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WAMMFest 2017 Came and Went, Leaving Inspiration in Its Wake
Towson University just hosted the recent Women and Minorities in Media Festival (WAMMFest), which I profiled with a preview piece and post-fest wrap-up piece, the former at BmoreArt, the latter at Film...
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“Roughly Speaking” from April 28, 2017: Rodricks, Reed, Frankel and DeLibero...
On Friday, April 28, 2017, Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University – and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that’s me) – Chair and Professor, Department of Film &...
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SXSW2017–Part 8 @hammertonail (5 More Reviews + 1 More Interview)
Finishing up my coverage of the 2017 SXSW Film Festival at Hammer to Nail (minus one interview, which HtN will run when the film premieres on HBO in a few weeks), here are six more pieces: 5 reviews,...
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Review of “Below Her Mouth”& Interview with Michał Marczak (“All These...
Two more pieces of mine ran recently on Hammer to Nail: a review of the erotic lesbian drama Below Her Mouth and an interview with Michał Marczak, director of the Polish hybrid documentary All These...
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Less Would Be More: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” Overdoes Its Shtick,...
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn, 2017) I loved the original Guardians of the Galaxy. When it came out, in 2014, the creative forces at Marvel had yet to release films like Ant-Man (2015) and...
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The 2017 Maryland Film Festival Is Here, in Brand New Digs!
If it’s early May in Baltimore, it must be time for the Maryland Film Festival again. This year, the festival premieres its brand new venue, the renovated Parkway Theater, located on the southwest...
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3 @TribecaFilm Festival Reviews + “Below Her Mouth” @hammertonail
Over the past few weeks, I have covered three films (remotely) that played at the recent 2017 Tribeca Film Festival – The Endless, The Last Animals and A River Below – for Hammer to Nail, as well as...
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“Reel Talk”– with Chris Reed and Linda DeLibero – on “Their Finest,”“The...
Welcome to the fifth episode of the 2016-2017 season of Dragon Digital Media‘s Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed. My guest this time was Linda DeLibero, Director of Film and Media Studies at...
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Post-Fest Coverage of 2017 @MdFilmFestival @filmfestoday (Overall...
The Maryland Film Festival (MdFF), founded in 1999 by Festival Director Jed Dietz, just ran its 2017 iteration May 3-7, in Baltimore. With 11 blocks of short films – including the traditional...
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3 Posts @filmfestoday: “Alien: Covenant,” @WJFF (DC Jewish Film Fest) and...
In the past week, Film Festival Today published two reviews, of Alien: Covenant and The Wall, plus one curtain-raiser about the now currently running 27th iteration of the Washington Jewish Film...
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Post-Fest Coverage of 2017 @MdFilmFestival @hammertonail (5 Interviews), Part...
The second part of my coverage of the 2017 Maryland Film Festival, consisting of five interviews with filmmakers, has run over the past two weeks at Hammer to Nail. I have two more interviews pending,...
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Reviews “Freedom to Marry” @hammertonail + “Wonder Woman” @filmfesttoday
I ran two reviews last week, one of a great new documentary, The Freedom to Marry, about the fight to legalize same-sex marriage, and the other of the rollicking new superhero film Wonder Woman. The...
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Minimalist “It Comes at Night” Showcases Directorial Brilliance Amidst Flawed...
It Comes at Night (Trey Edward Shults, 2017) There is much to recommend in director Trey Edward Shults’ sophomore effort (which follows his 2015 debut feature, Krisha). A master of the creepy, slow...
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@BaltimoreSun’s @RoughlySpeaking Podcast on Female Action Stars + Reviews of...
On Thursday, June 8, 2017, Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University – and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that’s me) – Chair and Professor, Department of Film &...
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AFI DOCS (1 Interview/2 Reviews) & 1 General Interview/2 Reviews...
In the past two weeks, here is what I’ve had published at Hammer to Nail: 1 phone interview (with Jeff Malmberg, co-director of Spettacolo) plus 2 reviews (Atomic Homefront and City of Ghosts) from the...
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The Bouncy “Baby Driver” Speeds Marvelously Along, Occasionally Slowed by...
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017)* If only the entire movie were as good as its first act, Baby Driver would be a near-masterpiece of dazzling mise-en-scène and editing. Snappy, brisk and wildly...
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“The Beguiled” Entrances, Though from a Distance
The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017) With a feature-filmmaking career that began in 1999, with The Virgin Suicides, and has continued since then with Lost in Translation (2003), Marie Antoinette (2006),...
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More AFIDOCS Coverage (3 Interviews & 1 Review) @hammertonail + AFIDOCS Recap...
Here is what I had published at Hammer to Nail last week from the recent AFI DOCS film festival: 3 interviews, with Rebecca Cammisa of Atomic Homefront, Matthew Heineman and Abdelaziz Alhamza of City...
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“Reel Talk”– with Chris Reed and Jeffrey Lyles – on “Baby Driver,”“The Big...
Welcome to the sixth and final episode of the 2016-2017 season of Dragon Digital Media‘s Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed. My guest this time was Jeffrey Lyles, former film critic for The...
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Still More AFI DOCS (1 Review + 1 Interview) @hammertonail & 2 Current...
This week, Hammer to Nail published two more of my pieces from the recent AFI DOCS festival: a review of the Indian documentary An Insignificant Man and an interview with one its two co-drectors, Vinay...
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