NYC Film Critic

Unless of course that horse is the famous Secretariat, who won racing’s highest honor–the Triple Crown–in 1973.  Now, the true story behind that colt’s gallop to glory becomes a mediocre feature film in a new Disney-produced drama called simply, Secretariat. Read my review at Film Journal.

Tibet in Song
Directed by Ngawang Choephel
***

The new documentary Tibet in Song begins as a personal travelogue in which director and Tibetan-born musicologist Ngawang Choephel journeys to the country he left as a child in 1968.  At that time, he and his mother fled Tibet in order to escape the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution in China, which had seized control of its neighbor a decade earlier.  In 1995, the now-grown Choephel returns armed with a video camera and a notebook to record examples of the indigenous folk music he heard in his youth and continued to listen to while in exile.

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