Look around you. Read more
To Perform the Job Well: an interview with Tradesmen filmmaker Richard Yeagley
January 30th, 2012 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (1 Comments)
Every year a vast number of films are gathered by the IndieFlix acquisitions team, or drop through the mail slot, or show up in a basket on the stoop. “Please love this movie and give it a good home,” says the note pinned to the bubble-padded envelope. And so we do. But like most guardians, if they’re honest, sometimes it’s hard not to have a favorite or two among the brood. Read more
Say NO to Death: why do we love post-apocalypse movies?
December 13th, 2011 | Posted by in Movie Reviews | New Releases | Uncategorized - (1 Comments)
Most of us know we’re going to die someday. But we don’t really know this until we approach middle age, when we suddenly find ourselves at the halfway mark between our birth and our death. From here forward, the time we have left on earth is measurable within our own experience. For the first time, our own death fits inside our head. Read more
You Can Make Your Own Difficulties: a conversation with Lars von Trier
November 15th, 2011 | Posted by in Film Festivals | IndieFlix in the Media | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)
Danish director Lars Von Trier is a big believer in the value of obstacles. In his approach to filmmaking, an obstacle can concentrate the creative energies. “You can make your own rules,” he says in the IndieFlix short film, A Conversation with Lars Von Trier: “You can make your own difficulties.” Read more
Midnight Excess: the cult of the midnight movie
October 18th, 2011 | Posted by in Movie Reviews | New Releases | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)
Born out of the rubble of Old Hollywood into the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s, the Midnight Movie was not so much a new way of making films as a new way of seeing them. Read more
Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer! The Western as American mythology
September 15th, 2011 | Posted by in Movie Reviews | New Releases | Uncategorized - (1 Comments)
One of the most popular genres of the last century of cinema has been the Western, which celebrates and sometimes condemns the contradictions at the heart of the American Myth. Read more
Singin’ in the Dark: songs that originated in the movies
September 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (1 Comments)
The movies have given us some great songs over the years. Read more
The Eye of the Beholder: movies, context, and race
August 23rd, 2011 | Posted by in Movie Reviews | New Releases | Uncategorized - (2 Comments)
This week’s featured titles in the IndieFlix Classics series are three films that provide three different contexts for African Americans in early Hollywood. Read more
And What Kind of a Middle Name Is “Night”?
August 18th, 2011 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (2 Comments)
The twists aren’t the problem. Read more
Filmmaker Spotlight: Gayle Kirschenbaum
August 12th, 2011 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)
Read more about ‘My Nose’ director, Gayle Kirschenbaum’s KickStarter campaign! Read more
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