The world could use Elie Wiesel right now. A voice with the moral integrity and courage to speak truth to power—no matter the cost. Whether it was challenging Ronald Reagan over his decision to visit the Bitburg Cemetery, where SS soldiers were buried, or confronting...
Writer and philosopher George Santayana wrote in 1905: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” That idea has clearly inspired filmmaker Connie Field. Her award-winning documentaries on politics, history, and social change help...
Thank God for nature filmmakers. Sure, we could try to get ourselves out to some breathtaking wilderness. But would we really have the time—or the patience—to wait for a herd of elk to appear? Or the equipment to capture a shy family of beavers building a dam? And...
There’s something magical about watching great actors fully inhabit their characters—especially when a talented director gives them the space to riff and discover new layers. In A LITTLE PRAYER —the latest drama from acclaimed...
Genre in film is a way we group stories — by shared style, form, or subject. In the new film ANY DAY NOW, writer-director Eric Aronson takes the familiar framework of a heist movie and flips it on its head. Instead of leaning on nonstop...
For so many of us who grew up captivated by the strange, haunting world of Twin Peaks, the Log Lady was a mystery, a messenger, and somehow—comforting. But what we didn’t always know was that the actress who played her, Catherine Coulson, was so much more than...
