Transporting viewers to Cateura, Paraguay, a city of 2,500 families roughly seven miles south of the capital, Asución. Asución is home to two million and is capable of producing 1,500 tons of trash daily, almost all of which end up … Continue reading LANDFILL HARMONIC
September is Hispanic Heritage Month, and to celebrate, the Sie Film Center welcomes the return of CineLatino, a four-day film festival featuring 12 titles that showcase exemplary work coming from countries and cultures to the south. This year’s lineup features … Continue reading Saludos Amigos: Previewing the 2015 CineLatino
An exemplary piece of work about two estranged brothers hailing from the port of Buenaventura—the most dangerous city in Colombia—who find themselves at the bottom of the drug trade. Hired to transport a torpedo filled with cocaine up the Colombian … Continue reading MANOS SUCIAS
You’re the star of where you are” is the message Cory McAbee wants to tell the world. “Give up your goals, stop reaching for the stars, and look for the stars within [your] own mind.” The message has tiny hints … Continue reading Cory McAbee’s Small Star Seminar
Our stories have to be deeper, they have to have something special, they have to have that filmic quality about it, and that’s actually a lot of pressure on us, to make these stories feel big and something just different … Continue reading Peter Mortimer on the 2015 Reel Rock Film Tour
Between 1933 and 1945, Germany’s Third Reich produced 1,200 feature films, of which 300 were labeled propaganda by the Allies and banned from public screenings and distribution following the war. To this day, restrictions on 40 of these titles are … Continue reading FORBIDDEN FILMS (VERBOTENE FILME)
Héctor (Lucio Giménez Cacho) and his mother, Paloma (María Renée Prudencio), have come to a quiet Mexican resort for a vacation. He is 16, she is in her 30s, and the father is nowhere in sight. Judging by their closeness, … Continue reading CLUB SANDWICH
It wasn’t for you; it was you,” Sherry Turkle, author and MIT professor, says, describing Apple Computer products. It’s a good line—succinct, accurate, catchy—and it catches director Alex Gibney’s ear, later recycling it in one of his many voiceovers. It’s … Continue reading STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE
When it comes to cinema, there is no such thing as dilution. No matter how many times a franchise is rebooted, a classic remade, or an individualistic work of art sequalized, cinema will always remain as singular and potent as … Continue reading A Fine Season for Films: Summer 2015
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