Last week I saw 20 films in five days at Sundance. With just over 200 films listed in the index, that means I barely covered 10% of the slate. Documentaries are a Sundance forté, so it’s not surprising that almost half of the films I screened fall into this category. Similarly, as most docs these [...]

In my last post I explained the reasoning behind my programming choices for the first half of my Spring arthouse film calendar, today I finish the job. I accept the fact that anyone looking at my program will inevitably point to one (or more, perhaps even many) titles here and, in essence, ask the following [...]

I celebrated the new year by proofing a final mock-up of my Spring arthouse calendar film series program. It will screen about 50 films. Some new. Some old. The selection usually nets an equal amount of praise and criticism. I put out a sneak preview of coming attractions on my FaceBook page the other day [...]

Amelia Earhart is making headlines again. Scientists recently discovered some bone fragments on Nikumaroro, a deserted South Pacific island, along with additional artifacts (aircraft bearings, a potential flight-suit zipper pull, improvised tools, and more). DNA tests are pending. Earhart’s disappearance on July 2, 1937, while she was trying to become the first woman to fly [...]

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Three months ago we lost a major talent in the world of animation. Satoshi Kon was only 46-years-old when he died of pancreatic cancer. He was the Japanese anime director behind Perfect Blue (1998), Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), Paranoia Agent (2004), and Paprika (2006). He was on pre-production for The Dreaming Machine when [...]

The 33rd Stars Denver Film Festival still has a week to go. It offers up hundreds of films that were divided this year into 16 different programs, some of which are festival staples (such as Red Carpet Presentations and Documentary Films), others being very unique (case in point being the four-film selection titled Forgotten Transports: [...]

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday and I usually glut myself on horror films during the whole month of October. This long procession of cinematic and horror-related indulgences will be topped off tonight with a Blu-Ray screening of Hitchcock’s Psycho (advance word on the transfer is very positive), but my Morlock contribution today will [...]

A nice 35mm print of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960) is making the theatrical rounds thanks to Rialto Pictures. (Its next three screening engagements are in Boulder, Chicago, and Charlottesville.) Peeping Tom has interesting similarities to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Both were released the same year and feature seemingly shy and timid protagonists with murderous issues. [...]