Current Events
1989, English. Directed by Ralph Arlyck.
Personal-essay documentary. Via the New York Times: "[Director Ralph] Arlyck uses film of his family and friends in upstate New York as well as bits from television news and fund-raising telethons to raise questions about the value of social activism and the way ordinary citizens can know what to be activists about in the first place."
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- 0h 55m
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Current Events (1989) was directed by Ralph Arlyck.