Family is the central theme of Born in China, this year?s Earth Day offering from Disneynature. The last few years they have focused on a single kind of animal (Monkey Kingdom, Bears, African Cats) and shown their lives and environment. This year they take us to...
?Our revenge will be to survive.? The modern concept of genocide did not begin with the Holocaust; it started with the attempted extermination of the Armenians during the early years of World War I. The Promise tells the horrifying tale through the story of a love...
What are we willing to compromise for our children? Our standard of living? Our freedom? Our integrity? Graduation from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu gives us a glimpse into a man?s anguish when his daughter might miss a chance to study abroad where more...
Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) is always trying to put a deal together. He thinks that if he can just get to talk to the right people, he?ll be able to convince them of his idea. But, alas, his attempts to make the right contacts fall short. Until he meets the...
?You?re a hero, Tommy Morris, to this town. But you?ll never be a gentleman.? Golf has an aura of propriety. Even at the highest levels, players give themselves penalties for minor violations. It?s just the way the sport is played. The sport has something of an...
?I can?t remember why I love you so much.? Two boys meet in a small town in France, they have different backgrounds, but become great friends. They dream of life in Paris. When they grow up they head off to seek fame and fortune. They become the post-impressionist...
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...