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 Hailey Torborg | May 1, 2019 | Issues, Left
Hello and welcome to another documentary issue of POVwinona! Our prior issue focused on documentaries from the 2019 Frozen River Film Festival, and continuing with that theme, Film Studies students share their takes on five additional contemporary documentaries. With...
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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