Eli Denson Noni Ford speaks with composer and Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner Eli Denson about his new score for the Gloria Swanson classic Queen Kelly, his advice for aspiring composers, and more. I had an opportunity to talk over Zoom with Eli Denson, the winner of the Jon Vickers Scoring Award who wrote a full… Read more »
Vin Diesel in The Fast and the Furious Noni Ford recounts her journey with one of the wildest series in cinematic history. I watched the first movie in the Fast and Furious franchise when I was eight. I don’t remember anyone else my age talking about the movie, but in my household, it was heavily… Read more »
Poster for I Saw the TV Glow Noni Ford reviews the iconoclastic coming-of-age film and its exploration of gender identity, loneliness, and the attachments we form with media like television. It’s insanely hard to write a review of I Saw the TV Glow that has no spoilers. Then again, maybe it isn’t since there are… Read more »
Tim Burton and Michael Keaton on the set of Batman Noni Ford dances with the devil in the pale moonlight as she reviews the portrayal of Batman and the Joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 classic. The year is 1989 and Tim Burton has come out with his version of the caped crusader Batman. This is… Read more »
The Virgin Suicides Noni Ford examines how both the Jeffrey Eugenides novel The Virgin Suicides and Sofia Coppola’s adaptation portray the disconnect between the male narrators and the sisters at the center of the story. “We saw the light in her eyes we have been looking for ever since.”— The narrators, The Virgin Suicides by… Read more »
Ahead of this month’s AAPI Movement Short Film Festival, Noni Ford speaks with one of the organizers of the event, Katelyn Wo, about how they chose their line-up, the importance and diversity of Asian representation, and more. One of the Creative Collaborations partners running a program this April is the Asian Culture Center. They will… Read more »