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...
?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...
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...
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...
?I?d give anything for someone to say?.? We long?to be heard, to be seen, to be loved. Such loving is the driving force in Joe Wright?s film Cyrano, a reimagining of Edmund Rostand?s Cyrano de Bergerac, by way of a musical stage play written and directed by Erica...
It is hard enough for star-crossed lovers to find a path to happiness, but when you stick the Holocaust in the middle of it all, it seems impossible. I?ll Find You, directed by Martha Coolidge, takes us into a world where young lovers have their lives torn apart and...
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...
Abraham Lincoln ? The Great Emancipator. Well, yes and no. In Lincoln?s Dilemma, showing on Apple TV+, we see a much more complicated picture of Lincoln?s presidency, especially as it relates to the abolition of slavery. The series, directed by Jacqueline Olive and...
Out of the billions of people alive, does the life and death of one person matter? In Somewhere with No Bridges, filmmaker Charles Frank looks back to find out about his cousin Richie Madeiras, a fisherman who drowned twenty years ago off of Martha?s Vineyard. Frank...