Raw stories
Alejandro Escovedo combines the rough and the elegant as a song-writing renaissance man….
Healing the body
Afro-Cuban music’s rhythm therapy is a timeless cure….
The Hanging Garden
Canadian writer-director Thom Fitzgerald has cultivated the lovely, elegiac The Hanging Garden from the most unlikely seeds: a violent, bawdy, profane and text book dysfunctional family. When Sweet William (Chris Leavins) returns to his Nova Scotia home after a long absence, he’s literally a new man. Now comfortably and openly gay, the svelte Sweet William…
The Opposite of Sex
Remarkably, mainstream cinema’s fascination with independent-style wittiness just grows and grows. On top of that fetish, writer-director Don Roos’ debut feature, The Opposite of Sex, exploits popular cultural interest in gayness with a game hunter’s fervor. It’s an unusually well-timed piece of work. How about an unsparingly frank look at sexuality on the order of…
Smoke Signals
“The only thing more pathetic than Indians on TV,” says Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams) seeing an old western playing on a small set, “is Indians watching Indians on TV.” With that line, Thomas, whose incessant storytelling alternately fascinates and annoys his fellow residents of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, sums up the irreverent seriousness of…
