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LOVING VINCENT

October 22, 2017 By 1 Comment

LOVING VINCENT

The subjects of Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpieces come to startling, vivid, and enchanting life in LOVING VINCENT, a film of enormous beauty and sharp insight. Created by rotoscoping actors, and then painting each animation cell by hand in oils, the result is an immersive experience of how the artist saw the world while also questioning… Read More »

Tagged With: Armand Roulin, Auvers-sure-Oise, Dr. Gachet, hand-painted animation, mystery, oil painting, suicide, Theo Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh

WE ARE X — Stephen Kijak Interview

October 28, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WE ARE X — Stephen Kijak Interview

It all started with a picture.  Stephen Kijak, who has made a career of documenting rock stars, thought he had seen it all, but there was something about Yoshiki that he couldn’t shake. When I spoke with the filmmaker on October 26, 2016 about his documentary, WE ARE X, it was one of the first… Read More »

Tagged With: David Bowie, documentary, Gene Simmons, Japanese Glam Rock, John Battsek, Madison Square Garden, Passion Pictures, Pink Lady and Jeff, rock gods, Scott Walker, Stephen Kijak, suicide, Toshi, X Japan, Yoshiki

Signe Baumane and Sturgis Warner on Living with ROCKS IN MY POCKETS

December 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Signe Baumane and Sturgis Warner on Living with ROCKS IN MY POCKETS

Signe Baumane was asked by an audience member after a screening of ROCKS IN MY POCKETS about how to find meaning in life. It was a big question prompted by a provocative, insightful film about clinical depression. Her answer, which comes towards the end of our interview, was one of the most beautiful meditations on… Read More »

Tagged With: black humor, clinical depression, Latvia, manic depression, Signe Baumane, Sturgis Warner, suicide

THE HOURS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOURS begins with a suicide, a famous one at that. Virginia Woolf with a fierce deliberateness puts a heavy stone in her pocket and walks into a river. We see her head duck silently into the water and then her body floating delicately away, pulled by the current with a gentle urgency. By the… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, book to film, Feminism, LGBT, literature, suicide, Virginia Woolf

THE EYE (JIAN GUI)

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE EYE by Hong Kong’s Pang Brothers is a tidy little ghost story with more plusses than minuses going for it. The plot is a retelling about the unexpected things that can happen when you recycle body parts from dead people. In this case, it’s the corneas and the happy recipient is Mun, blind since… Read More »

Tagged With: blindness, ghost, haunting, suicide

THE BRIDGE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Eric Steel’s documentary THE BRIDGE is strong stuff, taking as it does the taboos of both death and of suicide and focusing on them without flinching. Almost the first image on screen is that of an anonymous someone stepping over the railing of the Golden Gate Bridge and while the world goes on around him,… Read More »

Tagged With: death, mental health, mourning, suicide

Eric Steel’s View from THE BRIDGE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Eric Steel’s View from THE BRIDGE

Eric Steel didn’t exactly make it easy for himself with his directorial debut. THE BRIDGE not only tackles suicide, but it also does so in a direct, visceral way that can’t help but provoke controversy. He, like his film, is quiet and thoughtful on the subject, but also partisan in what he feels are the failings in society… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, documentary, Eric Steel, film, Golden Gate Bridge, mental illness, movie, San Francisco, suicide, suicide prevention, survivors who jumped from Golden Gate Bridge

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