#documentaries

#documentaries

For more than seven decades, the click of a camera shutter was the soundtrack to Dorothy Bohm's life.She was a teenager in Lithuania when her father gave her a Leica as she boarded a train to flee the Nazis.She studied photography in Manchester, England, after the Blitzkrieg drove her from London.Her camera was a steadfast companion when she traveled the world, chronicling her travels and the people she saw with an empathetic eye.

By Jan Wahl-
These days, when many of us think about the U.K., royals like Harry and Meghan come to mind.I, by the way, am firmly on Team Harry.How can we knock someone trying to make his family safe?But let us move over to the U.K.'s fine films, actors and actresses, TV programs, and series.From shows like Gentleman Jack and Absolutely Fabulous to some of our best films including The Imitation Game, Albert Nobbs, The Danish Girl, Billy Elliot, and , there are countless quality productions coming from a constitutional monarchy that is just 2.48% the size of the U.S.
To showcase such treasures, my friend and colleague Ruthe Stein eight years ago put together the Mostly British Film Festival in San Francisco.

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday in Park City, Utah.Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Filmmakers and film lovers are gathering in Park City, Utah, Thursday, for two weeks of premieres, screenings, panels and parties.The Sundance Film Festival is back, two years after the COVID-19 pandemic prevented it from operating as it has since 1981.

Yee-haw! That's a wrap on the 2023 SXSW Conference & Festivals!We want to give a Texas-sized THANK YOU to all of the registrants, staff, crew, volunteers, artists, speakers, filmmakers, innovators, disrupters, dreamers, two Captain Kirks, one Baba Yaga, and our wonderful Austin community.SXSW 2023 was one for the books!

Davina McCall said being made an MBE for services to broadcasting means a great deal, following a television career spanning more than two decades.Ever since her role as the inaugural presenter of Big Brother in 2000, McCall has been a stalwart of British screens.The TV star, philanthropist and lifestyle guru, 55, has hosted shows across most major networks in the UK including Channel 4, ITV, Sky and the BBC.

My earliest reading memory When I was a child, my father, a young and poor novelist, kept our unfurnished house packed with books.A deluge spilled out from the shelves, covering the floor in disorderly towers like a secondhand bookstore where the organising had been put off for ever.To me, books were half-living beings that constantly multiplied and expanded their boundaries.

Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the modern mystery, was onto something when he declared that, "the death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."That weird and repugnant statement appeared over a century and a half ago in an essay called "The Philosophy of Composition," but Poe could be talking about the popularity of true crime podcasts and documentaries in our own day.

Catherine Clinch plays Cait in The Quiet Girl.Super Lt The late film critic Roger Ebert once wrote, "What moves me emotionally is more often goodness than sadness."It's a sentiment I've always shared, and I thought about it again while watching the beautifully crafted Irish drama The Quiet Girl.