Walking into the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, museumgoers are treated to a wall plastered with the mural work of street artist Shepard Fairey. From the get-go, then, visitors are told they are entering into a world with its fingers on the pulse of the latest trends in contemporary a...
Read More »Don't deny it. Even the most committed Criterion Eclipse-set-collecting cinephile has tried-and-true favorites that aren't exactly, well, critic-proof. When you're done eating your cultural vegetables, so to speak, you settle down on the futon for your nineteenth viewing of "Roadhou...
Read More »In our corner of the movie universe, people (for example, Roger Ebert) often grumble about the coming onslaught of 3D films in our theaters. You'll also see many of the same people dismissing the phenomenon because of its bulky glasses and higher ticket prices celebrating the stunning visu...
Read More »New York-based film journalist, programmer and newbie video store owner Aaron Hillis, is nothing if not an underdog. "I have this bad habit of getting into failing industries," he told Filmmaker Magazine, shortly after purchasing the established Cobble Hill business Video Free Brooklyn. &q...
Read More »When filmmakers Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco were looking for a name for their YouTube channel where they'd discuss all things film, they were inspired by an article on Indiewire's Women and Hollywood blog about a "New Faces of Indie Film" panel at the Film Society of Lincol...
Read More »Evan Seitz has developed a series of IQ tests for movie lovers. Actually, that may not be a fair description of his animated quizzes; IQ tests were never this addictive.
Read More »Abbey Bender makes the case that Susan Seidelman's "Desperately Seeking Susan" is an "exemplary feminist film," Imogen Smith takes a look at women urban observers and Farran Smith Nehme analyzes Whit Stillman's new film "Damsels in Distress." Miriam Bale, a...
Read More »Documentary filmmaker Jason Spingarn-Koff ("Life 2.0") has a pretty sweet deal. He gets to work with documentary filmmakers to help them make short videos for one the world's most respected media outlets, The New York Times.
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