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Dark Horse Wins at Sundance
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
FilmFestivViews Emma Thompson on film Fatal Promises Episode 069
Speaking against human trafficking, renowned Academy Award winning actor, Emma Thompson narrates the documentary, Fatal Promises, directed by Kat Rohrer and produced by her mother, expose journalist, Anneliese Rohrer,
FilmFestivViews@Woodstock Ray Kurzweil on Singularity Episode 070
Is the next step in technology Transhumanism? Geoethical use of nanotechnology for human life extension? Cryogenics, biotechnology and cyber consciousness? 2B: The Era of Flesh Is Over tests the waters along with a panel that included Ray Kurzweil's ta...