Thursday, July 16, 2015

Court: A Conversation With Indian Filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane

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By Liza Bear '...The film is outstanding in its acute observation of courtroom protocols and procedures, arcane colonial-era laws ...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Arts Express: The Most Dangerous Man In America. A Conversation With Director Woodie King Jr.

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“I have been despised for so long for being Black, that to tell me you will despise me because now I declare myself officially Red,...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Tribeca 2015: Jimmy's Hall Illuminates Occupy Movement A Century Ago

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Some movies are miracles simply for existing, warts and all. And Jimmy's Hall is certainly among them, in excavating a past that thos...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Tribeca 2015: Stranded In Canton

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 By Liza Bear New York, April 24--looks like Denmark picked off a lot of awards at Tribeca....I missed both Bridgend and Virgin Mountai...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The Anti-Oscars 2014: The James Agee Cinema Cinema Circle Awards

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In case you're wondering why all those critics groups and movie guild organizations out there seem to inevitably choose the same awar...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Manos Sucias: A Conversation With Director Josef Wladyka

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By Liza Bear MANOS SUCIAS is a well-researched, tightly scripted first film co-written and directed by Josef Wladyka which prem...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Women and Economics In Holocaust Movies

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  Phoenix Movie Review: Nazi Sympathetic Ambivalence And Identification With The Oppressor In Holocaust Movies The proliferation of Ho...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Arts Express: Moscow On The Line Talking Socialist Realism, Snowden, Ukraine Uprising And Obama/Putin Crisis

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**Socialist Realism at the Moscow Lumiere Brothers Center For Photography: Media Acheology, Industrial Aesthetics, Cultural Shifts. Cur...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Remembering Luise Rainer

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 Golden Age of Hollywood's social activist screen goddess Luise Rainer just passed away at the age of 104. And, who is said to have ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

John Boorman Talks Queen And Country: National Belief System Without A Soul

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             John Boorman With His PTSD Muse, Lee Marvin The veteran British director of Deliverance, Point Blank and Hell In The Pacif...