Marc Emery approves this message. That’s not only because he appears at length for an interview specifically for this documentary about his life, it’s because it’s very clear early on that Marc Emery loves to hear himself speak, and believes that anytime he has screen time, it’s good for Marc Emery.
In Citizen Marc, director Larry Evans follows the life of Emery, a Canadian activist and antagonist who may or may not be fighting causes for those not named Marc Emery.
It’s less a fascinating character study and more simply a straightforward documentary that happens to be about a fascinating character. And an aggravating, at times utterly absurd one at that. A champion of the legalization of marijuana in Canada (and presumably around the world), it’s not long into the film that any audiences unfamiliar with Emery, dubbed the Prince of Pot, discover that...
In Citizen Marc, director Larry Evans follows the life of Emery, a Canadian activist and antagonist who may or may not be fighting causes for those not named Marc Emery.
It’s less a fascinating character study and more simply a straightforward documentary that happens to be about a fascinating character. And an aggravating, at times utterly absurd one at that. A champion of the legalization of marijuana in Canada (and presumably around the world), it’s not long into the film that any audiences unfamiliar with Emery, dubbed the Prince of Pot, discover that...
- 10/25/2014
- by Anthony Marcusa
- We Got This Covered
Bobby Fischer Against The World ***½
Featuring Garry Kasparov, Susan Polgar, Grandmaster Larry Evans, Dr Anthony Saidy | Produced and directed by Liz Garbus
At the height of his popularity in the 1970s, Bobby Fischer was a household name. What Muhammad Ali was to boxing, Fischer was to chess. His ability inspired thousands to take up the hobby and is widely credited as being one of the finest, if not the finest, chess player ever to have lived.
Bobby Fischer Against The World tells the story of how he rose from a gifted child prodigy who accepted fame reluctantly to a champion who defeated the might of the Russian incumbent Boris Spassky during the Cold War. He lost the title by default in 1975 because he refused to defend it and later became a recluse only to resurface almost 20 years later to play a rematch with Spassky in Yugoslavia – an action which broke...
Featuring Garry Kasparov, Susan Polgar, Grandmaster Larry Evans, Dr Anthony Saidy | Produced and directed by Liz Garbus
At the height of his popularity in the 1970s, Bobby Fischer was a household name. What Muhammad Ali was to boxing, Fischer was to chess. His ability inspired thousands to take up the hobby and is widely credited as being one of the finest, if not the finest, chess player ever to have lived.
Bobby Fischer Against The World tells the story of how he rose from a gifted child prodigy who accepted fame reluctantly to a champion who defeated the might of the Russian incumbent Boris Spassky during the Cold War. He lost the title by default in 1975 because he refused to defend it and later became a recluse only to resurface almost 20 years later to play a rematch with Spassky in Yugoslavia – an action which broke...
- 7/14/2011
- by Jez Sands
- Nerdly
He played some of the most sublime chess ever seen. Then, as a new book and film illustrate, he disappeared from view. What made such a brilliant mind go into freefall?
In 1999, I spent three days sitting in a variety of thermal baths dotted around Budapest. As grand and attractive as the Hungarian capital's spas are, I wasn't stewing myself for therapeutic or leisure purposes. Instead, I was waiting for someone I'd been told frequented the baths, someone who was said to be a genius and a paranoid obsessive, the greatest chess player who ever lived and an obnoxious crackpot. I was looking for Bobby Fischer.
For the last four decades of his life, that's what people did with Fischer – they looked for him. Fans, journalists, biographers, friends, they all tried to find this mythical creature, either in person or in that fabulous abstract realm that he continued to haunt: chess.
In 1999, I spent three days sitting in a variety of thermal baths dotted around Budapest. As grand and attractive as the Hungarian capital's spas are, I wasn't stewing myself for therapeutic or leisure purposes. Instead, I was waiting for someone I'd been told frequented the baths, someone who was said to be a genius and a paranoid obsessive, the greatest chess player who ever lived and an obnoxious crackpot. I was looking for Bobby Fischer.
For the last four decades of his life, that's what people did with Fischer – they looked for him. Fans, journalists, biographers, friends, they all tried to find this mythical creature, either in person or in that fabulous abstract realm that he continued to haunt: chess.
- 5/14/2011
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
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