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Tickets On Sale For Mpls-St. Paul Film Festival
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tickets are now on sale for the 2011 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Opening night is next Thursday. For the first time, the festival opens with three films — “Page...
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Movie Blog: MSP Int’l Film Fest Bursting At Seams
By Eric Henderson, WCCO The snow is melting, the birds are chirping, and once again, thousands of film fans are preparing to spend more time indoors than out. That’s because the Minneapolis-St. Paul...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Page One’
By Jonathon Sharp, WCCO Imagine life at the New York Times media desk during the death throes of the newspaper publishing industry and you’ll only have an idea about Page One – a documentary by Andrew...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Cracks’
By Eric Henderson, WCCO The atmosphere of scandal permeates nearly every frame of the polished but lurid Cracks. Eva Green, better known as the unofficial “best Bond girl of all time” (or so the...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Murder Songs’
By Stephen Swanson, WCCO Part of me wants to sum up Small Town Murder Songs as Fargo without the funny or the quirky, but that would be harsh. Yes, the lead is Coen Bros. vet and Swedish treasure Peter...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: Int’l Shorts
By Stephen Swanson, WCCO International Narrative Shorts serves up four films between ten and thirty minutes in length, with genres ranging from family drama to supernatural horror. From Algeria,...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Aftershock’
By Eric Henderson, WCCO Aftershock, China’s submission for Academy Award consideration in the best foreign film category, could be taken as the Titanic of the People’s Republic. It’s currently...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Mad Bastards’
By Eric Henderson, WCCO With buttery panoramic imagery and free range cinematography, the Australian drama Mad Bastards is a raw but frequently poetic look at the lives, in a matter of speaking, of the...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlights: ‘Journey,’‘Useful Life’
Journey Of A Dream By Stephen Swanson, WCCO Journey of a Dream is a fantastic exploration of the Tibetan diaspora and the movement to free Tibet from Chinese occupation, all through the eyes of a...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlights: ‘Mailer,’‘Assassins’
By Eric Henderson, WCCO Norman Mailer: The American Norman Mailer — a cultural icon in the ’60s and ’70s and, to my generation, the punchline of a particularly nasty joke on The Simpsons. In the...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlights: 2 Docs, ‘Applause’
By Eric Henderson, WCCO No shortage of what the MSPIFF Facebook page just termed “post-Easter brunch options” today. And some of them are, I hate to tell those of you already nursing a chocolate egg...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Russian Lessons’
By Jonathon Sharp, WCCO Russian Lessons is a structurally strange and intense documentary on the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia. If you recall that incident, you’ll remember reading conflicting...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Bill Cunningham’
By Eric Henderson, WCCO According to the MSPIFF website, the top-rated movie (as measured by audience vote) still set to have another screening is Bill Cunningham New York. Why? Well, I have one...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘The Man Who Will Come’
By Eric Henderson, WCCO The WWII pictorial drama is probably going to forever be a staple of European cinema. Instead of the Cinema Paradiso school, call it Cinema Inferno. Which isn’t necessarily a...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Free Radicals’
By Jonathon Sharp, WCCO Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film plays like a hip-hop collaboration in which a rapper or producer features the rhymes and rhythms of his rapper and producer...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Sleeping Beauty’
By Eric Henderson, WCCO To be blunt, I’m not sure Catherine Breillat cares what I think about her movies. In fact, I’m sure she cares about what I don’t think about her movies. Actually, I suspect she...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘My Joy’
By Eric Henderson, WCCO The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival is winding down, but some of the biggest titles are still in play, at least so far as exposure on the international festival...
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Movie Blog MSPIFF Spotlight: ‘Stake Land’
By Stephen Swanson, WCCO The second to last night of MSPIFF bites … in a post-apocalyptic vampire kinda way. Stake Land has already won over horror fans and critics by mashing up some Cormac...
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Minn. Student Film Festival Friday In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A film festival celebrating the work of Minnesota high school students will be held Friday in Minneapolis. The fourth annual .EDU Film Festival runs from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at...
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Movie Blog: Cures For Summertime Movie Blues
That Hollywood’s usual Jujyfruit summer offerings this year have been subpar is no secret. Though the season kicked off with the megaton hit The Avengers, almost every big release since has...
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