Edward Douglas

VOD REVIEWS: Ryan Prows’s LOWLIFE is a Darkly Comic Look at a Microcosm of Our Country That Must Be Seen

By Edward Douglas 8 years ago

Lowlife follows an eclectic group of characters over the course of a single day in Los Angeles, including a famed Mexican wrestler (or luchador) named El Monstruo (Ricardo Adam Zarate), his pregnant wife (Santana Dempsey), a motel owner named Crystal (Nicki Micheaux) desperate to save her ailing husband Dan, and a pair of incompetent criminals (Jon Oswald and Ogbonna) who see their friendship tested in bizarre ways by the conflict created by Haynes.

THE GUEST COLUMN – Are Film Festivals the Last Bastion of the Theatrical Experience? From Films Gone Wild

By Edward Douglas 8 years ago

There are many in the industry still clinging onto the theatrical experience, from filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino, to companies like IMAX and Moviepass, but you still can’t really beat the experience of watching a movie, which some people have never even heard of, at a film festival. Hands down some of the best screenings I’ve ever attended have been at film festivals. In some cases, I’ve never had another chance to see those movies with an audience.

The Edward Douglas Guest Interviews: The Israeli director Rama Burshtein of THE WEDDING PLAN, talks about taking a more optimistic look at a woman’s wedding-based dilemma

By Edward Douglas 9 years ago

I think I’m lighter than Fill the Void. The Wedding Plan is more of who I am and more of my world, and this is a film that speaks about hope and you don’t wrap hope in grey colors, so it is lighter, because I think when you speak about hope, but people watch the film and they feel very differently. A lot of people cry the whole time and don’t laugh at all.

The Edward Douglas Interviews: OLD STONE director, Johnny Ma talks the politics of doing the right thing, making films in Asia, and trading cigarettes to get along

By Edward Douglas 9 years ago

The Chinese title is called Lao Shi, which is the character’s name, and actually, the literal meaning of that is Old Stone, but there’s a double meaning to that also. It’s what you call somebody who is too honest, too naïve. It’s almost like saying, “Oh, that guy is way too honest. He’s easy to cheat.”