☆"The doctor said, 'I told you not to get pregnant!' Yes but you didn't tell me how."☆
(If you feel helpless, you can at least donate to a cause that will help. Please visit The National Network of Abortion Funds, The Center for Reproductive Rights, or NARAL Pro-Choice America. Whatever you can contribute is invaluable. Stand up. Fight back.)
There's no better day to watch what the filmmaker termed her "Trilogy on Reproductive Rights, or the From the Back-Alleys to…
☆"This is an everyday occurrence. Welcome to Alabama."☆
(If you feel helpless, you can at least donate to a cause that will help. Please visit The National Network of Abortion Funds, The Center for Reproductive Rights, or NARAL Pro-Choice America. Whatever you can contribute is invaluable. Stand up. Fight back.)
The BAFTA-winning documentary from Deeyah Khan of course has the fascinating perspective of a British filmmaking team. And that means a perspective I don't often get and an interesting one…
☆"I live by the principle that tomorrow's another day."☆
Can a camera really capture the truth of a person's life? Or does it encourage a performance just by showing itself to the subject? Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch sought those answers in a movie that was the first of its kind, which literally invented the term cinéma vérité, their landmark documentary Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960) ["Chronicle of a Summer"].
Anthropologist Rouch and sociologist Morin collaborated for this sociopolitical diagnosis…
☆"What the hell happened?"☆
This rather compelling brief series – which could have just been one film, like the HBO Max one from a couple months ago – effectively recounts the chaos of Woodstock '99 in three episodes.
There's a lot of footage here from this Netflix program that I had never seen before, indeed a lot of people probably haven't seen before, that does well to show the clusterfuck of this festival that had high hopes for peace and…
The screen glows white in the theatre tonight
Not a cellphone to be seen
A film devoid of imagination
And it needs to be in quarantine
My face is scowling like a raging storm inside
Couldn't make it good, heaven knows they tried
Don't let them in, don't let them see
Be the good film Frozen I was to me
Raw deal, this reel, don't let them know
Well, now they know
Don't you go, don't you go
Can't say…
Now, this is a movie all about how
Will Smith got cloned by a man of renown.
And I'd like to take a minute, just sit with me,
I'll tell you how he became de-aged in a film by Ang Lee.
In west of some laboratory, born and raised,
In a test tube was where he spent most of his days.
Chillin' out, maxin', assassinatin' a fool,
And all shootin' some people to graduate from school,
When a couple of…
