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Classic Cinema: Chocolat

Chocolat (2000) is a story about Vianne and her young daughter Anouk, who come to a small town in France in 1959 and shake up the moral code set by the Comte de Reynaud. It is the beginning of Lent and Vianne played by Julliette Binoche wants to open a chocolate shop. The Comte, playedContinue reading “Classic Cinema: Chocolat”

Dancing Through the Shadow: A Close-up of China During Mao’s Reign

Leif Bristow is an Emmy winning producer, director, screenwriter, and bestselling author who has spent decades bringing unforgettable stories to life for audiences around the world. But Dancing Through the Shadow is far more than just another project. It is a story that found him personally. The inspiration came through Tia Zhang, an internationally celebratedContinue reading “Dancing Through the Shadow: A Close-up of China During Mao’s Reign”

Classic Cinema: The Big Country

The Big Country uses a few of the Western Tropes, like a damsel in distress, the fish out of water, the expected showdown, but they are turned on their head. We have a character, Jim McKay played by Gregory Peck, who is the fish out of water character, however, he is the catalyst for aContinue reading “Classic Cinema: The Big Country”

The Writer’s Job: Get the Reader to Think, Feel, and See the World in a New Way

Ken Weene loves words. At times he is so captivated by them that they cannot hold the flow back and they tumble out as novels, short stories, poems, essays, and stage plays. Although Ken desperately tries to hold back those word floods and endlessly edit them, they find their ways into print and electronic form,Continue reading “The Writer’s Job: Get the Reader to Think, Feel, and See the World in a New Way”

Classic Cinema With the Sage Sisters: Legally Blonde

“Be curious, not judgmental.” ~ Walt Whitman Legally Blonde (2001) is a seemingly fluffy movie about Elle Woods a Fashion Marketing major, who expects her longtime boyfriend, Warner, to ask her to marry him just as they are about to graduate. She’s the president of her sorority and extremely popular with her friends. They areContinue reading “Classic Cinema With the Sage Sisters: Legally Blonde”