With a deep pool of interview subjects, and a strong sense of right and wrong, Upstairs Inferno does more in 90 minutes to elicit empathy for a community of people than the city of New Orleans did in 40 years. It's astonishing, quite frankly, the level of ignorance and vitriol that came from city and church officials in the wake of the worst gay mass murder in U.S. history. In NOLA, of all places. On the edge of the French Quarter. Amazing how lifestyles are "accepted" until they have to be publicly "acknowledged". Replace lifestyles with humans in that sentence - that's an additional tragedy.
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Movie Review: "Upstairs Inferno"
With a deep pool of interview subjects, and a strong sense of right and wrong, Upstairs Inferno does more in 90 minutes to elicit empathy for a community of people than the city of New Orleans did in 40 years. It's astonishing, quite frankly, the level of ignorance and vitriol that came from city and church officials in the wake of the worst gay mass murder in U.S. history. In NOLA, of all places. On the edge of the French Quarter. Amazing how lifestyles are "accepted" until they have to be publicly "acknowledged". Replace lifestyles with humans in that sentence - that's an additional tragedy.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
#cineNOLA Weekly - Episode 2
On this, the second episode of #cineNOLA Weekly, I rundown some more film screenings and review one of the few movies to get New Orleans right, Flakes. The editorial segment will return next week.
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