Cyrano, My Love is an intersection of live and art. It could be debated which is imitating which as we follow fin-de-si?cle French poet/playwright Edmund Rostand as he struggles to create the play which brought him fame and success, Cyrano de Bergerac. The film opens...
Dilili in Paris is a celebration of fin de si?cle Paris. While it is an animated story of a young dark-skinned girl?s adventure, the core of the film is to meet some of the amazing men and women (especially women) of the Belle ?poque. The center of the film is Dilili,...
?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...
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...
??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...
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...
If you strip away the sex and dragons from Game of Thrones you have the story of trying to unite warring factions into a single kingdom and bring the period of warfare to an end. Kingdom (based on a seinen manga series of graphic novels, and later a seventy-seven...
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...
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...