Tag: Joan Ellis
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...
