Discussions with filmmakers, musicians, programmers, historians, critics, and anyone who loves movies.
If there’s a specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. —Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Bigelow was the fourth … Continue reading Barbara Bridges and Jill S. Tietjen on HOLLYWOOD: HER STORY
It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic War of Liberation: “The most peaceful revolution the world has known.” So opens director Lizzie Borden’s incendiary 1983 film, Born in Flames—a guerrilla-style collage of archival footage, documentary, and scripted narrative that’s as relevant … Continue reading Kelly Sears on BORN IN FLAMES
Tuesday, Oct. 13 marks the halfway point for TCM’s Women Make Film series—easily the cinematic highlight of 2020—and the premiere of the same-sex love story, Rafiki. Rafiki really encapsulates the spirit of the Women Make Film series,” TCM host Alicia Malone … Continue reading Alicia Malone on RAFIKI
For more than 30 years, Kirsten Johnson has seen the world from behind the camera. “[It’s] taught me to be quiet,” she says. “To wait for things. And listen and look at people’s bodies and the way they move as … Continue reading Kirsten Johnson on CAMERAPERSON
Film history has been sexist by omission. Running 14 hours and featuring the work of 183 directors, 700 clips, and seven narrators, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema might be writer/director Mark Cousins’ most ambitious project to date. “Many … Continue reading Conversations from the 2019 Telluride Film Festival — Mark Cousins on WOMEN MAKE FILM
Even though our minds and wallets have been deeply distracted and impacted by the pandemic/economy/political divisiveness, the need for environmental change and protection has never been greater,” Richard Paradise, founder of the Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival … Continue reading Home Viewing: 2020 Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival
For writer/director/editor Trey Edward Shults, making movies is a family affair. It doesn’t matter if he’s shooting in his parent’s home in Spring, Texas, for 2015’s Krisha, or in the neon glow of Southern Florida for his latest, Waves. “I try to … Continue reading Trey Edward Shults on WAVES
We believe art is a powerful gateway drug into science,” George Sparks, CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), says of its newest exhibit, The Science Behind Pixar. “This exhibition, more than anything I’ve ever seen, highlights the … Continue reading The Science Behind Pixar
The landscape of China is changing. “There’s a lot of environmental change in terms of building and demolition,” Evelyn Shih says. “But also in terms of environmental destruction that people are starting to pay attention to and really be hurt … Continue reading Documenting Landscapes, Poetizing Reality: Evelyn Shih on New Chinese Cinemas
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