Ten Questions for the Dalai Lama: One Man’s Journey through the Northern Himalayas open today in select areas, including the San Francisco Bay area. Watch for it.
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST–DVD We get what we bring. This principle is brilliantly illustrated in the responses to Daughters of the Dust in its Amazon reviews. Julie Dash’s brilliant and ground-breaking independent film is too good to dismiss. True, Dash’s film takes some effort because it uses non-traditional story-telling techniques rather than the ones we…
Click here to enter the totally amazing official movie site. I saw “Sweeney Todd” on my birthday with another December brithday gal, Liz Parker, who leads the Alton writing group and is the daughter of Bill Parker, who worked with my father as business agent for the union when my dad was the steward and…
The 1992 Lions Gate release “The Efficiency Expert” with the charmingly 15 years younger than now Anthony Hopkins, Russell Crowe, and Tony Collette among other fine actors is rated as a “comedic gem” and earns its place in the heart-warming category…but charming, now, not overly contrived. Directed by Mark Joffe and written by Max Dann…
Winter Passing, now out on DVD, is visually beautiful with skillful acting and slow-paced story telling. the lives portrayed are barren as a winter landscape, rife with drug and alcohol abuse, casual sex, self-injury, suicide attempted and suicide succeeded…in their attempts to block out lonliness and disappointment. These lives are groping towards meaning and find…
Okay, I get my films late. Part of fuddy-duddy-hood and part of living in the country. And, worse (or better, maybe?) when I’m in Illinois, I get my films from the library. And Now Ladies and Gentleman, an Anglo-French co-production from 2003 directed by Claude LeLouch and an official selection of Cannes Film Festival Closing…
Alex Detrick pulled together another fine evening last night at the Missouri History Museum, featuring Independent Lens film “Iron Ladies of Liberia” which will later air on KETC/Channel 9 April 6th at 11 p.m. Click here for video clip and political background on Liberia and the film. Click here for 2005 Washington Post article written…