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Welcome to JIMMY’S HALL

July 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to JIMMY’S HALL

Ken Loach has never been a filmmaker to shy away from politics. In fact, a case could be made that the reason he makes films is to explore politics, the which he has done with such strident films as BREAD AND ROSES (union organizing in contemporary Los Angeles) and LAND AND FREEDOM (the Spanish Civil… Read More »

Tagged With: Aileen Henry, Andrew Scott, Barry Ward, based on a true story, Donal O'Kelly, exile, Ireland, Iris Civil War, Irish Civil War, Jim Norton, Ken Loach, Marxism, narrative, Paul Laverty, Simone Kirby, stage to screen

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I’’ve never read the bestselling book, “House of Sand and Fog” by Andre Dubus III, but I admire the concept of it infinitely more than I admire the film of the same name that was made from it. This is a poignant tale about what the idea of home means to people, how they will… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, exile, home foreclosure, Iranian Revolution, Shoreh Agdashloo, Sir Ben Kingsley

Shoreh Aghdashloo Invites Us to THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Shoreh Aghdashloo Invites Us to  THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG

I’ve been a fan of Shoreh Aghdashloo’s since seeing her in Ramin Serry’s beautiful film, MARYAM, which dealt with the repercussions to an Iranian-American family of the Iranian hostage crisis. She delivers an even more powerful performance in THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG as the sheltered wife of an exiled Iranian colonel engaged in a… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, exile, home foreclosure, Iranian Revolution, Shoreh Agdashloo, Sir Ben Kingsley

Marjane Satrapi Creates PERSEPOLIS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Marjane Satrapi Creates PERSEPOLIS

When I talked with Marjane Satrapi on December 12, 2007, the national news was full of the latest example of gun violence in the United States. Before getting down to talking about PERSEPOLIS, based on her autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, she asked me why the pundits were talking about the shooter’s psychology… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, artist, autobiographical, black and white cinematography, book to screen, conservative culture, director, exile, expatriate, forgiveness, graphic novel, gun control, gun violence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Marjane Satrapi, narrative, writer

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