<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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The Eternal Mother – Ghost of love

The Eternal Mother – Ghost of love

Dec 1, 2022

?Happy memories here. Other memories here.? Joanna Hogg?s The Eternal Daughter is a film that is bound to memory?of times past, of love, of relationship. It is dark and moody attempt to uncover the mystery of a mother/daughter bond that seems a bit cold and distant....

EO – Four-legged Odysseus

EO – Four-legged Odysseus

Nov 28, 2022

Aesop told fables with animals to teach about human nature. In the Torah we find a story of Balaam and his donkey in which the donkey sees what Balaam cannot. EO is the story of a donkey, but it is also a story about us. EO is Poland?s entry for Best International...

Deconstructing Karen – A woke up call

Deconstructing Karen – A woke up call

Nov 24, 2022

?It?s white women?s niceness that is killing us all.? A group of women sit around a dining room table to break bread and talk. But it won?t be an easy or pleasant conversation. That is because it will strive to be an honest conversation about race in America....

Godland – Faithless mission

Godland – Faithless mission

Nov 24, 2022

?I?m full of shit. Pray for me.? Godland, written and directed by Hlynur P?lmason, has an interesting ?inspired by? designation. We?re told that a box of old photographic plates was found in Iceland, and the story is inspired by those early photos. The story that...

Last Flight Home – Beautiful death

Last Flight Home – Beautiful death

Nov 24, 2022

Death comes to us all throughout our lives. It can be frightening. It can be a time of sharing love. It can also be one of the most intimate times in people?s lives. In Last Flight Home, documentarian Ondi Timoner turns her camera on her family during the final days...

No Bears – In search of freedom

No Bears – In search of freedom

Nov 15, 2022

What do you do if the government forbids you from making films? If you are Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, you make films about not being able to make films. The most recent of these films is No Bear. Sadly, it may be the last for some time. In 2010, Panahi was...

The Estate – Shallow Greed

The Estate – Shallow Greed

Nov 4, 2022

?Let?s go get . . . rich from that dying old bitch.? Avarice is the driving force in Dean Craig?s dark comedy, The Estate. Greed is a common enough motive in comedies. We can all easily identify with it at some level. That may be why it?s included in the Seven Deadly...