Guest post by Gergana May. I was deeply impressed when I first saw The Bothersome Man. I experienced it as a powerful artistic metaphor for the life of the privileged citizens of affluent Western European countries. It is a dystopic tale of spiritual displacement, detachment, loss of connection with our roots, our background, our elders,… Read more »
His Girl Friday (1940) is definitely one of the most iconic classic films today. The lightning-fast dialogue; the searing political commentary; the colorful characters and the excellent cast that brings them to life… This film is probably one of the most well-known old movies out there, in part because of its fall into the public domain,… Read more »
“I feel my time has run out. […] The movies I want to make are movies the studios don’t want. What they want to make, I don’t.” — Robert Altman, in an interview with The New York Times, 1981 “Norman Levy (president of 20th Century-Fox) and the rest are scum. […] They’re not interested… Read more »
Guest post by Piibi-Kai Kivik. The second film in the Nordic Privilege and Anxiety series is The Temptation of St. Tony by the Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu. The film shocks and disturbs, its black-and-white starkness and surreal images visually contrasting with the saturated colors of Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope.
Guest post by Jamie Darin Prenkert. Nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Joyeux Noël depicts the fabled “Christmas truce” of December 1914, during which British, French, and German troops on the Western Front of World War I for a brief time laid down their arms and reportedly met in No… Read more »
Guest post by Sylvia Martinez. The 2018 Latino Film Festival is about a week away! Planning for the festival began in the summer of 2017. With the help of Latino Studies faculty and graduate students, we settled on a theme and list of potential films by early September. This year’s theme, “Latinx Spaces,” seeks to… Read more »