Bowling for Columbine (2002)
This documentary begins with the Columbine HS massacre and includes a look at the NRA and an animated, Doonesbury-like history of the role of the gun in US history going back to the Pilgrims.
This documentary begins with the Columbine HS massacre and includes a look at the NRA and an animated, Doonesbury-like history of the role of the gun in US history going back to the Pilgrims.
During the London Blitz a girl & her brother are sent to a Welsh town where the girl becomes involved in a family dispute & makes a mistake that affects her life.
A documentary film about Rabbi Abraham Heschel, a scholar who influenced Dr. MLK & the Civil Rights Movement & was an important adviser at Vatican II.
I have just finished reading 2 books that expose the poison of racism, one very graphically, and the other in the lofty prose of the essay (but just as forcefully)–COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI and LONG TIME COMING: Reckoning with Race in America. Both …
Patterned after Lysistrata, this is the music-filled story of Chicago women who go on a sex strike until their gang boyfriends agree to give up their guns.
Conducted on September 25, 2020 After exchanging greetings, I began our conversation by my giving a background on Visual Parables and explaining my approach to film and VP’s interfaith readership. As with my other transcriptions, there are short gaps, marked by a series of periods, where my poor hearing prevented me from understanding a word, …
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Chinese American Ellie is an outsider at high school who writes love letters & texts for shy Paul who is in love with Astrid. Ellie also is attracted to Astrid. The tale ends in friendship & new purpose for each of the 3.
this adaptation of Jane Austin’s novel Emma is a busybody often wrong in her matchmaking but, with the help of Mr. Knightly’s criticisms, at last reaching maturity–and love.
Interview with Andrew Heckler, Writer/Director of BURDEN The following was conducted via telephone on February 21, 2020. I had seen the director’s social justice film Burden (now being released in stages across the USA) and thus was eager to talk about it during the all-too-brief 15 allotted minutes. My film review is already up on …
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Opra Winfrey interviews the cast and the 5 falsely accused ‘Central Park Five’ in this cable documentary about the miniseries When They See Us.