by Ellen Johnson | Jun 19, 2017 | Culture, Movies
In Hollywood they say if you are on time you are late. I am forty minutes early but might as well be ten late. When I walk in the studio where I am supposed to meet the players and makers of the movie “The Clapper,” the other writer has already taken the...
by Eva Troester | May 18, 2017 | Culture, Movies
Dito Montiel has lived A Life. A member of several successful hardcore punk bands, author of two books, screenwriter and director whose filmography is in the double digits, both Shia LaBeouf and Robert Downey Jr. played him in a movie, and yet, the only way to find...
by Eva Troester | May 2, 2017 | Culture, Events, Movies
Dispatches from the Tribeca Film Festival: A look through the lens of films to see ourselves in the other, and the other in ourselves with Russell Peters. Russell Peters generously breaks the ice by mimicking farting sounds as he settles into an armchair,...