by Josh DeLaRosa | Feb 8, 2019 | Right, Updates
With Black History Month underway, Winona State University’s Film Studies program is partnering with the school’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity to sponsor a series showcasing films by director-writer Spike Lee. The series, titled “Resilience & Resistance: The...
by Madeline Peterson | Oct 28, 2018 | Criticism, Updates
The ninth and final film in our Resilience Film Series, A Quiet Place, tells the story of a post-apocalyptic family threatened by mysterious creatures with super-heightened senses of hearing. The family has to live in complete silence in order to survive: can anyone...
by Maeve O'Duggan | Oct 15, 2018 | Criticism, Updates
If you were to take a 1990s Jim Carrey, send him to the present, and turn him into an accomplished director, you might get filmmaker Taika Waititi. Perhaps the most personal of Waititi’s films (which include the 2017 smash Thor: Ragnarok), Hunt for the Wilderpeople...
by Hailey Torborg | Oct 13, 2018 | Criticism, Updates
The fourth film in our Resilience Film Series, Time for Ilhan, tells the story of Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American woman elected to the U.S. political office. Directed by Norah Shapiro, this acclaimed documentary shows its viewers the obstacles involved in the...
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...
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