Author Archives for Denah A. Johnston

Interview with Animator, Director, and Performance Artist Nancy Andrews

January 26, 2017 8:59 pm Published by Denah A. Johnston Comments Off

By Denah Johnson Copy Editing and Posting by Sabrina Hirsch Nancy, thank you so much for talking with me. While... View Article

Review of Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns

August 12, 2015 2:02 pm Published by Denah A. Johnston Comments Off

By Denah Johnston Developmental Editing by Alexandra Hidalgo Copy Editing and Posting by Katie Grimes Review of I Believe in Unicorns... View Article

Interview with Leah Meyerhoff, Writer and Director of I Believe in Unicorns

August 9, 2015 11:07 pm Published by Denah A. Johnston Comments Off

Interview by Denah Johnston Copy Editing and Posting by Katie Grimes Could you sharesome of the similarities and/or differences between... View Article

Review of Ruth Novaczek’s The New World

June 22, 2014 8:33 pm Published by Denah A. Johnston Comments Off

Review by Denah A. Johnston Developmental Editing by Alexandra Hidalgo Copy Editing, and Posting by Denah A. Johnston The New World (2013).... View Article

Review of Sini Anderson’s The Punk Singer

December 17, 2013 3:10 pm Published by Denah A. Johnston Comments Off

Sini Anderson’s documentary The Punk Singer is many things. It has been unfairly criticized for being a glowing highlight reel of Kathleen Hanna’s artistic, feminist, activist, and musical projects bordering on hagiography, and for not focusing enough on the larger movement of feminism or Riot Grrrl. In my view, those misguided criticisms miss the fact that the film, at once fierce and delicate, delivers feminism through a punk rock lens via the life and music of Kathleen Hanna.

Review of Sally Potter’s Ginger and Rosa

October 9, 2013 8:00 am Published by Denah A. Johnston Comments Off

Ginger and Rosa begins quietly, focused on a grainy, color-saturated image of the most horrifying thing in the world: an atom bomb exploding. Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) are born on the day the bomb drops on Hiroshima in 1945, their lives forever entwined in a frenzy of discovery for better or for worse.

Lynne Ramsay: Outsider Auteur

January 21, 2013 9:59 pm Published by Denah A. Johnston Comments Off

Our own Experimental and Fringe Film Editor Denah A. Johnston revisits the films of 'Outsider Auteur' Lynne Ramsay with a focus on We Need to Talk about Kevin. Johnston locates in Ramsay's work a continuity of themes and aesthetics, with respect to bold cinematic image-making practices and soundscapes.