AltWeeklies Wire
Summer movie preview of the good, the bad, and the hopefulnew
Here's a look at the next four months of your movie life.
Charleston City Paper |
Dan Hudak |
04-30-2014 |
Movies
The best of Sundance 2014 didn't take their subjects too seriouslynew
For 11 days in Utah's mountains in January, not a flake of precipitation fell on the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. And the cheery blue skies could not possibly have been a better match for the mood of the festival's best films.
Charleston City Paper |
Scott Renshaw |
01-29-2014 |
Movies
Michael Apted talks Appalachia, documentaries, and authenticitynew
Feature films, documentaries, television — you name it, director Michael Apted has done it. The British-born, critically-acclaimed director has accrued an extensive body of work that includes such disparate and impressive credits as Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorky Park, Bring on the Night, Gorillas in the Mist, episodes of the HBO series Rome, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Charleston City Paper |
Colleen Glenn |
08-21-2013 |
Movies
Park Chan-Wook's thriller delves deep into psychosexual territorynew
That's when Chan-Wook takes over, and it's a bloody, hallucinogenic marvel.
Charleston City Paper |
Jake Mulligan |
03-21-2013 |
Movies
Horrific Hilaritynew
These horror films were never meant to be funny... but they are.
Charleston City Paper |
Kevin Young |
10-24-2012 |
Movies
Let's celebrate 100 years of the Titanic with a 3-D movienew
I already knew that Jack would die.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
04-05-2012 |
Movies
Some Cry Foul at the Closure of CofC's Center for the Documentarynew
Virginia Friedman may be out of a job, but the awards keep rolling in. Last month, her film Tap Out took the Southern Lens Independent Vision Award at the 2011 Beaufort International Film Festival. In May, the environmental documentary will air at the Charleston International Film Festival.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
04-13-2011 |
Movies
Six Directors, 126 Actors, and Two Days in North Chucknew
Two days, six directors casting as many as nine film and stage productions, and 126 actors — most of them previously unknown to the directors and their companies — cycled through a mass casting call in five-minute segments. Nerve-jangling for the actors? Sure. But a tangible step toward a better-connected local indie community.
Charleston City Paper |
Dan Conover |
01-28-2009 |
Movies
The Bollywood Connection: Local company ReelSports, like Sylvester Stallone and Snoop Dogg, is on the vangaurd of India's global ascentnew
What's fueling this fusion of East and West? Partly the desire of Westerners to seize the opportunity to work in an interesting and hospitable environment. Far more important, though, has been the desire of Bollywood to impress Western audiences and to make larger forays into savvy and lucrative Western markets.
Charleston City Paper |
Dan McCue |
08-20-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Chakde! India, Shimit Amin
Hard-Boiled, Soft-Centered: What does Casablanca mean in a post-9/11 world?new
Conservatives will lay nostalgic claim to Casablanca as an exemplar of tradition to be gotten back to; liberals like it, because its idealism is worldy, not naïve, and tough enough to triumph over both wrongness and cynicism.
It endures as a classic because both parties are essentially correct.
Charleston City Paper |
Jonathan Kiefer |
07-23-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Casablanca, Michael Curtiz
Can a Teen Pregnancy Flick Win the Oscar?new
It depends on how you look at comedy. Juno is the lone comedy among films that in retrospect might mark 2007 as the Year of Drear.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
02-20-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Juno
