Tim Jackson
An independent film festival presents works that expose audiences to diverse voices, to alternative political and social points of view, and to different ways of understanding the world.
For fans of director Stanley Kubrick, this enhanced biography may be the most thorough and readable volume on one of the cinema’s most profound seers.
Heartwarming themes of love lost and the emotional power of music are undercut by a script constructed for the sake of dramatizing ideas rather than characters.
Director/actress Paola Cortellesi’s “There’s Still Tomorrow” is yet another bold cinematic plea for women’s rights.
“V66 is a piece of broadcast history that a lot of people don’t know about. I’m proud to be the person to tell its story.”
It is a shame that international film festivals cannot be made accessible to wider audiences, but the trend toward online gatherings, such as the Online French Film Festival, is a good start.
Focusing on the years between 1961 and 1964, director James Mangold turns Bob Dylan’s creative journey into a better-than-average cinematic biography in which the singer ends up riding off on his motorcycle and into history.
Both Stereophonic and Babemake compelling drama out of the volatile world of pop music-making.
This nuanced study in domestic malfunction is as universal as it is heartbreaking.
“The Horse” probes the psyche of a man who believes, despite all that has happened to him, in the possibility of renewal.
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