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Click HERE to read my review for WomenArts.
Click HERE to read my chat with Danish Director Lone Scherfig about her new film AN EDUCATION. What are YOU doing THIS weekend? If you support WITASWAN, then your answer should be: “I’m going to see AN EDUCATION!” Nag, Nag, Nag J
24.Oct.09 
Events: Metro Chicago Only, Events: WITASWAN & SWAN Day, Jan's Chats 
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In only 84 packed minutes, Boll tells a complex multi-dimensional story of obstacles still facing women artists in 21st C America. As doc proves, women make great sacrifices to serve their artistic imperatives, so it is essential that women in the audience mobilize in support–for our own benefit as well as theirs! Film not yet seen by Rich. Click HERE for FF2 haiku.
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Williams will absolutely break your heart here as “Wendy,” a young woman in a battered old car trying to make it cross-country with only her dog “Lucy” for company. Williams is in every scene, tightly scrutinzed by still mysterious. Where did she come from & where is she going? Everything is present tense–we will never know. Click HERE for FF2 haiku
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Fascinating story about real estate pressures in Austin,
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Beautifully acted & heartfelt story about a Mexican kid (Alonso) looking for his mother (del Castillo), now working illegally in LA’’s underground economy. Kudos to America Ferrara for using her clout by taking an unsympathetic bit part to help open narrow minds in the current “immigration debate.” Yes, a bit long & a bit contrived, but BRAVO! Click HERE for FF2 haiku.
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Jan loved this swoon-inducing romance about star-crossed lovers living in a Twin-Peaksy town in the Pacific Northwest made extra moody by Carter Burwell’’s great soundtrack. Sure, so Edward’’s a “vampire,” but this isn”t a film about fangs & blood, it’’s about feeling overwhelmed by new passions dimly understood. Not yet seen by Rich. Click HERE for FF2 haiku.
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Three years ago Kimberly Rivers Roberts was a young Black chick long on aspirations but short on opportunities. Then she came into miraculous possession of a video camera mere days before Katrina hit her New Orleans neighborhood, & it gave her unexpected courage to not only survive but prevail. Doc captures astounding “facts on the ground.” Bravo! Click HERE for FF2 haiku.
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Teeenage girl (Mulligan) receives instruction from a graduate of “the University of Life” (Sarsgaard), but gets boost from a caring teacher (Williams) just in the nick of time. Fascinating measure of what has changed for women (& what hasn’t) since the early ’60s. Click HERE for full review on WomenArts. Click HERE for FF2 Haiku. Click HERE to read my chat with director Lone Scherfig & see pix of Chicago WITASWAN Reception for Lone during the 45th annual Chicago International Film Festival.
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Easy to like but impossible to love, this is a surprisingly conventional BioPic about a very unconventional woman: aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Swank). She has some poetic flight scenes & you can feel the world getting smaller as her planes grow ever more sophisticated, but on the ground everyone’s just going thru the motions. Click HERE for FF2 Haiku.
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Cesar-award-winning first-person doc tied to the 80th birthday of French screen legend Agnès Varda. Starts slow & wistful, but builds to powerful, life-affirming conclusion as Varda recounts her intense private & professional collaborations with filmmaker Jacques Demy (who died of AIDS in 1990. Film not (yet) seen by Rich. Click HERE for FF2 haiku.
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