On Saturday, your sniffling correspondent braved the snow to attend a screening of one of the nominees for this year’s Independent Film Spirit Awards at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center. So far, the Walker has already screened half of the 21 indie films on its schedule. The film I attended was one of last year’s biggest…
Arts, Home
Grandview Review: The Post explores Pentagon Papers reporting
Steven Spielberg revisits the 1971 leaking of the Pentagon Papers — classified documents detailing the extent of clandestine US activity in the ongoing Vietnam War — in this tense political drama. Battle lines are drawn between government and press as the Washington Post decides whether to publish the Papers in the face of legal and…
Arts
24 Frames Per Second: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
By Justin Secor [email protected] There is no such thing as Ebbing, Missouri. Trying to find it on a map is an impossible task. The action of the film, though based in some sort of reality, is entirely fictional. It’s shown as a projection on a screen in a movie theatre, a place where people go…
Arts
Film review: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project
The Florida Project, starring Willem Dafoe, is the fourth feature project by director Sean Baker. Baker’s direction of the film is deft and poised. It is set in Orlando and deals with the lives of a working poor mother (Bria Vinate) and her daughter, Moonee (Brooklynn Prince). It follows their experience living out of a…
Arts
Movie Review: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
The film opens and we see middle-aged dad Danny Meyerowitz (Adam Sandler) yelling and cursing to his daughter about not being able to find parking on the street in New York. They talk about how she’s going off to college and they’re going to be seeing her grandfather, but the conversation devolves into another yelling…
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The Grandview Review: Blade Runner 2049
The year is 2049. Earth is a prison, home only to those unable to escape to the offworld colonies. Almost all natural life is extinct. The past is bleak, the present even bleaker. Yet the future could hold something that also seems close to extinction in this dark world: hope. This is the universe of…
Features
German students show off vocabulary in biennial Filmfest
Last Thursday, November 3 marked the Macalester German department’s fourth biennial Filmfest. The event began with a black-tie reception in the Smail Gallery, during which students and faculty mingled on the red carpet. After photographs and hors d’oeuvres, guests proceeded to watch the short films. The theme of this year’s Filmfest was “German words we…
Arts
Seven horror films from around the world
Tired of watching horror films such as Friday the 13th or Texas Chainsaw Massacre and looking for something different? Below are seven films from seven different countries that will definitely provide you with an unusual horror movie-watching experience. United States: The House of the Devil An ingenious attempt at a throwback to the 80s horror…
Arts, Content
Content: “The Revenant”, “The Big Short”
This, right here, is CONTENT, my weekly film column. Readers can expect the hottest takes in student journalism paired with film criticism that has been hailed by some “a weekly column.” “The Revenant” The most-hyped bear of the season contributes just a crumb of the violence that propels “The Revenant” across the northern plains. Leonardo…