PARIAH: A Failed Hit Good Film: 6.5 ****** / 10*********** Reviewed by Poonam Srivastava, lesbian film critic in residence
Demagogue China’s Beginnings by Susan Yung (Movie Review)
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Demagogue The decadences of the First World; as reflected in the decadences of the Third World. Social class structures, barriers of shunned communi- cat- ions Where humanity is a serious AGENDA / cry- teria for the concerned citizens the upper class are living with such privileges where I become the enemy forced … Read more
Where is the Joy? By Patricia Spears Jones: A Review of “For Colored Girls”
Posted by in Essays | Film Reviews | Reviews - (147 Comments)Review of For Colored Girls directed and written by Tyler Perry based on the play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf” by Ntozake Shange. Produced by Perry, Paul Hall and Roger M. Bobb. Now in wide release. Where is the Joy? By Patricia Spears Jones While others watched … Read more
A review of the film Howl Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Running Time: 86 minutes Review By: Jeffrey Grunthaner The film version of the poem “Howl” aspires to be a kind of social commentary on the original text. Recreating key aspects of the poem through the interweaving of four distinct planes of narrative, … Read more
***Currently playing at the Angelika Theater in NYC and opening at the Sunset 5 in Los Angeles on Sept 24th! **** Synopsis Picture Me, a raw and personal video diary, charts model Sara Ziff’s rise from fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. Filmmaker Ole Schell and Ziff co-direct, lifting … Read more
DOPE *1968* a film by Diane Rochlin (Flame Schon) and Sheldon Rochlin
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Review by Bonny Finberg I just finished watching Sheldon and Diane Rochlin’s powerful 1968 film “DOPE.” It documents a unique world and time through the lens of London 1967. There was an international cabal at that time of artists, junkies, hippies and other unclassifiable characters on the periphery that fueled a a new world order … Read more
Nazi’s are a Hollywood staple. Not because they provide a narrative platform for confronting complicated moral questions but because Nazis- always all ready absolutely evil- preclude questions all together. The Reader, however, successfully redeploys this overused theme and accomplishes exactly what should be accomplished by the narrative depiction of atrocity; it raises questions about the … Read more
Slumdog Millionaire or Danny Boyle Lets His Dogs Out.
Posted by in Essays | Features | Film Reviews | Reviews - (Comments Off)Review by poonam srivastava Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire has won the hearts of so many. It has carried away Golden Globes, Oscars, and other prizes. The movie is a supposed feel good love story. I saw a horrific series of images of torture and extreme human degradation with no real explanations of their genesis or … Read more
Review of Eureka, a play at the Living Theater, written by Hanon Reznikov and Judith Malina
Posted by in Film Reviews | Reviews - (Comments Off)Jim Feast Review of Eureka, a play at the Living Theater, written by Hanon Reznikov and Judith Malina Whatever the value in the Living Theater’s recent production, Eureka, of its literary allusions to Poe’s Romantic cosmology (from which the work draws its initial inspiration), its humanization of chemistry’s table of elements, its way of catching … Read more
No human spirit, all toughness aside, could withstand watching Trouble the Water without tears of empathy, followed by boiling anger, growing conviction and the commitment to respond. Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, consistently credit this feeling of good will fueled by a desire to help, as what motivated them to race to the gold coast in the aftermath of Katrina. The long time collaborators with Michael Moore had experienced a similar impetus towards action after 9/11. Turning their lens outwards on their own Brooklyn neighborhood, they made The Family Divided, a compelling short about the backlash of racism and unjust deportations which affected many American-Muslims. Determined to react artfully and effectively, Lessin and Deal, armed with their cameras found themselves in New Orleans in search of a story. Read more
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