Have you ever left a theatre and felt like your heart was in the sky? That would happen to me every time I went to the cinema as a kid; it would take me such a long time to return to reality afterwards. Now, possibly because I’m always watching something, those...
When it becomes clear that their father in hospice care is nearing the end of his life, three sisters move into his apartment to take care of him and be there when he passes. They are three different women with different ways of handling the situation and His Three...
In The World is Family, Anand Patwardhan uses the lives of his parents--their work, events they lived through and indeed, movements they were a part of--to paint a picture of India’s history, present and his hope for its future. Patwardhan’s parents (and other...
Amanda Seyfried stars in Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils as Jeanine, a director who has been asked to reproduce a production of Salome which was originally created and produced by her recently deceased mentor. As we watch her communicate her ideas for the project, we become...
North Star, Kristin Scott Thomas’ directorial debut, takes us back home--well, to a home in England--with three sisters who are returning for their mother’s third wedding. Her first two husbands have died, both of them while serving the country in the Royal Navy, and...
Dance is amazing. There seems to be so much freedom in the movements and, if done right, dancing looks fun, and light and easy. Only, it’s not. Chelsea McMullan’s Swan Song takes us behind the curtain of Swan Lake, directed by Karen Kain for the National Ballet of...
Change is almost always scary for me. I don’t like my routine being interrupted, and Iespecially find it difficult to accept that if I want to ‘make something of myself’ or even justsurvive, I have to be willing to try new, often risky things. In A Road to A Village,...
Directed by Um Tae-hwa, Concrete Utopia tells the story of the residents of the Hwang Gung apartment complex as they navigate survival after an earthquake destroys all the other buildings and leaves theirs standing. Soon, they are also approached for shelter by people...
Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, tells the story of Cheryl Bradshaw (also played by Kendrick). Bradshaw is a struggling actress who appears on as a bachelorette on The Dating Game, a TV game show where bachelors compete for an all-expense paid...