Tag: Movies
Film Honors: 1998
My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…
Why It Is Important To Have A Femme Filmmakers Festival
I recently began writing my first screenplay. My story, which centers on a male protagonist, is not only something I love to tell, but I’ve…
Watch: Rachel Israel’s Short Film Keep the Change
A representation of reality with which too few of us are familiar, Rachel Israel’s Keep the Change is a beautiful, earnest depiction of blossoming love….
Billimarie Robinson Talks Filmmaking, Box-Heads, And Being Multiracial
There’s an earnest, smart filmmaking brain in the young head of Billimarie Robinson, whose diverse short films over the years have perhaps allowed her to…
Watch: Alex Burunova’s Short Film Lonely Planet
A single travel writer undergoes a personal conflict on an unexpectedly extended stay in Barcelona in Alex Burunova’s Lonely Planet. A young American woman long…
Young Filmmaker Sofija Sztepanov Talks Personal Experiences, Short Films, And Tinder
Talented 24 year-old filmmaker Sofija Sztepanov appears to have a humble yet dynamic perspective on her corner of the film world. There is also an…
Watch: Margaret Tait’s 4 Minutes Of A Portrait of Ga
This four-minute portrait of the filmmaker’s mother combines the texture of 1970s-color-saturated found footage with an oddly avant-garde structure. The editing rhythms are distinctly recognizable…
Directors’ Weekend Catch-Up: The Beguiled
Sofia Coppola’s latest feature, The Beguiled, carries the theme of loneliness, which was present in her previous work like The Virgin Suicides and Lost In…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Four Program
Welcome to Day Four of the Femme Filmmakers Festival, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Today’s showings include a brand new retro-comedy-horror, a…
Welcome to The Bling Ring Generation
Originally published over at On The Screen Reviews Before Hollywood discovered the benefit of locking their doors when leaving town, a group of gutsy, celebrity-obsessed…
Maren Ade’s Latest Film Toni Erdmann Is Both Long And Alluring
When the movie Toni Erdmann entered our lives last May we assumed without agenda this was about a father’s relationship with his (grown-up) daughter. Which…
Lost in Translation: Visual Appreciation
“I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be.” In her sophomore smash hit, Sofia Coppola introduces us to a familiar world within the realms…
Genre Blast: Sports – Win or Lose, It’s All in the Game
A majority of us have never effectively played more than two or three sports and likely never go out of our way to watch them…
The David Fincher Films Ranked: 5 – 1
Let me quickly say before you scroll off into the ranked David Fincher wilderness, the top five as the final results were counted was so,…
