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Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping ()

directed by Dietmar Post, Lucía Palacios
featuring Bill Talen

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Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping - Dietmar Post; Lucía Palacios
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Directed by Dietmar Post, this documentary follows New York City-based performance artist Bill Talen -- whose alter ego, "Reverend Billy," is a regular personality within the anti-globalization movement -- as he stages "Stop Shopping" sermons at a Manhattan Starbucks and a Disney store in Times Square. He also organizes a protest at a sufficiently anti-consumerist coffeehouse where Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Raven, and which had been slated for demolition. The film also documents Talen's dissatisfaction with what he refers ...

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