![]() ‘Earth Mama’ Review: A Single Mother Fights for Her Life in a Sublime A24 Drama That Defies All Cliches Previous Golden Gate Award winners include Panah Panahi, Reid Davenport, Nadav Lapid, Marlon Riggs, Céline Sciamma, Jia Zhang-ke, Stanley Nelson, and Tasha Van Zandt. The awards are also notable as a qualifier for films under 40 minutes for the Oscars. The prize winners range from narrative features to documentaries and shorts. IndieWire shares the full list of Golden Gate Award winners out of SFFILM, now in its 66th year and which ran from April 12 through 23, below. “ Earth Mama” is notably a Bay Area-grown production, with former Olympian athlete turned filmmaker Leaf casting non-professional actors for the feature. After successful premieres at both Sundance and New Directors/New Films, the drama about a young Black mother’s fight to wrest her kids from the foster care system just won the Audience Award at SFFILM, also known as the San Francisco International Film Festival. ![]() ![]() Savanah Leaf’s feature debut “Earth Mama” is starting to look like an early awards season prospect for distributor A24. ![]()
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![]() Like many of their wishes, they made this come true, and now they knit practically every day. As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list, they both learn that wishes can come true.but not necessarily in the way you expect!Īnne Marie and Ellen both wanted to learn to knit. It's a relationship that becomes far more involving-and far more important-than Anne Marie had ever imagined. When Anne Marie volunteers at a local school, a little girl named Ellen enters her life. With several of her friends, she makes a list of twenty wishes: things she always wanted to do but never did. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, she struggles to find happiness. ![]() Treat yourself this Christmas by staying in with this holiday read!Īt thirty-eight, Anne Marie Roche is childless, a recent widow, alone. ![]() ![]() The stilted narration, provided by the "edgy" Maximum Ride, perhaps one of the most grating heroines in YA literature, is weakened by attempts to provide three-dimensionality to her character through her thoughtful analyses of those around her. 422 pages for what could have been a novella, nay, an essay. These characters (each bequeathed with atrocious names that are supposed to be hip - Maximum, Nudge, Iggy, the Gasman, Fang, and Angel) spend 422 pages being chased by "Erasers" while trying to discover the secret of the School, the institution responsible for their mutations. ![]() Maximum Ride follows the adventures of six children, each of whom is the product of a genetic experiment: they are 98% human, 2% bird. It is merely a cash cow, another mindless series designed to appeal to reluctant readers. This is not a book of striking prose or even serviceable but entertaining MOR lit. ![]() Written with all the wit and grace of a one-legged puppy, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment reveals its intentions within the first chapter alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Returning from university, Clay realises that there is no longer a place he can call home – he is adrift in a world of experience, without roots or refuge. This is an indictment of a world where the individual rules and where all are not equal. ![]() For the privileged, everything comes down to consumption food, music, sex, other humans' lives, all are simply fodder for experience, and yet not authentic experience. These young characters represent the hollow reality behind the American dream that was packaged and sent around the world as the standard to aspire to they stand as a warning against ruthless consumerism and mindless aspiration. Surrounded by vacant, beautiful youth with an abundance of cash and no direction, Clay is both part of this set and outside of it, observing the banality and casual destructiveness of the world around him. Clay spends his days jumping from tense family events and the numbing influence of MTV to drug-induced hazes and casual sex with interchangeable partners. In it he documents the life of eighteen-year-old Clay as he spends the winter holidays with his family, back from his prestigious college in New England. ![]() Less than Zero (1985) is Bret Easton Ellis's first novel. ![]() ![]() ― George Eliot, quote from Daniel DerondaīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy dark as a buried Babylon.” Knowledge, instructing the sense, refining and multiplying needs, transforms itself into skill and makes life various with a new six days’ work comes Ignorance drunk on the seventh, with a firkin of oil and a match and an easy “Let there not be,” and the many-coloured creation is shriveled up in blackness. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it Ignorance, wanting its day’s dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavor to its one roast with the burned souls of many generations. “It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power but who hath duly Considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. ![]() ![]() T he only reason her sister Tabitha learned about her magical skills and place in magical society was that a teacher in elementary school happened to see her d o magic and happened to be a mage.Īs a twin, Ivy grew up feeling uniquely apart from her sister, who seemed to b e the golden child. Ivy Gamble lives in a world where mages exist, but the knowledge is passed around like an open secret. Instead, Gailey builds a world populated with diverse and realistic adult and teen characters and shows us its magic through the perspective of a pansexual private investigator. īut it doesn’t center on a grumpy male teenager’s point of view. ![]() It’s a book that will appeal to fans of Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians” series because it shares its real world versus w orld of magic setting and respect for the dangerous consequences of magic gone wrong. ![]() If you, like me, are a fan of magical worlds grounded in contemporary life, “Magic for Liars” should be on your to-read list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Brother Cadfael, move over and make room for Magdalene. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Sure that she is involved in the messenger's death right up to her beautiful eyebrows but unable to believe she's a killer, Bellamy must find out how and why Baldassare died-or watch the mysterious Magdalene meet her fate on the gallows. Bellamy is instantly captivated by his chief suspect but is also convinced that she is hiding something. The bishop of Winchester, who was served for many years by Baldassare, orders Bellamy, his most trusted knight, to investigate the murder and tells him that Magdalene has been accused of the crime. Into this sea of intrigue steps the handsome Sir Bellamy of Itchen. Chances are if they don't find the killer, they will be assumed guilty because they are whores, and they will be gutted and hanged. ![]() Of course, their efforts aren't completely altruistic. ![]() Though Baldassare wasn't a regular client of the Old Priory Guesthouse, Magdalene and her women refuse to allow his death to go unavenged. She and her women are expected to engage in a number of sinful delights, but bloody murder isn't one of them-until Baldassare, the messenger, dies. Magdalene la Bâtarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. Roberta Gellis, acclaimed author of The Roselynde Chronicles, brings medieval London to life-and death-with her latest tale of splendor and squalor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of multiple awards, including the Hugo and the Nebula, American Gods is Neil Gaiman’s sweeping exploration of story, myth and the shifting nature of belief itself. ‘Original, engrossing, and endlessly inventive, a picaresque journey across America where the travelers are even stranger than the roadside attractions’ After accepting a job as Wednesday’s bodyguard and driver, Shadow finds himself on a road trip across the haunted landscape of America and, along with his shady boss, is soon embroiled in a conflict that could destroy them all: a war between the old gods and the new. Aimless and in shock, he meets Mr Wednesday, a hustler and con man with a number of peculiar friends. ![]() ![]() Just before his release from prison, Shadow learns that his wife has been killed in a car accident. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end’ And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author imbues his work with a keen eye for cynical humor, and the quirks of Roman culture are paraded with dripping poignancy. His prose mercifully reads like a novel more than a historical lecture. Tom Holland manages to give a fresh new spin on a very old subject. Rubicon concludes with the peaceful death of Augustus after decades of turbulence. ![]() The book then surveys in turn the usual events: The Grachhi Brothers Marius and Sulla and the Mithradates War Cicero and Crassus, Pompei and Caesar, Antony and Octavian. We are then treated to the prophecies of the Sibyl and a looming threat of unrest through the Roman world. The first major event described is the Social War between Rome and its Italian client states. We are then treated to a general survey of the Roman Republic and its mores. The book begins with a short prologue of Julius Caesar's famous hesitation before the now infamous river. It traces the events and characters that sealed the fate of the five hundred year old Republican government. Rubicon surveys the dying decades of the Roman Republic, from the great civil war with Rome's Italian allies to the reign of August Caesar. ![]() ![]() ![]() The picture of the family house below was taken much later (2010), but even in 1968, when I first saw it, it was beautiful wooden building in the traditional Malay style of the area, where the tangga (steps) are a speciality, and the best side of the curtains always faced outwards… It had running water and an indoor toilet, and (usually) electricity. When I saw it for the first time, a coconut tree had fallen across the village power lines, so we arrived in the pitch dark in the kampung (village). We’d landed in KL at night, and were taken by car to the family home in Melaka (Malacca) where my husband had grown up. (Title Pinched from another writer, of course)īack in 1970 my husband took me to my in-laws’ house. ![]() |