Meaning is a tricky thing, and this is particularly true in the movies, which, like other kinds of texts, are highly suspect to the particular viewing perspectives of their audience(s). Indeed, the ...

In December 1999, John Luppert of Spokane flew to Hawaii to join his brother’s Coast Guard ship for the final leg of its return to Seattle. “The Coast Guard has a program which allows crewman to ...

Silvia Rodríguez Grijalba knows the impact film can have on a community. As the director of Cine Magnífico, she looks for films that represent Latin stories. This year’s Cine Magnífico — which marks ...

There are shades of Peter Bogdanovich’s 1973 Depression-set comedy Paper Moon in Argentinian director Iván Fund’s melancholy road movie The Message. Aside from crisp black-and-white cinematography and ...

Kenyan filmmaker Vincho Nchogu makes her feature directorial debut with the pastoral drama "One Woman One Bra," a story of womanhood, community and the struggle to reshape African narratives that ...

Dialogue is one of the most overrated aspects of filmmaking. Even in the Golden Age of silent film — during the reign of masters like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd — filmmakers were ...