Watching a widow grieve her loss and a user recover from his heroin addiction is not the usual Hollywood fare….
Emily S. Mendel
Emily S. Mendel, a writer, and photographer, has been a regular contributor to culturevulture.net since 2006, where she concentrates her reviews on San Francisco theater and art. As a native New Yorker (although now a long-time San Francisco Bay Area resident), Emily grew up loving and studying theater, from Off to On Broadway, as her multi-volume Playbill collection attests. Ending her 30-year law practice has given Ms. Mendel the time to indulge in her love of travel and the arts.
Written, directed and produced by: Rolf De Heer Starring: Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil, David Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin and Peter Minygululu…
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn Novel by Neil Gaiman*; screenplay by Jane Goldman Starring: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Robert De Niro,…
Dori Berinstein, a three-time Tony-winning Broadway producer, makes her debut as a feature film director in the full-length documentary, ShowBusiness:…
The full-length documentary, Note by Note, is a fascinating account of the yearlong process of building one Steinway grand piano,…
Dani Levy undertakes a challenging task with My Fuehrer to make an historical comedy out of a Jew’s interactions with…
Ben Niles I met with Ben Niles on May 31, 2008 in San Francisco. The following is a shortened transcript…
Starring: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach Written and Directed by: Stefan Ruzowitzky MPAA Rating: Rated R Run…
Crime Fiction, an enthralling crime drama, has a back-story almost as appealing as the movie itself. It’s the first effort…
It’s hard not to enjoy a heartwarming movie, such as Dan in Real Life, in which Dan, a cheerless widower…
Starring: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, John Hurt Story by: George Lucas and…
It is a treat to watch a movie made for adults instead of the omnipresent teenage fare. Married Life, with…
Regardless of what you may have heard, I did not travel from San Francisco to London to see Quantum of…
When talking about a movie, usually we refer to the characters by their names in the film, although sometimes we…