In only its second year, COVEN Film Festival has burst onto the San Francisco film scene, packing a bounty of women-helmed films into a single weekend.
Shinkai’s Weathering With You is more than content to face the onslaught with the naive fantasies of youth. He’s unabashed about giving himself over to them totally.
In this week’s Video Dispatches, Shawn Glinis covers the recent home video releases of Secret Ceremony (1968), Old Joy (2006) and Mister America (2019).
Rather than through narration and a remembrance of mafia life, The Traitor dispels the myths of cosa nostra through testimony and the post-mafia life of Buscetta.
From the streets of Belgium to the desert of Tunisia, from an orphanage in Guatemala to an apartment in Brooklyn, this year’s Oscar-nominated live action short films manage to take the viewer on a trip around the world in less than two hours.
As recording events has become easier and more integrated in our fast-paced high-tech society, Births, Deaths and Marriages celebrates those who recorded those past memories that we absolutely cherish today.