The Eagles landed at Sundance Film Festival the Saturday of Opening weekend for the premiere of the History of the Eagles Part 1, an excellent documentary directed by Alison Ellwood, produced by Alex Gibney and billed as “an intimate work woven of rare archival material, concert footage and never-before-seen home movies that explore the evolution and enduring popularity of one of America’s defining rock bands.” I can’t believe I missed...
Writer, actor, director, Francesca Gregorini takes a giant step into the ranks of bold filmmaking that evokes opinion and conversation about her hauntingly beautiful film, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes. She was one of the eight women directors out of sixteen filmmakers in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at 2013 Sundance Film Festival. No one truly knows what goes on within buried psychological pain in people seemingly balanced on the outside...
The past is all around us, so says the high school history teacher to his summer school part time workers on assignment for something more than they bargained for. The Ideal, a film by Wes Tomas Ciesla, walks the fine taut line of suspense in a high school scenario and dances around the rim of cliches turning out a nicely, tightly-knitted, interweaving stories that slowly unravel before the viewer’s eyes. This is not the first story from Mr....
