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...
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 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...
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...
There has been a major change at AFI Fest 2019 Presented by Audi. For the last few years, tickets for most screenings and events at the festival were free. This year, the public needs to buy tickets, although there are some films that had free screenings. While the...
?There are 21 bridges in and out of Manhattan. Shut?em down. Three rivers. Close them. Four tunnels. Block them. Stop every train line that leaves the island ? Amtrak, PATH, New Jersey Transit, LIRR?and loop the subways. Then we flood the island with blue.? That is...
It?s nice to be able to compare notes with others at AFI Fest 2019 Presented by Audi. You get to hear what other people have seen and were impressed by, or just compare notes and confirm that what you saw was pretty bad. Sometimes such discussions can make you rethink...
Fifty-one percent of the films at AFI Fest 2019 Presented by Audi are directed by women. In the lobby of the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres where most of the screenings take place stands a large installation entitled ?Changing the Chairs?, noting that who sits in the...
?Mister, I ain?t a boy, no I?m a man, and I believe in the promised land? (Bruce Springsteen, ?The Promised Land?) In Blinded by the Light, Javed (Viveik Kaira), a Pakistani young man growing up in a town outside of London, struggles to find his place in the world. He...