The lineup for Tribeca is out. And yes, Shrek Forever is set to open it. As major New York film festivals go, Tribeca is the easiest for me to get into (mostly for the sheer number of screenings), but the one I’m least interested in going to. It’s so hard to sort through the crap […]
I’ve been teaching a research writing class to (mostly) first-year students this semester, and we’re using film as the basis for our inquiry. For their final assignment – worth over half their grade – I gave them a list of fifteen-or-so directors and told them to write something about the work of one of those […]
Most of us at Filmwell – unintentionally so – either teach or work at universities (and in some cases, are finishing graduate degrees at them). And so we’re all at the top of a new semester, more or less ready to dive in. While my own studies were finished in December, the small private college […]
Movies to the rescue.
Two very different adaptations of the same story.
On the strange tradition of Christmas movies.
Moving past the “inspiration” film to the unsanitized story.
Here come the end-of-the-decade lists.
A few thoughts and remainders after seeing La nana (The Maid).
