Thursday, June 26 2008
Oh Don’t You Cry for Me by Philip Shirley
In the sweltering heat of America's South, Philip Shirley conjures up a surprisingly insightful group of characters that are at once disturbed, complex, and woefully hopeful.
Friday, April 11 2008
State of Grace: How Buddhist Teachings Transformed a Maximum Security Prison in Alabama
In her new documentary, Jenny Phillips frames the daily, shackled grind of prisoners' lives with social injustices, but also investigates what it is like to be a prisoner doing hard time in the South choosing to practice guided Buddhist meditation techniques.
Friday, March 7 2008
In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton
This is a different story of the blues; it is the story of those people (primarily white men and women) who were in search of something that they believed the blues or some other form of secular and "primitive" African-American music communicated in an undiluted manner.
