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BEAUTIFUL BOY

October 23, 2018 By Leave a Comment

BEAUTIFUL BOY

The devastation of drug addiction is passionately acted and masterfully told in BEAUTIFUL BOY, a film that is savagely tender in mood and execution. Based on the memoir of the same name by Bay Area journalist David Sheff (played by Steve Carrell), and Tweaked, the companion memoir by Sheff’s son, Nic ( played by Timothée… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, drug addiction, father-son, meth amphetamine

Going Beyond BLACK OR WHITE

January 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Going Beyond BLACK OR WHITE

Mike Binder has a particular genius for showing people brimming with good intentions, but flawed, stumbling through life without the operating instructions that would help them negotiate the bumps along the way. He has the gift of showing humor and pathos as elements that are not so much disparate, as entwined, manifesting at oddest moments… Read More »

Tagged With: African-Amerian, Andre Holland, Anthony Mackie, based on a true story, biracial, cinema, courtroom, custody battle, drug addiction, film, Gillian Jacobs, Keving Costner, lawyers, Mike Binder, movie narrative, Octavia Spencer, Paula Newsome, race relations

SABOTAGE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SABOTAGE

I can’’t fathom why when END OF WATCH was so dynamic, David Ayer’s directorial follow-up, SABOTAGE, is so inert. Where END OF WATCH had depth and energy, SABOTAGE is is rambling, and at times incongruous, as it unspools a set of stock characters dithering about in a cesspool of rubbery ethics and dogged determination. Perhaps… Read More »

Tagged With: bikers, DEA, drug addiction, heist, undercover

Maryam Keshavarz & Reza Sixo Safai and CIRCUMSTANCE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Maryam Keshavarz and Rexa Sixo Safai knew that making a film that was critical of the repressive regime running Iran would have repercussions, Both have family still living there that they might not be able to see again soon. When I spoke with them on May 3, 2011, that was the first thing I wanted… Read More »

Tagged With: debut feature film, drug addiction, hajib, Iran, LGBT, narrative, sexuality

Vincent LaMarca Takes Us to the CITY BY THE SEA

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Vincent LaMarca Takes Us to the CITY BY THE SEA

As a child, Vincent LaMarca had to deal with the arrest and execution of his father for the kidnapping and accidental murder of an infant.  As a retired New York City police officer, he had to contend with the arrest and murder conviction of his younger, drug-addict son. With his son’s run-in with the law and… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, crime drama, drug addiction, Esquire Magazine, father-son relationship, murder, New York police officer, NYPD, Robert de Niro, Vincent LaMarca

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