Blue: ?Your childhood. . .? Billy: ?. . .Was wonderful. Growing up was hard.? In a time when people were famous just for being famous, a young boy?s father writes a book with him as a character. Soon, the whole world wants to know and meet the ?real? Christopher...
In Blood Stripe, a Marine sergeant (known only as Our Sergeant) returns from her latest deployment to start civilian life. She has a difficult time fitting in with family and friends. She finds much of her daily life meaningless. She is unable to sleep. She has...
The Meyerowitz family has spent their lives talking past each other. How can they find ways to say the important things that must be said? Noah Baumbach?s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is a comic, yet painful look at a family that must struggle to get past...
The Florida Project is the story of a carefree childhood summer?except it isn?t. Instead it is a haunting view of a somewhat hidden section of American life?families that are not quite homeless, but nowhere near even a minimal security. The story, which is made up of...
After ten years as part of the Batsheva Dance Company in Israel, Bobbi Jene Smith is returning to the U.S. to create her own avant garde works. Elvira Lind?s documentary Bobbi Jene chronicles her two year journey, her work, and the personal struggles it entails. The...
Twenty years ago Judi Dench played Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown, the story of Victoria?s close relationship with John Brown, a member of her household staff. Victoria and Abdul sees her again in the roll of Victoria as the now elderly Queen strikes up another personal...
Think of an important event in your life. Do you remember it the same as someone else who was there? Do you remember it the same as you did a few years ago? Marjorie Prime is about the relationship between reality and memory. Based on a Pulitzer-nominated play, the...
?There?s never been a rat problem in Baltimore; it?s always been a people problem.? Rat Film is a bizarre documentary that seeks to speak about social issues by showing bits of the history of Baltimore and the way we people interact with rats. It never really makes...
?One of our country?s largest private companies is proudly built on American values and skills.? (from a promotional video for Koch Industries) Crossett, Arkansas bills itself as the ?Forestry Capital of the South?. It?s a small community, but it is home to a...