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February 26, 2021 "You are being considered for the amazing opportunity of life." Another year, another Top 10. Better late than never, as they say! Though this usually happens with me, getting this list out takes a lot of time… It was a tough year to keep writing during 2020, despite watching films all the time. I saw over 400 films during the year, trying to watch as much as I could despite the lockdowns and the shut downs, and everything else going on. But here it is anyway - my personal l...

Very Few Know the Reality in El Salvador Published: - Mar 05, 2021 Giovanni, protagonist of the documentary short film Unforgivable, directed by Marlén Viñayo, affirms in a scene that it is easier to murder than to love a man. The Woman Post | Catalina Mejía Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio tag. The documentary illustrates the history of gang members inside the San Francisco Gotera prison in El Salvador. They also have in common that they are homos...

Theres a moment pretty early on in the new Billie Eilish documentary The Worlds a Little Blurry when a discomfiting sense of familiarity sets in. The two-plus hour film, which chronicles the creation of Eilishs When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go album and ensuing tour, feels like a flashback—a time capsule of pre-pandemic collective memories: the sensorial overload of live shows in crowded venues packed with screaming teenagers; the outpouring of emotion triggered by accidentally runni...

Williams, 69, retired a few years ago, but he’d started the photography department at Collin County Community College where he taught and lived his passion, Birnbaum says. “I came to find out that Byrd isn’t a photographer,” Birnbaum says. “Byrd is a teacher. That’s where he has shown up. That’s where he showed up every day for 30 years. That’s where his real love is and was, and he used photography as an excuse to be there.” A shared passion for photography connected the tw...

POV: ‘The Mole Agent’ “POV” presents the latest documentary from Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi, an unexpected meditation on aging and human connection in “The Mole Agent,” airing Monday, Jan. 25 at 8:30 p.m. on Arizona PBS. Named one of the Best Documentaries of 2020 by IndieWire and recently announced to be Chile’s submission to the 93rd Academy Awards in the category of Best International Film, ​The Mole Agent ​follows 83-year-old Sergio Chamy who is sent as an undercover...

The 10 Best International Movies of 2020 By Paste Movies  |  December 28, 2020  |  1:27pm The Golden Globes’ racist disqualification of filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung’s American-made Minari from its Best Picture categories will not be the last debacle from the embarrassing awards body—one that shouldn’t be given the time of day by anyone that enjoys movies nor screen time on a major network—but it does at least provide a jumping-off point to highlight the best movies of the year that ...