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18 March 2009 9:35 AM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »

I’ve never been much impressed with Stuart Townsend as an actor, but with Battle in Seattle, his first film as writer-director-producer, I have enormous new respect for him as an artist and storyteller. Battle in Seattle, just out on DVD in Region 1, interweaves actual news footage of the explosive 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in that city with fictional characters and fictional melodramas to tell a story that we see all too rarely these days: of the clash of corporate and political institutions with individuals striving to reduce their overarching might; of the political as personal; of conscience and passion as powers that can change the world. Battle is an uncommonly passionate film itself, which is even more remarkable as it becomes clear how evenhanded Townsend is as a filmmaker. It’s obvious that he empathizes, for the most part, with the anticorporate stance of the protesters, but he doesn’t demonize, »

- MaryAnn Johanson

1 article from 2009