Just Screenshots: 2014-10-19

Hell (2011 Germany)

We are placed in 2016, and learn immediately that the Earth has warmed at unprecedented rates, increasing 10°C because of solar flares destroying the atmosphere of Earth. The few survivors must shield their skin with excess clothing, gloves, smocks, and anything they can potentially protect themselves with from the increasing heat of the sun. We soon meet Marie (Hannah Herzsprung) a young woman traveling the ruins of parched roads with her boyfriend and younger sister. After picking up a man who claims that he can help them, (right after almost killing all three of them for their diminishing water supply) the three make an unplanned stop leaving the sister left in the car, which has its windows covered with newspaper and barricaded off. She is taken by a group of survivors who thrive on cannibalism in this newfound hellish world, and after her boyfriend splits, Marie and the hitchhiker attempt to recover her younger sister before she is subjected to uncertain doom. (IMDB Steve Pulaski) FN

Hate Crime (2013)

Director: James Cullen Bressack

An innocent family is celebrating their smallest child's birthday as suddenly the door swings open and three masked neo-Nazis invade their home. They beat on the mother, kill the youngest son and drag the family to the cellar, where the family is faced with unspeakable terror. But as the maniacs start to lose hold of the situation, a fight for life and death ensues. (IMFB Hans Heiner)

Teenage (2013)

Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.

... I feel this documentary didn't quite achieve it's purpose. It's intention is to show the growth of the youth culture in the 20th Century and it does show this but it seems to get lost in the telling. (IMDB zif ofoz) FN

...not entirely convinced this is even a documentary-- it's more of a commentary...

...a total lack of coherence and narrative...

...oozing of self-importance without actually providing any real insight, knowledge or depth...

..very little historical information...