Stage & Screen

There’s just something special about a night at the movies — even today, with more streaming services than you can remember and every movie ever made at your fingertips, there’s just something about the theatre. The seats, the giant screen, the sound system, the sense of ceremony. The fact that you aren’t tempted to look away at your phone or get up and let the dog out every few minutes.  The theatre allows people to…

Cinephiles across America rejoiced last month at the return of the Criterion Channel, which had disappeared with the death of FilmStruck at the end of November. Now it’s back, and back with a vengeance, loaded up with cinematic gems that have heretofore gone unseen in the movie streaming-verse. As soon as it came online, I went straight for the greatly expanded Rainer Werner Fassbinder collection, where I found Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, a…

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…