Billy Wilder accrued 78 writing credits and 23 directing credits in a career spanning more than seven decades. His career began in Germany where in 1929 he wrote his first screenplay, Hell of a Reporter. A mere five years later he directed his first …Read more
In horror films about hauntings, the demon’s job is to kill and possess. But there is always a standard build-up; the demon has to perform for half the film before getting to the killing. We might think that without this convention there’d be no horr …Read more
With just a handful of actors and a few pages of dialogue, the simplicity of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) makes it just as much of a joy to watch today as it must have been when it was released seventy years ago. A breathtaking new print of …Read more
The subject of Ilan Duran Cohen’s The Jewish Cardinal is Jean-Marie Lustiger, a hard-working Priest in France who attracts the attention of the Pope Jean Paul II. Lustiger’s hard work pays off as he rises through the ranks to become a cardinal and ev …Read more
In The Disobedient, Serbian Director Mina Djukic takes on the love story; probably the most popular, and most overdone subject in all of fiction, but she creates a variation that is vibrantly original. Scripted and shot based on ideas that came from …Read more
In Root, Matias Rojas Valencia takes an unlikely pair of characters and sends them on a search for belonging, family and peace using the ever- grey sky, and the misty, luscious rainforests of southern Chile as a backdrop. The striking Mercedes Mujica …Read more
Montevideo, Uruguay- A divorced father gathers his two kids into the car in the early hours of the morning. Apparent are the varying levels of enthusiasm amongst the family member’s as they depart Uruguay’s capital city, heading out on a family vacat …Read more
The crew of The Last Season, a film by Sara Dosa, began shooting without a distinct purpose. Shot in the summer of 2011 in Chemult, Oregon (population 135), we see the small community balloon as a troupe of outsiders are drawn for the annual mushroom …Read more
White actor Jim Sturgess played an Asian character amidst criticism in “Cloud Atlas,” this role generated nothing near the media circus that “Dancing with the Stars’” Julianne Hough created with her blackfaced, “Orange is the New Black” Halloween cos …Read more
It’s no secret that action and explosions sell movie tickets, but on the one hand there is a significant difference between heroically crashing $250,000 Nissan Skylines in drag races and police chases, fictional shootouts inside the Matrix, and secre …Read more
