“You know, you’re Irish, so when I’m saying Dédalus you’re probably thinking Joyce.” It’s early December in Avelino and Arnaud Desplechin isn’t really talking  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The French director’s latest, Spectateurs!, reintroduces the […]

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Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Nancy tells the tale of a thirtysomething woman with a tenuous grip on reality who convinces herself that her sad life is not the one she was meant to live

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I met with director Brian Knappenberger (We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists), on Monday, March 13, 2017, at SXSW, to discuss his latest hard-hitting investigative documentary, Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (which I also reviewed), which […]

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What starts out as a standard documentary procedural, however, soon becomes an exposé on how the rich and powerful in our country are attempting to silence the fourth estate.

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What sets David MacKenzie’s film apart is his willingness to trade some of the shock and awe of prison narratives for character development.

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