<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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Collisions – ICE-y Road Trip

Collisions – ICE-y Road Trip

Oct 4, 2019

?Some are born under a lucky star, some are born into collisions? (Mexican proverb) A title card at the beginning of Collisions tells us ?Every four minutes a US citizen child is separated from a parent by deportation.? The film is told from the perspective of two...

Don’t Be Nice – Powerful Words

Don’t Be Nice – Powerful Words

Sep 27, 2019

Words have power. We often affirm that, but we don?t always see how that power unfolds. Don?t Be Nice is a documentary about people who are seeking to speak with power. It follows the Bowery Slam Poetry Team for several months in 2016 as they struggle to prepare for...

Neither Wolf Nor Dog – American Journey

Neither Wolf Nor Dog – American Journey

Sep 6, 2019

??ou got a lot of words, but you don?t say nothing. You gotta learn to listen before you can see. Listen to this old man here.? A white writer is summoned by a Lakota elder to visit him on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The elder wants him to take his various notes about...

Give Me Liberty – Van Load of Chaos

Give Me Liberty – Van Load of Chaos

Aug 30, 2019

As Give Me Liberty opens, we hear and then see a bedridden man who tells of being told he would never walk again, and finding that it was true. But he goes on to say, ?Life, it is what it is. Life is wonderful. It?s beautiful. I love life. I love everything about...

Light of My Life – A Father’s Love

Aug 12, 2019

Light of My Life opens with a father and daughter camping in the woods as he tells her a bedtime story that is peripherally connected to the story of Noah?s Ark. The story is one of rescue and protection of a young female fox as the world if facing destruction. The...

Piranhas – Loss of Innocence

Aug 8, 2019

Gangster movies ? The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, Scarface, et al. ? are often a blend of malevolence and nobility. People act cruelly and violently, but often see themselves (and we may see them) as doing so for a good cause ? family, community. Piranhas, directed...

The Mountain – Are We Sane?

The Mountain – Are We Sane?

Jul 26, 2019

?Where do they go? The people, when you change them?? It?s difficult to put The Mountain from writer director Rick Alverson into a familiar category. Drama doesn?t seem to say quite enough. It borders at times on surrealism, but there is also a strong sense of reality...