Directed by Lance Hammer “Filmmakers are from a privileged class and tend to make films about themselves. That’s decadent and in my opinion worthless.” - Lance Hammer Ballast concerns three people tied together by one man's suicide. They live in the Mississippi Delta, but the environment feels much more out of this world than that. Hammer … Continue reading Ballast (2008)
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Life Itself (2014)
Directed by Steve James Life Itself chronicles the career and life of famed film critic Roger Ebert. The documentary is directed by Steve James who made the four year odyssey of Hoop Dreams, another Chicago-set story and a film which Ebert himself was very fond of. The documentary begins by acknowledging Ebert's recent passing, but then … Continue reading Life Itself (2014)
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