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That remarkable discovery is the departure point for In Search of Human Origins, a three-hour Nova mini-series that airs on PBS next week. Over three consecutive nights, beginning Monday, Johanson himself is the tour guide on a journey through the physical and intellectual landscape of human evolution. Starting with the 3-ft.-tall, small-brained Lucy and her kin, he traces the ascent of humankind through some of its milestones: the emergence of toolmaking, the transition from scavenging to hunting and the struggle between the first modern humans and their Neanderthal cousins for control of the earth...
...talking-heads format used in "Sex Is..." may seem familiar to anyone who has ever watched PBS, but this is no PBS movie. The interviews are complemented by brief snippets from gay pornos, as well as bits from cheesy "health education" films from the `50s. There is a priceless segment on the special attachment that a little boy will have for his best friend...
...home." He chooses to live in Brookline, though, because there is a "collection of people in the Boston and Cambridge areas who are pressing at the margins of what it means to make documentary films." The presence of a great number of universities and the main offices of PBS explains why there is such a large number of documentary filmmakers in the Bosotn area. "Being up here provides me with the distance...and the resources I need," he says...
Spielberg had to strike a balance between a completely commercial movie that would reach most of America and a straightforward PBS documentary. He chose to sacrifice the completeness of a full documentary in order to give his audience a glimpse of the evil of the Holocaust. Some argue that such compromises trivialize the evil that occurred, but Spielberg's presentation was the only possible way to educate the uninformed. It is better that they get an accurate, but abridged, tale of the Holocaust rather than none...
...essentially a father-son play. Mawe has a wonderfully subtle acting style, never overdone, but ready to pounce on every heightened emotion. He moves very naturally between reality and the dream sequences, assisted only by a warm light change and electronic music (which, at times, sounds suspiciously like PBS Wildlife Special accompaniment). Reinstein, funny and charismatic, is also more than prepared for moments such as the "pipe" scene. Other times, he expresses hisdisgust for the city environment in such a waythat the audience feels its own surroundings alltoo acutely...