Email Author Ernest Hardy

2011 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• Dee Rees, Director of Pariah, Interviewed

  published December 29, 2011

  One of the biggest success stories of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival was writer-director Dee Rees' film Pariah, about 17-year-old... More >>

• Kinyarwanda Review

  published December 1, 2011

  One of the goals of writer-director Alrick Brown's Kinyarwanda, set in the midst of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is to remind us that... More >>

• Dzi Croquettes review

  published November 10, 2011

  There's a wonderful moment in the documentary DZI Croquettes in which footage of half-nude androgynous men dancing up a storm... More >>

• The Big Fix review

  published November 10, 2011

  Josh Tickell, a Louisiana native, had two questions he wanted answered when he set out to make his documentary: What were we not told by the... More >>

• Under Fire: Journalists in Combat review

  published November 10, 2011

  One of the first things explained in director Martyn Burke's documentary Under Fire: Journalists in Combat is that war correspondents... More >>

• An African Election Review

  published November 10, 2011

    “None of the parties are offering a paradigm shift,” says a Ghanaian political analyst on the eve of the... More >>

• Silenced Review

  published November 3, 2011

  Often brutal to watch, director Hwang Dong-Hyuk’s Silenced is based on a news story that shocked Korea in 2005, when it was... More >>

• Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Review

  published October 20, 2011

  "They should have been the band that went way beyond any of us who were influenced by them," says Primus' Les Claypool about groundbreaking... More >>

• Oranges and Sunshine Review

  published October 20, 2011

  Based on the true story of the collusion between British and Australian governments to illegally ship tens of thousands of children from the... More >>

• The Sons of Tennessee Williams Review

  published October 13, 2011

  Not until the final few minutes of Tim Wolff's The Sons of Tennessee Williams does the documentary come to life. As images of... More >>

• Polish Film Festival Preview

  published October 6, 2011

  The specter of World War II and its effects on the Polish psyche hang heavily over this year's Polish Film Festival, with several films set... More >>

• Benda Bilili! Review

  published October 6, 2011

  When French filmmakers and music lovers Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tuyalle landed in the Congo in 2004 with the intention of recording... More >>

• Where Soldiers Come From Review

  published October 6, 2011

  The strength of director Heather Courtney's documentary as it follows a group of young, small-town friends on their journey from aimlessness to... More >>

• Weekend Director Andrew Haigh Interview

  published September 29, 2011

  Andrew Haigh's smart, engaging Weekend is filled with ideas and heart, humor and sadness. Unfolding over the course of a weekend in... More >>

• Finding Joe Review

  published September 29, 2011

  There’s much to savor in director Patrick Takaya Solomon’s documentary Finding Joe, about the life – but mainly the... More >>

• War of the Arrows Review

  published September 29, 2011

  Character development in writer-director Kim Han-Min’s thrilling War of the Arrows (Korea’s third highest grossing film... More >>

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  @URFRENZ Review

  published September 22, 2011

  Writer-director Jeff Phillips’ critique of how social media shapes lives doesn’t have the scope of David Fincher’s Social... More >>

• Docuweeks 2011

  published August 18, 2011

  "I wish I had good news," says the poet Li-Young Lee in the documentary Poetry of Resilience. "You know, to say that... More >>

• Quick Review

  published August 18, 2011

  Motorbike go squeal. Car go crash. Truck go boom! Repeat at maximum volume. Director Jo Bum-gu's loud, frantic yet strangely enervated take on... More >>

• Mozart's Sister Review

  published August 18, 2011

  In heavily outlining the tragedies and injustices that befell the musically gifted older sister of Wolfgang "Amadeus," writer-director... More >>

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  The Harvest Review

  published August 4, 2011

  There's not a wasted frame in U. Roberto Romano's documentary The Harvest, in which he illustrates the real costs of the produce on your... More >>

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  Sunny Review

  published July 28, 2011

  An ode to sisterhood that lasts even when the (non-blood) sisters lose contact for two decades, Sunny (Korean box office champ for the... More >>

• Disco Films at UCLA

  published July 14, 2011

  "It was an incredible piece of unscripted theater," recalls a talking head in the documentary Wrecked for Life: The Trip &... More >>

• OUTFEST 2011: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Preview

  published July 7, 2011

  One of the largest film festivals in Los Angeles, Outfest has always served as not only a place to catch up on queer film from... More >>

• Indiest Indie Film fest in the whole indie land

  published June 2, 2011

  Not a week that goes by that there's not some film festival taking place in Los Angeles, even if it's just in a small storefront somewhere. But as... More >>