WINNER of the 12th Annual Tribeca Film Festival World Narrative Competition!!!

With over 10 years experience living and working in Far East Asia, Australian filmmaker Kim Mordaunt, demonstrates through the personal journey of a young, Laotian boy named “Ahlo” and Ahlo’s family and friends (in the story of the underdog), how present day Laos is rich in superstition, a war-torn past, economic corruption and development, heart, and hope.

When Mali, Ahlo’s beautiful mother, gives birth to Ahlo, she realizes she was carrying twins, however, one, “Little balls” is perfectly healthy, while the other is stillborn. Ahlo’s  superstitious, Buddhist grandmother, believed that one of the twins is blessed, while the other cursed, and the baby could bring misfortune to the family. She wants Mali to kill the living child, while, naturally, the mother does not wish to do this. His mother and grandmother opt to keep Ahlo alive and decide not to tell anyone, especially his father, that he is, in fact, a twin.

Later on down the road, when Ahlo is a pre-teen, the family is told by Austral Laos Hydro Electric Energy Corporation that they will be constructing and filling in the upper catchment dams in their area, that their valley will be flooded, and their family will be uprooted from their village, offered a pay out, and be relocated to a better village that offers water and electricity.  The grandmother is saddened that they have to leave their traditions behind, and when a catastrophic event occurs while they are “taking only what they need,” and relocating, she lets the cat out of the bag and screams, “Ahlo should have died like his twin brother. He is cursed.”

As they settle into their new village, Ahlo meets a young girl, Kia, and her alcoholic uncle, Yang Pao, or “Uncle Purple”, as he wears a purple suit, loves and resembles James Brown, and  is a veteran, having served time in the military fighting wars. It does not take long for them to realize that the energy company has failed to keep their promises, are giving nothing back to “the little people,” and many are living in squallor, with no land to plant their symbolic mangoes, no water to drink, as it has not rained in days, and with no abundance of food to eat like in their old hometown.

When Ahlo hears about a rocket competition, where the grand prize is 10 million kip, he becomes creative and resourceful utilizing all of the life experiences from the land and his family and friends, to create a rocket that will lead them to a better home where he can finally plant the symbolic mango trees.  Will he beat out last years Rocket Competition winner, with their entry named “The Million”?  Will the gods be in his favour? Will the curse be lifted, so he won’t be hated any longer? MUST SEE!

Filmmaker, Director, and Screenwriter: Kim Mordaunt states,

“Multinational corporations need to be more ethical in their business relationships with Laos, and all of the developing world.  Their compensation to traditional people and to the environment needs to be long-term.  Traditional people, their histories, their stories are as precious as any and we have to help them not vanish into industrialization.”

Producer: Sylvia Wilczynski

Cinematographer: Andrew Commis

Starring:

Sitthiphon Disamoe (Best Actor),

Loungnam Kaosainam, Thep Phongam, Bunsri Yindi, Sumrit Warin,

and Alice Keohavong

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“Il Turno di Notte lo Fanno le Stelle”  or “The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars”

Winner of the Best Narrative Category at the 12th Annual Tribeca Film Festival!

“Who covered the nightshift to prevent the heart of the world from falling?”

Matteo, played by Enrico Lo Verso, walks out the front door of the hospital and is happy to be breathing fresh air. He glances over at a tall, middle -aged, beautiful blonde, who holds up a mountain climbing carabiner ring. Recently having undergone a heart transplant, receiving the heart from a young girl who was in a car accident, Matteo is thankful for his second chance on life, stating, “There is no greater gift than life with life.”

Sonja, played by Nastassja Kinski, was in the hospital at the same time as Matteo, for a diseased mitral valve, and underwent, a mitral valve replacement. Mitral valve replacement is performed when the valve becomes too tight (mitral valve stenosis) for blood to flow into the left ventricle, or too loose (mitral valve regurgitation) in which case blood can leak back into the left atrium and thereby back into the lung. Mitral valve disease can occur from infection, calcification, inherited collagen disease, or other causes.

While realizing that they both went through similar life changing surgeries, and that they both love to rock climb, Sonja made a promise to Matteo, that they will climb together. Sonja, who is already married to Mark (played by Julian Sands), taught her to climb, and feels threatened by Matteo, however, he allows the two to go climbing together in the Dolomites in Trentino, Italy.

While on route, Matteo talks to his new heart as if it were a real, live young girl in his presence, at one point in the film he explains, “I’m old enough to be the donor’s father, but I am like a son to her.” Meanwhile, Sonja needs closure to determine if her body still has what it takes to climb mountains.  She takes her wedding band off during the adventure.  The music begins to pulse to the sound of heart beats.  Will their hearts remain strong enough to make it to the top safely?  Will this test of time result in a love affair?

MUST SEE.

“Those two, holding each other by the Rhine Bank, could have been you or I, but we will never go walking along the river bank together again. Come walk with me, at least in this poem.”  ~Izet Sarajlic

Film directed by Edoardo Ponti, Written by Erri De Luca, Produced by Silvia Bizio, Paola Porrini Bisson, Massimiliano Di Lodovico, Cinematographer, Ferran Paredes Rubio, starring Nastassja Kinski, Enrico LoVerso, Julian Sands, and Erri De Luca.

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Every film during the Pre-Festival screenings has been exceptional, however, many are under an embargo, and we are unable to write about them until after the premiere. I will, however, highlight a handful that are not under embargo.

The Broken Circle Breakdown: World Narrative Competition, (Belgium, Netherlands)  WINNER OF THE 12th ANNUAL TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL, BEST ACTRESS: Veerle Baetens, and BEST SCREENPLAY, Carl Joos and Felix van Groeningen

Elise runs a tattoo parlor. Didier is a tall, bearded, country-living, singer and banjo player in a bluegrass band. The movie starts off showing them as a couple with a six year old daughter who is battling cancer and seeking treatment in the hospital. Throughout the course of the film, there are flashbacks as to how the couple met, fell in love, their wedding, her pregnancy, and other key events. While Elise is a religious Catholic, Didier is an atheist. When the religious, legal, moral and ethical questions of adult and embryonic stem cells appears in their lives, their relationship(s) and beliefs are put to the test.

Musicians:

Veerle Baetens – Singer

Johan Heldenbergh – Singer

Bjorn Eriksson – Singer and Guitar

Lennart Dauphin – Bass

Geert Waegeman – Violin and Mandolin

Nils De Caster – Violin, Mandolin and Singer

Hank Van Damme – Banjo, Guitar and Singer

David Buyle – Violin on “Sand Mountain”

Arno Kuypers – Guitar on “Sand Mountain”

Peter Pask – Acoustic Guitar on “Sand Mountain”

Geert Van Rampleberg – Extra Singer

Jan Bijvoet – Extra Singer

Robby Cleiren – Extra Singer

Bert Huysentruyt – Extra Singer

Songs:

“Will the Circle Be Unbroken” – The BCB Band, originally AP Carter

“Mega Mindy Tijo” – Mega Mindy

“The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn” – The BCB Band, traditional

“Reuben’s Train” – The BCB Band, traditional

“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” – The BCB Band, originally Louigi Creatore/Solomon Linda/Hugo Peretti/George Weis

“Country in my Genes” – The BCB Band, originally Larry Cordle, Larry Shell, Betty Key

“Wayfaring Stranger” – The BCB Band, traditional

“Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby” – The BCB Band, originally Alan Lomax, T-Bone Burnett, Gillian Welch

“Cowboy Man” – The BCB Band, originally Lyle Lovett

“Over in the Glory Land” – The BCB Band, traditional

“Sand Mountain” – The BCB Band, originally Johnny Bellar

“Bruiloftsmars” – Jan Bijvoet and Robby Cleiren, originally Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

“If I Needed You” – The BCB Band, originally Townes Van Zandt

“Where the Soul of a Man Never Dies” – Veerle Baetens and Johan Heldenbergh

The Rocket:  Australia, World Narrative Competition

Red Obsession: World Documentary Competition, (Australia)

Narrated by Russell Crowe.

What happens when the gold rush and silk road migrates East towards red grapes and fine wines as investments?

China has become France’s largest importer of exclusive Bordeaux wines including Lafite Rothschild 2008, as “China wants to be richer and more powerful,” “they want to please people”, “they never want to look back towards oppression,” are encouraged to work hard and shoot for the stars, they want to try new things and enjoy outside influences, and would like to make life better for future generations.”

What happens when your best customer turns into your biggest competitor?  

In France, vineyards and cellars have been around for hundreds of years, and buyers have become complacent, while in China, wine is new and the silk road ready to connect them to the rest of the world. With over 270 billionaires living in the region, many want to impress their clients as the beverage is thought of  as a status symbol which gives them position as they face the West. As this proud culture dreams of doing everything better than the rest of the world, China will soon be the world’s largest producer of wine.  When conducting business there, remember, there are lots of conflicts when people think the system in China will work like the one in their own home country. It is China, and it runs differently with Chinese characteristics.

INTERVIEW:

As Australian directors, how did you come to shoot a movie about the relationship between a French wine producing region and China? What was the starting point for RED OBSESSION?

It was serendipitous really – the genesis of the project happened on board a Qantas flight from Sydney to London. Andrew Caillard, a Master of Wine, happened to be on the flight and we struck up a conversation. We had met once before so he knew I was a filmmaker and a vigneron and I knew he was a Master of Wine – (there are fewer MWs in the world than there have been astronauts!). Andrew asked if I had ever thought about making a film about wine, which I hadn’t. As the hours passed on the flight, I became more and more intrigued by what he told me about Bordeaux, a region he knew intimately – prices had been skyrocketing over the past two years for one reason – China. In fact, despite the Global Financial Crisis, which decimated the US and UK markets for these rare and desirable wines, China’s economy had been powering, minting new millionaires at an incredible rate. I was hooked – what happens when the world’s most voracious consumer of luxury goods turns its attention to a rare and ethereal but strictly limited product? On top of that, the next vintage to be released, the 2010, was being mooted as the vintage of the Century. This could be the perfect storm of the wine world.

Was it difficult for you to gain access to the Châteaux in Bordeaux and talk to their owners and managers? Did they voluntarily open their ‘caves’ up to you?

Andrew’s connections in Bordeaux are second to none. MWs are respected as THE wine authorities in the world. They are welcomed and feted in Bordeaux. Andrew’s involvement there goes back many years and although most of the Chateaux were very wary after a few unpleasant experiences with documentary makers, they opened their gates to us, trusting in Andrew’s integrity. As often happens with documentaries that require filming over a long period (in our case we filmed in Bordeaux on and off over 12 months), trust is built over time.Your film follows the development of the Bordeaux vintages over more than two years. How much time did you spend working on the project overall?

After that initial meeting on the aeroplane, I called my long time creative partner, David Roach, then Andrew, David and I met over coffee to discus how we would move forward. I explained to Andrew that we would need 6 months to research, write and raise the budget and it was then that Andrew dropped the bombshell that we needed to be in Bordeaux in 4 weeks time ready to shoot. The reason? – Every year in early April, the Bordelais reveal their new wines to the world’s wine writers, critics and merchants for their assessment. Early rumours out of Bordeaux pointed to the likelihood that the 2010 vintage would be the greatest vintage in 100 years. If we missed that, we would miss a critical moment in the history of Bordeaux. So three weeks later we were on a plane and hit the ground running. That was April 2011 at the En Primeur campaign. We went back again in June to capture summer, then again in September to film the harvest of the 2011 vintage and again for En Primeur in April 2012, so we captured the whole cycle.

What is your relationship to wine – are you collectors, tasters, drinkers…

I (Warwick) am a vigneron myself, so I have the knowledge that any vigneron would have about growing and producing wine. This allowed me to feel very comfortable with the subject and the processes and to empathize to some degree with the growers in Bordeaux. I like a good drop also – and having spent 12 months with some of the world’s greatest Chateaux, the wines we experienced were breathtaking! I’m not really a collector or a taster – I’m a drinker.

You worked with several prominent figures in the international wine world, from Robert Parker to Francis Ford Coppola. What was the most impressive encounter you had during the entire journey?

I think I’ll have to split this answer: As a filmmaker, meeting, interviewing and sharing thoughts about films and film making with Francis Ford Coppola was an exceptional experience. I think I related to that encounter more than any other because we are both filmmakers and wine producers. I’m not sure why those two disciplines go hand in hand so well, but they do. He even spoke about the parallels between filmmaking and wine making which resonated with me.

Oz Clarke was another fascinating interviewee – his candour, insights and wonderful anecdotes (he was a West End actor at one stage) were gold!

Christian Moueix from Chateau Petrus was the most philosophical of our 82 interviewees. He is disarming, charismatic, an art lover and a poet. His descriptions of a bottle of wine being a ‘tweet’ which you send over the world, won us over. His candid assessment of Bordeaux’s hubris allowed us to form our ending.

Russell Crowe narrates the film – how did he become involved in the project?

Russell is a friend of my Executive Producer, Rob Coe. He also loves his wines! The themes of the film resonated with him immediately – Bordeaux and China. The challenge was to try and find some time in his ridiculously busy schedule. He was filming “Noah” in New York and was finishing “Les Miserables” at the same time. Hurricane Sandy, which caused so much misery for so many people, forced a sudden postponement in Russell’s schedule and allowed just enough time for him to record the narration for us.

Starting in Bordeaux, RED OBSESSION takes us on a journey to China, allowing the audience to discover the largely unknown world of chinese wine lovers, collectors and producers. How did you experience this discovery?

We were lucky enough to be taken to places in China we would never have been allowed access to – or even to have known about. Demei Li, China’s most recognized wine maker and a lecturer at Beijing University of Agriculture, suggested we accompany him to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in far western China, on the old Silk Road, where Chinese authorities are planting thousands of acres of vines. The stunning red deserts, camel trains and traditional Muslim communities were scenes reminiscent of Lawrence of Arabia – a film-makers dream.

Getting access to billionaire collectors was even more tricky – Chinese society, particularly at the high end, can be very closed, especially to foreigners and it took many months for intermediaries to explain what we wanted to do and to eventually gain their trust to allow us film them in their environments. Once we had their confidence, nothing was too much trouble and we were often invited to stay after the interview and share a superb bottle of Bordeaux over a Chinese banquet.

The emergence of China as a buying power and a dominant force in the wine world has been so swift and so powerful as to represent a near paradigm shift. What questions does this raise about wine as a tradition and an art versus just a pure commodity?

This question is one we faced time and time again during the course of our filming. Ultimately when a product is viewed purely as a commodity, it tends to lose its soul. We discovered that the more valuable wine becomes, the more it’s treated as a pure commodity, attracting the avaricious world of commodity traders. Some clients will spend a million dollars on cases of expensive wine, only to store them in a warehouse somewhere, to be sold in the future when the price has doubled or trebled. The bottles of wine go unopened, even unseen by their owners. This is a pure business trade – about as far away from the passion and art of the vineyard as one can get. This trend emerged some years ago when prices of Bordeaux wines started rising so rapidly (faster than the Dow Jones, the FTSE and Gold) that they became the target of pure investors. The China effect of the past 3 or 4 years has only exacerbated this effect. Ironically, it’s western investors who are doing the investing, while the Chinese, who are driving the prices up through sheer buying power, are either drinking the wines, presenting them as gifts, or serving them to guests to show the esteem in which they are held.

As such, it could be argued that the Chinese are honouring the passion and art of the wines more than the western investors.

By now you must have tasted many great vintages with wine lovers both from Bordeaux and from China. Is there a great difference in how they taste, experience and ‘feel’ the wine itself?

Yes, there is a great difference. Whereas the traditional markets of the US, France, UK and Europe have been drinking wines for hundreds of years, the Chinese are still new to wine culture. Initially, this led to stories of the Chinese adding Coca-Cola to glasses of Chateau Lafite to make them palatable, as the taste of undiluted wine was so foreign. This practice, quite common until recently, has given way to a great desire to appreciate the wine for what it is. As such, it is not uncommon to see bus loads of Chinese visitors in Bordeaux, determined to educate themselves not just about the wine itself but about the intricacies of production methods and ‘terroir’ points of difference. The Chinese have found that the key to appreciating wine is to relate it to their tea culture. Both have a tannic structure – and tea has been part of Chinese meals for centuries.

The film provides a very balanced view of the Bordeaux/China phenomenon, with optimistic as well as more critical voices coming from both sides. Now that you know both of these worlds well, how do you see the future of wine – in China and in Bordeaux?

As the Chinese understanding of wine broadens, Bordeaux will become less of a focus and other regions such as Burgundy, the Rhone etc, not to mention Italy, Spain and South America will feel the surge in Chinese interest. Current predictions are that in 20 or 30 years, the entire world’s production will not be enough to satisfy the China market. This is recognised by the Chinese government, who are now planting tens of thousands of acres of vines each year to try to cope with future demand.

Bordeaux’s fortunes have always been tied to the fluctuations of world markets but with such a limited and finite resource, notwithstanding the broadening out of Chinese interest, there is only one direction the prices of Bordeaux’s finest wines will ultimately go – up.

What Richard Did: Viewpoints, (Ireland)

Music, Time, and Love Heals All Wounds.

Music Heals All Wounds (Guitar Legends),  Time Heals All Wounds (10 hours of Guitar Music over 2 nights), and Love Heals All Wounds (Eric Clapton’s Charity, “Crossroads Center”).

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Eric Clapton’s fourth “Crossroads Guitar Festival” is a charity concert which brings some of the world’s most legendary guitarists and musicians together over the course of  2 nights, 10 hours, and one stage.  Since its inception, Clapton’s vision for the Crossroads Guitar Festival has been to create an event where his friends and contemporaries can have fun and perform together for the benefit of a good cause. All proceeds from the Festival benefit “Crossroads Center”,  an international treatment center, located on the Caribbean island of Antigua, that helps those with chemical dependency. It was founded by Eric Clapton, who has also battled and overcome alcoholism in his own life.

So if you like the sounds of Booker T. and the M.G.’s, “Green Onions”,   and “Born Under a Bad Sign”,  B.B. King’s, “Let the Good Times Roll”,  Keith Urban and John Mayer singing “The Beatles” classic,  “Don’t Let Me Down”, underrated legend -in-the making, Doyle Bramhall II’s,  “Green Light Girl”, Buddy Guy’s, “Don’t Let That Doorknob Hit You”,  Dan Aykroyd and Keb Mo paying tribute to Muddy Waters’ what would-have been 100th birthday this past April 4, 2013, Eric Clapton singing “Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?”, and The Allman Brothers Band and Taj Mahal singing “Statesboro Blues” and “Whipping Post”, then check out this event. More music greats again at MSG 4/13.

http://crossroadsantigua.org/

Friday, April 12

7:30-Eric Clapton Acoustic Set with Andy Fairweather-Low, Vince Gill

“Tears in Heaven”,  “Lay Down Sally”, “Wonderful Tonight”

8:00-Booker T and Band with Steve Cropper, Blake Mills, Keb Mo, Matt Murphy, Albert Lee

8:30- Robert Cray and Band with Jimmie Vaughan, Gary Clark, Jr, Eric Clapton, and BB King

8:50- Sonny Landreth solo

9:00- Doyle Bramhall, Citizen Cope, and Gary Clark, Jr.

9:20 – Ernie Ball

9:27-Earl Klugh

9:40-Kurt Rosenwinkel with Allan Holdsworth, Eric Clapton

10:00-Gary Clark, Jr solo

10:15- John Mayer and Band with Keith Urban

10:40-Buddy Guy and Band with Robert Randolph, Quinn Sullivan

11:30-Allman Brothers with Taj Mahal, David Hidalgo, and Eric Clapton

12:30-  End

Saturday Night, April 13

Keith Richards, “Sweet Little Rock N’ Roller”

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“Life is a ballgame, you’ve got to play it fair.”

Directed by Brian Helgeland, starring Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson, Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey, and Nicole Beharie as Rachel Robinson.

Movies like this don’t come along everyday.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson, “Jackie” (1919-1972),  Brooklyn, N.L., 1947-1956, was a player of extraordinary ability, renowned for his electrifying style of play. With over 10 seasons of .311, he scored more than 100 runs six times, he was named to six all-star teams, led Brooklyn to six pennants, and it’s only World Series title in 1955. In 1947, he was named Rookie of the Year, and in 1949, the N.L. MVP, when he hit a league-best .342, with 37 steals. Jackie Robinson led second basemen in double plays four times, and stole home 19 times. He displayed tremendous courage and poise in 1947, when he integrated the modern major leagues in the face of intense adversity.

Open-minded MLB Executive, Branch Rickey, saw past the color of Jackie Robinson’s skin. He saw something special in him, and signed him, making Jackie the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. As can be imagined, the Caucasian players felt threatened by his abilities, and used his race as one of the reasons to constantly berate, mock and ridicule him.  At a time in history when segregation still existed, “negroes” and “coloreds” were forced to use separate bathrooms and hotels, had difficult times finding housing, and were discriminated against on a routine basis, Jackie Robinson not only took all the insults the opposing teams and fans dished out without retaliating, he paved the way making it possible for future generations of multi-cultural players, and leaders including, Martin Luther King, Jr., to do what they did best.

Amazing they did not wear helmets and wore wool uniforms back then.

Enjoy this heart-wrenching, feel good film. In theaters, April 12, 2013.

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It is very appropriate that Tom Hanks’ Broadway debut would be starring in a play written by the late, great, journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger, Nora Ephron (1941-2012). Ephron, known for her adorable romantic comedies (some of which starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan), included, “Sleepless in Seattle”, “You’ve Got Mail”,  “When Harry Met Sally”, and “Julie and Julia”.  A true literary talent.

Oh, the bitter sweet life of journalism. In “Lucky Guy”, Hanks enacts key episodes from the life of famous Pulitzer Prize-winning “New York Post”, and “New York Daily News”, journalist and columnist, Mike McAlary, who unleashed corrupt police politics, looked up to Jimmy Breslin, ‘rewarded good guys and put the bad guys away’, and dreamed of one day having his own column, because ‘everything else is second place.’

Inevitably, he continued to work hard, followed his dreams and persevered, meanwhile jealous colleagues,  an unhappy wife in the suburbs, and his health started to turn on him.

Throughout his career, McAlary, covered  1980’s NY cases that received worldwide attention; from crack houses in the Bronx, cyanide found in Tylenol, the Mets winning the World Series in 1986, to a fugitive cop found in a motel room, and the Tawana Brawley scandal.

I am not just saying this, because he is Tom Hanks, but Tom Hanks IS SO CONVINCING IN THIS ROLE, THAT I HONESTLY, FORGOT I WAS WATCHING TOM HANKS!  That is how good he is. Congratulations and Thank You!

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Meg Ryan, Spike Lee, Martin Short, Lorne Michaels, Carol Kane, Graydon Carter, Mike Nichols, Gayle King, Sting, Dennis Miller, John McEnroe, and many others in attendance.

Party at Gotham Hall

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“Before Sunrise”, “Before Sunset”, and now “Before Midnight”.

Even if you have not seen Richard Linklater’s,  “Before Sunrise” or “Before Sunset”, you will still be able to understand and enjoy the third film in the series, “Before Midnight”, which is showing at “The Tribeca Film Festival” on April 22nd and, again, on April 24th.  There is still have time to download the two prequels.

It is now eighteen years after the couple, Jesse (Hawke), and Celine (Delpy), met on a train in Europe, and spent an evening meandering around Vienna. The storyline in the third chapter remains fairly basic and  is, for the most part, a long conversation of the two in crisis. Without giving too much away, even though they have spent six weeks on summer vacation at a gorgeous, relaxing farmhouse in Greece, both characters are constantly debating, philosophizing, and purging. 41 year old Jesse, just dropped his 14 year old son, Hank, off at the airport to return to school at his ex-wife’s home in Chicago, but wonders, if he, himself, should move back to the US to be closer to him, to teach him how to throw a baseball, and encourage him to stay in the soccer league. Meanwhile, Celine, has no interest in living in Chicago, has twin girls of her own with Jesse, and fears that they may breakup if he wants to return to the States, and she chooses to remain in Paris. Celine is honest and funny, sharing all her late 30’s or early 40’s hormonal emotions, no holds barred. While Jesse is really just looking to have a rational conversation, Celine is panicking and confrontational.  Seeing as Jesse mentioned that his grandparents were together for 74 years, will this series go on every nine years for 6 more films until 2069?

I once saw Ethan Hawke at a showing of  the 1957, David Lean classic, “The Bridge on the River Kwai” at “Film Forum”, which makes him very cool.  Props for the “Neptune Records” tee shirt he was wearing in “Before Midnight” too. “Neptune Records was a record label founded by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff in 1969. They featured artists such as The O’Jays, The Three Degrees and Billy Paul.”

SCREENING TIMES

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Let’s hope, that when out of character, Jesse Eisenberg, is nothing like Mark Zuckerberg from “Social Network”, or David, in his latest play, “The Revisionist”, which he wrote and stars in, which is now playing at the “Cherry Lane Theatre”.  David brings an entirely new meaning to the term “ugly American traveling abroad”.

An angry, sci-fi nerd, who does not like to be touched or bothered, David, is looking for a quiet place to revise his book.  After a multitude of destinations turn him down or don’t work out for whatever reason, he winds up at his second cousins home in Poland.  Maria (Vanessa Redgrave), is a 75 year old Holocaust survivor, who volunteers at a local library, and sizes David up within the first few minutes.

Even though she sees right through him, she continues to be nice even after he rudely enters her small, cozy apartment, after a long trip, with an angry attitude demanding, “Can I put my bags down? I have a heavy laptop in here.”  She asks him if he would like to eat dinner, and he whines, “I don’t want to eat.”  and exclaims, “I don’t eat chicken. I am a vegetarian.” After he reminds her  over and over again that he “needs to revise his book and is not there to socialize or tour around her town”, after he is rude to her friend, keeps the window open, letting the heat out, turns her family photos upside down calling them a$$holes because they have not come to visit her for a week like he has, shares a story where he explains how life is not fair because a silly subway story is making it big, and he hasn’t, after he tells her that she was his eighth choice for a place to stay, and last on his list to come to visit, and  the list goes on and on, Maria then shares a secret from her past with him. David begins to feel more comfortable with her. He believes they have started to bond, however, family-oriented Maria, feels otherwise.

Incredible performance by Vanessa Redgrave.

Be a world citizen.

Sample advice from the new World Citizens Guide published by Business for Diplomatic Action:

 Speak lower and slower. In conversation, match your voice level and tonality to the environment and other people. A loud voice is often perceived as bragging. A fast talker can be seen as aggressive and threatening.
 Leave the slang at home. (It) means little or nothing in other cultures. .. (and) can make you seem insensitive.
 Listen at least as much as you talk. By all means, talk about America.. .. But also ask people you’re visiting about themselves and their way of life.
 Dress up — you can always strip down. In some countries, casual dress is a sign of disrespect.
 Remember that your religion is your religion and not necessarily theirs. Most non-Western cultures have little knowledge of the Bible and will not understand references to it.
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