Keep the River on Your Right - A Modern Cannibal Tale
Artist, anthropologist, and author Tobias Schneebaum spent most of a year  living with a tribe in the depths of the Peruvian jungle, during which  time he tasted human flesh. Forty-five years later, a pair of filmmakers  convinced Schneebaum, in his late 70s, to return to the Amazon to discover if  any of these tribesmen still exist.Keep the River on Your Rightinitially seems like it's going to be a highbrow version of a lurid exploitation flick, but instead it becomes both an astonishing portrait of the charming,  gracious, and insightful Schneebaum--a Greenwich Village artist who became an  explorer of uncharted realms of the world--and an examination of the vast  breadth of human cultures; for example, the documentarians cunningly juxtapose a ritual circumcision in New Guinea with a Jewish wedding in New York, making each seem both strange and familiar. An unusual and fascinating documentary.--Bret Fetzer