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Sunday at Newport Beach Film Festival

Sunday at Newport Beach Film Festival

The Easter Rising of 1916 may be the Irish equivalent of America?s Battle of Lexington. It marks the effective beginning of the road to independence. To celebrate and commemorate the centennial of the Rising, the Irish Film Board curated ?After ?16?, a collection of...

Saturday at Newport Beach Film Festival

Saturday at Newport Beach Film Festival

It seems that most every festival has a time travel conundrum, which I love. Something about the paradoxes involved appeals to me. This year at NBFF that is the French film House of Time. A reclusive genius invites a group of his friends to spend a weekend at a...

Friday at Newport Beach Film Festival

Friday at Newport Beach Film Festival

Flexibility always comes in handy when you make your plans for a festival. For example, the first film I had planned on seeing was for some reason cancelled. That can happen for various reasons, but it does occasionally. I feel for the staff and volunteers who have to...

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

We often think of philosophers as those who sit in ivory towers unaffected by the actual world. They think their thoughts about the nature of things without really understanding what matters. But often philosophy comes out of profound experiences. Vita Activa: The...

Louder Than Bombs – Finding Ways Through Grief

Louder Than Bombs – Finding Ways Through Grief

In Louder than Bombs, when noted war photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert) dies on the eve of an exhibition honoring her work, her husband Gene (Gabriel Byrne) and two sons, Jonah and Conrad (Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid), must deal with their grief. Each...