The Miller’s Daughter
Rebecca Miller needs to recharge. Well, her phone at least. Plugged into an ancient socket behind me and perched on…
Author: john_rodzvilla
The Pay-Off
In the first few minutes of Kevin Everson’s new film Spicebush, the screen splits into two frames, one showing a…
Filming Curtis
When I was a teenager, I took a poetry workshop in Brookline, Massachusetts with Barbara Helfgott Hyett, a wonderful teacher…
Chlotrudis
Several couples chat casually, surrounded mostly by empty red velvet seats inside Brookline, Massachusetts’s Coolidge Corner Theatre in early November….
The Anatomy of a Short
Ten years ago two witty gents from Colorado, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, made a riotous animated short called The…
Q&A with David Russell of Big Film Shorts
David Russell is the go-to man for all things short film. In 1996, he started Big Film Shorts, a distributor…
The State of Short Films
Cinema was born as a short form. Most early films were mere seconds long. Throughout the history of celluloid, countless…
The Talented Tenth
While so many of Hollywood’s high-paid actors spend their paychecks on the kind of luxury items the rest of the…
Q/A: Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch is one of America’s most eloquent and original social critics. In the last three decades, Crouch has published…