by Edward Douglas | Jul 27, 2018 | VOD Reviews
Immigration and ICE have been largely at the forefront of news over the past few months, so when John Wildman asked me to review a few films for FestWorks, I knew that Ryan Prows’ darkly prescient Lowlife would be one of the films worth rewatching. Lowlife premiered...
by Edward Douglas | Jul 2, 2018 | The Guest Column
A few months back, I was thinking about some of the movies I enjoyed seeing at film festivals and the weak reception they received on release in terms of press and critical coverage. I wrote this piece for The Tracking Board asking whether film festivals are really...
by Edward Douglas | May 11, 2017 | The Guest Column
It’s probably not a coincidence that the posters for both of Israeli filmmaker Rama Burshtein’s movies feature women in wedding dresses. That may because her first feature, Fill the Void, and her new movie, The Wedding Plan, show two very different sides of the same...
by Edward Douglas | Apr 6, 2017 | The Guest Column
Imagine if you’re driving down the road one day and someone veers into the path of your car and you hit them. Obviously, you’d have insurance that could cover this incident and the victim’s medical expenses. In the case of Chinese cab driver Lao Shi (Gang Chen) in...
by Edward Douglas | Jan 19, 2017 | The Guest Column
In early 2011, Iranian filmmaker was barely known in the United States except to a select group of foreign film cinephiles, despite having directed four previous films. His 2009 film About Elly won a number of festival prizes including the Tribeca Film Festival’s jury...
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