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Darrel Manson

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In the Dusk – Truth and betrayal

In the Dusk – Truth and betrayal

May 25, 2023

In the Dusk, from director Sharunas Baras, takes us back to a nearly forgotten point in history, post-war Lithuania. Lithuania, which became a nation briefly in 1918, was occupied and controlled by the Soviet Union and Nazis through most of the twentieth century. Now,...

Land of Gold – Immigrant tales

Land of Gold – Immigrant tales

May 4, 2023

AT&T’s Untold Stories program is a partnership between AT&T and Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Film Institute to develop underrepresented content providers. The wnner of the AT&T Untold Stories Grand Prize at the 2021 Tribeca festival was Nardeep...

Unconditional – Caring for the caring

Unconditional – Caring for the caring

May 2, 2023

According to AARP, 53 million Americans are caregivers for family members dealing with health issues of various kinds. Some of us have been through that experience; many more will face such times. Daniel Lui, a news anchor at MSNBC, had to make major adjustments in...

Radiance – Seeing the Light

Radiance – Seeing the Light

Apr 21, 2023

Movies are the interaction of light and shadow. We watch the way the light moves on the screen and perceive it as something real. But are we really seeing what is there? What do we miss seeing? If we don’t notice the details, have we missed the whole picture? In...

Gringa – Shoots and misses

Gringa – Shoots and misses

Apr 21, 2023

“Nobody surfs the first day. Takes a lifetime.” There are lots of things that take a lifetime. But in Gringa, from directors Marny Eng and E. J. Foerster, change in characters’ lives seems to happen almost overnight. That makes for a film that oversimplifies almost...

Passion – Talking about Love

Passion – Talking about Love

Apr 14, 2023

“Have you ever loved a person?” In Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Passion, love is treated more as a concept than an experience. It is a mostly (but not exclusively) cerebral examination of what love is and how it fits into our lives. When Kaho and Tomoya announce they are...

A Handful of Water – Finding Sanctuary

A Handful of Water – Finding Sanctuary

Apr 7, 2023

“Entropy in on the rise.” Jakob Zapf’s A Handful of Water is a story of sanctuary. Sanctuary is often used to define a place of safety, but its root comes from being a place of holiness. In this film, the place of safety has the kind of life changing affect where we...

What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace

What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace

Apr 7, 2023

“Undoubtedly, the tremendous forces of history will cause the leader to fail to change reality as he wanted, but the leader’s primary obligation is to try to act.” Do leaders actually have the ability to change the world? Or are there so many factors involved that...

A Thousand and One – Family values

A Thousand and One – Family values

Mar 30, 2023

“What do two crooks know about raising a family?” A Thousand and One, written and directed by A. V. Rockwell, was honored with the Grand Jury Prize for US Drama at Sundance this year. It watches the development of a mother-son relationship through the years—alongside...