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About Wilda Williams

Wilda Williams is a freelance writer and editor. She has reviewed for Film-Forward since 2019 and blogs about books, movies, and other cultural matters at willywaldo.tumblr.com.

The Rose Maker

An engaging, if familiar, cinematic bonbon that owes its appeal to Catherine Frot's winning performance and its unusual subject, the rarified world of rose breeding and flower competitions. Oh, for the revival of Odorama!

By |April 1st, 2022|French, Top Picks|0 Comments

Mothering Sunday

A British period drama that subverts the polite conventions of the genre with its frank depiction of sex.

By |March 25th, 2022|Book adaptation, U. K.|0 Comments

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Almost four decades in the making, this affectionate film is an illuminating portrait and a touching story of a friendship that developed between the filmmaker and his subject.

By |November 24th, 2021|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Julia

Don't watch Julia Cohen and Betsy West’s delightful documentary about Julia Child on an empty stomach.

By |November 12th, 2021|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

Becoming Cousteau

To create this immersive visual portrait, two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus drew on almost 550 hours of footage, taken from Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s own, rarely seen films as well as from the Cousteau Society’s archives.

By |October 21st, 2021|Documentary|0 Comments

In Balanchine’s Classroom

A marvelous and moving portrait of an extraordinary master at work and the dancers he influenced so profoundly.

By |September 20th, 2021|Arts|0 Comments

Best Sellers

Can an ambitious young woman find redemption through an elderly, reclusive writer?

By |September 17th, 2021|Comedy|0 Comments

The Capote Tapes

A new documentary retells with a fresh, sparkling style the now familiar sad story of Truman Capote’s rise and fall.

By |September 8th, 2021|Pop Culture, Top Picks|0 Comments

Misha and the Wolves

At the center of this compelling documentary is a World War II survival tale that is almost too astonishing to be believable.

By |August 11th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Holocaust|0 Comments