Dolly De Leon

2024 Films, Chicago, Film Festivals, Indie Films, Interviews, Now Playing

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This is Our Family: Tara Mallen, Keith Kupferer and Katherine Mallen Kupferer on “Ghostlight”

by Matt Fagerholm

June 10, 2024

When it comes to monumentally euphoric moviegoing experiences in 2024, Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson have set a mightily high bar with their latest crowd-pleaser, “Ghostlight.” Five years after helming

Chicago, Interviews, Sundance, Sundance 40

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Sundance 40: Kelly O’Sullivan hopes you see empathy in her directorial feature debut, “Ghostlight”

by Rebecca Martin

January 31, 2024

O’Sullivan and Thompson gently fold their story together, finding humor and heart at every turn, leading to the kind of ending that somehow inspired the film’s very first audience at Sundance to

2022 Films

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Editor’s Picks: Top 25 Films of 2022

by Rebecca Martin

December 16, 2022

As a movie lover, I can’t help connecting the meaning in my life to what I’m seeing on the screen. Sometimes films expand my meaning, and sometimes they confirm it.