D. Khayyam

Movies tell the truth at Michael Moore’s film festival

August 9, 2011 By Bill Meyer

The film fest in Traverse City, Mich., created an enormously popular event that featured the best in progressive cinema, both challenging and entertaining.

“Ghostwriter” reveals heinous crimes

March 15, 2010

According to reviewer Jim Lane, Roman Polanski does it again with "The Ghostwriter."

Filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, lifelong radical

June 22, 2007 By Dennis Laumann

His films tackled the most contentious issues in Africa, frequently provoking the indignation of the ruling class of both his home country and its former colonizer.