Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology (2011)
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Critic Reviews: 8
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With wonderful heart and an impressive sense of scale, Tiffany Shlain's vibrant and insightful documentary, Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time-the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy-while searching for her place in the world during a transformative time in her life. Employing a splendidly imaginative combination of animation and archival footage, plus several surprises, Shlain
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Cast
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Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote, Narrator -
Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain -
Dale Andrade
Dale Andrade -
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Corrado Cantatore
Corrado Cantatore -
Jonathan Jordan Clarke
Jonathan Jordan Clarke -
Carl Colby
Carl Colby -
Barbara Colby
Barbara Colby -
Daren Flitcroft
Daren Flitcroft -
Donald Gregg
Donald Gregg -
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh -
Fisher Howe
Fisher Howe -
Thomas Hughes
Thomas Hughes -
Oleg Kalugin
Oleg Kalugin -
Bob Kerrey
Bob Kerrey -
John Langan
John Langan -
James Lilley
James Lilley -
Edward N. Luttwak
Edward N. Luttwak -
Thomas McCoy
Thomas McCoy -
Robert McFarlane
Robert McFarlane -
Elizabeth McIntosh
Elizabeth McIntosh -
H.R. McMaster
H.R. McMaster -
Prof. Hugh Montgomery
Prof. Hugh Montgomery -
John Nagl
John Nagl -
Rufus Phillips
Rufus Phillips -
Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus -
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld -
James Schlesinger
James Schlesinger -
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr -
Gen. Brent Scowcroft
Gen. Brent Scowcroft -
Laurence Silberman
Laurence Silberman -
John Singlaub
John Singlaub -
Joseph W. Smith
Joseph W. Smith -
Evan Thomas
Evan Thomas -
Hugh Tovar
Hugh Tovar -
Judge William Webster
Judge William Webster -
Tim Weiner
Tim Weiner -
Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward -
Steve Young
Steve Young -
Dr. Leonard Shlain
Dr. Leonard Shlain -
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (9)
A highly energized romp through a myriad of ideas about where the human race is headed.
Top CriticThis pro-Internet "declaration of interdependence" has all the narrative focus of a Twitter feed.
There are a lot of vibes in this film, most of them vaguely positive. If only "Connected" had a stronger center of gravity.
She never figures out what, exactly, the deal is regarding our short attention spans, but her ADD-afflicted film definitely provides evidence that they exist.
Like Shlain's hand-written diagram in which lines twist and knot while linking various subjects, the film resembles not a coherent thesis but a tangle of semi-related ideas.
Shlain struggles to find the thread that connects her father, her upbringing and her own playful curiosity to the complexities of life in the age of texting, tweeting and apps for just about everything.
Perhaps we're evolving into a race of Da Vincis. I think it's vastly more likely we'll continue to streamline methods for sharing cat videos.
The end product is brain food beautifully disguised as eye candy.
Tiffany Shlain's rangy, autobiographic treatise on technology and modern life has a soul, and bristles with a hunger and intellectual vigor lacking in many modern American films.
A combo documentary, memoir, and probe of technology that offers a creative look at the brave new world of interdependence and collaboration.
Ambitious but irritating documentary about the Global Village.
Tiffany Shlain's Connected suffers from its very pedestrian and redundant voiceover.
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Foreign Titles
- Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology (DE)
- Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology (UK)
