might end up like me.

Edit: The scenes of the abandoned oil fields made me cry. Very disturbing.

Disturbing though they were it gave me an eerie kind of spooky feeling.

Good film.

[wisconsin_cur]

My mom was visiting last week and it "coincidently" arrived from Netflix and we sat down to watch it as a family.

"Yep, the party is over." she said.

Later we talked about her kitchen remodel...

She is a person who would "get it" but bridging that gap between underrstanding and action is another thing.

Perhaps she just figures I will take care of her grandkids and what happens to her is unimportant (we're like that).

[teky]

Hi,
A crude awakening is a shocking documentary about how the citizens of planet earth are sucking dry our most valuable and non-renewable natural resource: oil.
Its release in UK : the 9 November in London.(At Curzon,Soho)
It' really worth seeing.

[Micki]

New??
I've had a copy of Crude Awakening for a year now.
In my opinion it is the best one of them all. I liked it more than end of suburbia, crude or crude impact.

[mididoctors]

viewed at a directors showing...

ok the music was very "fog of war" as were some of the graphical links and style... but the rip off was done well

the ford 1960 ad is now officially the most over used piece of libary footage..

it appears in most Adam Curtiss docs...fog of war and this one... I belivev it also appears in "who killed the electric car"

almost a cult reference to documentaries that present alternative world views..

the message was portrayed well I thought and Matt...you came across very well indeed.

in a Q&A session afterwards the most disturbing questions concerned "why didn't you include positive solutions"

the aspect of the documentary that needs reinforcing is the section on mindsets concerning what constitutes a "solution"

people can get on board with "oil running out" or even with the more realistic notion of peak and decline...

what they can not grasp is the notion that "solutions" are not generated by default.

the need to emphasize how unprecedented the fossil fuel age is and even more how dictated its demise, is where there is room for improvement in the message....

that does not mean some ultra doomer pron docu... the scale of the problem needs to be further enhanced visually by creating words and images that not only point dependance and scale of use but the difficulties in replacing that utility.

this aside the film did make many efforts to make this point... but as Campbell and Matt point out its a "attitude thing".

the film was well received and sparked news items on BBC4. but i was surprised about some of the in-denial reaction in the Q&A.

It was almost as thou some of the audience had edited out the sections that make the point about "transition issues"...

were they watching the same film?

a dedicated "replacing fossil fuels" docu that hammers home the point is required.

......................................................

some of the close editing of interviews looked a bit manipulative especially the opec talking head..but thats documentaries with a aggenda (nothing wrong with that per ae)

in Morris's fog of war he allows the editing process to be seen so we are aware of how the interview is a controlled expression of McNamara's POV.... this settles you into trusting the director more.

short snippets of less that a couple of sentences are suspect.. the curtis/morris approach of allowing you to hear the interviewer off camera and sustain the conversation for a length of time that confirms the context of the meaning of the "talking head" is preferable where possible.

Some interviewees such as Campbell's explanations are good in this regard and need little editing...

overall 7/10

good.. infact very good but failed on a important issue even to a room of chicken shit liberal media types.. which no doubt is a function of 21st cent mindset rather than some deep error in the film..

that said it is the area that has to be addressed in the "getting the message out"

powering down is a major political hurdle.. it must be addressed

Boris
London

[WhatMeWorry]

Opens in the UK this week.

New 'disaster' movie warns world of oil apocalypse
The latest gloves-off documentary to hit screens predicts a global meltdown as vital fuel runs out


A Crude Awakening hits cinemas this week

[Plantagenet]

A new film on the consequences of Peak Oil predicts global economic collapse and warfare will inevitably produce a worldwide disaster. The film is gaining attention and awards around Europe.

New Peak Oil disaster movie

Maybe this will popularize the "peak oil" problem the way Al Gore's movie brought global warming to the public's attention.

[Plantagenet]

"Oil is 'the bloodstain of the earth's economy' and will soon trigger a global conflict that will cost millions of lives. That is the stark claim of a controversial new film, which says a crash in oil production is about to set off worldwide recession and economic collapse.

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, which opens in UK cinemas this week, shows stark images of rusting Texan and Venezuelan wells and fuel riots in Asia and Africa. Such scenes will be repeated thousands of times around the planet in the near future, argue the film's makers, who say the world is facing changes 'more frightening than a horror movie'.

---from the link above

[TWilliam]

"Oil is 'the bloodstain of the earth's economy' and will soon trigger a global conflict that will cost millions of lives.

Sheesh. The line from the film is "Oil is the bloodstream of the earth's economy...".

It'd be nice if bloggers would pay a little more attention when they lift quotes...

[da23]

http://peakoil.com/fortopic27764.html

[NTBKtrader]

I read an article that said it was showing in UK cinemas, since I am a US citizen where can I get to see it? Is there a dvd of it or anything? thanks

[jupiters_release]

You can purchase from Matt's site, the price has come down a lot too.

http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Individ ... eFilm.html

[lawnchair]

Netflix has it, and is involved in its distribution (through Red Envelope Entertainment). Well enough done, even though probably nothing in it you don't already know.

[KevO]

here are some cinema trailers

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... D=12109124


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-TyPACK-g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O68MX-86hOk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-TyPACK-g

[threadbear]

I hear that Halliburton and coca cola had a lot of product placement in that film.

[perdition79]

they play that movie in the U.S. on the Sundance cable channel. why buy it when you can see it for free.