For Bhutanese director Pawo Choyning Dorji innocence, a central quality of The Monk and the Gun as well as the Bhutanese culture, was challenged as The Kingdom of Bhutan opened up overnight to television, internet and democracy in 2007. The film examines one way a culture can deal with modernity while preserving it’s integrity. […]
WIM WENDERS OSCAR NOMINATED PERFECT DAYS, AN ILLUMINATING EXAMINATION OF THE HUMAN SOUL, A BLESSED RELIEF FROM ALL THE DARKNESS IN THE THEATER AND IN THE WORLD TODAY. THE FILM’S STAR KOJI YAKUSHO (SHALL WE DANCE, BABEL) RECEIVED THE BEST ACTOR AWARD AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF THE FILM’S SOLITARY FIGURE, WHOSE PERFECT DAYS EVENTUALLY MUST SURVIVE PERSONAL CHALLENGES FROM THE PAST AND PRESENT. […]
From the opening shot of the film neither the 3D camera’s eye nor its subject artist, Anselm Keifer, ever stops moving. The camera floats through his works and the landscapes he creates, following the 79 year old artist as he bicycles or paddles through his cavernous art factory to landscapes of his past as a youth. […]
Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, now streaming on HBO/Max; documents the celebrated poet and activist. Though it never wavers from her harsh and hard won personal and racial truths, it is one of the most uplifting artist profiles I’ve seen. Winner of The Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Prize, it may indeed be a roadmap to survive and thrive at any age. […]
Io Capitano The vision most people have of Senegalese Refugees is of boatloads of them arriving in Europe or dying at sea. In my interview with Director Matteo Garrone, he said he made Io Capitano […]
It was humanity not technology that took center stage at The 2023 NAMM Awards. Whether it was Public Enemy’s bassist Brian Hardgroove putting into perspective the band’s social impact as he presented the first ever Impact Music & Culture Award to CHUCK D or Brandi Carlile talking about witnessing and becoming a part of Joni Mitchell’s return to the big stage after her stroke. […]
Ray Bradbury: I starved for years, you have to make up your mind that it’s gonna take 20 years to get established in any profession you go into. I sold newspapers on a street corner for three years, between the ages of 19-22.
People would come by and see me standing on the corner, making $8 a week. And they’d say, “Ray, what are you doing here?” I said, “becoming a writer.” That’s what you have to decide what you want. Not what the world wants
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Adobe Max 2020 was the most entertaining Max-tacular ever, with bravura celebrity moderators and presenters like Conan O’brien, Ava DuVernay, Chelsea Handler and mind-bending updates to apps like Photoshop. […]
Whether you’re checking out with your credit card, navigating Netflix, getting an Uber, or asking Alexa to order from Amazon; Interaction Design (IxD) permeates our world. This technology has also brought an explosion of job […]
Decryptor For Ransomware Released July 25th 2017 Ransomware, which charges money (bitcoin) to decrypt data on infected computers, has caused more than a billion dollars worth of damage and affected hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. […]
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