Tuesday, March 22, 2016

FILMFORT: CARBON (2016)—The Evening Class Interview With Christian Lybrook

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Poster design: Mankit Lam. We are stardust (we're made of million-year-old carbon). We are golden (we just got caught up in some de...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

FICCI56—OSCURO ANIMAL (2016)

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Committedly absent of dialogue, Felipe Guerrero 's feature debut Oscuro Animal (2016) [ IMDb ] is nonetheless tremendously articulat...
Monday, March 14, 2016

FICCI56—LOS NADIE (THE NOBODIES, 2016)

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The nobodies: nobody's children, owners of nothing. —Eduardo Galeano. Traditionally, each edition of the Cartagena International Fil...

LA CALLE DE LA AMARGURA / BLEAK STREET (2015)

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I imagine Diane Arbus and Luis Buñuel sharing stale popcorn sitting third row center watching Arturo Ripstein 's latest melodrama La C...
Friday, March 11, 2016

CAAMFEST 2016—RACIAL FACIAL (2016)

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Although it no longer works out with my festival calendar to attend San Francisco's CAAMFest (formerly known as the San Francisco Int...
Monday, February 29, 2016

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (2015)—MVFF38 Q&A With Brionne Davis

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Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra 's Embrace of the Serpent (2015) screened at the 38th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival with...

FICCI56: EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT—The Cineaste Interview With Ciro Guerra

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Photo courtesy of Cineaste . Ciro Guerra may not have won the Foreign Language Academy Award® for Embrace of the Serpent (2015) ; but,...
Friday, February 26, 2016

LAST DAY OF FREEDOM (2015)—The Evening Class Interview With Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman

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"Why are we trying to kill all the broken people?" —Brian Stevenson, Just Mercy (2014) . Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman...