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Scene On Film: 'How to Survive a Plague'

By Joan Ellis How quickly we forget. Writer/director David France has done us all a favor by assembling the chronological history of the AIDS epidemic...

Scene On Film: 'The Gatekeepers'

By Joan Ellis If you are confused about the issues in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, you are not likely to gain clarity from The Gatekeepers. What...

Scene On Film: 'Emperor'

By Joan Ellis Is there a time or a place more compelling than Japan in 1945? The Japanese had surrendered four years after bombing Pearl Harbor. Hiroshima...

Scene On Film: 'Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013'

By Joan Ellis Have you rushed to your nearest theater to see Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013? Of course not. It’s a given for all of us...

Scene On Film: 'Side Effects'

By Joan Ellis Side Effects plays games with us. Steven Soderbergh knows well that audiences love to figure out the director’s game plan and with...

Scene On Film: Oscars 2013

By Joan Ellis Oscar night is great fun without a dominating blockbuster. Given a wide spread of good movies and strong performances in 2012, I’ll have...

Scene On Film: 'Zero Dark Thirty'

By Joan Ellis Zero Dark Thirty has become a current event. Who but director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal would have tackled the daunting challenge...

Scene On Film: 'Quartet'

By Joan Ellis How often do you see a nearly perfect movie? Quartet is just that. First credit goes to Dustin Hoffman who exploded into our...

Scene On Film: 'Django Unchained'

By Joan Ellis Pulp Fiction was an exciting innovation; Inglourious Basterds was a masterpiece. But hasn’t Quentin Tarantino crossed the line in Django Unchained (wonderful title) by targeting...

Scene On Film: 'Promised Land'

By Joan Ellis “Promised Land” jumps enthusiastically into the national debate about hydrau­lic fracturing. To their credit, writers Matt Damon and John Krazinski have tried...
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