Darrel Manson

Coast – Teen ennui

Darrel MansonApr 8, 2022

?Even rebels need a place to come home to.? Because the teenage years are a bridge between childhood and adulthood, they have attracted storytellers. Coast, from directors Jessica Hester and Derek Schweickart, is the most recent coming-of-age story, this one with a...

Cow – Life at the Dairy

Darrel MansonApr 7, 2022

To what extent do non-human animals experience life? Do they have emotions like ours? Do they suffer in the kinds of life we assign to them? Do they enjoy the what we do for or to them? In Andrea Arnold?s documentary Cow, we follow the life of a dairy cow over a...

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The Devil You Know – Keeping your brother

Darrel MansonApr 1, 2022

Charles Murray?s The Devil You Know openly invokes the biblical story of Cain and Abel to consider what it means to be one?s brother?s keeper. It is the story of a close-knit family that faces being torn apart by the struggle between brothers about truth and secrets....

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Wood and Water – Connecting in an empty world

Darrel MansonMar 23, 2022

In Jonas Bak?s Wood and Water, we are plunged into a woman?s solitude and loneliness?even in one of the most vibrant cities in the world. The film is not really built around plot, but rather the emotional journey of seeking a connection. Anke (played by the director?s...

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Fear – When I was a stranger…

Darrel MansonMar 11, 2022

?We are hospitable people?but Bulgaria belongs to Bulgarians.? What does it mean to welcome the stranger? It seems to be a lost value in the world today. Ivaylo Hristov?s Fear shows that xenophobia is present in Bulgaria, but we know this is not something that is...

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1on1 with Dana Canedy (A Journal for Jordan)

Darrel MansonMar 8, 2022

I recently had the chance to speak via Zoom with Dana Canedy, who wrote the book A Journal for Jordan about her fianc? 1st Sergeant Charles Monroe King who wrote a journal for their yet unborn child prior to being killed in Iraq. The film version of the book is...

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You Will Remember Me – Societal Dementia

Darrel MansonMar 4, 2022

?We are witnessing the disintegration of the world!? The motto of Qu?bec is ?Je me souviens? (?I remember?). It?s on their license plates, so that idea is always present for Qu?becois. That is not stated in ?ric Tessier?s film You Will Remember Me, but it is certainly...

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This Year’s Oscar Nominated Short Docs

Darrel MansonMar 1, 2022

Short films can be good training for future filmmakers, or they can be an artform in themselves. Each year the Academy awards Oscars to three short films: Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short, and Best Documentary (Short Subject). The nominees for these...

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This Year’s Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts

Darrel MansonFeb 25, 2022

Short films can be good training for future filmmakers, or they can be an artform in themselves. Each year the Academy awards Oscars to three short films: Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short, and Best Documentary Short. The nominees for these categories come...

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