On Episode 37 of Chasing the Gold, Ryan is joined by Jazz Tangcay of Variety and Dan Bayer of Next Best Picture to preview the 2022 Oscar Season and give their very...
Director: Liesel Tommy
Writers: Tracey Scott Wilson, story by Tracey Scott Wilson and Callie Khouri
Stars: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Audra McDonald
Plot: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from child singing in her...
After a tumultuous year in which most film festivals went digital, the Cannes Film Festival refused to “sacrifice” its experience and canceled its 2020 edition. This year, it came back with a...
Director: Yohan Manca
Writers: Yohan Manca
Stars: Maël Rouin Berrandou, Judith Chemla, Dali Benssalah, Sofian Khammes, Moncef Farfar.
Synopsis:
Nour, a 14-year-old boy, is enjoying the beginning of the summer holidays in the South of France....
The period piece is the most difficult film to get right. Time marches on and if an audience member catches a Starbucks cup left on a 1930s tenement stoop, the illusion is...
Director: Tony Gatlif
Writers: Tony Gatlif
Stars: David Murgia, Slimane Dazi, Suzanne Aubert, Karoline Rose
Synopsis: In the mystical French region of Camargue, Tom Medina turns up, on probation, on the doorstep of big-hearted Ulysses....
Director: Sergei Loznits
Writer: Sergei Loznits
Synopsis: Nazi troops massacred 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941. The film reconstructs the historical context of this tragedy through archive footage.
It is difficult to...
Change comes to the Oscars not with a nod in a back room, but often with an outcry or at least a strong shift in opinions. After The Elephant Man, David Lynch’s...
