Traverse City Film Festival 2017 Wrap Up
[Ed. It has been a pleasure to follow Ron’s exhausting coverage of the festival. We’re blessed to have him on the team! A quick note: all feature photos were used…
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The Landlord
“If you didn’t sweat so much nobody’d take you for a landlord,” Fanny (Diana Sands) tells Elgar (Beau Bridges). “You could pass for a human being.” Actually, The Landlord does…
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Get Out
Jordan Peele is best known for his comedy work on Mad TV and Key and Peele, but for his feature film debut he chose a decidedly different path. Get Out…
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True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 4
It seems like every year I’m sitting in one of the two biggest venues in Columbia looking to a friend and lamenting the end of the True/False Film Festival. During…
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True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 3
It always takes me a day or two to adjust to a film festival schedule: wake up early to sit in a theater; cram meals in during short breaks; stay…
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Hidden Figures
When I was a child the science museum in my hometown hosted a traveling exhibit featuring all kinds of information about the moon, the U.S. space program, and even some…
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13th
Social justice advocate and attorney Bryan Stevenson has stated that Americans need to greatly challenge the present narrative on race that has historically informed the way our criminal justice system…
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Loving
When I was reared in rural Indiana in the 1950’s, I never saw living (as opposed to pictures) people of color other than on those rare occasions my brothers, sisters,…
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Do The Right Thing
July was a difficult month for America. The shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile raised national debates about racism, police violence, and Black Lives Matter. The retaliatory shootings of…
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In the Name of the Father
If you were to drive by one of my family’s gatherings you could look into the dirt driveway and see, affixed to several bumpers, a sticker that reads: “England Get…
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