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Darrel Manson

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Darrel’s Dozen 2020 – and some bonuses

Darrel’s Dozen 2020 – and some bonuses

Jan 11, 2020

It?s time for me to put up my favorite movies of the last year. So here?s Darrel?s Dozen for 2019 (with a few bonuses at the end). This year I?ll only rank the top film; all the rest will be alphabetical. Links are to my reviews, unless noted.) The #1 film for 2019...

1on1 with Jan Komasa (CORPUS CHRISTI)

1on1 with Jan Komasa (CORPUS CHRISTI)

Jan 3, 2020

I recently had the opportunity to speak by phone with Jan Komasa, director of the Polish film Corpus Christi, which is on the shortlist of films being considered for an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Feature. The film is the story of a young man (Daniel) who...

Clemency – A Warden’s Walls

Clemency – A Warden’s Walls

Dec 28, 2019

?You want to be whole.? A couple of hours before viewing Clemency, I took in an excellent photo exhibition focusing on walls. That influenced  how I understood this powerful film. The obvious reason is that the film takes place mostly within a prison, but that is...

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

Dec 18, 2019

Daisy Ridley is Rey and Adam Driver is Kylo Ren in STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER The first words in the scrolling text that opens Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker are ?The dead speak!? It continues on with a few things to remind us where the story left...

1917: Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne

1917: Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne

Dec 18, 2019

Director/co-writer Sam Mendes used stories his grandfather told about World War I, plus others? stories from the Imperial War Museum archives, for the foundation of 1917. It is the story of friendship, loyalty, determination, and courage. But it also touches at times...

Hala – Between Two Worlds

Dec 6, 2019

Hala is the story of a young woman caught between two world?her parents? and the culture she has grown up in. It is a stereotypical coming-of-age story with the additional conflict of having to live by additional rules that grow out of her parents? values. But it also...

A Hidden Life: Resisting Evil

A Hidden Life: Resisting Evil

Dec 4, 2019

Terrance Malick creates films that are spiritual experiences. Sometimes, it is more about the experience than story. (Personally, I love going through those experiences, but understand why some find it difficult.) In A Hidden Life, Malick creates an experience that...

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Nov 27, 2019

For over thirty years, a woman in Philadelphia taped up to eight channels of television twenty-four hours a day. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project tells the story of how a collection of 70,000 VHS tapes chronicle the worlds from the Iran hostage crisis until her...