When she won her Academy Award, Viola Davis spoke about going to the graveyard and exhuming the bodies to exhume the stories of those buried. She was talking about more unknown subjects than Montgomery Clift, a four time Oscar nominee, but I couldn’t help but recall her words as I watched Making Montgomery Clift at
Simple Wedding is such a breath of fresh air to experience during a film festival. Unique walks of life are not unfamiliar things to witness during the LA Film Festival, although I can confidently say I have never seen a film like this one, despite using some familiar tropes. Nousha (Tara Grammy) is at the
The Los Angeles Film Festival is back and in a new twist, in the fall. Normally a welcome respite from the summer heat, Film Independent shifted the festival to September this year, putting it right in-between some of the major fall festivals. What does that mean for this year’s slate? Well by the looks of
Hello all! You’re probably wondering why things have been a bit slower at the blog here and I am back to tell you why, as well as do some not shameless selfpromotion. Many of you know that I have been working on a web series called The Vampyr Resistance Corps for the better part of
The summer movie season is normally filled with loud blockbuster movies, but it’s one of the quiet ones that’s actually making some noise. We the Animals, the adaptation of the wonderful book, hit screens this weekend. For director Jeremiah Zagar, it was the culmination of a long, rewarding process. I recently spoke with the director
List time! You know I love a good response to a published list and Powell’s the wonderful bookstore in Portland and creator of the Indiespensible book subscription service, created a list of the 25 books that you need to read before you die. It’s a great list, of which I’ve only read like three books.