Articles tagged "film"

Events Review

Dark Carnival Film Festival: 28 September-03 October 2009- Bloomington, IN

by Michael Curtis Nelson

[22.Oct.09] :. In its third year, the Dark Carnival Film Festival attracts filmmakers and audiences with a real love for the horror film genre.

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Column: Worlds in Panels

Comic Re-Imagining

by Shaun Huston

[18.Sep.09] :. Not all comic book adaptations are created equal, especially not when comparing our own imaginings with what actually happens when books are moved from print to screen.

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The Iconographies Feature

Fear of a Mouse Planet: What Disney’s Acquisition of Marvel Means for the House of Ideas

by Ian Chant

[8.Sep.09] :. The fears of a Disney planet are fears that these characters we cherish will be tinkered with or even taken away from us.

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Mixed Media

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? dir. Werner Herzog (trailer)

by Brian Parks

[4.Sep.09] :. Since 1987’s Cobra Verde, Werner Herzog has directed just two feature films in the ensuing twenty two years—Invincible (2001) and Rescue Dawn (2007), preferring to...

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Mixed Media

Film Forum with Beavis and Butthead (promo)

by Brian Parks

[4.Sep.09] :. Has it really been 12 years since Beavis and Butthead went off the air? And please, don’t even try to tell me you haven’t missed them… Series creator Mike Judge brings back...

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Mixed Media

Inception dir. Christopher Nolan (trailer)

by Brian Parks

[3.Sep.09] :. Do I have any idea what this film is about after viewing this trailer? Nope, not a clue. Am I going to be the first in line to see this? Suffice it to say, you better not be standing even remotely in...

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Agora dir. Alejandro Amenábar (trailer)

by Brian Parks

[2.Sep.09] :. Agora Director: Alejandro Amenábar Cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac Releasing: 18 December 2009 Set in Roman Egypt, Agora concerns a slave who turns to the rising...

 

Audience of One

by Shaun Huston

[31.Aug.09] :. Director Michael Jacobs resists simplifying his subject, leaving viewers to come to their own conclusions about pastor Richard Gazowky, who he is, and why he wants to make his movie.

 

The Wolfman dir. Joe Johnston (trailer)

by Brian Parks

[23.Aug.09] :. It has been quite a while since we’ve seen a really good werewolf movie, hasn’t it? Well, fellow movielovers, butter your popcorn and buckle your seatbelts because if the...

 

Németh: Film

by Jennifer Kelly

[26.Feb.08] :. The first solo album from Stefan Németh echoes Radian's uneasy blurring of the lines between organic and electronic sound.

 

Short Documentaries on i-tunes

by Jillian Burt

[30.Oct.07] :. the message on a mobile medium

 

Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of Americas First Black Filmmaker by Patrick McGilligan

by Eugene Kane [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

[25.Jul.07] :. Reading The Great and Only, one can only imagine the kind of film Micheaux's life story would make, and regret that the man himself isn't around to make it.

 

The Lookout (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Mar.07] :. Gordon-Levitt makes Chris' efforts to look at himself honestly seem quite complicated, a series of steps both typical and original.

 

Rattling the Cage: An Interview with Screamers Director Carla Garapedian

by Chris Catania

[30.Mar.07] :. With a new documentary and the aid of System of a Down, Garapedian tries to get the world talking about genocide.