The 7th edition of the Evolution! Mallorca International Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, October 25, 2018. When I ask Founder-Director Sandra Seeling Lipski why she chose “Evolution!” for the name of the film festival, she explains: “I think that everything is evolving in our lives. Culture is evolving. And films. And storytelling. Every year, there are …
In what amounts to a brilliant subversive coup, the 3rd annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will light up the screen opening night, this Wednesday, May 24, with the cult comedy classic Up In Smoke (1978) — promising none other than Tommy Chong, the King of Dope (Cheech and Chong & Dancing with the Stars renown) …
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Sundance is upon us, and I feel as excited as a child awaiting the arrival of Christmas morning for a chance to peek under the tree. What devilish delights will the festival unveil in 2017? Time to buckle up and head out into the snowy hinterland, to enter the mother-ship of cinematic sustenance. What better …
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The best film that you see this weekend might not be one that is screening in theatres; it might be the one you stream and watch in the comfort of your own home. Margarita With A Straw is a deeply intimate film from director Shonali Bose. It features Kalki Koechlin in a career-defining performance as …
The Lobster, the feature film masterpiece from director Yorgos Lanthimos, leads you through a profound and visceral exploration of love — light and dark, providing a perfect counter-point to the idealization of romantic partnership in marriage, as embodied by the Bachelor Nation hysteria and the internet dating craze. The story takes place in a rule-bound …
From the line-up, you would never guess that the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival is only in its second year. It has the appearance of a well-oiled, expertly curated, more established film festival. Mammoth Lakes Film Festival kicks off this evening, Wednesday, May 25, at 7:00 pm, at Minaret Cinemas, Mammoth Lakes, with a screening of …
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The 88th Oscars®, hosted by Chris Rock, will be televised live by the ABC Television Network on Sunday, February 28, at 7:00 pm ET, 4:00 pm PT, from the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood. The presentation will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. For better or worse, here are …
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Embrace of the Serpent is a film that does not serve up neat answers to an unfolding mystery, but inspires the participation of the viewer in navigating the twists and turns of two river journeys across time and down that great serpent mother, the Amazon River. The film is as arresting in its beauty, as …
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I am heading to Park City, Utah, for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and the sense of anticipation is palpable. The eleven days and nights that I will spend watching films at the festival will be among the most inspiring, illuminating, and exhausting of my year. It was a stroke of genius really, Robert Redford …
The craftsmanship is evident in the construction of the tight and touching tale, The Second Mother, from Brazilian writer-director Anna Muylaert. The story concerns the relationship between a nanny to a wealthy family, Val, and the biological daughter she has abandoned years prior, to pay their keep in the world. When daughter Jéssica arrives on …
I have been a fan of the honestly complex comedies from writer-director Paul Weitz ever since About a Boy, the feature film that he co-wrote and co-directed with brother Chris Weitz, back in 2002. The brothers scored an Academy-award nomination for that screenplay. Roger Ebert wrote of Hugh Grant’s performance in the film: “The Cary Grant department …
This has been a great year for coming of age pictures to emerge from Sundance, and I think that among them, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is absolutely the best of the bunch. The graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner was hailed by Whitney Joiner of Salon.com as “one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender …
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In 3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets, each of us becomes a member of the jury as Michael Dunn stands trial for the murder of Jordan Davis, the seventeen year old Black teenager, who died tragically when Mr. Dunn became enraged over the volume of the rap music coming from the car next to him and, …
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Parker Posey has been blessed to work with so many visionary indie directors of her time. Richard Linklater helped to launch Posey’s career with Dazed and Confused in 1993. As a staple in the films of Hal Hartley (Flirt, Amateur, and his trilogy, Henry Fool, Fay Grim, and Ned Rifle) and Christopher Guest (Waiting for …
Tangerine was absolutely the rage at Sundance 2015. It was shot entirely on the iPhone by director-cinematographer Sean Baker and co-cinematographer Radium Cheung, who exploit the technology for all it is worth to create a totally original film, with a completely cinematic look. The reason that you should see Tangerine is for the inspired storytelling …
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