[Director] Novack has a dual focus: the U.S. consumption of coal, which accounts for just more than half the nation’s energy, and 'mountaintop removal,' whereby companies, instead of actually mining, do a man-made Mount St. Helens.
Even considering its failings on a creative level, Burning the Future remains a film certainly worth seeing.
Makes its eloquent case with both compassion and collective rage, allowing the people of West Virginia to speak for themselves as they emerge natural born leaders against a looming threat to their very survival.
Powerful documentary about the struggle of West Virginians against strip-mining practices that has made their water undrinkable and threatened their health all in the name of "progress".
David Novack’s documentary Burning the Future: Coal in America is as upsetting as it is informative.
Top Critic Pic deeply entrenches itself in the landscape, conveying both the beauty and the ravagement of the Appalachians.
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[David] Novack's...inability to tell a compelling story makes it difficult for us to summon outrage.
Top Critic Burning the Future: Coal in America is a sincere appeal to all who believe in cheap electricity to reexamine their habits and consider the underlying cost to human life.
The title is enough to tell you that Novack on the side of a West Virginia community being decimated by mountaintop mining, but it's also the right side.
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