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Jul 27, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Peggy Loving
To tell a story in South Africa at the time of apartheid for “Mapantsula,” it was always going to take the production twice the work.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Peggy Loving
Although audiences are bound to hold their breath during “Starve Acre,” that response has allowed Daniel Kokotajlo to exhale a bit as he’s set about releasing his second feature. “I’m just relieved that it’s working for people, especially in the States,” said Kokotajlo.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Peggy Loving
The revelations start in “New Strains” as soon as Ram (Prashanth Kamalakanthan) and Kallia (Artemis Shaw) walk through the door of her uncle’s apartment, with the latter surprised that she went unrecognized by someone in the building she can remember flashing her when she was 12.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Jane Giles |Peggy Loving |NextAli Catterall
Despite its title in reference to its setting, you can’t believe that a film is being made at “Hollywoodgate.” A former CIA base that was abandoned in Kabul when American troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2021, it was promptly repopulated by the Taliban forces that retook the country when international support vanished.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Peggy Loving
“This program was very difficult for a Catholic girl,” Patricia McGrath, one of the graphic designers of the Scala Club Cinema’s monthly calendar says of her work for the famed repertory house in London, in “Scala!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits.” McGrath could make her own art out of a lineup that might include “Eraserhead,” “King Kong” or “Pink Flamingos” on any given night and the...
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Peggy Loving
“There’s nothing cute about a 40-year-old Cincinnati troubadour,” Jean (Melanie Nicholls King) tells her daughter Theresa (KiKi Layne), clearly not seeing what’s right in front of her in “Dandelion.” The view is hazy for the singer/songwriter as well, having stayed in her hometown in Ohio to take care of her mother upon learning that her health was getting worse instead of going on tour as planned and payments to keep treatments going are about to claim her guitar, one of the few possessions...
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Peggy Loving
Before making “Sisi and I,” Frauke Finsterwalder didn’t have especially fond memories of the legendary Empress of Austria who became Queen of Hungary after marrying Franz Joseph, mythologized largely in the 1950s films that were a Christmas staple all across Europe starring Romy Schneider.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Peggy Loving
“There’s a reason there weren’t any before you [when you’re first at something],” Renee Montgomery says at the top of “A Radical Act,” acknowledging that often the pioneers are the last to know they’re the first to do something when otherwise it might intimidate them.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Peggy Loving
When Caryn Coleman returns to Los Angeles this week, the sight of a crowd she brought together to enjoy art won’t be unfamiliar, but the venue will be when Vidiots in Los Feliz plays host to a night of shorts from The Future of Film is Female.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Peggy Loving
There have been a number of ways Penny Lane has distinguished herself as a filmmaker over the years, but one of the most remarkable is the lack of cynicism in her work. Always pushing herself formally, one thing that hasn’t changed has been an unshakeable desire to see the good in people.
