The tenth annual Woodstock Film Festival Opening Night event promised and delivered a communal experience exemplified a generation ago by showing on a big screen WOODSTOCK: NOW AND THEN produced and directed by Barbara Kopple with executive producer, Michael Lang who produced the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in 1969. The Q&A following the film […]
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Lorna’s Silence
07/29/2009
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An early scene in LORNA’S SILENCE sets the tone between the married couple, Lorna and Claudy, when Lorna arrives home with the groceries – a money exchange and exact change returned for the purchase. The visual statement of this marital arrangement is punctuated by setting out the mattress for Claudy to sleep on in the […]
A Woman in Berlin
07/17/2009
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It’s hard to imagine. The fear, the atrocities, the humiliation that Stalin’s soldiers of the Red Army inflicted on women, raping them one after another, time and time again. It was the last days of war, they were enemies and critically acclaimed film A WOMAN IN BERLIN is not easy to watch. Written and directed […]
Woodstock Film Festival 2016
10/01/2009
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