Friday, April 4, 2008

Radiant City on CBC Newsworld

by James McNally on April 4, 2008 · 2 comments

in Documentaries,DVD,Television

Radiant City

I saw Gary Burns’ funny/frightening med­it­a­tion on sub­urbia, Radiant City, a few months ago but didn’t get a chance to write any­thing about it here. But I wanted to alert my Canadian readers to the fact that CBC’s The Passionate Eye will be presenting the film this Sunday, April 6 at 10pm (Eastern and Pacific Time) on CBC Newsworld.

It was this film that intro­duced me to the work of James Howard Kunstler, who can also be described as funny/frightening. I’ve just fin­ished reading his book The Long Emergency, about our imminent post-oil future, and his weblog is just as accurate and sobering.

The film itself is not like any other doc­u­mentary you’ve ever seen, and it tells us some things we all need to hear about our unsus­tain­able addic­tion to sub­urban com­fort. If you miss the tele­vi­sion broad­cast, you can buy the DVD from Amazon.ca or from Amazon.com.

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