FOREVER Heddy Honigmann's 'expressions of lasting love'

What a romantic title, an eye catching approach to a delicate subject, a cemetery in Paris.

I went to Paris, to the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. After looking for housing I stepped inside its gates because I was in the vicinity. I thought an hour or so and I would be back on the streets looking for a place to stay.

But cemeteries, even Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn New York were not designed for only the no longer living in this world. They were formerly Parks, places to bring your picnic basket and partake of a family Sunday afternoon meal.

Perre Lachaise kept my interest for the entire day and to see this experience duplicated/preserved through the eyes of a master documentary maker is a rare and precious experience.

This film captures both the emotional moments of those who join in the celebration of life past and those who cherish the quiet world sans cars, where maps to find particular sites are a requisite in this beautiful, emotionally gripping retreat.

I have not been back to Paris in years and years but the sculptural creations in celebrated remembrance of each Nazi Concentration camp lingers in my mind, revisited in memory because they are what the best of Art is all about. To take what is and elevate it to a new configuration, a new memory stacked one upon the other.

That is the genius of Heddy Honigmann. She knows how to take a place, a moment, draw upon her ability to capture the essence as she sees it and create a work of Art with layer upon layer of meaning. The impact is as riveting as the Cemetery itself.

A necessary addition to our human experience.

Forever.

Grave sites of Note:

Jim Morrison
Oscar Wilde
Frederic Chopin
Marcel Proust
Maria Callas
, Guillaume Apollinaire,
Amadeo Modigliani,
Jean-Auguste Ingres,
Georges Méliès,
Yves Montand
Simone Signoret

And
their music,
their art,
their written words
preserved!

APRIL 21st
HOME-VIDEO RELEASE FROM ICARUS FILMS (DVD)


LindaZises
WBAI Women Collective

Cookies & Cream

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Linda

Thank you for a very well written, thought out, and honest review. It is refreshing to see the female point of view on a film like this, and its because you have managed to find the intricate details of the character and the story, where sometimes male critics or reviewers missed it. Its refreshing. Thank you sincerely, for your interest. We will make sure to blog about it at our site, and let the world know about it and your writing. If there are any more films in our catalog that may be suitable to your tastes and sensibilities, we will definitely not hesitate to contact you.

Sincerely,

Princeton
www.onewaytv.blogspot.com

Cookies & Cream: Sex industry with a human twist

Written and Directed by Princeton Holt

Cookies and Cream: Another way of life, other options, other ways of finding independence, financial security and a home life.

Maybe not the American dream home life but a life where shopping is not a financial drain and care of one's body is an art, not an option.

Being a sex worker in America is not quarented work on the fast track to success. But Cookies&Cream and Candy too(Carmen's very young daughter) is a tale where Carmen a young woman, headed for pre-law classes at a local New York, maybe Brooklyn high school, is intercepted by three men on the hunt for another victim, another young woman ripe for the picking.

Camen (Jace Nicole) is their new recruit, their fish plucked out of the mainstream of American life headed for the underground sex world, a successful woman hungered by men(and enjoyed by women) world wide.

A fighter in the real world, Carmen's promoters don't ask her height, her weight, her age. They want to know her roots, her ethnic origin but what does this answer mean? If she said, American Black, Puerto Rican, French, Africans what difference does this label make? "I'm all mixed up", she confesses.

Her parents made no sense to me and her daughter, Candy, was so sad. There is a constant theme of don't cry, don't feel what you really feel. Be false to yourself, be strong, cruel in the moment of potential tenderness.

Love is so thin, so tender that when Carmen walks away from an attempt at honest integrity with a man who seems to like her, not for her body alone but for her personality, her strength of mind and feeling, there is a moment when even I wanted to yell at the screen, cry , cry, cry for us all.

For inquiring minds, for people who might not want to go up on the Web to play voyeur to scenes from the money minded people who proliferate handsomely in the underworld of sex, this film will open your eyes and mind to what it is to be successful in the sex industry. What it means to fail can only be far worse.

This human tragedy unfolds with great acting and musical scores of serious excellence.

We need more films like Cookies & Cream.

One Way or Another Productions

WWW.Cookiesncreammovie.com
A web sight well worth viewing.

LindaZises
WBAI Women Collective

State of Play (2009): An Horror Film

without the traditional horror of bizarre distorted images.

State of Play is a 'twist and turn' thriller about a rising U. S. congressman and an hippy type investigative journalist embroiled in a case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. The saga is sprinkled generously with political ideas and Google rich images that identify it as a film designed to make money but to do it with style, with an intent to entertain and to speak to its audience with hopes of a huge largess.

Starring: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman, Helen Mirren, Jeff Daniels, Josh Mostel, Michael Weston, Barry Shabaka Henley, Viola Davis

Screenwriter: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Billy Ray

There are films that seem bigger than life. As they unfold the bigger than life images, the sound, the strength of the music and voices and the extraordinary acting seem to rise to a level that is new, different and so engaging the entire real world disappears in the viewing moments. The creation of another fantasy Universe takes over and we forget where we are or why.

This out of life/self experience is even more true for State of Play because we are allowed to see people(actors) who have faces we can recognize and bodies! It isn't just a film with a huge number of heads talking without benefit of shoulders, torso or extremities of note.

As the story unfolds with all the twists and turns of a good tale, there are moments worth laughing at and moments when the horror of today's world is on the enlarged screen and we can't escape even though we may want to. This is a film of today, in content, in the production and expertise of creation It is a film that forces us to examine our own personal prejudices.

From the opening scene we would think, although we may not want to, that this is another black drug addict victim crime with all the preconceived notions that are so very familiar to us all. There is a list of credits and then the film starts and we see how wrong, how painfully wrong we are. This is a film that brings out not the petty black male drug pusher but the white male criminal of today, the white collar "powerful" who know only the moment of their potential self worth, without the ability to cherish those who love, those who understand that we are a people united by the quality of our connection to one another, our ability to procreate with love, not by the size of our net worth.

Once seen the film promises to remain in clear focus for years to come

Opens Friday in theaters everywhere

LindaZises
WBAI Women Collective