by Brittney Bluhm | Oct 24, 2018 | Criticism, Reviews
Throughout our Resilience film series we’ve enjoyed visually-stunning and emotionally-driven documentaries and fictional works. Our most recent screening featured the 2018 Academy award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score and Best...
by Maeve O'Duggan | Oct 17, 2018 | Reviews
Coming at the mid-point of our Resilience film series is Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a wonderfully quirky and family-friendly romp written and directed by Taika Waititi (director of Thor: Ragnarok and What We Do in the Shadows). Adapted from the book Wild Pork and...
by Morghan Lemmenes | Oct 13, 2018 | Criticism, Reviews, Updates
The third film in our Resilience Series, Eighth Grade, directed by Bo Burnham, examines how eighth graders make the transition to ninth grade in the face of peer pressure and social media. In a Hollywood medium too populated by action heroes and male angst, those few...
by Seth Lamey | Oct 10, 2018 | Criticism, Reviews, Updates
With only one feature film under his belt (2008’s Medicine for Melancholy), Florida State film school alum Barry Jenkins was still searching for the big break to get his name on the independent film map. Up-and-coming indie studio tour-de-force A24 picked up a...
by Seth Lamey | Oct 2, 2018 | Reviews, Updates
Our film series examining this year’s University Theme, Resilience, is underway, and our first film, Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope, is one that shows just how devastating and long-term emotional trauma can be. Tuesday night in Miller...
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