By Andrew Swafford Zama was one of the most widely celebrated films of last…
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Big Ears 2018 Review – Film Program Embraces Abstraction
Over the course of this year’s Big Ears Festival, I watched 11 feature films and…
Big Ears 2018 – Regional Cinema, Regional Fear
You won’t find any mention of this on the official Big Ears website, but this…
Big Ears 2018 – Additions to the ‘Immersive’ Experience Feature the Intersection of Music and Film
Anyone who has attended one of the previous Big Ears Festivals will vouch for the…
Preview: Roger Beebe’s Films for 1-8 Projectors, a Performance in Celluloid
Roger Beebe doesn’t just make short films–he performs them. Projectors are his instruments, and he lines up eight of them in the back of a theater in order to cast multiple distinct images on screen at once, stacking snippets of sampled celluloid to create a dizzying collage of movement and color.
Film Review: ‘Phantom Thread’ – A Love Letter To Cinema
For the past year, a question of great significance to movie-lovers everywhere hung in the…
Andrew Swafford and Spencer Trent Pick Their Top Films of 2017
Andrew Swafford and Spencer Trent Pick Their Top Films of 2017
Film Review: Palm d’Or Winner ‘The Square’ is Ambitious, but…
Alternately silly and scathing, writer/director Ruben Östlund’s latest film, The Square—this year’s Palme d’Or winner—offers audiences a thoughtful satire with a Swedish sensibility.
Preview: Public Cinema Screens Korean Drama ‘On the Beach at Night Alone’
You need to know a little tabloid gossip before watching ‘On the Beach at Night Alone’: South Korean director Hong Sang-soo and star Kim Min-hee are apparently in love. Standing between them is a 21-year age difference, Hong’s wife of 30 years, and a scornful Korean press.
Film Review: Greta Gerwig Makes Impressive Directorial Debut with ‘Lady Bird’
“Lady Bird turned out to be what I expected in many ways, but in Gerwig’s capable hands, the familiar story never feels stale and its characters never fall flat. In fact, it proves to be an infectiously fun, as well as achingly heartfelt experience.”
