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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

THE OATH — Ike Barinholtz Interview

October 21, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE OATH — Ike Barinholtz Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. he family Thanksgiving dinner can be a tricky time as many, and not necessarily, compatible personalities and opinions converge over a table groaning with too much food. In the current, and fraught, political climate, that is even more true. Ike Barniholtz, writer/director/co-star of THE OATH, took that idea… Read More »

Tagged With: flared nostril, loyalty oath, politics, Red Scare, satire, Thanksgiving

THE INSULT — Ziad Douieri Interview

February 8, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE INSULT — Ziad Douieri Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview. Ziad Doueiri made one of my favorite films of the 2010s, THE ATTACK (2011), about an apolitical Arab doctor in Israel who finds himself suddenly the object of suspicion by his friends and colleagues when his wife becomes a suicide bomber. His new film, THE INSULT, the… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Nominee, Anwar Sadat, Beirut, Camp David, Catalonian Secession, Damour massacre, detention, director, drama, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, Jimmy Carter, Joelle Touma, Lebabnon, Menachem Begin, Middle East, Palestinians, politics, Refugee, Sam Goldwyn, Uncategorized and tagged BDS Movement, Ziad Doueiri

THE LAST DALAI LAMA? — Mickey Lemle Interview

July 10, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE LAST DALAI LAMA? — Mickey Lemle Interview

Mickey Lemle made his first documentary about the Dalai Lama in 1991. Entitled COMPASSION IN EXILE, it recounted his discovery as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, his training since childhood to be the spiritual leader of Tibet, and the consequences for him and his country of the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and his… Read More »

Tagged With: attachment, Buddy Squiers, Church of St. John the Divine, compassion, COMPASSION IN EXILE, Congress, Dalai Lama, dopamine, ecumenicalism, emotional atlas, George W. Bush, honesty, Mitch McConnell; Ivan Lendel, Nadia Boulanger, Nancy Pelosi, neuroscience, organ music, Parabola Magazine, Philip Glass, politics, RAM DASS: FIERCE GRACE, Ravi Shankar, reincarnation, Samuel Beckett, Tenzin Choegyal

MEN WITH GUNS

May 21, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MEN WITH GUNS

Is ignorance a sin? John Sayles ponders that in MEN WITH GUNS.

Tagged With: bigotry, Latin America, politics, tourists

ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA

May 20, 2017 By Leave a Comment

ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA

Robert H. Lieberman’s ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA asks difficult questions and provides answers that are as illuminating as they are troubling. His portrait of Cambodia is refracted through the genocide that was inflicted on it by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, a genocide that reduced the number of doctors in in a once prosperous… Read More »

Tagged With: Angkor Wat, baksbat, Cambodia, genocide, Hun Sen, Khmer Rouge, Nixon, Pol Pot, politics, PTSD, secret bombing of Cambodia, Vietnam war

NERUDA

January 22, 2017 By Leave a Comment

NERUDA

NERUDA is a rhapsody of juxtaposition and conundrum.  Pablo Larraín’s film takes historical episodes from a contentious time in the life of Chile’s beloved poet, fervent Communist, elected senator, and creates a fable of suitably Olympian proportions. And, yes, poetry. This is not, however, the sun-dappled poetry of pastoral idylls nor of chivalric love.  And… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Chile, Communist Party, manhunt, Neruda, politics

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