A00109 - Movie Theater Movie of the Month for the Month of January 2023: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed


I will be heading down south this weekend and next weekend as well.  While I am down south in the Los Angeles area during the MLK week, I plan on finding one of the arthouse cinemas where the potential Academy Award nominee for best documentary "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" is playing on the giant screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Beauty_and_the_Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a 2022 documentary film which explores the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family. The film was directed by Laura Poitras.[4][5] Poitras said, "Nan's art and vision has inspired my work for years, and has influenced generations of filmmakers."[6] The film premiered on September 3, 2022, at the 79th Venice International Film Festival,[1] where it was awarded the Golden Lion, making it the second documentary (following Sacro GRA in 2013) to win the top prize at Venice. It also screened at the 2022 New York Film Festival,[5] where it was the festival's centerpiece film and for which Goldin designed two official posters.[7][8] The film was released in theaters by Neon on November 23, 2022.
The film examines the life and career of photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her efforts to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid epidemic. Goldin, a well known photographer whose work often documented the LGBT subcultures and the HIV/AIDS crisis, founded the advocacy group P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) in 2017 after her addiction to Oxycontin, where she had a near fatal overdose. P.A.I.N. specifically targets museums and other arts institutions to hold the art community accountable for its collaboration with the Sackler family and its well publicized financial support of the arts. Since P.A.I.N.'s activities most of the targeted museums have severed all ties with the Sackler family and in 2021 Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy.

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Anyone who has seen the Hulu miniseries "Dopesick" should already know some of the background behind the creation of the opioid epidemic in this country.    


Based on the reviews "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" has received, the documentary should add to our understanding of the issue.  Additionally, it is my understanding that an Amherst connection is associated with "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed".  Dave Hixon, my former Amherst College track teammate from 1972, and the guy who is better known for having his name emblazoned on the Amherst College Basketball Court after a forty year career as the College basketball coach, has two very talented sons.  One is a two time medal winning Olympic diver and the other is a film editor who happens to have worked on "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed".

Given the excellence exhibited by the Hixons, this documentary should be extraordinarily good.

Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins
Fairfield, California
January 7, 2023

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