Just an absolutely breathtaking film. This was my most anticipated watch going into Sundance and it didn’t disappoint.
All That's Left of You has a title that is difficult to remember before you see the movie, and impossible to forget after. There is so much I can say about the way director Cherien Dabis brings Palestinian history to life on the big screen (seeing Jaffa before and during the Nakba was enough to fill and break my heart), but where…
"What is more heavy than my grief?"
It's been 15 months of Israel's live-streamed genocide in Gaza. We know so much from journalists, ordinary people, children, documenting it on their phones in short clips on Instagram or other social media. What then, can be added by this collection of 22 short films that we don't already know, or have access to?
This movie is really a testament to the power and importance of cinema, both documentary and scripted. There's something…
I loved how real all of the characters in this felt, from the two stars to all of the others on the tour. The relationship between Benji and David exemplifies that feeling of authenticity most of all, and I really loved Caulkin’s performance of Benji. I was also impressed by how the movie does such a good job melding its characters and setting: I want to learn more about historic jewish life in Poland. I appreciated how many questions the…
Uff this is not good. I guess Lucy Lawless admires Margaret Moth, but from the jump it sounds like she was a predatory and destructive person: dating a high school kid when she was in her 30s, chasing war zone reporting because of the thrill. Her life takes a (predictably) tragic turn, but if she changed significantly following it, this film doesn’t bring it out.
There are some interesting film-making choices here: recreating certain war zone incidents, the way her…
A beautiful, almost impressionistic documentary about contemporary Black farmers in Georgia. The subjects of this movie are captivating - the people most of all, but also the land, the farm equipment, the animals. Stylistically this reminded me a bit of RaMell Ross' Hale County This Morning This Evening but even stronger.
The movie shows us life for these farmers, as well as some of their struggle to get what they are owed from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which for…
