The canny undercurrent of Dawn Porter’s documentary THE WAY I SEE IT, about White House photographer Pete Souza, is a consideration of the free press in an era when “fake news” has become a catch phrase for those who see journalists as the enemy of the people. It’s equally canny in the way it contrasts… Read More »
THE SEVENTH FIRE — Chris Eyre, Jack Pettibone Riccobono, and Adelaide Papazoglou Interview
I spoke to Jack Pettibone Riccobono, Chris Eyre, and Adelaide Papazoglou on November 22, 2016, the day after a special screening of their film, THE SEVENTH FIRE. For Riccobone, the documentary was a return to the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, and to the Ojibwe people who were the subject of a short film he’d… Read More »
ELVIS & NIXON
If the essence of acting is the willing suspension of disbelief, then you will find no better example than that shared by Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey in and as, respectively, ELVIS & NIXON. Based on the improbable meeting between the two in December 1970, it is a fanciful, and at times unexpectedly moving, reimagining… Read More »