Meandering through Rome and Cinecittà, Gerald Morin, who worked with Fellini for over a decade, creates a 75-minute touching portrait of the man in “On Fellini’s Footsteps”, enriched by anecdotes from Fellini’s most important collaborators of the time. The write-up ...
Writer-Director Bastion Gauthier takes the topic of an annual endurance contest (Hands On) in Texas to win a pickup truck and turns it into a character study. The contest promises thrilling entertainment to spectators and the chance of a lifetime ...
The 30 Best U.S. Political Films of All Time Below you will find the 30 best U.S. political Films of All Time. THE FILMS: 1962 & 2004: “The Manchurian Candidate” For many years, this was my All-Time Favorite Flick. Laurence ...
George Gallo and Josh Posner took an old idea (based on a 1982 film of the same name by Harry Hurwitz) and tweaked the basic idea of “The Producers” to give us the comedy “The Comeback Trail.” The movie stars ...
“A Good Man” is a LGBTQ French film directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar. It is a Cannes Official Film Selection with subtitles, but the trailer does not have English subtitles. (Dust off your French from high school or college.) Noemie Merlant, ...
Little Fish Every year, attending film festivals in Chicago, Texas, Colorado and elsewhere, there is a pattern that emerges for that year’s films. Sometimes, it’s a similarity of titles. Sometimes, it’s a similarity of theme. In 1984 there was “The ...
Now playing the 43rd Denver Film Festival, “Meat the Future” is a Liz Marshall documentary that explains the brainchild of cardiac surgeon Uma Valeti, who has formed Memphis Meats to bring meat grown in laboratories to market. Dr. Valeti actually ...
“Once Upon A Time in Venezuela” showed at the 43rd Denver Film Festival and was helmed by Annabel Rodriguez Rios and Sepp R. Bruderon (editor/writer). They visited the remote village of Congo Mirador many times over the course of years, ...
The intriguing film “A Perfect Enemy” starring Tomasz Kot (Cold War), was directed by 45-year-old Spanish-born director Kike Maillo. Maillo helmed the 2012 film “Eva,” when 37, and it won him the Best New Director award from the Cinema Writers ...
“Til Kingdom Come” has played both the 56th Chicago International Film Festival and the 43rd Denver Film Festival, spelling out the close relationship between evangelical Christians and the Jewish community in Israel. The 77-minute film is directed by Director Maya ...
The film unfolds a bit like peeling back the layers of an onion. Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) is married to Eddie, who is a professional thief. It’s the seventies and they live in a very seventy-ish house, with Jean basically a ...
Chelsea Christer’s documentary about Oakland’s “The Matches” rock band tries to answer the question, “What was ‘The Matches’ downfall?” In doing so, it may just open up a second chance for “Matches” stardom. It’s a thoroughly entertaining 91-minute documentary that ...
