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n this personal essay, Nancy Sleeth reflects on how we might find beauty in nature, even in our own backyards.

Doug Cummings has a bit of commentary on the Los Angeles Film Festival line-up at Filmjourney. I always enjoy Doug’s festival coverage, and this year there will be several on his list that I am also anxious to see: The Silence Before Bach, Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum, Kore-Eda’s Still Walking, and surprisingly… Wang Bing‘s […]

Insight into the process of festival programming is one more essential thread of film culture well worth weaving into the Filmwell conversation.

When actors become famous, is the show over? How rare is it that we can truly “suspend disbelief” and become absorbed in a work without being distracted by celebrity and reputation?

The New York Observer has published their list of most anticipated summer films. A couple of those (Away We Go, Public Enemies) are on my list, too. And, obviously, one they missed: Pixar’s Up, which opens May 29 in the States. (Really, Observer? The Ugly Truth but not Up?) What are your most anticipated films […]

So where are the sane artists in the movies?

A poem by Maureen McQuerry

A poem by Courtney Druz.

“I hate Nazis,” says Indiana Jones. But do we REALLY? I mean – don’t we love movie Nazis? That is, don’t we LOVE TO HATE them? The new-on-DVD German film AFTER THE TRUTH challenges film-goers usual engagement with the cinema’s most perversely beloved Evil Other.