Each spring, I usually attend and cover the Newport Beach Film Festival. As with just about everything this year, the pandemic has affected many film festivals, including NBFF. The festival is now underway virtually. This year geography isn?t an issue for people who?d like to see the films that have been chosen for NBFF. Like…
Road trips movies are inevitably about the forces that pull us apart and/or draw us together. Boundaries, from writer-director Shana Feste, uses this vehicle to look at three generations of a family in need of both distance and reunion. Laura (Vera Farminga) has a problem setting limits, as is seen in the fact that she…
I recently had the chance to talk by phone with Academy Award winner Vanessa Roth about her new short documentary, The Girl and the Picture, that played at the Newport Beach Film Festival. The film tells the story of Madame Xia, who as an eight year old girl survived the Nanjing Massacre (sometimes referred to…
My movie choices at Newport Beach Film Festival on Tuesday were stories filled with humanity, love, and compassion.
You?ll note I never give you a preview of what I?ll see the next day when I make my report each day. That is because one never knows what will be sold out leading me to figure out a plan B (or plans B throughout the day).
This is a story about a ?Great Man?, but it shows just how flawed and injured such a person can be. Do those flaws and injuries negate the greatness?
Questions of faith and loss of faith?and of the lies that are told and crimes that continue to be committed in the name of doing good–all come into play.
