Bill Meyer
LATEST ARTICLES BY Bill Meyer
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Prisons and prisoners: Four new films show the punishment never ends
May 3, 2016Prisons are a popular subject for films nowadays, not surprising since more and more people are living behind bars -- 2.4 million in the United States.
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Finding humor in strange places: New films at Tribeca
May 2, 2016Are we preoccupied with determining what's funny, and when and where it's appropriate to laugh?
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New releases: Elvis, Dick, Nina and the King of Saudi Arabia
April 28, 2016Some of the films shown at New York's Tribeca Film Festival are receiving immediate theatrical release. Here's what to check out.
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Tribeca Film Festival in its 15th year of provocative cinema
April 26, 2016Once again the Tribeca Film Festival offers a wide array of thought-provoking cinema.
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Progressive cinema: “Angel of Nanjing”
February 23, 2016The film shows how love for life and people can drive a person in a country of over a billion to exercise compassion for his fellow humans.
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The world as seen in films from Toronto
October 23, 2015The small country of Bangladesh, the poorest nation in Asia, is the location for a couple of interesting films shown at TIFF.
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Latin America at the Toronto International Film Festival
October 22, 2015This film festival is not lacking in films from Latin America, including gems from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.
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Illusion and immersion: Humanity’s grand struggle in new documentaries
October 20, 2015Films can alter, transform and manipulate truth, just in the editing process alone: directors make decisions on what to add, but what's left out is still part of the truth.
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