Interview. Steve Skrovan.

Back in January, Jim Ridley opened a review in the Voice by imagining every American voter back in the booth on November 7, 2000:

All at once, there is a lightning-fast stroboscopic blip of the future: two planes, human rain, a shower of debris and dust; tortured prisoners heaped in a pile; flag-draped coffins. Muzzle flashes blink in the Superdome. A grinning man in a flight suit poses before a banner reading, "Mission Accomplished." A flash, a fade, the world unfreezes, and all eyes return to the ballot. Having seen what they've seen, does anyone vote for Ralph Nader?

Infuriating, combative, infernally self-righteous - and often right - the vexing vote-splitter is the subject of An Unreasonable Man, Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan's sprawling documentary. A cornucopia of talking-head rancor, indefatigable idealism, and livid history, the film argues that the crusading activist, organizer, and working man's champion deserves a bigger place in history than as just the Grinch Who Spoiled the Election.

"His impact on these areas of modern life is the focus of the movie's riveting first hour, which is as much the biography of a movement as the story of a single man," writes AO Scott in the New York Times. And just up at the main site is Sara Schieron's interview with Skrovan.

Posted by dwhudson at June 12, 2007 1:44 PM