[my comments assume that you’ve already read the AFF description that I link to in each movie title]
My Mexican Shiva — I was running a tight schedule on Sunday and this would have fit if they had started the screening anything close to on time. I bailed when it was 15 minutes after start time and they hadn’t even let us into the theater yet. I was really only going to see this on the pedigree of Sayles and Renzi. Instead I went to go see a couple laps of the last stage of the Tour de Georgia zipping through the streets of Midtown. Got a sunburn. Killer Of Sheep — booked into the festival as a “classic”, and wow it sure qualifies. I’ll admit I’d never heard of it, but it’s deserving of it all. A loose narrative view into the lives of poor and lower middle-class blacks trying to claw their way out of the LA ghetto in the 70’s.
Sacred Sights Of The Dalai Lamas — someday the Chinese will loosen their stranglehold on Tibet a little bit and allow a real film crew to go in and document all these sights, but in the meantime this is about as good as it gets. Notwithstanding the shaky handheld shots, a beautiful introduction to the temples of Tibet and Buddhist practice itself.
Salud! — Cuba trains doctors and send them to needy developing nations (Gambia, South Africa, Honduras) and makes the U.S. look like chumps in the process. Our health care system is so hopelessly screwed up. But it’s nothing that Congress can’t fix, right?
Taxidermia — screening cancelled. Any email alert to IMAGE members? Nope!