Glenn’s Pick – Glenn Webb, Director of Programs – This week we have some great movies, but I need to show some love to the Friday Night Weird selection, La Casa Lobo (The Wolf House.) It’s a hybrid form of animation, mixing stop-motion and hand painting, as backgrounds spontaneously morph into new settings, and papier-mâché characters are …
Glenn’s Pick – Glenn Webb, Director of Programs – I can’t remember who said it, whether it was Utah Phillips or Woody Guthrie or someone else, but the quote is, “Music is way too important to leave it to the professionals.” Now I have utmost respect for professional musicians, for the hard work and dedication …
– Glenn’s Pick by Glenn Webb, Director of Programs – In my past life as a touring sound engineer, I unexpectedly found myself traveling to Weimar, Germany with a couple of days to kill between rehearsal and show. So I wandered through the birthplace of Bauhaus architecture and had a transcendent educational experience. Architecture exists …
Glenn’s Pick by Glenn Webb, Director of Programs – At first glance, it might look like an anthropological documentary about how the Yakut people live in the Far North, but Ága is actually a family drama told in a strikingly sparse way. Rather than sharp dialogue and plot pyrotechnics, this movie shows an old couple going about their …
theknow.deverpost.com | By John Wenzel Sep 19, 2019, 6:00 am – The mushroom boom is here. It didn’t arrive as quickly, or with as much fanfare, as the Green Rush that followed the statewide legalization of cannabis in 2014. But it’s here. “It’s certainly drafting off of the expanded awareness that cannabis brought to the market,” said Louie Schwartzberg, …
https://thedairy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/bunel-trim-insta.mp4 Glenn’s Pick by Glenn Webb, Director of Programs – One thing that continues to blow my mind about movies is that there are so many ways to tell a story in this medium. It may seem surprising that a movie about the famous and influential filmmaker Buñuel making a documentary back in 1933 would …
