FEATURES
Karen Moncrieff’s The Dead Girl examines the emotional repercussions of a prostitute’s murder on five troubled L.A. women. By Howard Feinstein
Maria Maggenti finds humor within the complexities of modern sexual relationships in her romantic comedy, Puccini For Beginners By Lisa Y. Garibay
First time filmmaker Gary Tarn had to stumble in the dark for years before finding the right way to tell the story of a blind painter in Black Sun. By Peter Bowen
Experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer looks back on her thirty-plus years in film. By Astra Taylor
A QUESTION OF SILENCE
With a pair of powerful performances from Amber Tamblyn and Tilda Swinton, Hilary Brougher takes an unflinshing look at teenage pregnancy in Stephanie Daley. By Alicia Van Couvering
DIRECT FEED
In Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s thriller, The Lives of Others, poetry, art and philosophy are the quietly subversive weapons weilded at the end of the Cold War. By Peter Bowen
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