Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai is the co-author of the bestselling memoir I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by The Taliban. Davis Guggenheim's (Waiting for Superman) prettily padded documentary/advocacy alert tells the story of before and after that violence, placing special emphasis, as the …
A documentary for the Don't-Blame-Me-I-Voted-for-Gore crowd. It has a nominal director, Davis Guggenheim, but it's Al Gore's show, a self-described "slide show," or illustrated lecture, and not really a movie, to do with the causes and effects of global warming. This is laid out explicitly as less a political issue …
Davis Guggenheim, the ignored director of An Inconvenient Truth (all glory to Al Gore), essays a different sort of documentary, arranging a “summit” of electric guitarists, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, The Edge of U2, and Jack White of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs. Not much comes of the …
Davis Guggenheim, the overshadowed director of An Inconvenient Truth, tackles another man-sized topic, American lower education, giving him much more to do than just to film a visually-aided lecture. He delivers his own personalized narration, includes footage from an earlier documentary of his, The First Year, digs up a clip …