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Darrel Manson

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The Last Dalai Lama? – A Life of Compassion

The Last Dalai Lama? – A Life of Compassion

Aug 5, 2017

?So long space remains So long sentient beings remain So long suffering remains I will remain. In order to serve. That is the real purpose of our life.? Documentarian Mickey Lemle first made a film about the 14th Dalai Lama (Compassion in Exile) in 1991. Now that His...

Wind River – Hunting for Justice

Wind River – Hunting for Justice

Aug 4, 2017

The modern American frontier has been a subject that Taylor Sheridan has been coming to from different angles in recent films. Wind River represents his ?conclusion of a thematic trilogy? that includes Sicario and Hell or High Water. Three very different films, but...

Brigsby Bear – A Stranger in a Strange Land

Brigsby Bear – A Stranger in a Strange Land

Jul 27, 2017

?Brigsby Bear may sound like the title of a children?s TV show (and, in fact, in this film it is), but this isn?t a children?s movie. This is a look at home, family, and belonging. It is also a story about coming to grips with a world you never knew but now must live...

Maudie – Validation of a Life

Maudie – Validation of a Life

Jul 24, 2017

?The whole of life, already framed, right there.? It?s hard to assign Maudie to any one genre. Certainly it qualifies as biography. But it is also a bit of art history. It?s an inspirational story of finding success and happiness against terrible odds. And at its...

The Midwife – Life’s Transitions

The Midwife – Life’s Transitions

Jul 20, 2017

Life is a series of transitions, bookended by the two great transitions of birth and death. But along the way there are many more shifts in our lives?some trivial, others more profound. The Midwife is a story of the transitions of life that are--like life itself--a...