Tag: Jim Gilles
Jessica Beshir’s FAYA DAYI: Khat & the Oromo People of Harar,...
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/31/21 - Jessica Beshir's striking feature-length debut Faya Dayi (Ethiopia, 2021) is a tone-poem shot in...
Palm Springs Film Festival Canceled for 2022
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/30/21 - After announcing the cancellation of the Palm Springs Film Awards last week, the Palm...
Claudia Sparrow’s MÁXIMA: An Indigenous Peruvian Woman Farmer Fights Big American...
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/29/21 - Claudia Sparrow’s fine documentary “Máxima” (USA/Peru, 2019) is a film worth viewing. It is...
BRIGHTON 4TH: A Wrestler from the Republic of Georgia in New...
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/28/21 - Levan Koguashvili’s Brighton 4th (Republic of Georgia, 2021) recently screened at the Asian World...
Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS: Single Motherhood & Spanish History
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/27/21 - Opening today in selected theatres is Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers (Spain, 2021), his latest...
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH: Joel Coen’s Rough Ride With Shakespeare
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/27/21 - Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth arrived in selected theatres December 26 and will...
Mehdi Barsaoui’s A SON: A Tunisian Morality Tale
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/26/21 - Playing for a week at the Laemmle Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles has...
THE VELVET QUEEN: Searching for Snow Leopards in Tibet
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/26/21 - Just opened at several Laemmle theatres in Los Angeles is a new documentary from...
LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM – Oscar Short-Listed Film from...
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/22/21 -Films from Bhutan are rarely seen in the United States and it is exciting to...
THE LOST DAUGHTER: Maggie Gyllenhaal interprets Elena Ferrante’s troubling novel
By Jim Gilles
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/21/21 - It might be an understatement to say how challenging are the novels of Elena...