VAFF Night Four: Werner Herzog’s ‘Ghost Elephants’ & Clint Bentley’s ‘Train Dreams’
Night four at the Virginia Film Festival was spent watching two films that showcase men grappling with the unforgiving natural ...
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Academy Award-nominated Sugarcane directors Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat reveal why their doc is a "reverse Western" and how ...
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