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Lacey and Peggy Schwartz Talk Their LITTLE WHITE LIE

January 20, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Lacey and Peggy Schwartz Talk Their LITTLE WHITE LIE

Lacey Schwartz wasn’t going to direct the documentary about her life growing up in a Jewish family and discovering that her dark skin wasn’t the result of a Sicilian ancestory, and that the man who had raised her was not her biological father. Every director she approached told her that such a personal story about… Read More »

Tagged With: African-American, Angelina Jolie, biracial, cinema, DIFRET, documentary, Ethiopian film, families, Family, family secrets, film, georgetown university, Lacey Schwartz, Mehret Mandefro, Peggy Schwartz, Personal Narrative, Racial Identity, Religion & Faith, SF Jewish Film Festival, Visual anthropology

MALEFICENT

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MALEFICENT

There is an old saw about movies that goes, “Don’t tell, show”” and, alas, MALEFICENT has gotten that backwards. wtih an incessant, distracting, and otherwise unhelpful narration. It’s an unfortunate irony in that the film seeks to inform us of the other side of the Sleeping Beauty story, that of the evil fairy who cursed a… Read More »

Tagged With: Angelina Jolie, cinema, Elle Fanning, fairy tales, film, movies, Sleeping Beauty

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