"'Sampler quilts' are by nature an amalgamation of different patterned blocks, techniques, and experiments created by a quilter. While each block may seem different, they are held together by the container and boundaries of the quilt itself—its top, back, batting, and quilt work. Bay Area Sampler Quilt is my attempt to consider how to make a film like a quilt. Using built-in camera techniques, repetitions through contact printing, dying, and other experiments employed mimic what a quilter might do in assembling their work, this film explores how each frame, like a quilt block, can express a different creative register..." (AR) Commissioned for Canyon Cinema's Print Generations project.
Overall, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is plagued by numerous flaws, both from a quality and from a diversity standpoint. The film relies on gore and loud sounds to drown out its flat script, flatter dialogue, and one-dimensional characters.
Joel Coen has gone solo to create perhaps the greatest version of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' since Shakespeare himself.
When they’re young, they’re America’s darlings but, when they become teens and adolescents, they’re instantly perceived as harbingers of immorality. They’re Lindsay Lohan, Macaulay Culkin, Justin Bieber, and Britney Spears. But, despite what many media outlets, politicians, and the general public may think, they are human beings above anything else. The new Billie Eilish documentary, Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, proves this — showing the trials, tribulations, and humanity when growing up with all the world’s eyes on you.
The cancelling of these series is being blamed on the writers' strike and low viewership, but it's just the latest example of the industry's lack of appreciation for stories about queer women.
It's good for your film viewing needs, but isn’t going to shake your world. Demonic is trippy sci-fi fun, and that’s about it. And that's pretty cool.
An attempt to capture nostalgia that unfortunately just doesn’t work
