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 ...

MARSHALL — Filming for East Texas filmmaker David Ford’s latest movie, “Preacher Man,” has started with extras needed this week in Hallsville. “It’s such a beautiful story of redemption,” said actress ...

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 ...

Guillermo del Toro was a young child growing up in Mexico when he first saw James Whale's 1931 film adaptation of "Frankenstein." The film was an epiphany for the young boy, who spent every Sunday ...

Paris-based Luxbox has acquired the international sales rights to Iván Fund’s Berlinale Competition title “The Message” (El Mensaje). Set in the Argentinian countryside, the film centers on a girl ...