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Within Jeff Lipsky’s films, it is common for one character to speak uninterrupted for about ten minutes and yet other characters do not place interruption during the fifteen minutes that are given to them. You have to just… follow… the rule. Or, not. You don’t “have” to do anything. When a director, particularly if he […]

Primarily, music serves as an instrument of both entertainment and oppression, combining the masses, frivolous content and less the people, but with the lief. The ‘people love rock music’ philosophy makes individuals such as the middle class and the revolutionary… okay, that is too much. So again, what is music, or what are the roles […]

As impassive and melancholic as a chrysanthemum, the adolescent Zac suddenly puts on Lacy Ziegler’s wedding attire in the middle of summer camp and begs her mother (Janet Nicholson) to pick her up early. The urgency was palpable. “I’m going to kill myself…,” she states matter-of-factly. “I said I’m going to kill myself until you […]

The story associated with settler colonialism in North America, includes the erasure of Native women, destruction of families, erosion of language, and the violence of education, among others. Cinema – apart from cultural mutilation, of which Native symbolism has also been a victim – has addressed the perception of Native people as stubborn and violent […]

The largest turnout registered in women’s sporting affairs of all time seeks to break this record, and it was a physical battle both within and outside the arena which you probably have never been told about. It is Copa 71, the first unofficial competition that can be referred as women’s soccer world cup. Nowadays: Directed […]

In chestnut for most college students, the ambiguity attributed to the post-graduation summer is the last threshold of familiarity, and the ushering in of more fears concerning the unknown. It is rather different from the transition into higher education that happened a couple of years ago – a transition that more often, if it is […]

The first 15 minutes of “What Remains” follow a shadowing of Mads Lake, after whom Mads becomes almost Sigge Storm, Scandinavian with a beard, scruffily timid in a Rukka outdoors coat, about to embark on a new adventure after several years inside a mental hospital. Cleveland visits a man living in a bad neighborhood and […]

This installment, “She Rises Up,” is Maureen Castle Tustys latest offering as a documentary filmmaker and it seeks to address the international economy and the efforts of a certain group of women trying to operate within it. Rightfully, removing the pride from the three central women as they are Gladys of Peru, Magatte of Senegal […]

The classification “Hummingbirds” also does no favour to the film, as it pushes the films into the depth of mere documentary. In sharp contrast – best friends and the directors Silvia del Carmen Castanos and Estefania Beba Contreras, – this is absolutely more than that, Self-presentation of the their, call for action, amusing summers with […]

Patrice Leconte’s “Monsieur Hire” is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, spoken of two lonely people who have nothing at all to share, except loneliness. Murder has been committed, and the movie opens on a corpse. Monsieur Hire, a thin, balding middle-aged tailor, lives alone. Alice, on the other hand, is a beautiful, tender-hearted 22-year-old […]