Christine Autrand Mitchell

Mar 2016 12

Touched with Fire: Movie Review

2016 Articles, Christine Autrand Mitchell

by Christine F. Anderson

Touched with Fire: Not your conventional love story.
Carla (Katie Holmes) is a bipolar poet who struggles to remember what she was like before she got sick. Marco (Luke Kirby) is also a bipolar poet, off his meds, who walks around New York City obsessively drawing chalk images of the moon as he talks endlessly about the Apocalypse. When the two find themselves checked into the same mental institution, the stars align and a romance is formed, the attraction being the similarities of their respective psychoses.

May 2014 10

Finding Yourself – in Film

2014 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Christine Autrand Mitchell

by Christine Autrand Mitchell

I used to write and edit for KRL, until I moved to Portland, Oregon. If you ask me what I do, I’d have a hard time answering you, hence my handle on Twitter: @dilettantegal! I’m an optioned screenwriter as well as a script consultant/coach. I have published fiction and non-fiction and am a freelance editor and writer. My film and television credits include Screenwriter, Producer, Director, Casting Director, and a bunch of other crew jobs. I also work with arts organizations to get their business side functioning properly. This is my second career; I used to be a business consultant.

Mar 2013 2

Rogue Show Reviews 2013

Arts & Entertainment, Christine Autrand Mitchell, Lorie Lewis Ham, Terrance V. Mc Arthur, Theatre

by KRL Staff

It's time for Rogue Festival reviews! Instead of one post for each review, as we review the various shows we will add their review here so keep coming back for more! So far we have reviews of Moonlight and Love Songs (Mostly) with Scats On The Sly, Boxcar Figaro, Never Own Anything You Have To Paint Or Feed, Ne Me Quitte Pas, Loon, Psyche Savage & All My Ghosts, Pipe On The Hob, Gary Has A Date, Gary Has A Date, Answers!!! (or Something Similar), Magical Mystery Detour, If I Could Tell Me, The Secret Adventures of Fat Woman and Remedial Girl, Christmas In Bakersfield, The Chaser, More Power To Your Knitting, Cathedral City, Circus Emporium Roadshow with Circus Et Cetera!, Songs 4 Pints,2000 to 2010, The Road To High Street and Dancing With Demons. Also at the end of this post is a fun little poem by the marathon reviewer himself Terrance Mc Arthur!

May 2012 29

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Movie Review

2012 Articles, Christine Autrand Mitchell, Movies

by Christine Autrand Mitchell

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a retirement community in India where the Brits can “outsource” their “elderly and beautiful.” Directed masterfully by John Madden (The Debt, Shakespeare in Love, Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown) with some of the best older generation actors Britain has to offer: Dame Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, and I could go on. I’ve been waiting months for this film and it didn’t disappoint.

May 2012 19

Screenwriting: A Different Form of Writing

2012 Articles, Christine Autrand Mitchell, Terrific Tales

by Christine Autrand Mitchell

That’s how a screenplay begins, and it ends with FADE OUT. As a writer of screenplays, novels, short stories and non-fiction articles, I’m going to take you on a journey through a landscape of writing to point out familiar landmarks, for those strangers to screenwriting.

Mar 2012 3

Rogue Reviews 2012

2012 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Christine Autrand Mitchell, Heather Parish, Terrance V. Mc Arthur, Theatre

by Heather Parish & Terrance V. Mc Arthur &
Christine Autrand Mitchell

Throughout Rogue Festival we will be reviewing several of the shows beginning today! So check back often we will be adding new reviews as they come in! So far we have a reviews of The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name), Approaching 80, The Golden Strings of the Forbidden Planet, Poetry Ghosts, Breaking Rank!, Almost Shakespeare, The They, Lot o' Shakespeare, Hitler’s Li’l Abomination, The Fat Guy Show, Boxcar Figaro, The Sparrow and the Mouse, Songs for Pints, A Hair of the Dog That Humped Ya, The Guy From Out of Town, Poe and Mathews & Kristie With a "K".

Feb 2012 20

Countdown to the Oscars 2012: Movie Reviews

2012 Articles, Christine Autrand Mitchell, Diana Hockley, James Garcia Jr., Movies, Terrance V. Mc Arthur

by KRL Staff

Over the next six days KRL is going to review several movies with Oscar nominations, including most of those nominated for best picture. So enjoy our Oscar countdown and please share with us your thoughts on who you think should win in the comment section! Instead of a brand new post for each movie–we will be adding a new movie to this post every night so be sure and come back right here every evening to see what we’ve added.

Jan 2012 7

Millenium Trilogy – Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson: A Writer’s View

2012 Articles, Books & Tales, Christine Autrand Mitchell, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Christine Autrand Mitchell

I am a literary fiction fan, both as a reader and as a writer, but I needed a break. Something in the universe led me to Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. I am so grateful for it. As a teenager I read through the Agatha Christie books but pretty much abandoned mystery/thrillers since then, other than film.

Jun 2011 11

Thread: Original Short Story

2011 Articles, Christine Autrand Mitchell, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by Christine Autrand Mitchell

Our lives unraveled off a circular stairwell that spun upwards into eternity, made up of a large turquoise dome, like the heavens painted on ceilings in cloisters and monasteries across Europe, where I once fell in love with the color. It was encircled in a giant gold band, to protect it from the visceral. A polished wooden railing held up by fragile, narrow rungs accompanied you on the way, the corporeal matrix of our design cast below the heavens. I never looked up when traversing the stairway because I knew I didn’t have to, not there. I was safe there. But we each finished alone in the end, completing our journey in our own mysterious shells just as we started.

May 2011 21

Finding Hope

Arts & Entertainment, Christine Autrand Mitchell, Contributors, Helping Hands

by Christine Autrand Mitchell

So sometimes art mirrors life, and sometimes it’s the other way round, but the local feature film, Finding Hope Now, has done both, passing through some sort of prism. It was shot in Fresno in 2009 and I was privileged to work on this film as Producer as well as the chance to wear several other hats. This is the film’s amazing story thus far.