Today at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival

The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival at the Malco Theater in historic downtown Hot Springs is still in full swing. Today's documentaries are listed below. The movies without a description have already aired once and the description is in a previous post.
Wednesday, October 20
10 a.m.
HUNGRY IS THE TIGER
10:05 a.m.
THE LAST ELEPHANTS IN THAILAND
10:05 a.m.
MARIA Y YO "MARIA AND I"
10:05 a.m.
THE MOST DISTANT PLACES
11:45 a.m.
BAG IT
1:25 p.m.
A DIFFERENT PATH
Canada, 95 minutes, Monteith McCollum
A Different Path is a poetic tale about the lives of several individuals as they struggle to live in an automobile dominated society. Through ingenuity and wit each character grapples with their frustrations about modern day urban infrastructure. One by foot, one by bike, two by boat.
The film is an artistic and poetic treatment of personal struggle and environmental concern over livable cities.
1:30 p.m.
GASLAND
3:25 p.m.
MEN WHO SWIM
3:40 p.m.
WINDFALL
USA, 83 minutes, Laura Israel
The film observes the deeply divided residents of Meredith, New York, an Upstate farm community in decline, as they debate the pros and cons of allowing wind turbines on their land. Local proponents champion the promise of green energy and monetary compensation, while detractors question the efficiency of wind-generated energy and the drawbacks of living among 400-foot tall towers with gigantic rotating blades.
5 p.m.
SPECIAL WHEN LIT
United Kingdom, 88 minutes, Brett Sullivan
Special When Lit rediscovers the lure of a lost pop icon, pinball. This American invention made more money than Hollywood through the 50’s and 60’s. Its success swept the world making it the epitome of cool. Today pinball is all but forgotten. This is the definitive story of the rise and fall of pinball as told by the fans, collectors, designers and champion players from across the globe.
5:30 p.m.
A NORMAL LIFE, PLEASE
6:55 p.m.
TWO HEADED COW
USA, 87 minutes, Tony Gayton
A look into the trials and tribulations of musician Dexter Romwebber, featuring interviews with Jack White, Neko Case, Cat Power and others. Dex Romwebber will be present at screening..
7:05 p.m.
COLLAPSE
USA, 82 minutes, Chris Smith
Collapse serves as a portrait of a loner. Over the years, Ruppert has stood up for what he believes in despite fierce opposition. He candidly describes the sacrifices and motivators in his life. While other observers analyze details of the economic crisis, Ruppert views it as symptomatic of nothing less than the collapse of industrial civilization itself.
8:30 p.m.
WASTELAND UTOPIAS
8:50 p.m.
SONGS FROM THE NICKEL
Germany/USA, 83 minutes, Alina Skrzeszewska
Sirens, screams, laughter, singing, bartering: these are the sounds sweeping into the rooms of Downtown Los Angeles’ old forgotten hotels. Their inhabitants’ stories tell of lives lived on the margins. According to Charlie, the desk clerk at the King Edward Hotel, "you can be anything you want; you can do anything you want and nobody gives a damn!" After all, we’re on America’s most notorious skid row, also known to old-timers as the Nickel.
9 p.m.
THE WHITE STRIPES: UNDER THE GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS
USA/Canada, 93 minutes
Besides playing the usual venues they challenged themselves and played in buses, cafés and for Indian tribal elders. Music video director Emmett Malloy followed the band and managed to capture both the special tour, extraordinary concert versions of the band’s minimalist, raw, blues-inspired rock songs and the special relationship between the extroverted Jack White and the introspective Meg White, a formerly married couple who for a long time claimed to be siblings.