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Our Backstreets #7: A Message for Nancy
By Marilyn Ferdinand I got word a few weeks ago that cancer had struck my counselor Nancy. She said she was giving up her practice to concentrate on fighting her illness and hoped to come back to the...
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4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile, 2007)
Director: Cristian Mungiu 2007 Chicago International Film Festival By Marilyn Ferdinand Fourteen hours after the end of 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, and I’m still stunned. This urgent Romanian film,...
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CIFF 2010: Ten Winters (Dieci Invierni, 2009)
Director/Coscreenwriter: Valerio Mieli 2010 Chicago International Film Festival By Marilyn Ferdinand If you’re a fan of the TV series Bones, Ten Winters is going to seem teasingly familiar. In Bones, a...
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Another Year (2010)
Director/Screenwriter: Mike Leigh By Marilyn Ferdinand My mom was born in 1926 on the Near West Side of Chicago. She went to grade school and high school in Chicago, and moved to the Near North suburbs...
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Bricktown (2008)
Director/Screenwriter: Michael Kelber 2008 Big Island Film Festival By Marilyn Ferdinand It is fitting Michael Kelber’s first outing as a feature director was the opening feature of the Big Island Film...
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Nothing in Return (A Cambio de Nada, 2015)
Director/Screenwriter: Daniel Guzmán 2016 European Union Film Festival By Marilyn Ferdinand If you liked The 400 Blows (1959), then I have a feeling you’re really going to want to catch Nothing in...
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