There are several visionary women who have inspired the world about the wonders of our planet, from Rachel Carson with her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea, to Jane Jacobs who championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building; from Alice Waters who advocated for local sustainable agriculture, to Jane…
Satyajit Ray is a milestone of Indian thought, with an ancestry that can be traced back for at least ten generations and an intellectual talent that lead him to become a prominent writer and filmmaker. His cinematic style, that was expressed during the years in which Bollywood films were booming, took a more introspective approach….
Marvel Studios returns with an installment entirely dedicated to Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow — based on the beloved Marvel comic series first published in 1964. The film, directed by Cate Shortland, is set between Captain America Civil War and Avengers Infinity War, and shows how the titular character will have to come to terms…
The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 is a documentary written and directed by Joshua Zeman, where the award-winning filmmaker becomes a contemporary Captain Ahab, seeking his own whale. His Moby Dick is the “52 Hertz Whale,” which scientists believe has spent his entire life in solitude, calling out at a frequency that is different…
The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, conquers the silver screen through the documentary directed by Vanessa Roth, Mary J. Blige’s My Life. Blige is credited with influencing the musical marriage of hip hop and R&B, having won an array of the most prestigious music accolades. Nine-time Grammy-winning recording artist and Academy Award nominated singer and actress…
Pixar movies have brought Disney classics to an evolution, in terms of themes and empathy. Disney has always had the power to evoke dreamlike scenarios, through fairytale narratives that would primarily focus on romance, and Pixar expanded this uplifting skill, by creating stories and characters that would focus on self-affirmation. Those who populate these films…
Almost two decades after the first film, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and the Netflix series Spirit Riding Free, that is heading to its ninth season, the free-spirited Mustang returned on the silver screen with the feature Spirit Untamed. If Jonathan Swift celebrated the equine species through Gulliver’s visit to the Land of the Houyhnhnms…
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation is a poetic dual-bio documentary by filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland, about two milestones of American literature. The chronicle of the two great writers blends, virtuously, original footage of their interviews, with a fictional dialogue where Jim Parsons is Truman Capote and Zachary Quinto is Tennessee Williams. Also extracts from the film…
The Netflix Original Documentary Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet is a forthright and mind-boggling call to action to save our Earth. The film will be available on the platform from June 4th. This is not the first time Sir David Attenborough has used his expertise as broadcaster and natural historian to spread awareness…
The Manga Master is a 2019 biopic about the life of Rakuten Kitazawa, the pioneer of modern manga in Japan. The film was screened at the British Museum and is currently part of the line-up of the Chicago Japan Film Collective. Today, manga is part of global cultural, as an example of how Eastern influence…
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