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A MONSTER CALLS

January 15, 2017 By Leave a Comment

A MONSTER CALLS

A MONSTER CALLS begins, fittingly enough, with a child’s nightmare. We don’t have the context yet, but the primal fear gripping the boy clinging to the hand of a woman hanging over an abyss neatly sums up the emotional journey to come. The boy is Connor (Lewis MacDougall), and the woman, as we will shortly… Read More »

Tagged With: bully, cancer, fairy tale, monster, terminal illness, yew tree

MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

November 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

Full of emotion, but never cheap sentimentality, there is a refreshing honesty in the way MISS YOU ALREADY depicts Milly’s battle with cancer, including being called out by being called a cancer bully by Jess. It’s one of the things we talked about on October 9th, 2015, as well as shopping with Jacqueline Bissett, shaving… Read More »

Tagged With: breast cancer, cancer, cancer bully, female bonding, Frances de la Tour, friendship, head shaving, Heathcliff, Mayo Clinic, mother-daughter relationship, nun crush, Oscar Isaac, Seth Maxwell, stage-four cancer, The Thirst Foundation, Vatican, Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire moors

Josh Mond and Christopher Abbott Introduce Us to JAMES WHITE

November 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Josh Mond and Christopher Abbott Introduce Us to JAMES WHITE

Josh Mond believes in the collective approach to filmmaking. As co-founder of Borderline Films, he and partners Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin produce each other’s films, which include Campos’ SIMON KILLER andDurkin’s MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. With JAMES WHITE, Mond takes his turn behind the camera, and, when I spoke with him and WHITE’s co-star,… Read More »

Tagged With: Borderline Films, cancer, collaboration, Cynthia Nixon, Kid Kudi, male bonding, Mátyás Erdély, mother-son, Scott Mescudi, tight close up, tracking shots

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