Rebel Pedagogues, Part 2: Jon Voight is Conrack
Review of Twilight Time’s Blu-ray edition of Martin Ritt’s Conrack (1974), based on Pat Conroy’s book “The Water is Wide”.
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Drive-in Memories, Part 1: Going Attractions (2013) + Hot Docs & TJFF update
Review of April Wright’s fun documentary Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie (2013) + short update on Hot Docs and TJFF 2015.
DVD: Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-In Movie (2013)
April Wright’s feature-length documentary began around 2006 when the writer / director / producer became fascinated by large abandoned fields beholding huge screens or disintegrating neon signs which harkened back to the heyday of a uniquely American invention, the drive-in cinema…
Tales of Rape: Bandit Queen (1995) + India’s Daughter (2014)
Reviews of two powerful films on rape: the saga of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen (1995) on Blu from Twilight Time + Leslee Udwin’s India’s Daughter (2014), produced by the BBC and currently banned in India.
BR: Bandit Queen (1995)
20 years since its release, Shekhar Kapur’s bio-drama on the life of Phoolan Devi (Seema Biswas) is still a gut-wrenching experience, capturing the absolutely horrible life of a young girl sold and married off by her lower caste family at the age of 11…
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