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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

July 16, 2022 By 1 Comment

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

One senses that the novel of the same name on which WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING possessed some lovely prose. Certainly, when the narration includes lines from the book, there is the dark poetic ring of classic Southern Gothic reverberating from the musings on death intoned by the adult version of Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones). Whatever philosophical… Read More »

Tagged With: bullying, child abuse, classism, disappointing men, marsh, murder, mystery, North Carolina, swamp, trial

Shlomi Elkabetz Records GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM

February 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Shlomi Elkabetz Records GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM

GETT, the Hebrew word for a bill of divorce, is the third film in a trilogy made by brother-and-sister filmmakers Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz. The theme, as Shlomi explained to me on October 6, 2014, is freedom, specifically women’s freedom in the modern world. Inspired by their mother’s life, it’s a contemplation on the nature… Read More »

Tagged With: Arab Jew, Ashkenazi, Bet Din, cinema, definition of beauty, director, divorce, film, gett, interview, Israel, Israeli cinema, light design, Maghreb, Menashe Noy, Ministry of Justice, Morocco, progressive, right of return, screenwriter, Sephard, Shomi Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, sound design, trial, women's rights, Yemeni

Richard Linklater Would Like You To Meet BERNIE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Richard Linklater Would Like You To Meet BERNIE

Richard Linklater makes films that are as varied as they are piquantly challenging. With BERNIE, based on a true story, he considers a good and universally beloved man who does a bad thing to a spiteful and universally despised woman. When I spoke to him on April 20, 2012, the whole idea of justice and… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, BERNIE, Carthage, comedy-drama, Jack Black, justice, law, Marjorie Nugent, Matthew McConaughey, murder, Richard Linklater, Shirley MacLaine, Texas, trial, writer-director

Brett Morgen and the CHICAGO 10

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Brett Morgen and the CHICAGO 10

The Yippies at the 1968 Democratic Convention gave themselves body and soul to protesting the injustice. The same can be said of Brett Morgen’s determination to make his documentary about the riots and the trial that resulted from them more than just a look back at an interesting moment in American history. When I spoke to him on February 21, 2008, the relevance of those… Read More »

Tagged With: 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, 20th-century history, Abbie Hoffman, animation, anti-war protest, Brett Morgen, director, documentary, film, history, justice system, movie, politics, protest, revolution, riots, trial, Yippie

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