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SEPTEMBER 5 — Tim Fehlbaum Interview

January 16, 2025 By Leave a Comment

SEPTEMBER 5 — Tim Fehlbaum Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. I had seen SEPTEMBER 5 twice by the time I spoke via Zoom with its director and co-writer, Tim Fehlbaum on January 7, 2025. I started with how skillfully he created a sense suspense ever people who knew the outcome of the Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage… Read More »

Tagged With: 1972, ABC news, DAS BOOT, gender politics, Germany, Israeli athletes, Jim McKay., journalistic ethics, live reporting, Munich Olympics, politics, REAR WINDOW, satellite time, terrorism

THE APPRENTICE

November 4, 2024 By Leave a Comment

THE APPRENTICE

THE APPRENTICE takes as its focus the relationship between Roy Cohn and the young and hungry Donald Trump of the 1970s. This would be the callow Trump who was stifled by the long shadow cast by his father, Fred (Martin Donovan), and the utter cluelessness about how to play an all too easily rigged system… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, blackmail, emotionally crippled, fascism, greed, New York City, politics

AMERICAN DREAMS from the San Francisco Mime Troupe — Andre Amarotico interview

July 21, 2024 By Leave a Comment

AMERICAN DREAMS from the San Francisco Mime Troupe — Andre Amarotico interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Click here for the review of AMERICAN DREAMS (Was Democracy Just A Dream?) I’ve enjoyed Andre Amarotico’s performances with the annual San Francisco Mime Troupe for years, so it was a perfect delight to be able to talk to him on June 18, 2024 in advance of this… Read More »

Tagged With: AI, art, catharsis, Commedia dell'arte, Commedia dell'arte Theater, Daniel Savio, Dr Theater, emotional literacy, musical comedy, politics, positive change, positive change. Revolution, revolution, Rupert Murdoch, sin of complacency, theater musical comedy, tragedy, tragedy.empathy gym

POOR THINGS

December 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment

POOR THINGS

Click here to listen to the flashback interview with Emma Stone for THE HELP. POOR THINGS is a glorious gothic fantasy of the grotesque and the macabre rendered with high art and low comedy. Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has found his muse in Emma Stone, who give a performance that blends careful construction with wild abandon.… Read More »

Tagged With: free will, gasping halibut, Grand Guignol, just give Emma Stone the Oscar now, politics, seduction, sex, unassailable logic

GOLDA

August 27, 2023 By Leave a Comment

GOLDA

GOLDA does not take the traditional route in telling the story of the Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Instead, it focuses on the defining moment of her political career, a moment that made her, in the closing coda to the film, a hero abroad and controversial in her own country. It is a portrait etched… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, geopolitics, Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, Israel, Middle East, oil, politics, war, Yom Kippur War

KANDAHAR

May 26, 2023 By Leave a Comment

KANDAHAR

KANDAHAR has the virtue of being more than a quotidian action tale of espionage and its attendant machinations. By taking a brooding rather than kinetic approach, it becomes a bittersweet meditation on, as one character sums up very neatly, the idea that modern wars are not meant to be won. The implications of that provide… Read More »

Tagged With: Afghanistan, Dubai, espionage, fanaticism, nuclear facility, politics, Saudi Arabia

MAYOR PETE — Jesse Moss Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MAYOR PETE — Jesse Moss Interview

  Jesse Moss was in the process of editing his startling and illuminating documentary, BOYS STATE, when he was offered the chance to follow a longshot candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. He wasn’t that interested, then he watched that candidate, Pete Buttigieg, in a primary town hall and changed his mind. As the… Read More »

Tagged With: Indiana, LGBTQ, politics, presidential race, South Bend

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

November 20, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

It’s possible that a working knowledge of Canadian culture and politics might annotate the sheer joy of watching Matthew Rankin’s THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, but a lack of same in no way diminishes it. This rapturously surreal romp through fascism, propaganda, and the perils of love delights in its arch embrace of retro-futuristic artifice and vintage… Read More »

Tagged With: cactus, Canada, Canada Geese, imperialism, politics, satire, surrealism

BOYS STATE

August 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BOYS STATE

As some of us still ponder the results of the presidential election of 2016, and view the approach of the 2020 election with trepidation, there is no more timely nor illuminating film than Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ cinema verité documentary, BOY’S STATE.

Tagged With: abortion, Boy's State, education, elections, gun control, high school, politics, Texas

THE FRONT RUNNER

November 21, 2018 By 1 Comment

THE FRONT RUNNER

a thoughtful, anarchically lively, film about the obligations of the candidate and the responsibilities of the press that force us to question both

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, ethics, Gary Hart, politics, presidential race, scandal

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