By Mark Saldana Rating: 2.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Wander Darkly, in more ways than one, is an apt title for this film. For audiences, the film can feel like wandering around in the dark, looking for light and clarity. Writer/director Tara Miele disorients her audience quite effectively and often frustratingly. The journey does eventually… Continue reading WANDER DARKLY
Author: Mark Saldana
CRITICA DE CINE: I’M YOUR WOMAN
Por Liz lopez Rating: B La directora Julia Hart (escritora de Fast Color y Miss Stevens) y su coguionista, Jordan Horowitz (La La Land), han creado un drama ambientado en la década de 1970 sobre la esposa muy ingenua de un criminal que ella cree que es un ladrón que es capaz para mantenerla en… Continue reading CRITICA DE CINE: I’M YOUR WOMAN
News: Festival Internacional de Guadalajara in Los Angeles Celebrates the 10th Edition Rebranded
By Liz Lopez The GuadaLAjara Film Festival in Los Angeles, presented by University of Guadalajara Foundation USA, Grodman Foundation, the Festival Internacional de Guadalajara and is formerly known as FICG in LA, announced a 100% virtual 2020 program reflecting the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival, celebrating ten years since its premiere in Los Angeles, also revealed… Continue reading News: Festival Internacional de Guadalajara in Los Angeles Celebrates the 10th Edition Rebranded
Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: STARDUST
By Mark Saldana Rating: 2 (Out of 4 Stars) The fact that the Bowie estate disavowed this movie and did not allow the use of David Bowie’s music was definitely a bad sign from the get-go. Nevertheless, the Austin Film Festival, a movie fest which celebrates and whole-heartedly supports the role of writing in filmmaking,… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: STARDUST
NOMADLAND
By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) While Nomadland is mainly a character study of one woman’s attempt to survive and endure past hardships, it is also a reflection of a group of people who have given up the traditional life that once failed them. Writer/director Chloe Zhao has taken Jessica Bruder’s non-fiction… Continue reading NOMADLAND
BLACK BEAR
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) The black bear is that elephant in the room that is the soul of humanity. It is the ugly, animalistic beast that often destroys, maims, and wreaks havoc when it escapes us. The black bear often emerges from within the hearts and souls of artists as… Continue reading BLACK BEAR
Critica De Cine: The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
Por Liz Lopez Rating: B+ El cineasta valenciano Javier Polo escribió junto a Sixto Xavier García el guión sobre un ingeniero de sonido que siempre viste de negro y le encanta grabar todo tipo de sonidos en el entorno en su tiempo libre. Coincidentemente, comienza a sentirse como si estuviera rodeado de flamencos rosados, vislumbrando… Continue reading Critica De Cine: The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
By Liz Lopez Rating: B+ Valencian filmmaker Javier Polo wrote the screenplay together with Sixto Xavier García about a sound engineer who always wears black and loves to record all different types of sounds in the environment on his time off from work. Coincidently, he begins to feel as if he is surrounded by pink… Continue reading The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
INSERT COIN
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) In the 1980s, video game companies Bally/Midway and Williams competed fiercely for the big money generated by coin operated games. The two companies merged in 1988 when Williams took over Bally/Midway after mother company Bally decided to diversify into other ventures. This blend of brains, talent,… Continue reading INSERT COIN
UNCLE FRANK
By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) From filmmaker Alan Ball (American Beauty, Towelhead, Six Feet Under) comes a moving and heartwarming film that is part coming-of-age and part coming to terms with the past. Ball offers some personal insight on the experience of being gay during the 1970s and what it is… Continue reading UNCLE FRANK