“Sugarcane” Screens at SLO Film Center
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…
“After All” Is All About Family
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…
“Bugonia” Critiques Savage State of Humanity
One of my professors once told us there had been three major shocks to the human race: Copernicus shattered our fantasy by telling us that we are not at the…
This Isn’t Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
Photos courtesy of Netflix Over two hundred years after its original publication, Mary Shelley’s iconic novel Frankenstein has been adapted by Guillermo del Toro into a film. For those…
Hawke Gives Heart to Hart in “Blue Moon”
In the film Blue Moon, director Richard Linklater has given actor Ethan Hawke a play-like stage for his performance as the musing musical lyricist Lorenz (Larry) Hart. Hart was the…
“Smashing Machine” Is a Contender
“Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders.” — Walt Whitman ("The Poet of Prizefighters") Audiences love stories about fighters, because the…
Film Center “Founders Circle” Forges Ahead
“They feel called to support local cinema.” Skye McLennan is describing the donors who have already stepped up to support the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival’s campaign to ensure…
Truth and Deception Inhabit “Eleanor the Great”
Eleanor the Great begins with two elderly women who are best friends waking up in their Florida home—a fitting beginning to a film that treads the lines between dreaming and…
“One Battle After Another” Evokes Hope
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film stands as one of the best movies of the year. While watching One Battle After Another, I drew parallels to Eddington, Ari Aster’s newest film…
Screening Features Writers’ Conference Keynoter Sept. 25
As a prelude to the Central Coast Writers’ Conference, keynote speaker Rob Edwards will attend an exclusive screening of Disney’s The Princess and the Frog at the Palm Theater in San Luis…