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Film Reviews, One From The Vaults, Writings

Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth: Film, Fonda, Faux Fellinis

August 4, 2021July 18, 2023 Mary Bowen

This review is “One From The Vaults,” and it first appeared on my writer’s portfolio site in February 2016– I have long since ceased blogging on that platform so I decided it would be apropos to give it new life here. The screening of Youth

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With Dad Cover Image with Film Award credits

Documentary, Film Reviews, Short Film, Writings

Søren Sørensen’s Documentary WITH DAD is a Moving Exercise in Less-is-More Filmmaking

June 5, 2021July 18, 2023 Mary Bowen

Clocking in just shy of 30 minutes, Søren Sørensen’s short documentary film With Dad is a spare, tightly-focused chronicle of photographer Stephen DiRado’s quest to capture his father Gene’s final years as the elder DiRado succumbs to Alzheimer’s disease. Based on DiRado’s book of the

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