$3 movie tickets!

August 30, 2022 at 3:53 am

THIS SATURDAYIn an effort to get people into seats, major movie theater companies including AMC and Regal will be participating in National Cinema Day on Saturday, September 3/2022 Every movie and every showing in every format will be three bucks. So now is the time to see the re-release of […]

‘Every medium has its own language’

August 23, 2022 at 10:22 pm

“I used to only want to be a painter. That was it for me. I ended up at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and I was in this little cubicle in our big shared studio one night around ten o’clock. I was painting a three-foot square of a […]

Surviving violence

March 18, 2022 at 10:47 pm

“You have to understand something about surviving violence. It is always with you. It is something you will never get over. And just as you are never going to get over it you incorporate the experience into the fabric of your life. It becomes a part of you.” This resonated […]

I love short films!

August 18, 2021 at 12:21 pm

We should have a class! Bex, get on it. (Please.) (Yes, I know that it is not your role. Umm, Emily?) Check out the Vancouver Film School YouTube channel .

Some music for peeps

May 25, 2021 at 1:53 pm

Music + WritingI love this Simon and Garfunkel song. Music is often inspiring to me. The score to Alfred Hitchcock‘s film North by Northwest helped me write what was supposed to be a short story for a college writing class. It ended up on the path to being a novel. […]

Art versus algorithms

February 21, 2021 at 2:12 pm

In a new essay for Harper’s Magazine honoring Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese argues that streaming services have “systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced” the art of cinema by turning films into “content.” He distinguishes between human curation that highlights particularly meaningful works of art and algorithms that “treat the viewer […]

Reimagining movie posters

February 21, 2021 at 12:23 pm

I love this site. Artists create their own versions of movie posters.