By Daniel Lindvall. At the time of writing [20 August 2015] the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism has just published what is described as ‘the most comprehensive analysis of diversity in recent popular films ever conducted’, focusing on ‘data assessing gender, race/ethnicity and LGBT status […]
FilmInt on the Underground: Simon Anderson and Patrick Walsh on Morning Is Broken
October 14, 2015
FilmInt on the Underground is a blog dedicated to emerging filmmakers. An Interview by Tom Ue. Directed by Simon Anderson, and produced by Elisabeth Hopper and James Northcote, Morning is Broken was selected as part of the BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival, the British Council fiveFilms4freedom series, the Inside Out Toronto […]
Announcing the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture and the Humanities
September 25, 2015
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press invites the submission of proposals for books, monographs, or essay collections focused on law as portrayed in the moving image and other fields in the humanities. Possible topics range from scholarship on law and film/television, law and critical/cultural studies, law and society, law and the performing arts, law […]
Film Scratches: Connecting Personal and National History in The Royal Road (2015)
September 24, 2015
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. The Royal Road, Jenni Olson’s thoughtful and beautiful essay film on love, longing, the movies, and California history, has received […]
BFI London Film Festival 2015: Festival Programme Launch
September 13, 2015
By Cleaver Patterson. In the February 1984 issue of films magazine Derek Malcom, the newly appointed Director of the London Film Festival, introduced himself with a bold statement, claiming that “the LFF is known all over the world as one of the best-organised and best presented in the business”. Now, over […]
FILM4 FrightFest 2015 Interview: Adam Mason on Hangman
September 13, 2015
By Paul Risker. Every filmmaker has a story and English filmmaker Adam Mason’s began with a resilience in an hostile landscape. Looking back on the early part of his career during which time he tried to forge a path into filmmaking he explained: “I ended up making music videos as […]
Film Scratches: Janie Geiser on the Life of Objects
September 10, 2015
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. An Interview by David Finkelstein. Janie Geiser has been making objects come alive in performance works since 1981 and in films since 1989. She has […]
2015 DC Shorts Film Festival: September 10-20, 2015
September 8, 2015
By Elias Savada. I love shorts. Bermudas. Boxers. Short’s Brewing of Michigan. (Yes, there is a beer tie-in. Read on.) But for this column, I’m talking film shorts. And I guess most of them aren’t even shot on film anymore. Video, digital, etc. But they’re all great for little emotional […]
FilmInt on the Underground: Everyday Terror in A Dark Souvenir
August 8, 2015
FilmInt on the Underground is a blog dedicated to emerging filmmakers. By April L. Smith. Modern horror films have tended to fall back on gore or jump scares to evoke fear in the viewer. Matthew Pillischer’s A Dark Souvenir uses none of these tricks of genre, instead harkening back to the slow […]
Britain On Film – Britain’s History and the BFI Film Archive
July 29, 2015
By Cleaver Patterson. Britain as a whole has a history as unique as that of the four regions which constitute it—England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. With this in mind it is hardly surprising that much of its story should have been captured on film. Since the emergence of the […]