Earlier this week, the New Yorker’s Richard Brody posted an article online entitled “Camus, Car Crashes, Cinema.” A piece as multivalent and stimulating as its title suggests, Brody uses the recent hypothesis that Albert Camus’ 1960 death was not an accident but a meticulously staged assassination by the KGB as a springboard to ponder the intersection of Camus’ life with the legacy of French cinema (and…

Avant Garde Animator, Robert Breer, died on August 11 at 84 in his home in Tuscon. A painter, filmmaker and animator, Breer worked with such luminaries as Claes Oldenburg and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and developed an intensely formalist aesthetic, focusing on the minutest detail of the moving image. Working mostly with hand drawn images on 4 x 6 index cards, Breer invented his own style of animation in…

In addition to the Walker’s Summer Music and Movies series(which, as it happens, featured a retrospectiveof director Billy Wilder’s works back in 2002), the month of August will provide Twin Cities moviegoers with a handful of Billy Wilder films screening throughout Minneapolis. Bona fide classics like Some Like it Hot and Sunset Boulevard will be playing this month at the Heights, but lesser-known…

A little over a week ago, the 16 Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival wrapped up at the Castro Theatre, providing moviegoers not only with the opportunity to see some of the most invigorating visions ever put to celluloid (the festival’s typically stellar programming this year included F.W. Murnau’s inimitable Sunrise; Yasujiro Ozu’s sublimely bittersweet I Was Born, But…; and the bristling…

Last year was hard on Minneapolis. The winter was brutal and unrelenting, the Twins perpetually disappointing. Even Kevin Love’s record breaking double-double streak couldn’t lift the spirits of our Eeyore-esque worldviews, (everybody forgot my birthday … ). What we may not have noticed was that we were missing our semiannual outdoor art injections, as 2010-11 was a year without Summer Music and Movies…

Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know), who last visited the Walker in 2000 to show video and performance work from her Big Miss Moviola project, returns on July 8 to present her second feature, The Future, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals. Deftly balancing bathos and pathos, July’s film is a funny and unsettling tale about impending maturity and the responsibility…

Curated by IFP MN and the Walker Art Center, MNTV showcases the finest films and videos produced in the state over the past two years. The showcase is a series of three one-hour broadcasts on TPT, featuring short films by Minnesota filmmakers of all levels of filmmaking experience. Submit your films now! There is no cost to apply! • it will be broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television (TPT-TV) and…

Most of Ming Wong’s work is installation-based—video projections looped in galleries for unwitting spectators to wander in at any point in the video’s eternal repetition. What’s strange about this, is that Wong’s work is generally in direct dialogue with conventional, theater-based cinema. His radical recasting, restaging, and recontextualizing are the lifeblood of his work. From In Love for the Mood…

Between the complete 5-film Terrence Malick retrospectiveand Artists’ Cinema series,  the month of May is shaping into a cinephile’s delight. On Wednesday, May 11, the cinematic mayhem continues at the Walker with a special FREE screening of The First Grader, the latest effort by English television and film director Justin Chadwick. An official selection of the Telluride, Toronto, and London film…