Have you ever uttered the words. “I’m not creative?” Do you ever experience the creations of others and feel like you could never come up with something as beautiful or touching? If so, relax—you are one of millions. People often deny their creative potential. They say things like “Oh, I’m not creative. I can’t...
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By Linda Bergman © 2011: HandPrints Featured Writer - “The Artist” Actions speak louder than words! The Artist is a feel good film if there ever was one! Unless you live in a cave, you know that it is a modern, silent movie shot in black in white, made by a team of French filmmakers smack in the middle of today’s...
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There are so many neat things about Fox Searchlight’s “The Descendants” you may want to stop reading this, grab a pen and paper and take notes. Ready? First of all, besides co-writing and co-producing, it’s Alexander Payne’s first directorial fling in five years since directing and winning Best Original Screenplay with his partner, Jim Taylor, for “Sideways”
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Our Academy film series turned serious and e -screened “The Lady”. Luc Beeson’s portrait of pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, the leading opponent to the savage military junta in Burma and her husband, scholar, Michael Aris, is a heartbreaking true love story set against political turmoilxtremely relevant last night as we.
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“She was a dream come true. My only talent was to not close my eyes.” This is the last line of this feel-good film set in England and sums up the seven tumultuous days twenty-three-year-old Colin Clark spent with the world’s most magical star in the summer of 1956.
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"I always preferred the company of men.” No, it wasn’t Mae West who said that, it was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Last night, at our Cinema Series, our film-finder-extraordinaire, Pete Hammond, boasted that we were seeing the very first West Coast film print screening of a highly controversial movie starring Meryl Streep.
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