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Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘I Am Evidence,’ Producers Mariska Hargitay, Trish Adlesic, Nancy Abraham
Does your state test every rape kit it receives as evidence?
Read More »Starring Europe Film Festival: Interview with Ludovico Di Martino, Director of ‘Our Last’ (‘Il Nostro Ultimo’)
"To me, family memories are important," says Italian director Ludovico Di Martino about his first feature film.
Read More »The 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival: It Began with Something ‘Awful’
A look at my last two days at the festival.
Read More »The 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival: From ‘Love Crazy’ to Feeling Crazy Watching ‘Zardoz’
A look at my first two days at the festival.
Read More »SXSW World Premiere: Laura Terruso’s ‘Fits and Starts’
Terruso's directorial debut is a skewering of the art and literary worlds that hits enough of its targets to make for fun viewing.
Read More »SXSW World Premiere: Nanfu Wang’s ‘I Am Another You’
"I Am Another You": I Am You, As We Are She, As He is You, and We Are We? Eventually.
Read More »SXSW World Premiere: ‘M.F.A.,’ Starring Francesca Eastwood
Is it possible to heal and return to normalcy if one is raped?
Read More »SXSW Movie Review: ‘Lucky’ – A Harry Dean Stanton Biopic, Sort Of
If you like films about quirky characters, spirituality, and human connections, you’ll like 'Lucky.'
Read More »SXSW World Premiere: ‘Spettacolo’ – Autodrama in Tuscany
What if your life was enacted onstage and you were the actor playing yourself?
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