<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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Living – Finally finding life

Living – Finally finding life

Dec 28, 2022

?If only to be alive like that for just one day.? What makes a life important? What gives a life meaning? Do our mundane lives have any lasting impact on the world? Those are some of the deepest questions we may ever consider, yet, often they seem too difficult to...

Mindcage – Not so psychological thriller

Mindcage – Not so psychological thriller

Dec 16, 2022

In Mauro Borrelli?s Mindcage, a serial copycat killer is on the loose. The police must  ask the original killer for help. One of the detectives helped put him away, and is dealing with trauma of having to deal with these cases. What price will the original killer...

Benediction – A life looking for meaning

Benediction – A life looking for meaning

Dec 15, 2022

?Are you searching for truth?? ?Isn?t everyone?? ?And if you find it, what then?? In Benediction, from director Terence Davies, we follow 20th century poet Siegfried Sassoon in his search for ? well, maybe truth, but often happiness, belonging, and some sense of...

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Dec 14, 2022

?They had said, ?We will come back for you. No matter how long it takes, we will come back.? Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, from director Arthur Karari, is the story of the last soldier fighting World War II. The film is loosely based on the true story of a...

Emancipation – Fight for freedom

Emancipation – Fight for freedom

Dec 9, 2022

"We will not ask for freedom. We will not wait for freedom to be handed to us. We will take freedom!? As one might expect from the title, Antoine Fuqua?s Emancipation is a story of freedom. The true story the film is based on involves a photo known as ?Whipped Peter?...

Tantura – Uncovering a buried truth

Tantura – Uncovering a buried truth

Dec 1, 2022

?The truth has its own power. . . . The power of the truth cannot be hidden, and when it?s hot, it surfaces and more people ask questions.? In 1948, Israel became a nation. Immediately, they were at war with the Arab world. Among Israelis this is known as the War of...

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...