For over thirty years, a woman in Philadelphia taped up to eight channels of television twenty-four hours a day. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project tells the story of how a collection of 70,000 VHS tapes chronicle the worlds from the Iran hostage crisis until her death in 2012. Marion Stokes was a Communist and activist…. [Read More]
Thursday at AFIFest 2019
As AFI Fest 2019 Presented by Audi draws to a close, it is time to thank the festival and it’s press office for allowing me to attend and report on the festival. I also want to thank the countless volunteers who helped to make the festival run smoothly and make sure I got in the… [Read More]
Wednesday at AFIFest 2019
There has been a major change at AFI Fest 2019 Presented by Audi. For the last few years, tickets for most screenings and events at the festival were free. This year, the public needs to buy tickets, although there are some films that had free screenings. While the attendance is still good, most screenings are… [Read More]
Tuesday at AFIFest 2019
It’s nice to be able to compare notes with others at AFI Fest 2019 Presented by Audi. You get to hear what other people have seen and were impressed by, or just compare notes and confirm that what you saw was pretty bad. Sometimes such discussions can make you rethink your schedule. I opened the… [Read More]
Saving Atlantis: Fighting for Nature
Directed by Justin Smith and David Baker, Saving Atlantis focuses on the dramatic effect of the loss of coral reef ecosystems around the world. Beautifully shot over exotic locales, the film effectively interweaves several narratives together, including the potential threat of a Columbian reef at the hands of ‘progress’, a group of aboriginal students attempting to restore… [Read More]
Disco’d – Meet Your Neighbors
In 2016 the homeless population of Los Angeles grew to 58,000 people. Disco’d is Matthew Siretta’s look at a handful of those people. Siretta gives us a very personal look at some of those who live in homeless encampments. The title comes from a slang term that means confused, disconcert, or discombobulate. An early scene… [Read More]
Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man
“Turning poop culture into pop culture is the fastest way to solve the sanitation crisis” (Jack Sim) Yes, there is scatological humor in Lily Zepeda’s documentary Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man. How can there not be given the subject: a worldwide sanitation crisis. It tells us that 2.5 billion people (about 40 percent of… [Read More]
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – Married to His Muse
Directed by Nick Broomfield, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is a testament to the complicated mixture of love and fame. Chronicling the relationship between famed songwriter Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen, the film shows how their love evolved from their early days in Greece through Cohen’s iconic career as a musician. Through… [Read More]
Back to the Fatherland – The Burden of the Past
How can young Israelis decide to move to Germany or Austria, given the historical issues Jews faced there? Back to the Fatherland gives us a look at a few of those young people—and their grandparents—to try to find some insight into the possibility to finding a future that overcomes history. The film opens with the… [Read More]
Free Trip to Egypt – Finding Friends
A stranger with a middle-eastern look about him comes up and offers you a free trip to Egypt. What would you be concerned about? Would you take them up on it? Tarek Mounib, born in Canada of Egyptian parents, now living in Switzerland, went to Trump rallies, stood in Grand Central Station, and went on… [Read More]
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