Salon.com > Barry Levinson http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pick of the week: Disaster on the Atlantic coast! http://www.salon.com/2012/11/02/pick_of_the_week_disaster_on_the_atlantic_coast/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/02/pick_of_the_week_disaster_on_the_atlantic_coast/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13059990 If you’ve spent much of the last week indoors, possibly without power or with standing water in your house, you may not want or need to see “The Bay,” Barry Levinson’s crude but highly unsettling found-footage disaster movie about a mysterious water-borne illness that devastates a small town’s Fourth of July celebration. One thing is for sure: This movie’s release this week is an uncanny example of either good or bad timing. While “The Bay” has nothing to do with weather or climate, at least not directly, it’s a claustrophobic media narrative about the Atlantic seaboard under attack, and also aspires to be an ecological fable about the dire “new normal” we have inflicted on our environment.

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