Reality is one of the most unusual films I’ve seen this year. I wanted to derive some (bourgeois) pleasure from it, but I couldn’t. And pleasure is definitely not Mr. Garrone’s intention. In Reality, the […]
Tag: 2012
MVFF 35 – Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Long-Distance Revolutionary
I saw my first “Free Mumia” sticker when I was a teenager in New York. I remember it vividly – it was on someone’s bicycle parked outside a cafe in the Lower East Side. A […]
Berlin and Beyond: Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years (2012)
Dagmar Schultz’s witty, engaging, humorous, and loving documentary on Audre Lorde felt both timely and nostalgic at the same time. Timely, because it reminded me of the fragility of the feminist movement and the current […]
Girls with Arrows: Brave and The Hunger Games (2012)
Katniss Everdeen and Merida, the heroines of The Hunger Games and Brave, wield their weapons as naturally as they shoulder their duties to their home and their kinswomen. […]
Now Playing: Moonrise Kingdom
Moonrise Kingdom is one of the most unabashedly romantic films I have seen in a long time. Romance in nature: the cinematography captures the spectacular romance of the New England coast and its rugged coastline, […]
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