I recently had the chance to talk by phone with Dani?le Thompson, the writer/director of C?zanne et Moi, a film about the lifelong?but troubled?friendship between post-Impressionist painter Paul C?zanne and novelist /journalist ?mile Zola. C?zanne is a fairly familiar...
?Don?t be afraid to make us happy.? Fran?ois Ozon?s Frantz is set in the aftermath of the First World War. It is a wonderfully visual film. (It won a C?sar Award (the French equivalent of an Oscar) for Best Cinematography. That may surprise some since most of the film...
?Tale as old as time/ Tune as old as song? Yes, this is a story that has been told before. Beauty and the Beast is a live action remake of Disney?s 1991 animated (and much beloved) version of the French fairy tale that dates back to at least the 18th Century La Belle...
?Normal people do not work at Belko? It starts off like a normal workday at Belko Industries, except for the paramilitary guards outside. Belko is an American company that has set up shop near Bogot?, Columbia. Because of the threat of kidnapping, each employee has a...
I have a t-shirt that reads ?The older I get the better I was.? That sentiment immediately came to mind when I watched The Sense of an Ending. It is a story of memory of past times, but we see that those memories may not be a reliable recounting of what happened....
?And though the world with devils filled, should threaten to undo us.? (Martin Luther, ?A Mighty Fortress Is Our God?) Many modern people?including many Christians?may be uncomfortable with the worldview of devils and angels that seems to be part of Luther?s hymn. In...
?The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.? Can the words of an African-American writer who has been dead for three decades speak to the America of today? I Am Not Your Negro is almost entirely the words of James Baldwin,...
?Maybe for you there is a tomorrow?. But for some of us there is only today. And what you do matters.? In Before I Fall, high school senior Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch) lives the same day over and over. She is popular. She has a hunk of a boyfriend. She and her...
?At some point you need to decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can?t let nobody make that decision.? ?Who is you?? Identity is a central focus of Moonlight, a story that follows an African American character (Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Travonta Rhodes)...