WADJDA (LAFF Review)
By: debbie lynn elias I can’t remember a year of Los Angeles Film Festival with such a spectacular line-up of international films as this year
By: debbie lynn elias I can’t remember a year of Los Angeles Film Festival with such a spectacular line-up of international films as this year
By: debbie lynn elias My #1 Must See Festival Film at Los Angeles Film Festival 2013 and hot contender in the Narrative Competition making its
By: debbie lynn elias Part of the Summer Showcase at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival, there’s nothing short term about the effects of SHORT
By: debbie lynn elias Wielding some magic of its own at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival is Sebastian Silva’s CRYSTAL FAIRY. Any film that
By: debbie lynn elias Writer/director Rama Burshtein takes us deep into the world of an Orthodox Hassidic family and community in Tel Aviv with FILL
By: debbie lynn elias Director Sam Hancock is crazy if he thinks anyone will believe that US is his first feature. Compelling, thoughtful, poignant, touchingly
By: debbie lynn elias Henry James’ 1897 novel, WHAT MAISIE KNEW is as relevant and poignantly heartbreaking and loving today as it was at the
By: debbie lynn elias Matthew McConaughey continues his 2012 command of the big screen with 2013’s first McConaughey film – MUD. But shining even more
By: debbie lynn elias Whenever a filmmaker or writer can create characters and develop a dynamic that strikes a chord with comparison to Arthur Miller,
By: debbie lynn elias If one is able to look beyond the existential tedium so often found with Terrence Malick films, there is often a