For many people, Tammy Faye Bakker is probably best known for being the butt of jokes and SNL skits. Her outlandish makeup was a trademark that was easy to satirize, as was her singing and onscreen demeanor. But what of the person behind all that? The Eyes of Tammy...
?As much love as you put in to them, they?re going to give that back to you.? My Heroes Were Cowboys, a short documentary (running time: 22 minutes) from Tyler Greco, is the story of what we have come to think of as a horse whisperer. He is a man who has the ability...
What does ?Swiss bank? bring to mind? A numbered account? Secrecy about ill-gotten gains? Do you think of politics and class warfare? Azor, from Swiss director Andreas Fontana, shows us a bit of that behind the curtain world. Sure, its about money, but even more, it...
[NOTE: I wrote this review in 2008 after seeing the film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, expecting to publish it when it was released in the US. However, the film never got a release. I?ve often wondered what happened to it in all those years. Now it...
In Memory House, Brazilian filmmaker Jo?o Paulo Miranda Maria shows us the way a history of colonialism (even when it?s not officially colonial) continues to be a spiritual burden that many cannot escape. Cristovam is a indigenous black man from Northern Brazil who...
Stephen Wallis?s Defining Moments is a collection of intersecting stories about people who are facing those times in their lives that could well change everything. This is a light-hearted film that at times seems a bit ludicrous, but within that there are morsels of...
In Jeanette Nordahl?s Wildland, family is the most important thing in life. But is that good? Can a source of love also be a place in which one is broken down? Is the call of family worth giving up one?s sense of right and wrong? And what will we sacrifice to belong?...
?Sometimes, I wish God would just reach down and give the world a big old shake, you know?? One day. One family. And it all gets shaken up a bit. Evan Oppenheimer?s The Magnificent Meyersons is a peripatetic search for understanding what it means to live in a world...
Hitler. A name that for much of the world connotes absolute evil. But that name is burnt into history in such a way that we continue to struggle with the legacy that left millions dead. Petra Epperline and Michael Tucker bring us The Meaning of Hitler, a film framed...