Outside Sweden’s X-Royal museum of modern and contemporary art, a worker replaces the bricks in the cobblestone courtyard just so and lies down a luminous string of lights in the shape of a perfectly constructed square. This is the museum’s … Continue reading THE SQUARE
Just as every journey begins with a single step, a lifetime of passion blossoms from a simple aha moment. “My junior year in college, I was in this computer graphics class, and the professor showed these short films that were … Continue reading Danielle Feinberg on COCO
All stories have to begin somewhere. Brimstone & Glory, a documentary about Mexico’s week-long National Pyrotechnics Festival, takes place in modern-day Tultepec, but its origins lie on the other side of the Atlantic, in Portugal specifically, at the end of the … Continue reading BRIMSTONE & GLORY
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion … I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. —Kurt Vonnegut A mother’s daughter has been slain. Worse, the teenager was raped while she … Continue reading THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE OF EBBING, MISSOURI
This half-documentary, half-narrative is constructed entirely from closed-circuit cameras—dash cams, security footage, red-light cameras, etc.—uploaded to a cloud service in 2013 and made available for anyone with time on their hands. But director Xu Bing doesn’t simply rely on observation; he … Continue reading DRAGONFLY EYES (蜻蜓之眼)
The Denver Film Festival (DFF) turns 40 this year, and for the next two weekends, the Sie Film Center, the UA Pavilions, and the Ellie Caulkins Opera House become the center of moviegoing in the Centennial State. With roughly 150 … Continue reading The Cinema Awaits: Dispatches From the 40th Denver Film Festival
When writer/director Jason Hall’s brother returned home from the 1990s conflict in the Middle East, he did so with his “arms and legs and sense of humor intact.” However, the more Hall talked to his brother, the more he realized … Continue reading THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
When Wonder Woman sailed into theaters this summer, coolly breaking superhero box office record after box office record, it was no surprise that curious cinephiles and comic book fans began peering beneath the surface to discover the fascinating story behind … Continue reading PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN
In the 1970s, she was one of the dominant, and most provocative, Italian filmmakers. From behind her trademark white-framed glasses, Lina Wertmüller saw the world a little differently, and the audiences responded. Her films were staples in U.S. art-house theaters, … Continue reading Women Make Film: Lina Wertmüller
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