Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology (2011)
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36% of critics liked it
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59% of users liked it
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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… More 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 constructs a chronological tour of Western modernization through the work of her late father, Leonard Shlain, a surgeon and best-selling author of Art and Physics and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. With humor and irony, the Shlain family life merges with philosophy to create both a personal portrait and a proposal for ways we can move forward as a civilization. Connected illuminates the beauty and tragedy...
- Directed By
- Tiffany Shlain, Tiffany Shane
- Written By
- Tiffany Shlain, Ken Goldberg, Carlton Evans, Sawyer Steele
- Genres
- Documentary, Special Interest
PG,
- In Theaters
- Sep 16, 2011 Limited
- On DVD
- Mar 11, 2013
- Studio
- Paladin Films
Critic Reviews
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James Greenberg, Hollywood Reporter
A highly energized romp through a myriad of ideas about where the human race is headed.
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Sara Stewart, New York Post
This pro-Internet "declaration of interdependence" has all the narrative focus of a Twitter feed.
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Paul Brunick, New York Times
There are a lot of vibes in this film, most of them vaguely positive. If only "Connected" had a stronger center of gravity.
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Matt Singer, Time Out New York
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.
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Nick Schager, Village Voice
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.
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Cast
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Peter Coyote
as Peter Coyote, Narrator
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Tiffany Shlain
as Tiffany Shlain
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Dale Andrade
as Dale Andrade
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
as Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Corrado Cantatore
as Corrado Cantatore
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Jonathan Jordan Clarke
as Jonathan Jordan Clarke
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Carl Colby
as Carl Colby
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Barbara Colby
as Barbara Colby
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Daren Flitcroft
as Daren Flitcroft
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Donald Gregg
as Donald Gregg
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Seymour Hersh
as Seymour Hersh
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Fisher Howe
as Fisher Howe
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Thomas Hughes
as Thomas Hughes
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Oleg Kalugin
as Oleg Kalugin
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Bob Kerrey
as Bob Kerrey
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John Langan
as John Langan
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James Lilley
as James Lilley
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Edward N. Luttwak
as Edward N. Luttwak
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Thomas McCoy
as Thomas McCoy
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Robert McFarlane
as Robert McFarlane
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Elizabeth McIntosh
as Elizabeth McIntosh
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H.R. McMaster
as H.R. McMaster
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Prof. Hugh Montgomery
as Prof. Hugh Montgomery
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John Nagl
as John Nagl
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Rufus Phillips
as Rufus Phillips
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Walter Pincus
as Walter Pincus
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Donald Rumsfeld
as Donald Rumsfeld
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James Schlesinger
as James Schlesinger
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Daniel Schorr
as Daniel Schorr
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Gen. Brent Scowcroft
as Gen. Brent Scowcroft
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Laurence Silberman
as Laurence Silberman
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John Singlaub
as John Singlaub
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Joseph W. Smith
as Joseph W. Smith
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Evan Thomas
as Evan Thomas
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Hugh Tovar
as Hugh Tovar
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Judge William Webster
as Judge William Webster
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Tim Weiner
as Tim Weiner
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Bob Woodward
as Bob Woodward
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Steve Young
as Steve Young
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Dr. Leonard Shlain
as Dr. Leonard Shlain
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Harold Lloyd
as Harold Lloyd
