- The other film that everyone is talking about is called Going Clear. It's directed by Alex Gibney [of 2007's Taxi to the Dark Side] and it's about Scientology. It's taken from Lawrence Wright's book, and it's got a lot of footage of interviews with disaffected former Scientology leaders. It's got inside Scientology footage of some of their gatherings. It's very, very chilling stuff.
There's one documentary that just got released in NY and LA (debuted at Cannes) that I'm more excited about than probably any other documentary in history. It's called Red Army, and, as the title suggests, is a look into the conditions, history, and geopolitics, that were the famous Soviet Hockey Team. The fact Herzog is the EP makes me even more giddy. It's coming to MI sometime, because they have a poster for it at the art house theater in Royal Oak, but they haven't published a date yet. There's another documentary out there that's related called The Other Dream Team, which is about the Lithuanian basketball team after the fall of the USSR. It's the best sports doc I've ever seen, and among the best docs period. I'm hopeful Red Army can reach that level or beyond, as it combines two of my favorite things, international politics and the Detroit Red Wings.
DUDE, thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. Fetisov was the shit! Back when he was playing for the wings as the standard bearer for Russians in the NHL and we had Larionov, Konstantinov, Federov, Kozlov with him... Damn, those were the days. I see that Bowman is in the film too. How awesome! I can't wait to see it. You just made my day pal. The Russian Five