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Ghost Bird

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by:

Directed by: Scott Crocker

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 28, 2010

Running Time: 85 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

The ivory-billed woodpecker has long been considered the Holy Grail by diehard birders who refused to believe it went extinct over sixty years ago. When scientists announced that the bird had been found in the swamps of Eastern Arkansas, the nation’s 70 million birders celebrated the woodpecker’s second coming. As did the citizens of nearby Brinkley who welcomed the flood of tourists to their down-and-out Delta town. Following the largest recovery effort ever undertaken for a lost species, and despite millions of dollars in funding, ivory-bills remain as elusive as ever. With the current rate of species extinction estimated at over 100 times the planet’s evolutionary average, salvation may be too late for more than just the ivory-billed woodpecker. Ghost Bird brings the ivory-bill’s blurry rediscovery into focus, revealing our uneasy relationship with nature and the increasing uncertainty of our place within it. (Anthology Film Archives)

What The Critics Said

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The New York Times Neil Genzlinger

Generally speaking, bird-watching is a pastime that is extremely interesting to a few people and not at all interesting to anyone else. But Scott Crocker has turned a bird-watching tale into a multilayered story that will fascinate practically everybody in Ghost Bird, a witty, wistful documentary.

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70

Village Voice Nicolas Rapold

It's the sort of film that builds up familiar frenzy--newspaper notoriety, tourism uptick, government attention--only to dissolve in a what-just-happened daze.

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60

Time Out New York David Fear

Ghost Bird has a bad habit of briefly taking flight and then crashing back down into NPR-like stodginess.

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What Our Users Said

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