Sunday at Newport Beach Film Festival
Questions of faith and loss of faith?and of the lies that are told and crimes that continue to be committed in the name of doing good–all come into play.
Questions of faith and loss of faith?and of the lies that are told and crimes that continue to be committed in the name of doing good–all come into play.
It seems that most every festival has a time travel conundrum, which I love. Something about the paradoxes involved appeals to me. This year at NBFF that is the French film House of Time
When I turn in my ballot for audience awards after each film (all audience members get to rate films as excellent, good, fair, or poor) I tend to hold off on using ?excellent? except for something exceptional. My first ?excellent? of the festival goes to The Man Who Knew Infinity.
We often think of philosophers as those who sit in ivory towers unaffected by the actual world. They think their thoughts about the nature of things without really understanding what matters. But often philosophy comes out of profound experiences.
I look forward to film festivals and it is time for me to head to the beach for the 17th annual Newport Beach Film Festival. This year there are over 350 films from 50 different countries. Obviously I won?t get to them all.
The film reflects a slightly romantic view of this period of coming of age. These people are filled with optimism as their lives lay open before them. Of course we know that there will be stumbling blocks in the life ahead of them.
The Jungle Book is Disney?s new high-tech live-action (sort of) remake of their 1967 animated film based on Rudyard Kipling?s 1894 book. The new version tries to find a middle path between the more light-hearted earlier film, and the darker, more mythic Kipling story.
Look at Us Now, Mother is Gayle Kirschenbaum?s look at her family?s angst?especially the difficult relationship she has had with her mother Mildred. Gayle claims she faced so much more criticism than her brothers that she was convinced she was born into the wrong family.
Grief is one of the universal themes that film can address. As we watch the Reed family deal with the grief in their life, we feel a connection with them because we have been there as well.
In High Strung a group of young musicians and dancers strut their stuff in a fairly predictable and formulaic story about finding fulfillment in their art?and finding love along the way.