Film

The Mastermind, the newest film from American director Kelly Reichardt, does a couple of things really well, and others, sadly, not so well. The story, set in the 1970s, centers…

Passes for the 2026 Cambria Film Festival scheduled February 4-8 are on sale now, but the steeply discounted Early Bird price ends Friday, December 12. An All-Access Pass (a $430…

The films of Jafar Panahi (The Mirror, Offside) had him imprisoned for six years and banned from filmmaking for 20 years by the Iranian government.  Panahi’s films are so controversial…

Danish-Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s most recent work, Sentimental Value, opens with aerial views of Oslo, Norway, and detailed scans of a handsome, richly finished, but aged Victorian home.  This house…

Photo courtesy of Netflix   Can a good film be based on an empty character? The answer can be found in Jay Kelly, a new movie written by Noah Baumbach…

The plucking of strings intermingle with the high-pitched sounds of wind instruments echoing on stage. Audience members, dressed in flapper dresses and fedoras, crowd the Harold J. Miossi Cultural and…

Step back in time with Orchestra Novo Sunday afternoon, November 16, when the live orchestra accompanies two classic silent movies at the Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts Center…

Photos by Mark Velasquez   When I was 13, I watched the movie Frozen with my sister as soon as it hit theatres. Naturally, as the younger sibling, I wore…

An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. Sugarcane, the debut feature film documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat…

Thomas Wolfe's novel famously advises You Can't Go Home Again. Ellen Sharpe seems determined to prove him wrong. Ellen is going nowhere fast. She fled the hardscrabble rural life of…