Tag: 2017 Academy Awards

“I Am Not Your Negro”–James Baldwin

Written by diana on February 4, 2018. Posted in movie reviews.

Nominated this year for the Academy Award for best documentary, I Am Not Your Negro is the best film in this category I have ever seen. An indie film (and PBS Independent Lens program) I Am Not Your Negro gives us a fuller understanding of the brilliant mind and soul of James Baldwin, a critical thinker, writer, and essayist, whose work...

The Salesman–Not Exactly Arthur Miller

Written by diana on July 17, 2017. Posted in movie reviews.

This 2017 Academy Winner for Best Foreign Film defies easy categorization. The masterful Asghar Farhadi is the director, screenwriter, and producer of the 2013 Cannes Winner, “The Past”, the 2011 Academy Award Winner of “A Separation” and his most recent, The Salesman. All three of these Iranian films are idiosyncratic...

Manchester by the Sea– Rocking the Boat

Written by diana on March 7, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 4 Comments on Manchester by the Sea– Rocking the Boat

This is Manchester by the Sea’s most glaring fault: This film misses an opportunity to look more critically and more complexly at how things are for someone so grief-stricken.

Tag: 2017 Academy Awards

“I Am Not Your Negro”–James Baldwin

The Salesman–Not Exactly Arthur Miller

Manchester by the Sea– Rocking the Boat

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