Stage & Screen

The Springer Film Institute is excited to announce the wide variety of workshops in their Fall Sessions.  If you are just starting out, have some experience, or are just curious about the film industry in general, then there is a workshop for you.  Go to www.springerfilm.org to register.  Questions? Call 706-324-5714 x 270 or email director@springerfilm.org Fall Session I: Voiceover: Audiobooks and Animation – $375 Tuition ($150 deposit) 5 Week Workshop Series. Thursdays 6p-8p Aug….

We conclude our World Cup of Cinema with a rematch of the final game from the 2014 soccer World Cup: Germany and Argentina. As with soccer, both nations are formidable forces in international film. Argentina is home to the current best soccer player in the world, Leonel Messi, and, in my opinion, the world’s top film director, Lucrecia Martel. Her movies are like great works of literature, dense allegories about her nation and its perpetual…

If you follow the oft-complicated, interconnected world of Marvel’s cinematic and television universes, then you already know Luke Cage came out of the gate with a strong first season that unfortunately weakened in its back half. If you stuck with the Defenders long enough to actually see the team-up, then you are made of stronger stuff than some. I am very happy to report, however, that Luke Cage’s second season took note of the criticisms…

by Joe Miller The differences between Late Spring (K) and Early Summer (FS) are subtle. The films were released back to back in 1949 and 1951, and they both star Setsuko Hara as a woman in her late 20s named Noriko who’s unmarried and still living at home. Both were directed by the Japanese auteur Yasujirō Ozu, whose singular style of filmmaking has been among the most influential in the history of cinema. His camera…

by Joe Miller What a difference a year makes. Last year, the nominations for the Academy Awards prompted the hashtag #OscarsSoMale. This year, there are more women nominated in more categories than ever before, and more films about female characters are up for best picture. But the biggest breakthrough came with Rachel Morrison’s nomination for best cinematography, for Dee Rees’s Mudbound (NF). Morrison (who’s also cinematographer on Black Panther) cast this great American epic of…

Riverdance: 20th Anniversary World Tour The international Irish dance phenomenon is back by popular deman. Marking this eagerly-awaited return to stages across North America, the anniversary production features new costumes, new lighting, new projections and the addition of a brand new number, “Anna Livia,” featuring the female members of the Irish dance group in an acapella hard-show number. Make your reservation through the RiverCenter box offive at (706) 256-3612. Jan. 11, 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.,…