Katha Cato – FilmFest Salon

Queens World Film Festival 2017: Preview

By filmfestsalonMarch 6, 2017Film Review BlogActor's Green Room, Aleksandar Kostic, Bryan Fitzgerald, Campbell Scott, Charlton Heston, Chinatown, Claude Debussey, David McElfresh, Don Cato, Don Downie, Dorothy Marcic, Gucci, Heather Taylor, Joseph Cornell, Katha Cato, Kathleen McElfresh, Laura Dowling Shea, Nelson Kim, Queens World Film Festival, Robert Altman, Roman Polanski, The Godfather, Valery Lessard

There was a press reception for the upcoming Queens World Film Festival on February 14th, and I got a chance to meet some of the artists from this year’s films. It was almost too much to take in. The festival has become larger, with more films from more countries than ever before. And, from at […]

Film: “The Salesman” and 2016 Wrap-up

By filmfestsalonFebruary 4, 2017Film Review BlogArthur Miller, Asghar Farhadi, Be My Oswald, Don Cato, Katha Cato, Maren Ade, oscars, Park Chan-wook, Peter Simonischeck, Sandra Huller, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, The Handmaiden, The Salesman, Toni Erdmann

One of the five Best Foreign Film Oscar nominees, “The Salesman” is the latest film from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won the best foreign film oscar in 2011 for “A Separation”. After having seen both films, I find Farhadi to be an exceptionally talented artist. He appears to be serving a personal vision that […]