Editor’s note: Jason Flynn decided to shoot a film for the Campus MovieFest. Then he realized, through practice, that was a horrible idea. And then he decided to write about it. Everybody wants to be a movie star. At least, everybody has whimsically considered being a part of a movie. So when Campus MovieFest came [...]
Students can travel to Kung Fu Island with the “super bad” and “outta sight” title character of “Black Dynamite.” Along the way, they might also learn something about race. Like a roundhouse kick to the face, the Institute for African American Studies is breaking through stereotypes with the African Diaspora Film Festival this month. The [...]
They wanted a hit. Evan Padgett, Vikas Shah and Sarah Walpert were working with Campus MovieFest — the latter as an intern — and, in their spare time, they were making videos. Friends since elementary school and creative partners since college, Padgett and Shah wrote and directed videos under the banner of 1072 Productions — [...]
People are hamsters — at least, “Carnage” makes an apt comparison of the two. Roman Polanski’s latest film cages two couples in an apartment to mitigate a fight between their sons. The film’s four main characters — a broker (Kate Winslet), a corporate lawyer (Christoph Waltz), a writer (Jodie Foster) and a small business owner [...]
Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life” might be a Cannes Film Festival award winner, but for University students, faculty and staff, the scrutiny is not over. Richard Neupert, from the film studies department, will moderate a roundtable discussion on the film, sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The discussion will feature four other [...]
From the age of magnificence comes a new magnificence in motion pictures. So reads the tagline for the 1965 biopic about Michelangelo, “The Agony and the Ecstasy.” The age of magnificence certainly earns its name in the film as well as the in the artwork — the museum’s Kress collection, made up of Italian Renaissance [...]
Ciné is revisiting a world of murderers, gum-shoes and mystery in traditional format. Ciné, Athens’ art house movie theater, is hosting a noir film series during January and February. As a part of the series Ciné will be showing “The Big Sleep,” “Kiss Me Deadly” and “Double Indemnity” — all in 35mm. The noir series [...]
“Like Crazy” is about love, but I wouldn’t call it romantic. I wouldn’t call it precisely anything, which is part of the problem. The other is that, in Drake Doremus’ sweet-and-sour rubber band drama, there is far too much, and also far too little, show. There is a girl (Felicity Jones) who likes a guy [...]
Editor’s note: For the next in “Behind the Scenes,” we look at Gonzoriffic — Athens’ group of homegrown filmmakers. On a cold and cloudy morning, a mother and her child leave a Comer grocery store. The mother is distracted. Her child is abducted and then devoured by a shady villain. Cut to credits. Welcome to [...]
At least no one gets their testicles smashed by a piece of wood. If nothing can be said for Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” you can say this: it is opulently grotesque, but it has none of the fraudulently classist cross-eyed pandering of his last film, “Antichrist.” It may be rococo apocalypto, but “Melancholia” is also an [...]
