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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
In the evening of December of 2012, 23 year-old New Delhi medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey went out with a friend to see a movie, but rather than settle for an action flick, she chose Life of Pi (2012), a life-affirming tale about trust, respect, and a healthy fear of that prevents a tiger from devouring a boy in a boat after a ship’s sinking. Within the next roughly 48 hours after boarding a bus to take her and her male friend home, Jyoti would die of injuries from a monstrously sadistic gang rape…
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