There is a sadness about this movie, made just before Philip Seymour Hoffman’s tragic death, but it’s well worth watching. Click the movie’s title to read my entire review.
God’s Pocket (2014)
The Great Beauty (2013)
This surprising film truly did earn its Oscar and, now, the Criterion Collection is releasing it. Click the headline to read my entire review.
ENTERTAINING ANGELS: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
The early years of the work of activist Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker, is well told. An unlikely saint, she once wrote for a Communist journal.
CRY FREEDOM (1987)
The friendship of black activist Steve Biko & journalist Donald Woods, set in S. Africa, is told up to Steve’s death & Woods & family fleeing the country.