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SMILE

September 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SMILE

Among the primates, expect for humans, widening the mouth and showing the teeth is a signal of aggression. In humans, it’s called a smile, and I’m sure that anthropologists have made much hay about that behavioral disconnect between us and our cousins. Parker Finn, in his feature film debut as writer and director, also makes… Read More »

Tagged With: curse, hallucinations, psychiatry, PTSD, suicide, Trauma

CAVEAT — Damian McCarthy Interview

June 14, 2021 By Leave a Comment

CAVEAT — Damian McCarthy Interview

Click here for the full review of CAVEAT. CAVEAT may be Damian McCarthy’s debut feature film, but he’s been honing his horror skills in short films for several years. When we spoke on June 11, 2021 via Zoom, I made a point of asking him where people can find those shorts, because after seeing the… Read More »

Tagged With: amnesia, crossbow, gothic, Harness, horror, remote island, sound, Trauma, wind-up toys

WANDER DARKLY

December 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment

WANDER DARKLY

WANDER DARKLY is the antidote to the generic rom-com. Set in the subjective viewpoint of a woman who is convinced that she is dead, it explores a relationship gone wrong using the unencumbered honesty of retrospection. The woman is Adrienne (Sienna Miller), who is always quick to point out that the father of her infant,… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, car crash, grief, illusion, reality, Trauma

BRIGSBY BEAR — Kyle Mooney & Dave McCary Talk Trust, Wardrobe, and Matzo Ball Soup.

July 25, 2017 By 1 Comment

BRIGSBY BEAR — Kyle Mooney & Dave McCary Talk Trust, Wardrobe, and Matzo Ball Soup.

BRIGSBY BEAR is a unique creation. An absurdist comedy that heralds the triumph of innocence over cynicism, it is heartwarming in its celebration of creativity as applied to obsessive fandom, in this case of the eponymous star of a kid’s television show. It’s that last part that I wanted to discuss with Kyle Mooney and… Read More »

Tagged With: Canter’s, creativity kidnaping, Golden Raspberry Awards, Greenblatt’s Deli, Halle Berry, La Brea Tar Pits, Langer’s, matzo ball soup, Obsessive fandom, Razzies, Sandra Bullock, Sarah May Burton, Trauma, YouTube

MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN

January 31, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN

The word “safe” comes up over and over again in MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN, Lloyd Kramer’s elegiac yet emotionally gripping documentary about the aftereffects of the Sandy Hook Massacre on the survivors. As in, the sense of being safe has been taken from everyone involved forever. The question becomes how to deal with it. Kramer’s film… Read More »

Tagged With: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anna Grace Project, catharsis, Connecticut, musical, outreach, PTSD, Sandy Hook Massacre, theater, therapy, Trauma

John Pirozzi Promises DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: THE LOST MUSIC OF CAMBODIA’S ROCK AND ROLL

May 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

John Pirozzi Promises DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: THE LOST MUSIC OF CAMBODIA’S ROCK AND ROLL

John Pirozzi was a camera operator on assignment for a Matt Dillon film in Cambodia when he discovered the treasure that was and that country’s history of rock & roll. It was one of the first things we talked about on March 19, 2015. His documentary on the subject was one of the gems at… Read More »

Tagged With: American foreign policy, Angkor Watt, Cambodia, censorship, CITY OF GHOSTS, Dengue Fever, DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA’S LOST ROCK AND ROLL, ghost voice, Intellectual Property Rights Accord, John Gunther Dean, John PIrozzi, Khmer Rouge, Linda Saphan, Matt Dillon, Michael Graves, Norodom Sirivudh, Pol Pot, politics, pop music, Pou Vannary, Prince Sihanouk, rice cultivation, Ros Sereysothea, Sinn Sisamouth, Southeast Asia, Thida Buth, Trauma, Vietnam war, Yol Aularong

Brian Sloan has A WTC VIEW

March 1, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Brian Sloan has A WTC VIEW

WTC VIEW was the first play from The New York International Fringe Festival to make the leap to the big screen in 2005, but playwright Brian Sloan resisted the temptation to fundamentally change the nature of his play by opening it up beyond the one apartment in which it takes place. The metaphor of a… Read More »

Tagged With: 9/11, anniversary, cinema, director, LGBT, movie, MPAA, narrative, Psychology, screenwriter, sound design, stage to screen, terrorism, Trauma, world trade center

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