The Village Voice, June 23rd, 2004
THE CORPORATION
Directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott Zeitgeist, June 30 through July 13, Film Forum
Body of evidence: An anti-corporate doc's catalog of outrage
Sergei Eisenstein dreamed of producing a Joycean epic based on Marx's Das Kapital. Albeit more prosaic, The Corporation, written by Joel Bakan and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, fulfills part of that project-even if, as in some orthodox traditions, its analysis never utters its presiding deity's awesome name.
A leisurely, never boring, grimly amusing, and not entirely hopeless disquisition on the contemporary w...
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