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The American Short Film Awards Announce 2016 Winners
The American Short Film Awards recently announced their 2016 winners: Best short film: TWINSBURG Best Drama: THE MOTHER Best Comedy: HOW TO SURVIVE A BREAKUP Best Horror: VICIOUS Best Animation: SCHIROKA Best Documentary: A SYSTEM OF JUSTICE Best Experimental: ENTER … Continue reading
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Third Annual Short Film Awards Announces Winners
“The Sofies” Honor The Giants Of Short Film NEW YORK-The Third Annual Short Film Awards has announced the 2016 competition winners in 20 categories. Winners received their “Sofie” trophies at the awards ceremony hosted by actor Rico E. Anderson, at … Continue reading
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Reminder: Open Call 9.1 Papers Due on February 1
Undergraduates, we’re seeking your film-related research papers for open call 9.1 today — the deadline is near! For more details about eligibility and the review process, please see the original announcement: Announcing Open Call for Papers 9.1 Email Liza Palmer (futurefilmscholars … Continue reading
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FM 7.2 (2016) Is Out!
Issue 7.2 of Film Matters is officially out. It’s a 2016 issue — on the theme of filmic adaptation — guest edited by Greg Chan and his undergraduate students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. In this issue, you’ll find the following peer-reviewed feature … Continue reading
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Captain Fantastic (2016). Reviewed by Frederik Hartmann
Captain Fantastic (Ross, 2016) imagines an intellectual experiment in child-rearing. In it, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife, Leslie (Trin Miller), have decided to raise their spawn in a remote area of the Pacific Northwest. We enter the story … Continue reading
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2016 Telluride Horror Show: Introduction
Tucked into the gorgeous mountain village of Telluride, Colorado, the Telluride Horror Show (telluridehorrorshow.com) captures an intimately local, if eerily secluded feeling. I had to fly to Denver, make a connecting flight to tiny Montrose Regional Airport, and then take … Continue reading
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Raw (Grave, 2016). Reviewed by Zach Villemez
The Body Horror Hype Machine Raw Is Surprisingly Delightful Raw was one of the secret screenings at Telluride Horror Show. No one going into the theater knew what they were about to see. One of the festival programmers stood at … Continue reading
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The Eyes of My Mother (2016). Reviewed by Zach Villemez
The Eyes of My Mother Will Make You Feel for the Killer The Eyes of My Mother (2016) is writer/director Nicolas Pesce’s debut film, feature or otherwise, but something this affecting and beautiful has no business as a first effort. … Continue reading
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We Are the Flesh (Tenemos la carne, 2016). Reviewed by Zach Villemez
We Are the Flesh Doesn’t Quite Win My Filthy Heart This is definitely a weird one. We Are the Flesh (2016) is feverish, often abstract, artsy, and almost plotless, but its most glaring trait, what everyone will be talking about, … Continue reading
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Documenting History: From Iran: A Separation. Reviewed by Mina Radovic
Cinema Guild’s latest release of the documentary From Iran: A Separation (2013) explores the intimate significance of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning A Separation (2011) for the people of Iran: its reception, how its accolades confirmed Iran’s presence in contemporary world cinema, … Continue reading
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