by Brynn Artley | May 26, 2019 | Issues, Right, Updates
Hi everyone, here is our first issue from Mountainfilm 2019, a look at the 2019 theme of equity. We also have reviews from Amy Stoulil on The Railroader Britt Bluhm on The Valley Maggie Kelly on Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation Ben Glomski on Changing...
by Brynn Artley | May 14, 2019 | Criticism, Left
Spike Lee’s 2018 Academy Award for the BlacKkKlansman Adapted Screenplay was a long-awaited triumph for the provocateur. What makes Lee’s voice as provocative as it is, prompting such a strong and public discourse? Perhaps it is the fact that Lee is unafraid...
by Brynn Artley | May 1, 2019 | Criticism, Reviews, Right, Updates
Beginning with images of a swan swimming backwards and ending with a montage of a car wash, Sandi Tan’s film, Shirkers, is one of the most idiosyncratic documentaries of 2018. Logically, the film shouldn’t work––it’s an avant-garde film within a film, a nostalgic look...
by Brynn Artley | Mar 18, 2019 | Criticism, Reviews, Right
Since the beginning of the War on Terror with the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and then the invasion of Iraq in 2003, there have been many films documenting and analyzing the conflict. From action films like The Hurt Locker (2009) to documentaries like No End in...
by Brynn Artley | Nov 9, 2018 | Criticism, Right
With the conclusion of the Resilience Film Series at the end of last month, I have to marvel a little at the direction the series took. When I first heard the words “resilience” and “film series” together, I initially had this mental image of Mad Max type characters...
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