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WOMEN TALKING

December 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

WOMEN TALKING

WOMEN TALKING is a compassionate, reasoned film about a very ugly subject that tells its compelling story within strict confinements. The action takes place among an Amish-like sect in 2010 as its women take on issues of the patriarchy with a fiercely clear eye and the safe remove of an almost metaphorical setting. Within this… Read More »

Tagged With: chattel, forgiveness, patriarchy, rape, rebellion, repression, revolt

EVERY THING WILL BE FINE

December 14, 2015 By 1 Comment

EVERY THING WILL BE FINE

Tragedy is complicated. Guilt and anger, acceptance and forgiveness don’t fall into neat pigeonholes in Wim Wender’s EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, a title that is what everyone aspires to in this small but powerful tale of searching for redemption. The central character is Tomas (James Franco), a good writer with a middling career and… Read More »

Tagged With: accident, child's death, forgiveness, guilt, novelist, suicide attempt

The LEVITY of Ed Solomon

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The LEVITY of Ed Solomon

Making his directorial debut filming his own script wasn’t the only break Mark Solomon made with his previous work. Unlike the broad comedy he’s done before, LEVITY is a thought-provoking film that isn’t afraid to examine matters religious and moral in a world that offers few absolutes when it comes to right and wrong. It was… Read More »

Tagged With: budget filmmaking, cinema, director, directorial debut, drama, early morning, Ed Solomon, film, forgiveness, introspection, LEVITY, metaphysics, moral absolutes, morality, movie, murder, narrative, redemption, religion, right and wrong, screenwriter

Forest Whitaker is THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Forest Whitaker is THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

Idi Amin is a daunting subject for a feature film, but Forest Whitaker played the former Ugandan dictator’s charismatic side as well as the murderous rages into which he could erupt at any moment. When I spoke with him on October 6, 2006, that was the first thing I asked him about before moving on… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, African history, book to screen, cinema, dictator, drama, Forest Whitaker, forgiveness, Giles Foden, history, Idi Amin, movie, narrative, novel, Oscar-winning performance, Uganda

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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