Guys on Girls on Film
From time to time there is a banner year for female characters. A great fuss is made about how movie-land…
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On The Scene
In the heart of San Francisco’s Japantown at the Radisson Miyako Hotel, a roomful of filmmakers and community activists celebrated…
Is documentary the new memoir?
I am a sociologist who conducts historical research on race and social policy, so my work has something in common…
Kara Walker at REDCAT
At the opening reception for Kara Walker’s multimedia project “Song of the South” at downtown LA’s REDCAT Gallery, the artist…
Thinking Outside the Can
For years, digital cameras and post-production equipment have been changing the way films are budgeted, shot, and edited. But no…
On The Scene
New York cinephiles will endure a great deal of discomfort to see great independent films: the noise of the F…
Netflix and the afterlife of indies
For a documentary, Deadline (2004) was, by all accounts, a big success. The film, which profiled Illinois Governor George Ryan…
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…
As I start writing this, I’ve just ejected from my VCR the 349th entry for this year’s Revelation Perth International…
Soul Tracks
The image of the hip black detective played by Richard Roundtree in Gordon Parks’s unforgettable 1971 film, Shaft, precursor to…