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In this interview the accomplished poet Scott Cairns describes his unique views on the mystical nature of poetry and connects them to his understanding of sacrament.

My usual approach to internet memes is to duck and let them blow over. But “Reading the Movies” swept me into nostalgic list-making, to give honor to the books which were the most influential in my development as a film watcher, writer and programmer. Well, they’re not all books, but they DO involve words about pictures…

In the second part of the Filmwell conversation, Lee Isaac Chung talks about why he used film instead of video, the status of his next movie, his approach to teaching film students.

Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung talks about how he made Munyurangabo, and what it was like making a Rwandan movie with Rwandan actors.

The Auteurs is a new online movie service that focuses on delivering “auteur” cinema via high-quality video streaming. From their website: Four things that were on our minds when we first dreamt the Auteurs: Number one: why can’t you just watch In the Mood for Love in an airport lounge? Number two: why is it so hard […]

Away We Go: it might not be for you, but maybe it should be.

In this poem, Karla Huston contemplates a museum exhibit of a woman’s body that has turned to soap.

Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung offers some insights on film history, filmmaking, and his own particular cinematic vision.

But in Filmwell terms, many of the book’s cutting edges correspond to all those moments in which the cinema becomes a storied means of self-critique or unexpectedly shifts the brackets of our cherished assumptions. We tend to shorthand these experiences as transcendental, or expressionist, or a range of stylistic terms whose Venn diagram intersection is the constructive experience of doubt, fear, and ideological shell-shock.