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‘How it feels to be black’
Rediscovering Gordon Parks with Criterion’s release of ‘The Learning Tree’
Ice, ice maybe
I’m not saying that the impoverished are going to grab axes and violently murder the wealthy elite. But… Writer/director Joon-ho Bong’s Snowpiercer does what the sci-fi genre does better than any other cinematic medium: examines modern life by asking a surreal “what ...
Streaming cat blues
The bad news: the novel
coronavirus has disrupted life as we know it, and will for the next couple
months. But, you’ve gone to the store,...
Through a sparkling glass
Children’s movies are fascinating triumphs of simplicity and clarity. Often these movies render complex issues so succinctly that they become masterworks full of sophisticated...
reel to reel | Week of Mar. 01, 2012
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Seven shorts and a feature
If you’ve frequented film festivals in the past, then you know the highlight of any fest can be found in the short film packages....
Breathe in the Smaug
Things you should know by now: (1) All Peter Jackson-directed fantasy films near or top three hours in length; (2) there are deviations from the books because these are movies and not books — I’m told if you would like to read The Hobbit, you can still read The ...
The ice films cometh
Seven years ago, in a small tent in the midst of a snowstorm in the Himalayas, climber and photographer Jonny Copp drafted the idea for the Adventure Film Festival on a handful of scratch paper. Since then, the idea has grown into an international festival of ...
Getting women in the room
Maybe it comes as no surprise, but sexism is alive and well in the film industry. Women filmmakers are often forced into alternative methods...
Final frontier
Geoff Marslett found cinema through science. During the 1990s he worked as a physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory before turning his hand to...