Latin America in film: Catch these when you can
Several films by or about Latin Americans stood out at the 13th Annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York last month.
The war on film
As the generation who fought in World War II dwindles in numbers, we are losing crucial first-hand testimony of the heroic struggles to defeat fascism.
Progressive cinema: Whistleblowers at Tribeca
Certainly the film of most interest to progressives at the Tribeca Film Festival this year would be 1971, directed and written by Johanna Hamilton.
Unique films get honors at Tribeca Film Fest
The 12-day festival co-founded by Robert De Niro screened 89 feature films and 57 shorts to an audience of almost a half a million viewers.
A triumphant must-see show about Paul Robeson
Daniel Beaty doesn't miss a beat in his one-man tribute to African American Paul Robeson, the son of a runaway slave who went on to become an actor, activist and Renaissance Man.
Workers Unite Film Festival opens May 9 in NYC
New York City is the home of many film festivals. Most don't highlight the lives of working people, although some have working people as characters.
"The Galapagos Affair, Satan Came to Eden" film review
The atavistic impulse to "get away from it all" and "return to nature" has been a literary theme since Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson cast away on desert islands.
"Alphaville" totalitarian fears still relevant decades later
Almost 50 years later, the prescient Godard's sci fi classic takes on a whole new dimension as a parable of the NSA national security surveillance state.
"The Quiet Ones" is drama dressed up as horror
Though perhaps arbitrarily unique among its peers, "The Quiet Ones" will likely still get lumped in with the other PG-13 contemporaries and forgotten soon enough.
"Cesar's Last Fast": The last shall be first
Jesus may have had a Last Supper but Cesar Chavez had a Final Fast.
