I highly recommended "Found." for those with strong stomachs.
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New York Film Festival: ‘Stray Dog’
Biker, Vietnam vet, Christian, father, friend, neighbor. Ron "Stray Dog" Hall is all of these and much more in Debra Granik's riveting "slice-of-life" documentary about a working class American.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘The Look of Silence’
Joshua Openheimer's "The Look of Silence" explores the nearly forgotten Indonesian genocide.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘La Sapienza’
How does one break through the emptiness of a life and relationship that has lost meaning? How long must one have to experience the void before there is movement and growth? Sometimes change can happen in the "twinkling of an eye" when one least expects it. It is then that "sapience," wisdom opens the doors of one's heart to receive renewal and forward movement. Such is the experience of Alexandre and Aliénor in 'La Sapienza.'
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: Countryside vs. City – Two Wars
An attack on Vietnam veterans – I suddenly felt like I was back at UCLA in 1971.
Read More »Interview: Orlando Von Einsiedel, Director of ‘Virunga’
The filmmaker discusses shooting a feature documentary about Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the last refuges of the magnificent and canny mountain gorillas.
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: Mind Reboot
Two of the documentaries at the Anthem Film Festival caused my brain to do a reboot.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Blue Ruin’
Director Jeremy Saulnier makes an ambitious leap from his no-budget origins.
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: ‘Cough’ – A Must-Watch for Filmmakers
Cough is a sci-fi tale set in Australia in the not-to-distant future where people have traded freedom for safety. Says the tagline: "Civil Liberties are Yesterday."
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: A Dark Future, but with a Few Laughs
Two products of a libertarian guerrilla film movement in the mountains of the west that are worth seeing.
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