DAVID LYNCH (1946 – 2025)
I have two stories about David Lynch that are favorites of mine from when he
SHORTS AND TO THE POINT: Rachel Sweeney’s DEAD GIRL is a dead-on look at the actor’s daily dance on hell’s stage REVIEW from Oxford Film Festival
As we teeter on the edge with Sweeney’s aspiring actor, we’re less concerned about who will show up to see her production of “Hamlet” as we are concerned whether or not her boyfriend will need to have her committed before the curtain is raised.
THE GUEST COLUMN: Women Texas Film Festival's Justina Walford asks, "Do you dare look inside a female filmmaker's brain?" "Can you handle the Sisterhood?"
Do we dare to watch? Do we dare to look at women’s brains? No matter how ambitious, how whimsical, how inclusive or exclusive, how morbid or light, how vapid or cerebral? Are we willing to embrace the cynicism? The bluntness?
TRIBECA 2017 REVIEWS: Elina Psykou's SON OF SOFIA takes us into the deeply dark realm of an abused and neglected child’s imagination
Using transitions between a harsh, stern reality and the deeply dark realm of an abused and neglected child’s imagination, it’s a haunting expedition into a shadow world of juvenility without light and hope. Nestled in the core of this savage trek, however, is an important discovery. What is the outcome of insight? This film seeks the answer to this through a beautiful and besmirched prism, where disillusionment is uncovered as a fractured form of enlightenment.
FILMS GONE WILD: Danny Glover at the Oxford Film Festival and the accomplishment of a star actually showing up to the fest
Last year, in a meeting with a major PR firm in L.A., I was told that unless the fest’s dates lined up perfectly with the actual release of the film that there was no way they would recommend that client going to the fest. It was just a pain-in-the-ass for the publicist. And that was a friend of mine. Cutthroat, baby.