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A compilation of reviews
for “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple” appears
at Rotten
Tomatoes, a website for reviews
of this and other films.
Other reviews may be found
at the following newspapers and media outlets:
“Filmmaker finds
heart, rationale behind tragedy of Jonestown,” San
Francisco Chronicle, 28 October
2006
“Latest reviews,”
L.A.
City Beat, 27 October 2006
“Willing to die for
an identity,” L.A.
Daily News, 26 October 2006
“Jonestown: The Life and Death
of Peoples Temple: E! Reviews,” E!
OnLine, 26 October 2006
“Falling into the
Gap: Jonestown Revisited,” LA
Weekly, 25 October 2006
“Jonestown: The Life
and Death of Peoples Temple,” FilmCritic.com,
23 October 2006
“A return to ‘Jonestown,’”
Los
Angeles Times (Calendar Section),
23 October 2006
“Portrait of infamous
cult’s rise and fall,” Newark
Star-Ledger, 21 October 2006
“Kool-Aid, Craziness
and Utopian Yearning, New
York Times, 20 October 2006
“A version of paradise,
betrayed,” North
Jersey Media Group, 20 October
2006
“Movie: Jonestown:
The Life and Death of Peoples Temple,” Newsday,
19 October 2006
“Jonestown:
The Life and Death of Peoples Temple,” Film
Threat, 17 October 2006
“Movie Review: Jonestown:
The Life and Death of Peoples Temple,” Monsters
and Critics, 15 October 2006
Interviews with Director
Stanley Nelson appear at the following places:
“Lessons of Jonestown,”
Newsweek,
21 October 2006
“Stanley Nelson:
‘Nobody Joins a Cult,’” Greencine,
20 October 2006
“Stanley Nelson: Jonestown: The
Life and Death of Peoples Temple,” Los
Angeles Film Festival Notes,
June 28, 2006
An interview with appears
Noland Walker, co-screenwriter of “Jonestown,” appears at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6375959
“Jonestown: The Life and Death
of Peoples Temple” won an award at the San Francisco International
Film Festival for top Bay Area documentary (Story
of May 5, 2006) and
was one of three that won an award at the Tribeca Film Festival in
New York for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary (Story
of May 9, 2006).
Articles from earlier in
the year, before general release of the film, include:
Jonestown documentary
January 22, 2006 (includes
link to 40 minute discussion after screening in Salt Lake City, Utah)
http://www.buzzbooster.com/2006/01/jonestown-documentary.html
Doomsday dream believer
By Cheryl Eddy, SF Bay Guardian,
April 4, 2006
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=234
28 years later
By Johnny Ray Huston, SF
Bay Guardian, April 4, 2006
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=236
and at http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14218
Film offerings range
from controversial, tragic to lighthearted, fanciful
By Randy Myers, CONTRA COSTA
TIMES, April 16, 2006
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/14355675.htm
Best in Show
The Top 40 Picks of the
Tribeca Film Festival
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0616,hoberman,72900,20.html
Two new documentaries revisit Jonestown
JORDAN ROBERTSON, Associated
Press, April 24, 2006
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14414940.htm
and http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/23/two_new_documentaries_revisit_jonestown/
Beyond the Multiplex:
Tribeca
By Andrew O’Hehir, April
28, 2006
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2006/04/28/tribeca_1/
Critic’s Notebook:
The State of Things: The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival
by Howard Feinstein, April
30, 2006
http://www.indiewire.com/movies/2006/04/the_state_of_th.html
SFIFF: Jonestown: The
Life And Death Of Peoples Temple
May 1, 2006, by Rita Hao
http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/05/01/sfiff_jonestown_the_life_and_death_of_peoples_temple.php
Jonestown: The Life
& Death of the People’s Temple
4/28/06
http://www.minjungkim.com/2006/04/28/jonestown-the-life-death-of-the-peoples-temple/
Another
Look at Jonestown
by Christina Talcott, The
Washington Post, June 9,
2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800504.html
Scholars View Film
on Jonestown Tragedy
by Sandi Dolbee, San
Diego Union Tribune, July
15, 2006
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20060715-9999-1c15new.html
Prelude to a massacre
by Robert King, Indianapolis
Star, 5 August 2006
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060805/LIVING09/608050442/1007/LIVING
A new documentary chronicles the
rise and fall of Rev. Jim Jones
by Robert King, Lansing State
Journal, August 19, 2006
(Story includes photo of Nell
Smart)
http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060819/LIFE04/608190306/1079/life
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