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“Central Park Five”–Today’s Scottsboro Boys?

Written by diana on April 22, 2013. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on “Central Park Five”–Today’s Scottsboro Boys?

In 1989 the “Central Park Jogger” trial had the country’s attention and a media frenzy fed the heightened fear of New Yorkers who saw their beloved Central Park and the city as a whole becoming a dangerous environment simmering with crime and mayhem. “The Central Park Five”, a new documentary from award-winning filmmaker...

“Leonie”–The Lioness and the Sculptor

Written by diana on April 16, 2013. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on “Leonie”–The Lioness and the Sculptor

“Don’t bore me by being ordinary” –These are words Leonie Gilmour (exquisitely acted by Emily Mortimer) admonishes her college friend, Catherine (Christina Hendricks) at Bryn Mawr. After graduation, she departs on an astonishingly unconventional life at the turn of the 20th century. Based on the true story of an American...

“The Sessions”, “NoBody’s Perfect”, and “The Intouchables”: Twisted Bodies, Open Minds

Written by diana on March 27, 2013. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on “The Sessions”, “NoBody’s Perfect”, and “The Intouchables”: Twisted Bodies, Open Minds

Recently, we have seen a series of engaging movies portraying handicapped people without pity. These three deal with body image in the nearly unexplored territory of the disabled: “The Sessions”, “NoBody’s Perfect” and “The Intouchables”. All three are surprisingly gentle yet fearless journeys into...

“Silver Linings Playbook”–Behind Every Cloud

Written by diana on March 11, 2013. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on “Silver Linings Playbook”–Behind Every Cloud

The best comedies go for truths, not laughs. And, although “Silver Linings Playbook” is billed as a comedy, it is more a romance between two young adults with bipolar disorder whose families and friends have to deal with the turmoil that mental illness creates. David O. Russell, the director of this blockbuster multiple Academy Award...

“Amour”– A Somber Sonnet to Love

Written by diana on February 18, 2013. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 4 Comments on “Amour”– A Somber Sonnet to Love

This year’s Cannes Film Festival winner is a film like no other on the dissolution and disintegration of life and the toll it throws at love. As a five-time Academy Award nominee, “Amour“, directed by the Austrian Michael Haneke, is a spellbinding masterpiece. The superb Jean-Louis Trintignant of “A Man and a...

“Argo”–An Argonaut for Our Time

Written by diana on January 21, 2013. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on “Argo”–An Argonaut for Our Time

Although this movie is nominated for eight Academy Awards and won several Golden Globes (including Best Motion Picture in Drama and Best Director), it has not received the traction or box office success that it so richly deserves. With Ben Affleck’s masterful direction, production and acting in “Argo” the studio and...