Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
2011 Directed by Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
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A journey that takes the viewers across the icy mid-winter snows of Alaska to meet her school friends, family, and Republican colleagues, to try and discover the real Sarah Palin.
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a typical nick broomfield wild goose chase for channel 4 bbc this is an irreverent take on sarah palins mafia style take over of alaskan politics. its just sad you need to pay 20 grand to be able to interview someone as famous as her. oh and i hope she runs for prez someday. i think she will because she is a fame hungry monster
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After a couple of forays into narrative cinema with Ghosts and Battle For Haditha, Nick Broomfield once again picks up the boom mic and steps in font of the camera to profile a controversial female icon and track down an elusive interview. This time he co-directs with Joan Churchill and they set their sights on Wasilla’s most famous daughter, Sarah Palin.
The resulting documentary, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! plays out like a light version of Tracking Down Maggie. Broomfield has even softened his on-screen persona somewhat in a film that has a distinctly lighter, more jovial tone to previous efforts such as Kurt And Courtney or Biggie And Tupac.
The film doesn’t say anything new about Palin’s political positions and…
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Scariest film I've seen for a while. It will be interesting to see how Palin is portrayed in a sympathetic way in Game Change.
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I love Nick Broomfield and his self held boom mike ways. Nice expose.
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Compelling enough without any real out and out answers. Broomfield does what he does best. I just wish his contributors were a little more informative.
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This is the first Nick Broomfield documentary I have seen, but it has made me interested in his style. He is kind of like a British Michael Moore, he is very present in the film and is not above a few "stunts." It is a particular style of film making that is more entertaining than informative, but I can't deny that the film is a lot of fun. Worth a watch, even as a study of the split personalities in politics between the public and the private personas.
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Disappointing and a little try hard ,,,but still disturbing.
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Broomfield takes his usual approach against Palin.
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Nick Broomfield documentary which spends most of its time talking to friends, family and enemies of its subject rather than the subject herself.
Although I fully appreciate the difficulties experienced in landing an interview with the politician herself (media black-out etc), the end product fails to really deliver anything new.
Disappointing.
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The new documentary from Nick Broomfield, in which he tries to talk to Sarah Palin and her friends/enemies. In typical Nick Broomfield fashion he shoots it on the fly and speaks to a wide range of people. I don't want to give too much away, but I laughed quite a lot. There is a great scene after Palin has pardoned a turkey live on TV. Very interesting to see how much power she (and her family) have over her home town. It's certainly a very good doc for the subject matter, and the ending is very funny.