Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Collapse RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Documentary. Starring Michael Ruppert. Directed by Chris Smith. (Not rated. 82 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Michael Ruppert looks cornered in a gritty Los Angeles meat locker, ranting to an unseen documentarian and smoking...
Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
So, while it opens in more theaters nationwide (in San Francisco and Portland this weekend) and continues to earn rave reactions (Roger Ebert had nice things to Tweet), Chris Smith’s documentary Collapse comes to Time Warner and Comcast cable VOD starting December 6. The portrait of radical thinker Michael Ruppert, it’s a film full of ideas that get under your skin. Expect...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
A purveyor of 'conspiracy fact,' whistle-blower sees 'Collapse' on horizon Chris Smith walked into his interview with L.A. police detective-turned-whistle-blower Michael Ruppert early this year planning to make a film about the CIA's alleged drug-smuggling...
The Star Celeb (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like “American Movie” and “The Yes Men.” In “Collapse,” Smith departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing his subject Michael Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray. Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer turned independent...
