This poem by Carolyne Wright reflects on race-related tension between teaching assistants at the University of Washington in the 1960s.

Now on DVD, Neil Gaiman’s enthralling 3D feature deserves mention alongside the greatest American fantasy films. But it has intriguing similarities to a lesser-known Gaiman adaptation.

I had no idea there was an International Animation Day until I recieved the press release today. Thankfully, as is typical, the National Film Board is all over it with a range of both bricks and mortar and online programs. Apparently, the online programming begins on October 8. Warning: Be very careful when you visit […]

As I hope you already know, The Auteurs periodically posts a collection of films that can be watched for free at the click of your mouse. For free. Online. Click of a mouse. These aren’t always descriptors that tend to be connected to things of great quality. But in this case, they are. Somehow The […]

Racial reconciliation and the parable of the Good Samaritan are both centered on rightly defining who owns what.

Even though I like Steven Soderbergh, I don’t understand him. The way he ranges from the linear density of sex, lies and videotape to the off-kilter drama of Kafka and Schizopolis to crime thrillers, period pieces, possible Oscar bait, and science fiction retakes makes it difficult to talk about him as an auteur. If he […]

Earlier this year, my family took a long-awaited trip to Japan. I had been wanting to go to the “Land of the Rising Sun” for many years now, due in no small part to my love of that nation’s cinema (animated or otherwise), and the trip didn’t disappoint in the slightest. I joked with Japanese […]

Excerpts from Roger Ebert’s Journal, September 20, 2009 Every year good films show at the Toronto Film festival that never open anywhere near you. This year some good films played that may never open anywhere, even if you live in Toronto–or New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin or upstairs over a Landmark Theater […]

A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.