As one war is winding down and another ramping up, more than 1.8 million American men and women have already served in Iraq or Afghanistan. January figures from the Department of Defense put the [...] Continue Reading
“Miracle of Rare Device”: The British Romantics in Film
The release of Bright Star has brought critical acclaim for Jane Campion after a five-year hiatus from feature films and the poor reception for her underrated thriller In the Cut (2004). Campion’s [...] Continue Reading
Buried Cinema: Films from Palestine
Our December film, Amreeka–Arabic for “America”–is about a Palestinian woman who transplants herself and her teenaged son to a small town in the U.S. But it’s not really a Palestinian film in the [...] Continue Reading
John Moses’ top films of 2008
A Clips tradition, here are the Top Films of 2008, as compiled by Filmworks President John Moses. The Edge of Heaven. From Germany and Turkey, overlapping stories of parents and their adult [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Filmmakers Beware
If you are a filmmaker in Fresno, your working conditions changed suddenly this summer—you may now be a guerrilla filmmaker and not even know it! In July, the Fresno Film and Entertainment Commission [...] Continue Reading
Art House Redux
Compared to the heyday of 1960s art cinema, when imports made up ten percent of the U.S. film market, today’s theatrical film scene offers American audiences far fewer international films to choose [...] Continue Reading
‘Emmett Till’ in Context: Notes on African-American Cinema
Even before seeing Keith Beauchamp’s The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, the new documentary about the infamous murder of an African-American teen, I expected to find similarities to Spike Lee’s [...] Continue Reading
Closely Watched Films: The Czech New Wave
Many reviewers of Jan Hrebejk’s new film, Up and Down, have astutely noted its similarities to the Czech New Wave of the 1960s – its pointed criticisms of contemporary Czech society, its eye for the [...] Continue Reading