Bill Meyer
LATEST ARTICLES BY Bill Meyer
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Culture
Elián, son of Cuba, among history’s most famous 5-year-olds
May 30, 2017Gonzalez became “a boy caught between two worlds.”
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Culture
Watching the cops
May 15, 2017In this film, the lens is aimed at the filmmakers themselves who captured the violent acts by police.
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Arts
Tribeca Film Festival ramps up the activism
May 11, 2017A growing number of activist films are being made, and Tribeca chose to feature many of them because of the contentious times of the recent presidential campaign.
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Culture
Masterful “Neruda” film opens on December 16
December 15, 2016“We invented a world, just as Neruda invented his. The film we made is more a ‘Nerudian’ film than it is a film about Neruda, or perhaps it’s both.”
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Culture
Journeying in films, from Nigeria to North Korea
November 17, 2016When you have over 80 countries represented in a major film festival screening about 400 films, it’s not hard to find great cinema.
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Culture
Sports and politics on the big screens of Gaza/Israel
November 1, 2016In a land of constant war and violence, it’s hard to believe there are people who will do anything to ride a board in the ocean.
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Culture
New film gives us Neruda, Chile’s communist poet
October 14, 2016Neruda is a multi-layered creative “anti-biopic” shunning all conventions while raising the bar for experimental storytelling.
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Culture
Teen terrorists at Toronto film festival
October 7, 2016We're living in times that are challenging for young people who are trying to be free and idealistic, but are fed up with war, greed, etc.
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