Film Festivals
With her second report, Kristy Strouse covers Cherry and Next Exit!
Fear and paranoia are the perfect catalysts for mass panic in Natalia Sinelnikova’s We Might As Well Be Dead.
In Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, the stigma surrounding sexuality and age are examined and pushed.
Irene Taylor’s documentary Leave No Trace looks at the dark side of the Boy Scouts of America, which allowed the abuse of countless boys.
Cynthia Lowen’s Battleground dives into the realities of an America at war with women’s reproductive rights.
In her first report from Tribeca Film Festival 2022, Kristy Strouse reviews Family Dinner, Huesera & A Wounded Fawn!
At the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas’ Naked Gardens delves into a secluded nudist colony in Florida.
Ray Ramano makes his directorial debut with Somewhere In Queens, a comedy-drama about an Italian-American family.
Goodbye, Petruska navigates the turbulent experience of challenging reality with ambition to deliver something one can be truly proud of.
Del Kathryn Barton’s Blaze brings intense drama to the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, as a young girl named Blaze deals with immense trauma.
Cannes Film Festival 2022: Alice Winocour’s PARIS MEMORIES is a Mature Study of Violence and Healing
Paris Memories was the final film I saw at the fest and in its quiet, assured way, was one of the most satisfying.
Elena López Riera’s El Agua is a slow, seductive, and assured tale of young love and mysticism in an exquisitely rendered Spanish village.
R.M.N. is the work of an artist with a rare gift for transmogrifying culture, politics, and ideology into human drama.
Amidst a sea of dull, insipid, even sadistic takes on the beautiful, suffering royal lady story we’ve seen, Corsage breaks like the sun through the clouds.
In her final report from the 48th Annual Seattle International Film Festival, Bailey Jo Josie shines a lot on documentaries.