Coming Attractions at The Screen Sept. 26 – Oct. 2 Showcasing the best in classical, independent and foreign cinema, The Screen cinematheque at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design presents new releases, special cinema events and performances all day every day! See what critics have to say about the latest screenings, watch a trailer, then visit The Screen for a unique movie-going experience. Horses of God Belgium – 2013 – 1 hour 55 min. Winner of 2013 Cannes Film Festival’s Best Director “Year-long grooming provides explanatory social context in how marginalized kids get caught up in organized violence to get a sense of control over powerless lives.” – Nora Lee Mandel of Film Forward “Quietly powerful, haunting, unflinchingly honest and character-driven.” —Avi Offer of NYC Movie Guru Jealousy France – 2013 – 1 hour 17 min. Nominated Best Director of Venice Film Festival 2013 “Short and anything but sweet, Jealousy is a good entry point to Garrel’s filmography, for those new to the director’s work.” —Kimber Myers of The Playlist “Philippe Garrel’s movies feel like ghost stories: delicate, enigmatic, and haunted by some indelible, unnameable presence, which a viewer can’t help but suspect is the director’s own past.” —Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of AV Club “Call it a masterpiece.” —Ray Pride of Newcity One Day Pina Asked… France – 1983 – 57 min. Original ’83 Television Broadcast Restored One Night only Sept. 27, 11:15 a.m. Flat $7 “Akerman’s film is a work of modestly daring wonder, of exploration and inspiration. With her audacious compositions, decisive cuts, and tightrope-tremulous sense of time-and her stark simplicity-it shares, in a way that Wender’s film doesn’t, the immediate exhilaration of the moment of creation. Akerman’s film is of a piece with Bausch’s dances.” —Richard Brody of The New Yorker “Astonishing! [With One Day...
Coming Soon
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Coming Attractions at The Screen Sept. 19-25 Showcasing the best in classical, independent and foreign cinema, The Screen cinematheque at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design presents new releases, special cinema events and performances all day every day! See what critics have to say about the latest screenings, watch a trailer, then visit The Screen for a unique movie-going experience. Happy Christmas USA – 2014 – 1 hour 18 min. A Joe Swanberg comedy starring Anna Kendrick and Lena Dunham “A quiet, serious comedy about marriage, parenthood and the everyday strains of bringing up a rambunctious toddler while struggling to sustain a creative life.” -Stephen Holden of New York Times “This semi-improvised indie accomplishes its modest goal, which is to explore the way a vexing relationship between in-laws can yield unexpected personal growth and warm bonds of affection.” – Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune . . . Fifi Howls From Happiness France – 2013 – 1 hour 36 min. The True Story of the “Persian Picasso” “Critic’ pick! Addictively fascinating. The lovely meeting of artistic sensibilities makes this dos sing.” – Michael Atkinson of Village Voice “Five stars! Stunningly multifaceted. Surprising and deeply affecting.” -Keith Uhlich of Time Out NY “Thoughtful, moving…A portrait of the artist as a refusenik, a recluse, a survivor and a stubborn question mark, “Fifi Howls From Happiness” registers, by turns, as a celebration, an excavation and an increasingly urgent rescue mission.” -Manohla Dargis of The New York Times< . . . Expedition to the End of the World Denmark – 2013 – 1 hour 10 min. Winner of Reykjavik Film Festival’s 2013 Best Director Award “The amazing imagery of stony beaches and stubbornly frozen fjords suggests nature’s utter indifference to human presence, a well-trodden theme here given an entertainingly trick-up treatment.” – Adam Nayman of Globe...
Nuclear Drama
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Since its July premiere on WGN America, the new TV series “Manhattan,” shot in SFUAD’s very own backyard, has fans and critics exploding with positive feedback and heightened anticipation. TV critic Ed Bark of Unclebarky.com says the network’s second dramatic series is a “cerebral, character-driven morality play in which the stakes couldn’t be higher.” From Denver Post Television, critic Joanne Ostrow calls the show “Harvard with sand,” a “well-crafted, historically based drama” that “works its magic through a talented cast and a taut script.” In an interview conducted by Fox6Now news, “Manhattan” TV star John Benjamin Hickey (“The Good Wife,” “The Big C”) comments that writer Sam Shaw has taken an “imaginative leap of faith” in creating a show that could have been “historically accurate [to] this time and place and instead has focused on the emotional truth.” Unlike the city landscape of Woody Allen’s 1979 romance Manhattan, the “Manhattan” TV series takes place during WWII in the isolated desert of Los Alamos New Mexico, in which the race to create the most destructive weapon of war burdens top scientists and their families with maddening pressure and secrecy. With series like “Breaking Bad” and “Longmire” (recently cancelled pending new network ownership) in the New Mexico’s back pocket, “Manhattan” has kept the state thriving in network drama, bringing in names like director Thomas Schlamme (“The West Wing,” “Murder in the First”), writer Sam Shaw (“Masters of Sex”), and actors John Benjamin Hickey, Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense, Hyde Park on the Hudson), Daniel Stern (Home Alone, City Slickers) and Christopher Denham (Argo) to New Mexico. In an interview with Jackalope, creator and writer Sam Shaw with director Thomas Schlamme describe how the historical drama relates to New Mexico’s Manhattan Project and what they hope the locals will get out of it. Actors Daniel Stern (scientist Glen...
Manhattan Saves the Barracks
posted by Charlotte Martinez
SFUAD’s historic barracks receive new life from the TV show “Manhattan,” premiering in July on WGN.
Alice Under Skies
posted by Bego Aznar
In this interview, Marius Schanke, director, screenwriter and producer of the student film Alice Under Skies, based on the writings of Lewis Carroll, discusses the project.
Ronnie Gene Blevins: Rising Star
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Yes, it’s Nicolas Cage. No, it’s not entertainment. It’s a cinematic story adopted from Larry Brown’s 1991 novel, told in a spirit of blunt realism and within a not-so-fictional atmosphere of the gritty South. Involving gusty performances by actors like Ronnie Gene Blevins, the independent feature Joe, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by David Gordon Green, takes bold moves in character development and throws audience expectation out the window. As a student filmmaker and two-year-projectionist for The Screen, I honestly believe that features like Joe are what the cinematic experience is all about. So you think, Nicolas Cage plus David Gordon Green (known for Elf and Pineapple Express) must equal a high budgeted comedy, right? At least that’s what actor Blevins thought when he was offered the role as Willy Russell, the villain. To a small but intrigued audience at The Screen May 2, Blevins shared that it was his assumption of a big budget comedy that led him to sending “a larger than life” audition tape to director Green. Perhaps his performance was “against the type of the film,” but Blevins heard back from Green all the same, who said that a larger than life villain wasn’t so far from what he had in mind. “My brain was kind of scrambled,” Blevins says, explaining how director Green had requested an audition tape while Blevins was working “these long day in the middle of Appalachia.” Green, who had seen Blevins’ short role in The Dark Knight Rises as a bad guy truck driver, was interested in casting Blevins in the character of a Texas lowlife, but it was only after reading the script that the reality of Blevins’ dark and sadistic role in Joe sunk in. “My resumé includes a lot of bad guys, a lot of evil dudes and episodic [roles],” Blevins says. “This guy straight from the page, there’s just no humanity. So that’s kind of tough.” The challenge, the actor says, then becomes how not to pre-judge Willie and make him one-dimensional but to “find ways, when possible, to put some humor into him…humanity when possible.” It helps, Blevins says, that he’s actually from Texas, where the film was shot and takes place. Though Blevins’ resumé is already filled with impressive credits (including a successful writing career with productions American Cowslip and Eiderdown Goose), he says that working with Nicolas Cage and David Gordon Green has been a highlight of his career. The actor especially liked the role of Willie Russell because it was a role Green allowed him to develop on his own. “Green has a way of inspiring performances which is really quite beautiful and poetic,” Blevins says, “and he’s more inclined to shy away from the technical. He lets us do our thing and sees where it lands.” That atmosphere of improv, Blevins explains, was what kept the mood on set so “light and playful,” despite the darkness of the story. And even if the physical toll was high, like getting whiplash after Joe (Nicolas Cage) beats Willie Russell repeatedly, it was still all about allowing the actors to try anything and everything. Blevins says “there was nothing we could bring up that would be considered wrong.” And if a bar fight sounds too clichéd for a story about the South, it will make sense when the overload of guns, beer, pit bulls, junk yards, and police cars all pause for those moments of true humanity between Joe and Gary, the boy the character Joe takes under his wing. Perhaps more intriguing and certainly saddening, when casting the character of Gary’s abusive father, Green hired a homeless man named Gary Poulter, whose one-time acting role is characterized as “one of the great one-shot performances in the history of cinema,” by Rogerebert.com critic Peter Sobczynski. The term one-shot performance was used, Blevins explains, because two months after the film’s wrap, Poulter was found dead, face down in a river, the same...
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Head to The Screen to catch Kristin Wiig’s new film, Hateship Loveship, based on a short story by Alice Munroe. Plus, a look at the rest of the films screening May 9-15.
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
CineVision Film Festival and so much at The Screen May 2-8.
Longmire in New Mexico
posted by Charlotte Martinez
“Features are for sissies,” says Tom Walsh, production designer for the TV series “Longmire.” “I think that’s what the T-Shirt should say, because television requires a combination of stamina and humor.”
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Nicolas Cage returns to his independent film roots. Joe is based on Larry Brown’s novel. A Q/A with actor Ronnie Gene Blevins happens May 1, 7 p.m. Tickets on sale.
CineVision
posted by Charlotte Martinez
“There’s no better teacher than to do it,” says Film 4 Change Executive Director Rich Henrich, creator of the first CineVision Festival at The Screen, May 1-4. Henrich says the idea for CineVision sprang from the constant curiosity of students regarding how to create and run a film festival.
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
This week at The Screen, be sure to catch the SFUAD student-created Three Poems, Three Films, and so much more.
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
This weekend, check out Le-Weekend, winner of Best Film in the 2013 British Film Awards, as well as other offerings April 11-17 at The Screen.
Q/A w/ Alvie Hurt
posted by Sandra Schonenstein
SFUAD film student Alvie Hurt discusses his motivation and process in his work.
Actor Daniel Williams
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Actor Daniel Williams fits the cowboy type, the outdoorsy type, the “old creepy man” type and the professor type. He has swaggered about in “Longmire’s” Red Pony Solon, taken advice from Morgan Freeman in Transcendence (opening April 18, 2014), and even stepped into the sandals of Apollo and the boots of a Neverland pirate. He’s a retired air force officer, martial artist, teacher and New Mexico traveling man who puts family first, his acting career second, his photography career third, and never misses an opportunity to work with students— especially those here at SFUAD’s Film School.
Coming Soon
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Films at The Screen April 4-11 range from Arctic Cowboys to Strangers by Lake
Coming Soon
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Award-nominees and winners abound at this week’s films showing at The Screen.
Longmire in Benildus
posted by Charlotte Martinez
“Longmire” transformed Benildus Hall into a hospital wing for a day—look for it in episode one of the show’s third season.
Kirk Waters
posted by Alejandra Rodriguez
Kirk Waters is a new film major at SFUAD who shares with us his story, as he tries to achieve his dreams, despite the challenges of being legally blind. “I came here to go back to my passion of music and achieve my goals,” he says.
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
From an eight-year-in-the-making epic masterpiece, to Romania’s Oscar nominations, to the behind-the-scenes making of a ballet star—check out this week’s offerings at The Screen.
Q/A: Osman Tahirbeyoglu...
posted by Max Matias
SFUAD film student Osman Tahirbeyoglu talks about his love for film, animation and drawing.
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Attention dancers: Don’t miss Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil le Clercq. Attention everyone else: Don’t miss the great films showing at The Screen March 7-13.
Manhattan
posted by admin
Gov. Susana Martinez visited the SFUAD campus on March 5 to announce the WGN America series “Manhattan,” premiering in July.
Oscar Night
posted by Nicholas Beckman
Red carpet? Check. Hors d’oeuvres? Check. Movies? Check. A look at SFUAD’s Oscar night, held on campus March 2.
Pick Me!
posted by Charlotte Martinez
The Screen will host a program of Oscar-nominated Shorts. Check out the showtimes!
Shoot The Stars Premiers
posted by Raimundo Estela
The three Shoot the Stars films premiere on campus March 2.
Three Poems Three Films
posted by Ash Haywood
Three Poems Three Films, a collective composed of current students and alumni of the film and creative writing departments at Santa Fe University of Art and Design, recently had its first meeting for the Spring semester, and began discussing its plan to unite the visuals of poetry with the possibilities in film. A culminating event will take place in April at The Screen.
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
The Rocket, Oscar Shorts and more show this week at The Screen.
Directing Studi
posted by Nicholas Beckman
“It must be a dictatorial role,” actor Wes Studi says of directing, during a Feb. 5 visit to Hank Rogerson’s directing class.
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
This week’s attractions at The Screen include the much-anticipated 2014 Oscar-nominated short films.
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