Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

68 minute visual essay on plane hijackings (made in 1998) for Johan Grimonprez.
Again, this shares a lot of the things we would say about double take. The aesthetic may be less noirish, downbeat (and coherent) but it is the same in that Grimonprez had dug up a bunch of fascinating footage, and has juxtaposed it at times very skillfully.
Some of the effect is that one just doesn't usually see this stuff; the planes crashing, the man just shot. It shocks the audience, especially in the often clever conjuntions with popular music.
Again, a few of the pieces of text that run are a little trite and indicate that the maker isn't going to win any prizes for theory. However, he knows how to show an image, and that is what really matters here. Individual scenes stick with you afterwards, and most of it canters along at a speed where you won't get bored.
Difficult to know what to make of it as an artistic statement, but watchable, oddly entertaining (that's the point really, the horror IS entertaining), and may let one come out to think for oneself, even if the film itself fails to do much thinking.