Film Festival reViews

Film Festival reViews


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Dark Horse a Winner@Sundance FilmFestivViews Episode093
February 14, 2015

"Waking Ned Devine Meets Mr. Ed" is how I describe Director Louise Osmond's superbly crafted documentary Dark Horse. Dream Alliance  is the "talking" horse that became the talk of the town in the village of Cefn Fforest in one of the poorest Welsh mini...

Love from Across the Sea@Slamdance FilmFestivViews Episode091
February 13, 2015

Across the Sea (Deniz Seviyesi), a Turkish story of life, loving and living, written and directed by Esra Saydam and Nisan Dag, became an audience favorite at Slamdance 2015 winning Audience Award for Narrative Feature.

Dark Horse Wins at Sundance
February 08, 2015

“Waking Ned Devine meets Mr. Ed” is how I describe director Louise Osmond’s superbly crafted documentary, Dark Horse.

Tribeca Film Festival: Engaging the Feminine Heroic
April 25, 2014

Lead singer of punk rock band, Traitors, Malika (Chaimae Ben Acha) engages her feminine heroic

Film Festiv Views@TribecaFF Engaging the Feminine Heroic Episode 090
April 25, 2014

Traitors represents the restless generation in Tangiers, Morocco, inspired by the Clash hit Rock the Casbah, is transposed by lead singer, punk rocker, Malika (Chaimae Ben Acha), with the refrain– " I'm so bored with Morocco, but what can I do?

Montana Doc FF A Lot More With Les
March 03, 2014

A conversation with legendary documentary filmmaker Les Blank at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana in 2007

Film Festiv Views@Gen Art Ellen Houlihan’s Short Joan’s Day Out Episode 088
October 23, 2013

Joan's Day Out, a short film by Ellen Houlihan, is a very funny slice of life with a grandma's version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off  escaping from an assisted living home starring Sally Kellerman and Betsy Franco,

Lessons Learned in Monsieur Lazhar
April 12, 2012

Quiet control in storytelling, Philippe Falardeau chose a situation in the first continuous scene when a beloved teacher is discovered having hanged herself in the classroom. Not wanting the students’ backgrounds to become an issue in a story that had ...

Film Festiv Views@Sundance2012 film Monsieur Lazhar Episode 085
February 11, 2012

Quebec director, Philippe Falardeau was stunned at the announcement that Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for an Academy Award  (Best Foreign Film) during the screening at Sundance Film Festival.  At an interview during the Tribeca Film Festival,

FilmFestivViews@Tanglewood Music Steely Dan Episode 080
August 12, 2011

Seduced in n the Berkshires at Tanglewood, by a Steely Dan concert from their Shuffle Diplomacy Tour Twenty Eleven. The music sublime and musicians along with New Jersey's Donald Fagen (born in Passaic, NJ) and Walter Becker were in full groove.