?If I didn?t embellish life with lies, it would be unbearable.? In the opening shot of Bye Bye Germany, we watch a three-legged dog happily trotting through a street that turns out to be in a post-war displaced persons camp in Frankfort. While that dog has next to...
Tales of mystery and suspense are often a search for truth. But what if you aren?t sure that truth is even knowable? Is memory a way into the truth or is it so flawed that it clouds the truth? In Spinning Man, a college professor and homicide detective square off in a...
?I want to be a great man. I just don?t know who I am.? On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy (Jason Clarke) went off a narrow bridge. Riding in the car was a young woman political staffer, Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara). Kennedy escaped the car, but...
?When I was little, every morning I?d look out the window, and I?d think, ?Every morning it changes.? ?Yeah, when I was a kid I thought every day was different, and it would always be like that. It would always keep changing. But then I realized that, here, nothing...
It?s never too late to find a new outlook on life and love, at least that is what Finding Your Feet tells us. On the surface, this looks like a date night movie for the Leisure World set. But the wisdom the film imparts can be absorbed by people of any age. Lady...
?And yet she persisted? is a political statement in the US. It speaks to women seeking a voice to speak to power. But a woman?s persistence takes on a much deeper importance in the Tunisian film Beauty and the Dogs. University student Miriam (Miriam Al Ferjani) goes...
?I think that we human beings have a compass?a mysterious compass?which leads us to do what is right. It?s something about the inner voice. The birds could go off and make a nest and help their kids to fly, but there?s an instinct that is there. I believe that we...
Leaning into the Wind ? Andy Goldsworthy is a reunion between the artist Andy Goldsworthy and film director Thomas Riedelsheimer, who also made the 2001 film about Goldsworthy and his art, Rivers and Tides ? Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time. For those who have seen...
The 19th century Industrial Revolution created great wealth?but also great poverty and oppression. As the great divide between the workers and the owners widened, some came to believe that society needed to change drastically. That is the setting for The Young Karl...