Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Cultivate Cinema Circle Summer 2017 Season July – September 2017 posters designed at 11×17 and 27×40 also viewable at cultivatecinemacircle.com
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 28, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Libbers not lobbers” Between the title and trailer, I assumed Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris‘ Battle of the Sexes would focus strictly on the circus surrounding the event itself. It’s not like there isn’t enough content to make that happen between the political, social, and athletic motivations behind the media frenzy. But screenwriter Simon Beaufoy […]
Category biography, comedy, film reviews, sports · Tags Alan Cumming, Andrea Riseborough, Austin Stowell, Battle of the Sexes, Bill Pullman, Bob Stephenson, Chris Parnell, Elisabeth Shue, Emma Stone, Fred Armisen, Jamey Sheridan, Jessica McNamee, John C. McGinley, Jonathan Dayton, Mark Harelik, Martha MacIsaac, Mickey Sumner, Natalie Morales, Sarah Silverman, Simon Beaufoy, Steve Carell, Valerie Faris, Wallace Langham
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 27, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Love is the guise under which selfishness operates” Guilt is a powerful thing. It can make you act in ways that go against your own survival and yet still ensure those actions are selfishly motivated. You aren’t necessarily acting to help another or have their best interests in mind. You’re goal is to make-up for […]
Category buffalo international film festival, film features, film festival, film reviews, science fiction, suspense/thriller · Tags Alex Haughey, BIFF, Brian Vidal, Buffalo International Film Festival, David Linski, Emilio Palame, Harvey Q. Johnson, Jolene Andersen, Prodigy, Richard Neil, Savannah Liles
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 26, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Better on TV than on the streets” To watch David Cronenberg‘s Videodrome today is to acknowledge his clairvoyance as far as technology’s capacity to control via (mis)information. He filmed this body horror classic about subliminal messaging in mass consumption in 1983: years before the political firestorm in 1992 revolving around ubiquitous violence in videogames via […]
Category film reviews, horror, science fiction, suspense/thriller · Tags Criterion Collection, David Cronenberg, Deborah Harry, Jack Creley, James Woods, Leslie Carlson, Peter Dvorsky, Sonja Smits, Thursday Night Terrors, Videodrome
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“I’ll show you what freedom is like” Documentarian Nanfu Wang left China in 2011 to find the freedom that remaining in her home country never could provide. She came to America—specifically New York City—to study filmmaking before ultimately creating the 2017 Oscars-shortlisted Hooligan Sparrow (which depicted some of the oppression and persecution that she sought […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 23, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars” Miguel (Marcelo Alonso) compares God to a fire when explaining how the ones our religions’ sacred books describe aren’t quite right. Our creator is simpler than those iterations. He has the power to turn wood into ash and water into steam. He has the power to transform. […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, toronto international film festival, z.slideshow · Tags Camila Gutiérrez, Marcelo Alonso, María Gracia Omegna, Marialy Rivas, Princesita, Sara Caballero, Spanish, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Everyone has a little darkness in them” It opens in darkness—the beams from headlamp flashlights and sparks of metal on rock our only points of illumination. This is the oppressive environment holding the over-worked and under-paid miners while their boss sits in his factory office without a care as to who the men in his […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, toronto international film festival · Tags Danish, Elliott Crosset Hove, Hlynur Palmason, Lars Mikkelsen, Michael Brostrup, Peter Plaugborg, Simon Sears, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Victoria Carmen Sonne, Vinterbrødre, Winter Brothers
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 21, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“In this country, the big fish eat the small fish” It’s the cusp of Eid in Algiers, Bab el Oued circa 2016 and the rams are running wild. Well, not wild per se considering each is bought, sold, and always owned. They seem to be a huge staple in this impoverished town as a means […]
Category documentary, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, toronto international film festival · Tags Arabic, Habib Halfaya, Karim Sayad, Meflah Samir, Of Sheep and Men, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 21, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“You can’t guarantee living till tomorrow” The thing I could never wrap my head around religious-wise is the idea of strict right and wrong. As a Catholic it’s somewhat easy as far as sin and repentance. You’re allowed to do a lot as long as you feel remorse and guilt enough to learn your lesson. […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, toronto international film festival · Tags Ahmad El-Fishawi, Ahmed Malek, Amr Salama, Arabic, Maged El Kedwany, Omar Khaled, Sheikh Jackson, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 20, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Mental illness doesn’t need to be treated like a dirty secret” It’s highly disconcerting yet unsurprising that many Baby Boomers now in their sixties and seventies still see mental illness as a weakness. Talk about the scenarios that young people of today face and they dismiss them as a generational thing, a liberalization of society […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 20, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“If you cannot see, you are not seen” Maria Theresia von Paradis was the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa’s Court Councilor and thus a young woman of standing despite the blindness that took her eyes before the age of five. Her father Joseph Anton and mother Maria Rosalia had the means to therefore teach her […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, toronto international film festival · Tags Alissa Walser, Barbara Albert, Devid Striesow, German, Kathrin Resetarits, Katja Kolm, Licht, Lukas Miko, Mademoiselle Paradis, Maresi Riegner, Maria-Victoria Dragus, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
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