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Blog Entries by Dan Lybarger from 09/2012

Jumpstarting the Motor City: Rachel Grady on Detropia

| Posted 09.07.2012
Read More: Film, Bailout, Heidi Ewing, Opera, Rachel Grady, Detropia, Documentary, Non-Fiction, Michigan, Movies, Detroit, News

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady have made documentaries about entire subcultures, but their latest tackles a whole city. Detropia looks unflinchingly at the grim realities of contemporary Detroit, which is where Ewing grew up. The city has changed drastically since then.

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DVD Reviews of Les Vampires and Korczak

| Posted 09.07.2012
Read More: Wojciech Pszoniak, French, Robby Muller, Blu-Ray, Irma Vep, Polish, Agnieszka Holland, Kino-Lorber, Silent Movies, Janusz Korczak, Les Vamipres, Film, Andrzej Wajda, Cinema, Musidora, News

The appeal for silent movies comes not from imagining how a moldy piece of nitrate might have entertained our great grandparents more than staring at a blank wall but in catching a unique type of storytelling that's just about impossible to pull off today.

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Nowhere Near the End: America Ferrera on Cops, Chavez and Getting Out the Vote

| Posted 09.24.2012
Read More: America Ferrera, America Ferrera End of Watch, America Ferrera Voting, America Ferrera Ugly Betty, America Ferrera Election 2012, Video, News

Since her breakthrough role in 2002's Real Women Have Curves, America Ferrera has become a Hollywood leading lady by defying and frequently rewriting the term.

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Seeing Sugar Man: Rodriguez Delivers Slow Cooked Set in Columbia, MO

| Posted 09.24.2012
Read More: Forget It, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, Roots `N Blues `N BBQ, Searching for Sugar Man, Coming From Reality, Like Janis, Documentary, Columbia Missouri, Cold Fact, Ragtag Cinema, News

As a native Jawhawk, it pains me to admit that when it comes to music and film festivals, Columbia rocks.

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