liv Ullman in public chat about Miss Julie Film Society of Lincoln Center ...

Almost invisible in this year's  best of list was Miss Julie directed by Liv Ullman and staring Jessica  Chastain who gives in my opinion the best performance of the year, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton are pitch perfect too... here Liv talks about the work and how she adapted Strindberg through a 21st century, feminist gaze. Look for the film on VOD and watch it please (i do ask a question during eh Q&A)

REEL DEAL RECOMMENDATION Something Must Break teaser

Tribeca Film Festival recommendation #5 : Something Must Break; Not since Crying Game and Soldiers Girl has there been an upfront, quality narrative film that explores desire, attraction. erotic play and homophobia, What distinguishes Something Must Break is that it does not take a simplistic look and settle for gays or men who want to be women narrative , Instead it breaks out in to an exploration of gender expression and an individual's courage to not give in to society's demands . For the first time "gender-queer" the movement to not change one sex to conform to a heterosexual ideal is front and center on the screen ... and done with an extraordinary sense of appropriateness, sensitivity and craft . A film that could not be more timely as the censorship of ideas around gender expression, sexual orientation and identify are nearing an almost storm trooper enforcement on the internet and in academia. love/desire has no gender or sexual orientation. Society does. A film I recommend to everyone .. particularly parents and teachers trying to "do the right thing"

FILM 2014 Critic Wire ballot

SXSW FILM 2014 Critic Wire ballot

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Westview News : Reel Deal: Movies that Matter

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE

1. Boyhood

2. Before I Disappear

3. Animals

4. Joe

5. Hellion

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1. The Internet's Own Boy

2. Vessel

3. Take Me to The River

4. Born to Fly

5. The Case Against the 8

BEST DIRECTOR

1.Richard Linklater Boyhood

2.Shawn Christensen Before I disapear

3.David Gordon Green JOE

4.Diego Luna Caesar Chavez

5. Kat Chandler Hellion

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

1. shawn christensen            Before I Disapear

2. jenny slate                         Obvious Child

3. america Ferraro                CAESAR CHAVEZ

4. Carla Juri                           Wetlands

5. Daniel Dastmalchian         Animals

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

1.  emily rossum        Before I Disappear

2.Tye Sheridan           Joe

3. Kerry Fox              Patrick's Day

4.Fatima Pcatek        Before I Disappear

5. Rima Te Wiata       Housebound

BEST SCREENPLAY

1.Boyhood

2. Before I disappear

3. Hellion

4. Fort Tilden

5. Patrick's Day

BEST ENSEMBLE

1. Boyhood

2. Caesar Chavez

3. Before I disappear

4. Animals

5. Wilderness of James

BEST FIRST FEATURE

1. Before I disappear

2. Animals

3. Soul Boys of the Western World

4. fort tilden

5. 10,000KM