15 Months of Rock Docs, Monster Children, Bad Religion and More
I loved the idea, and how hard could it be? Watch one film directed by a woman, each week, for...
A Moving Story of Women Resisting Religious Oppression in Colonial India
#52: WATER (2005)/HINDI, WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
DIRECTOR: DEEPA MEHTA
It might h...
Original "Nightmare" Series Gives Freddy a Comic Send-off
#51: FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (1991)
DIRECTOR: RACHEL TALALAY
I don't care what anyo...
Nicole Holofcener's Directs Catherine Keener in a Story of Misplaced Guilt and Missing Compassion
#50: PLEASE GIVE (2010)
DIRECTOR: NICOLE HOLOFCENER
Kat...
Kelly Reichardt Makes a Walk in the Woods Mean Much More
#49: OLD JOY (2006)
DIRECTOR: KELLY REICHARDT
Kelly Reichardt makes very, very quiet movies. E...
Daniel-Day Lewis Wrestles With His Conscience in Arthur Miller's Red Scare Allegory
DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS HYTNER/1996
STREET DATE: April 18, 2017/KINO LORBER
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Bittersweet Indian Coming-of-Age Story is a Treasure
KILLA (2014)/Marathi With English Subtitles
Director: Arun Avinash
Street Date: Street Date, April 4, ...
Who Says You Can't Go Home Again?
DIRECTOR: PETER WANG/ENGLISH & MANDARIN CHINESE/1986
I forget sometimes that just a handful of decades ago Communist ...
Desperation and Deception, in a "Microcosm of the War"
DIRECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK/1944
STREET DATE: MARCH 21, 2017/KINO LORBER
In 1944, with World War...
A Gritty Noir From an Unlikely Source
#48: THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)
DIRECTOR: IDA LUPINO
Ida Lupino started her own production company, co-wrote scripts, a...
Sharon is an experienced writer with her own blog and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's religion blog. A wife and mother to 5 kids, she in on staff with her church and enjoys running, coffee, and good books. A bit of an activist around certain topics (politics, religion, sexuality, gender), Sharon looks to cinema for the empathy and fun it can provide. “I believe art is a gift from a good Creator. Sometimes Christians are suspicious of film, but I find that thoughtful engagement with movies has been a means of personal and spiritual growth for me. I hope my involvement with Zeke helps others to have a similar experience with film!”