Today on Noontime, it’s Noontime at the Movies, our regular monthly look at films, filmmaking and also the movie industry. Tom’s visitors are our movie-maven regulars, Washington Article movie critic Ann Hornaday and also Maryland Movie Event creator and former director, Jed Dietz.
We discuss the question of whether pandemic-weary filmgoers feel it’s secure to go back to movie theaters. And also we obtain Ann and Jed’s handles a few of the existing cinema, including the re-release of Sankofa, Ethiopian-American filmmaker Haile Gerima‘s 1993 work of art regarding slavery, now streaming on Netflix; My Call Is Pauli Murray, an Amazon-produced documentary film co-directed by Julie Cohen and also Betsy West (RBG) that takes a look at the life and ideas of Pauli Murray (1910-1985), a non-binary Black legal representative, protestor and poet who affected both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall; Nuclear Family, independent director Ry Russo-Young‘s new autobiographical documentary collection now on HBO Max about her same-sex moms and dads and also the unexpected issues they encountered in increasing their household; The Eyes of Tammy Faye, supervisor Michael Showalter‘s remarkable adjustment of the documentary concerning the disgraced televangelist, played by Jessica Chastain; and The Card Counter, writer-director Paul Schrader‘s newest portrait of alienation as well as redemption starring Oscar Isaac, and now showing at The Charles and also location theaters.As always, we
welcome audiences comments and also questions.Ann Hornaday joins us onour electronic line; Jed Dietz is on Zoom.