“What’s your favorite movie?” is a question I’m often asked. It might come from a new acquaintance who has just learned that I teach film studies and have a special interest in the history of [...] Continue Reading
Hollywood’s Coming Attractions: What’s Wrong with a Digital Future?
In March 2002, the very month Fresno Filmworks was launched at the Fresno Art Museum, the major Hollywood studios began to lay the groundwork for an industry-wide conversion to digital exhibition. The [...] Continue Reading
Subtle relationships abound in Monsieur Lazhar, our July film
Monsieur Lazhar is a film about relationships that don’t quite work. But it’s no big deal. Most matters in real life don’t quite work. We go on. We deal with people. We do what we have to do. The [...] Continue Reading
Our July film manages to be farcical about teen girls’ sex desires
While still in community college in Pasadena, Mike and I were big fans of the Nazarene College basketball team which had won a couple of NAIA (small college) national championships. We started dating [...] Continue Reading
Film, dancing, animation, and more film mark our festival, April 27-29
Our various festival committees—for features, for shorts—have worked hard to bring you a weekend of varied cinematic fare. You won’t be able to see these films anywhere else in town. Nor in many other [...] Continue Reading
Great Humanist Film for March
Most reviewers of Le Havre, the Finnish film which Filmworks will show on March 9, call it something like sentimental, unreal, or impossibly optimistic, as if these are objectionable qualities in a [...] Continue Reading
20 Best Films of 2011
Here, from the prestigious film magazine Film Comment, is a ranked list of the 20 best films of 2011 as compiled by the magazine’s editors. Filmworks showed films marked √. Short summaries, most from [...] Continue Reading
Oscar-nominated short films 2012
On February 10, we are showing the 15 Oscar-nominated short films in three categories: live action, animation, and documentary. The films come from all over the world. Only one American film made it [...] Continue Reading