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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 19, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Music Box Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Jamie Meltzer | |
Composition by | T. Griffin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
This is a multilayered film that not only exposes a man's contradictions - a do-gooder narcissist; a thoughtful, delusional activist - but also speaks volumes about the fringes on both sides of the political spectrum.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3/4 --
Anyone interested in movement politics in the 21st century will get plenty to ponder in this well-made doumentary.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rating: 3/4 --
It creates a useful distance between Brandon Darby and his stories that allow for us to assess them individually, reinforcing the film's suggestion that the truth is elusive.
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Slant Magazine
[An] evenhanded and carefully crafted documentary ...
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Salon.com
Rating: B --
Fairly involving doc about a de-radicalized revolutionary turncoat.
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Compuserve
Rating: C+ --
More of a frustrating experience than an enlightening one.
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Oregonian
Rating: 3/5 --
What emerges is a vague, often chilling impression of an unpredictable opportunist and provocateur who may not even be sure himself.
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Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Director Jamie Meltzer profiles radical activist-turned-FBI informant Brandon Darby in this probing documentary that attempts to examine Darby's complex and controversial story from all possible angles. Initially gaining notoriety as the founder of Common Ground, a grassroots organization devoted to helping victims of Hurricane Katrina, Darby would later play a crucial role in the arrest of two young protestors during the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minnesota. In addition to allowing Darby the rare opportunity to tell his own story in his own words, Meltzer's film also affords acquaintances and informed commentators the opportunity to weigh in on his subject's unlikely transformation from hero of the disenfranchised to champion of the right wing.
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