Interview by Greg Carlson The first Dakota Digital Film Festival will take place in Bismarck on March 30, 2012 at the Belle Mehus Auditorium. Submissions are being accepted until March 9, 2012. For more information about entering work or attending the event, email ddff@freetv.org or visit the Dakota Digital Film Festival Facebook page. The High […]
All posts for the month January, 2012
First Dakota Digital Film Festival
Posted by GBC on January 30, 2012
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Haywire
Movie review by Greg Carlson Frustratingly coy and belligerently reductivist, Steven Soderbergh’s “Haywire” cooks up a story that plays to the strengths of mixed martial artist/American Gladiator Gina Carano. Parallel to the employment of Sasha Grey in “The Girlfriend Experience,” Soderbergh’s selection of Carano in the lead role laces his movie with a sense of […]
Posted by GBC on January 23, 2012
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The Iron Lady
Movie review by Greg Carlson Waterlogged with the worst clichés of the biopic, not even a committed act of Meryl Streep’s vaunted mimicry can buoy “The Iron Lady.” Skittering over the highlights of Margaret Thatcher’s political career without ever stopping to take intellectual stock of the historical details that undoubtedly required tremendous thought, concentration, and […]
Posted by GBC on January 16, 2012
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Matt Kish Interview
Interview by Greg Carlson Ohio-based artist Matt Kish, who spent roughly 18 months illustrating “Moby-Dick” with a drawing for every page of the Signet Classics edition, has seen the fruits of his labor published as a beautiful, full color volume from Tin House Books. Kish will present a talk on Thursday, January 19 at 7:30pm […]
Posted by GBC on January 9, 2012
http://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=433
Nostalgia for the Light
Movie review by Greg Carlson The pre-eminent cinematic chronicler of his country’s history, Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman artfully revisits one of his guiding motifs in “Nostalgia for the Light,” one of the finest documentaries to make its way to United States viewers in 2011. Guzman’s oeuvre has been dominated by reflections on the 1973 Pinochet […]
Posted by GBC on January 2, 2012
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