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Windfall
Directed by
Laura Israel
Not Rated
2012
81m
Documentary
,
Drama
5.5
72%
43%
4.5
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Wind power... It's green... It's good... Or is it? Windfall exposes the dark side of wind energy development when the residents of a rural upstate New York town consider going green.
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Cast of Windfall
Chuck Coggins
Himself
Harry Reid
Self (archive footage)
T. Boone Pickens
Self (archive footage)
Bernie Sanders
Self (archive footage)
Laura Israel
Director
Windfall Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
The poignant, frightening and visually striking documentary "Windfall" places debate within a very human perspective.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Laura Isreal's probing examination of America's emergent windmill industry comes through a microsomal case study in the small upstate New York town of Meredith.
About.com
Jennifer Merin
Filmmaker Laura Israel's investigation of how construction of wind turbines in rural New York State impacts local citizens is an important reminder that there are no easy and quick fixes for environmental issues.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
A full-throated attack on wind energy, this feature by Laura Israel is one of the most surprising (and depressing) eco docs I've seen in years.
Film Journal International
Doris Toumarkine
A stunning debut, with a fascinating subject, an array of plain-folk talking heads, and precious access to a besieged community.
New York Times
Andy Webster
[An] urgent, informative and artfully assembled documentary.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
Ms. Israel's movie proves, once again, that the best nonfiction cinema possesses the same attributes as good fiction: Strong characters, conflict, story arc, visual style.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
A veteran film editor making her first feature, Israel emphasizes the area's low-key beauty.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti
a handsome film about ugly things happening in a gorgeous place
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's a microcosmic version of the political divisions - between left and right, environmentalists and free-marketers, corporations and citizens - that have virtually paralyzed our republic.
AV Club
Noel Murray
The unbridled scare tactics cast too big a shadow over the agit-prop doc Israel ended up making.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
"Windfall" left me disheartened. I thought wind energy was something I could believe in.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
Whatever the legitimate arguments Windfall makes against the industry it targets, Meredith's feuding becomes just as inaccessible as the windmills that incite it.
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Prescriptive eco docs are rarely as attuned to the folly of human ingenuity as this one or as insightful on our knee-jerk demand for impossibly easy solutions.
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Louis Proyect
A much needed second look at the promise of wind energy, so often put forward with scant attention to the impact of 400 foot monstrosities on the people suffering such "progress" in their midst.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
[An] absorbing, sobering documentary about the lures and perils of green technology.
Variety
Rob Nelson
Variably articulate subjects drone on and on in an 83-minute film that could easily make its TV news-style point in a half-hour or less.
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