For Afghan women, moving forward in a country that is moving backward is extraordinarily difficult. Sarah Menzies documents their pursuit of freedom and independence from the seats of their bicycles. Sarah Menzies paulrisker bit.ly/2JySM55

There are movies that you watch and movies that you experience. American Animals asks viewers to be present and believe what they see, as Bart Layton pulls back the curtain on how stories are fictionalised and misremembered. paulrisker Music Box Theatre bit.ly/2LCmIup

"Journey's End Film was doing something quite revolutionary, certainly for the time the play was written by looking at the psychological impact of war" - director Saul Dibb. Read the exclusive interview with PopMatters here: bit.ly/2JEzues

JOURNEY'S END by immortalising R.C Sherriff's first hand account of his WWI experience yields the value of art to our culture. My interview with director Saul Dibb published by PopMatters: bit.ly/2JEzues

"The concept that documentary is truth to us is ridiculous" says one half of the Mansfield 66/67 directing partnership P. David Ebersole. My interview with @EbersoleHughes published by the super-duper PopMatters: bit.ly/2wur0kA On DVD & On-Demand June 25th @peccapics

Thanks for the kind words my friend and for giving a mention to these conversations that hopefully bring something of value to the discussion of freedom of expression. x.com/steliosavante/…

Not sure if @DebOnTheArts would describe getting lost in thought as going down the rabbit hole? Regardless read her interview with David Sedaris for PopMatters here: ow.ly/bphY30kpu7U & her review of his newest essay collection CALYPSO: bit.ly/2kO4D0Q Little, Brown and Co

If one side is making fun of Trump & the other is not, can we not use this to divide those with the faculty for common sense & those lacking. Also is humour not used as a coping mechanism for the sad & undesirable aspects of life? And Trump is a contemporary tragedy! x.com/karenzarker/st…

Chris Barsanti's educated review of Paul Schrader's First Reformed leads me to question whether there is a tendency for the modern critic to watch & have an opinion on as many films as possible, that one's filmic education is continually compromised? bit.ly/2svTYfI

Genre cinema is said to capture a snapshot of the social anxieties of any given decade, and this Protest Songs feature shows the importance of music in helping us to understand our cultural and social history. This is inspiring stuff that has a genuine power to educate. x.com/karenzarker/st…

"You want to make a philosophically bent film in black and white, a junkie vampire movie, and remember, this was the 90s in America." Director Abel Ferrara reflects on the 'miracle' that was THE ADDICTION with FrightFest: frightfest.co.uk/Goreinthestore…

The old adage: "Ignorance is bliss." Yet as painful as it is to pay attention to what's going on, to develop that all important sense of awareness as well as self-awareness, to and to challenge in order to think for oneself, the pain remains preferential to ignorance. x.com/karenzarker/st…

"...the end game is that we'd rather people just think: I want to see it because it's a Moorhead & Benson film" Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson discuss with FrightFest their new film #TheEndless amidst audience expectations, film authorship & aspiration frightfest.co.uk/Goreinthestore…

I always think recalling these kinds of moments are like reconnecting with the simple pleasures of storytelling. Whilst storytelling can be embraced on an intellectual level, we should never forget its innocence to just evoke a sense of joy/pleasure. x.com/ian_boucher/st…

"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie" - Godard. Cinema has moved me throughout my years by way of "action & empathy", and to not have felt about a film is surely missing out on a precious life experience?! x.com/popmatters/sta…

Dreams tell stories, but movies are so much more than just dreams. Enjoy this Dir. Lisa Brühlmann #interview re: her coming-of-age feature debut, BLUE MY MIND, screening at Fantasia International Film Festival, with paulrisker popm.at/2Lc0bYT

The Fantasia International Film Festival audience should prepare themselves for moral & didactic restraint with Lisa Brühlmann's coming-of-age feature debut, BLUE MY MIND. Cinema driven by a desire to emotionally connect with an audience; not preach. Read PopMatters' interview: popm.at/2Lc0bYT

Sympathy over God-like judgement - how necessary it is for an author of a story to seperate creating & listening to the story & characters from judgement. Whilst Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street didn't necessarily sympathise, the lack of judgement drew criticism. And wrongly so!

"...THERE IS A FUTURE STILL TO FIGHT FOR, BUT THERE IS A HELL OF A LOSS TO MOURN" - Ivan Sen, Read his exclusive interview for Goldstone with PopMatters: bit.ly/2xFwExT

Like Ice to Water: paulrisker #Interviews THE SONG OF SWAY LAKE [The Song of Sway Lake] director, Ari Gold: popm.at/2Q6YKtz