Mountainfilm 2019: Looking Back
As we look back on our travel study to Mountainfilm 2019, our reviewers reflect on some of the festival’s most impactful films, people, moments, and ideas.
First Year Experience at Mountainfilm 2019
This year’s Mountainfilm was a new experience for most of us, and the opportunities were limitless. We met new friends and filmmakers, saw dozens of great documentaries, were inspired by speakers and symposia, and enjoyed everything Telluride had to offer.
Mountainfilm 2019 Festival Theme: Equity
Our first vlog and review set from 2019 Mountainfilm takes a look at this year’s theme of equity and features reviews of films with topics as diverse as Woodstock, transgender athletes, America’s railroads, and the Telluride Valley.
Spike Lee the Auteur: Visual Essays on Art, Craft, and Theme
In a career that has spanned well over thirty years from his debut to the recent BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee has forged his own path as an African American auteur and provocateur. These five visual essays chart the range and depth of Lee’s oeuvre.
Documentary Filmmaking in the Here and Now
With topics as far-ranging as filmmaking, serial killers, war, pop culture, and lifestyle, five recent documentaries–Shirkers, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, They Shall Not Grow Old, Minimalism, and Rethinking Barbie–show the range and versatility of documentary form.
Preview: The Shape of Water (2017, dir. Guillermo del Toro)
The next film in our Resilience Film Series is, like Moonlight, a recent Best Picture Academy Award winner: Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, which won the Oscar just this past February. The film is rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence, and...
Review: The Kid (dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1921)
In 1921, already famous for 68 short films, creative genius Charlie Chaplin released his first feature film, The Kid, to worldwide acclaim. Prancing around onscreen as his alter ego, “The Little Tramp,” Chaplin is accompanied by child actor Jackie Coogan, the titular...
Preview: The Kid (1921, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
There may be no more singular icon of resilience in the world of cinema than Charlie Chaplin. So this year, for the sixth film in our Resilience Film Series, we will be showing Chaplin’s 1921 classic, The Kid. This is the third year in a row we will have had the...
Review: Time for Ilhan (2018, Dir. Norah Shapiro)
The fourth film to screen at the Resilience Film Series at WSU was Time For Ilhan, a captivating documentary about Ilhan Omar, the first Somali Muslim woman to be elected to political office in America. The film is directed by Norah Shapiro, a local Minneapolis...
Preview: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, Dir. Taiki Waititi)
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...
Preview: Time for Ilhan (2018, dir. Norah Shapiro)
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...
Review: Eighth Grade (2018, dir. Bo Burnham)
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...
Preview: Eighth Grade (2018, dir. Bo Burnham)
Are you ready for Eighth Grade? The third film in our Resilience Film Series is the breakout indie comedy of the year, directed and written by Bo Burnham, showing Friday Oct. 12th, at 7 pm in Miller Auditorium (Stark 103). The film is rated R, and admission is free...
Review: Moonlight (2016, dir. Barry Jenkins)
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...
2001 A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange: Kubrick at His Apex
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Just as he had obsessed over the potential for nuclear war and self-destruction by the human race, Kubrick similarly became interested in the prospect of extra-terrestrial life. After reading everything he could on the subject, he decided...
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