<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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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...

AFI Fest 2019 – Awards and Personal Faves

Nov 23, 2019

AFI Fest 2019 Presented by Audi has announced the winners of the Audience Awards, as well as the Grand Jury Prizes for short films. Following the awards listing, I?ll chime in with my own favorites from the festival. Audience Award ? Feature  I AM NOT ALONE (DIR...

Thursday at AFIFest 2019

Thursday at AFIFest 2019

Nov 22, 2019

As AFI Fest 2019 Presented by Audi draws to a close, it is time to thank the festival and it?s press office for allowing me to attend and report on the festival. I also want to thank the countless volunteers who helped to make the festival run smoothly and make sure I...