Alissa Wilkinson

Tribeca Film Festival Lineup

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 […]

Alissa Wilkinson

Scholarly Sources for Students

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 […]

Alissa Wilkinson

The Semester Begins: Movies About Learning

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 […]

Alissa Wilkinson

The Maid

A few thoughts and remainders after seeing La nana (The Maid).