Reviews

Often a documentary can be used to create awareness and focus the conversation in the midst of what seems like a tide of status−quo maintaining market forces. “The Devil We Know” seeks to take on one of these large issues, and the task is quite daunting indeed.

“A Boy, A Girl, A Dream” is so much more than a single shot. It is a portrait of hope, despair, and of hard-won love all set against the backdrop of election night 2016.

​Director Marina Zenovich looks to use the traditional biopic format to do two things: on the one hand shed some light on the tragedy and reveal a little bit more of who Robin Williams really was, and on the other, to celebrate the life and work of such an amazing performer.

Through spoken word, beatboxing, dance, and imaginative indie set design that would make David Lynch jealous, the film provides a complex glimpse of a young black woman, her interests, and her opinions.

In “Human Affairs,” a New York power couple – playwright Sidney and his fiancée/lead actress Lucinda – want to have a child. With other options exhausted, they turn to a surrogate to help them become the parents they dream of being.

According to Director RaMell Ross, images are always in dialogue with previous images, and by displaying what is essentially a montage of lived experience, day to day moments, often mundane but nearly always poetic, he seeks to re−represent the black experience in America.

“ZIKR” is a VR experience that was deeply moving, extraordinarily vulnerable, and something I’ll not soon forget.

Nadia Murad and her people are grieving while the world at large seeks to avoid focusing on that which makes us uncomfortable. It is important that we all seek to push back against this phenomenon. Perhaps we can help lift some of that incredible weight off her shoulders.

Director Michael Dweck is able to impart a very palpable impression of what is to love in and around these tracks, and why the loss of so beautiful a thing would be such a tragedy.

“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die.”
These words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer may have reverberated in Rev. Charles Moore’s mind when he got out of his car, knelt down, and lit himself on fire in a parking lot on June 23, 2014.

Just as skateboarding seems to transcend the sum of its parts, filmmaker Bing Liu has crafted a work of transcendent film out of the trappings of what might seem at first like a skate video.

What if the entire population of a given place was made up of artists? Marfa, Texas is a place where you can find out.

“A Thousand Thoughts” is not merely a film. Rather, it is a one−time and wholly unique experience, part live performance, part lecture, and part documentary about modern string quartet, Kronos, performing a live score for the film about themselves.

It is the rare film that offers its actors room to be fully themselves, and it’s the ideal comedy to capture life in contemporary Los Angeles.

The stuff of the plot concerns a dressmaker in 1950s London who, for all his talent, opportunity, and renown, is frustratingly compelled to copulate.