This is the third review from Filmwell’s guest contributor Lauren Wilford, who blogs at Midas and the Movies. We are pleased to announce that Wilford has agreed to join the Filmwell team as a regular contributor, so you will see more of her reviews in the coming months. • The advertising campaign for Disney’s new Winnie […]
This review is the second from Filmwell’s guest contributor Lauren Wilford. • “You don’t know me. I like that.” So says the She of Beginners to the He, on one of those floating walks that fill up the start of a relationship. She’s teasing him, but we know it’s more than a bit of banter– it’s an […]
Today, we welcome a new guest contributor, Lauren Wilford, with a review of the new film by Woody Allen. Lauren studies Theatre and Art History at Seattle Pacific University. She wanted to add Philosophy as a third major but she watches movies instead. She blogs at Midas and the Movies. • Midnight in Paris: the title slides in […]
Today’s breaking news about new cast members in Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film project, The Master, is very intriguing. Variety reports that Fiona Dourif, daughter of Brad Dourif, has been cast as the follower of a religious leader. Recent updates on Anderson’s project report that Anderson has “greatly overhauled” his original script. At first, the […]
At a Seattle coffee shop, a friend of mine is talking about an intriguing fellow that both of us know. “Do you know how he pays the bills?” My friend smiles slyly. His half-whisper suggests that our mutual friend is up to something risky. I’m surprised to say that I don’t know. “He plays blackjack. […]
This is from A.G. Harmon’s “Bread and Circuses,” posted at Good Letters, the blog of Image: Just as democracy requires care—the hard work of civic participation, and an often discomforting engagement with communal undertakings—lest the very thing that is so great about it, autonomy, degenerate into self-absorption, so does the mind require some type of […]
This week, we welcome a guest contributor to Filmwell, Stephen Lamb. Today, he takes a look at the new film by Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong. • Poetry is a summons to pay attention, an invitation to look closer at the world around us. In her wonderful little book Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, […]
Take a couple of minutes and watch this behind-the-scenes clip from Mauricio Baiocchi’s animated short Cicada Princess.
This is the best I can do translating the barely legible notes I made, and completing sentence fragments I scribbled, in a darkened theatre during a screening of Kelly Reichardt’s film Meek’s Cutoff: “Dry.” That’s how the film feels. Muted colors, in an area where there is no alternative — Eastern Oregon. Nothing interesting or […]