The Radio Literacy Project's visual media committee, the HumanitiesFilm Forum, seeks to post commentary, encourage the diversity of, and publicly show films, videos, and photo essays.
From amateur to obscure to large company, the films and their sources are treated with equality, on their merits. On a lesser note, the Humanities Film Forum web pages may announce member films, amateur or not.
The Humanities Film Forum solicits no fees. Please contact
Prof. Alex Klystron.
Committee address: Humanities Film Forum RLP
P.O.Box 23 Hamden, NY 13782 USA
176 A Piece of the Action (note: both 175 and 176 are Star Trek episodes)
177. Mulholland Falls
178. Fort Apache the Bronx
179. The Chamber
180. Jakob the Liar
181. Dark Star
182. The Manhattan Project
183. American Hot Wax
184. The Untouchables(note: include both the CIA harrassed b/w TV series and the movie)
A russian adoptee, 10 year old Devon is armed with a thirst for mischief and her beloved 10 inch open heart surgery scar. When her parental type cast of a neighborhood darling little girl trounces her chances of local happiness, Devon slips out of the walls of Camelot Gardens, and she forms a wonderful little sister friendship with Trent, a wary post teen hillbilly. Trent's continuing need to scratch a lawncare existence, from the local gated community sprawl, brings an ever growing level of antagonism against him, and scrutiny on his friendship with Devon. When Devon and Trent chance apon a resident attack dog, that bit him, Trent kills it. Devon, unknown of the bite incident, unfriends Trent and alarms both her father and the owner. Dad, owner, and the nasty security guard set on the trail of a southern lynching, but Devon comes to her senses and grabs on their ride to Trent's squat. The death clubbing is interrupted when Devon pulls out her dad's Colt and fires a hole in the dog owner's gut. Wounded Trent is outfitted with Devon's russian magic ploys, and escapes. Devon releases the attackers, and climbs a red ribboned tree, to invoke the magic. The soundtrack is clever, and both sarcastic and ominous in the plot. Lawn Dogs resembles the obscure banned "They Don't Let Children Do What They Want Anyhow", HFF film 29, but
with a child triumphing over evil adults, and it's both terrifying and gratifying, when Trent's carried magic, transforms a Kentucky riverbead, into a flooding maelstrom. Lawn Dogs is about gentrification, population displacement, wealthy malice, and blaming. The audience is lead in the same type "throw away people", u-turn, here (Trent Barnes), as it is in HFF film 7 Planes Trains and Automobiles (Dell Griffith), when Devon's uphill struggle for a picked friend is repaid. All Lawn Dogs players had wonderful convincing roles. Devon Stockwell's toss salad accent and everyone else's Kentucky patters, are fascinating. The film featured original glass on steel string scoring, and plenty of high gain natural sounds quiet scenes. 10 stars.
