Stories and blogs about film and filmmakers
The rationale behind an upcoming Afghanistan film festival in London came about during a trip to Afghanistan in November of 2006. Zahra Qadir and her friend Dan Gorman were there working on a short film called “Circus for Life,” about a therapeutic circus for children in Kabul. While making their documentary, the two filmmakers...
Sofia Snow grabbed the mic, paused, looked out into the audience, took a deep breath and began. In her own unique rhyme and metre she delivered a poem, like a long, lyrical and very personal sentence, about speaking “broken” English. It made for a fitting finish to a screening of “Youth Producing Change”, a...
Costa-Gavras, in his latest film, has distilled such messy subjects as race, class and immigration into something tender and simple, even sexy. When audience members, after a recent London screening, asked about his motivations for the film, Costa-Gavras, who is known for injecting politics into his work, was hardly provocative. He explained that “Eden...
One audience member at the San Francisco screening, during an open-mic Q&A, told Guzman he was a “fraud” and that he should be ashamed of himself for taking credit for taking down Pinochet. After the loud “Boos” and hisses (and one or two claps) died down, Guzman said, “You obviously don’t know what you...
What do slick CGI and Rage Against the Machine have to do with 1968? Chicago 10 is a bizarre ride to the past.
A timely documentary chronicles one man’s zany quest to spread a simple message: “Stop Shopping.” This film made me laugh out loud. Several times. My motherjones.com review is HERE.
A film about the Clash frontman includes all the little people that Strummer befriended, inspired, and pissed off along the way. My motherjones.com review of the film lives HERE.