Welcome to Slamdance Film Festival. Slamdance is a festival that bills itself as ?by filmmakers, for filmmakers?. It focuses on emerging talent. The festival was started in 1995 by a group of filmmakers whose films weren?t accepted into the Sundance Film Festival. I...
?. . . The assumption when folks see my chair is that I won?t be able to do things before they assume I will be able to do things.? Acting is a very demanding profession. Actors become another person in the eyes of the audience. It is challenging. Even more so when...
?The Hell-Bound Train is always on duty, and the devil is the engineer.? Each year the Library of Congress selects 25 films to be added to the National Film Registry. The Registry includes a broad range of the diversity of American film?from blockbusters to home...
?If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.? Ryusuke Hamaguchi?s Drive My Car is built around the power of storytelling?imagined stories, dramatic stories, and personal stories. The film is based on short stories by Haruki...
Perhaps the grass is always greener on the other side of the Bering Sea. That seems to be the basis for Phillipp Yuryev?s premier feature film The Whaler Boy. Teenaged Leshka lives in a remote whaling village on the edge of the Bering Straits. He and the other men go...
I frequently eat out. Sometimes it?s for convenience; other times it is for something special. The options are endless because restaurants are everywhere. They always have been, right? Well, no. Delicious, from director ?ric Bresnard, is the story of the birth of the...
?Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.? Shakespeare may seem daunting to many. The language and vocabulary are strange to our ears. We may have been force fed bits of it in high school, and we resent it. Don?t let that be a deterrent to seeing The Tragedy of...
?Grandpa?s house was a revolving door of cousins and aunts, with a full complement of laughter and tears, with an occasional nervous breakdown. But above all, it?s where Uncle Charlie lived.? The Tender Bar, directed by George Clooney and based on a memoir by J.R....
From director Randall Okita, See for Me tells the story of a blind young woman who must face off against a gang of intruders. But she isn?t quite alone. Her phone may be her salvation. Sophie (Skyler Davenport) is heading off to a remote mansion to housesit. She has a...