Sunday morning’s shorts were clumped as stories about faith, but not all of them addressed religion directly. A Son’s Sacrifice Don’t let this flick’s austere title scare you. It’s got all the right elements — humor, love, blood — and documents the rift between first-generation immigrant Americans and their US-born kids.
The Penguin scores another freebie!
I had all intentions of paying $10 in loose change for Sunday morning’s short program. But by the time I’d reached the theater, the show was already sold out. So I went for the standby option. While waiting outside on the standby line, another moviegoer and I began to chat about the flicks we’d seen. [...]
Spending some “me” time
My coverage of Friday’s outdoor screening was canceled due to a skull-shattering headache. (You didn’t think I could stare at a computer screen for 16 hours straight and not pay a price, did you?) So I’m guessing this is how “Neil Young: Heart of Gold” went down: Young sang “Old Man” and possibly “Long May [...]
Big brother, watching
After Friday’s screening of “Freeheld”, I spoke with Charles Hester, whose sister Laurel was the subject of the short movie. It was the first time he’d seen the flick, filmed during Laurel’s last weeks of life before succumbing to lung cancer a year ago.
