He [Jeff Bridges as The Dude] just totally got it. Toward the end of shooting he’d just ask us, “Did the dude blaze one on the way here?” and if we said yes, he’d just rub his eyes. Former Walker Regis Dialogue honorees Joel and Ethan Coen have released their newest film: True Grit, a remake of Henry Hathaway’s 1969 classic. The original film, based on a novel by notoriously underrated American author…

Last week, the Walker began screening three versions of the David Wojnarowicz film, A Fire in My Belly . These free screenings will be held in the Walker Lecture room at 11:30 am on days when the galleries are open, through the end of December. There will be an additional showing on Thursdays at 8:30 pm. There has been a lot in the press and online about the removal of A Fire in my Belly from Hide…

In the fall of 2008, the Walker paid tribute to English writer-director Mike Leigh with the ten film retrospective and regis dialogue, Mike Leigh: Moments. Over the course of Leigh’s marvelous and prolific career, he’s garnered special attention for bringing psychological and emotional clarity to a decidedly English brand of mannered comedy. His latest ensemble piece, Another Year, opened at the 2010…

As a part of World Aids Day, Ira Sachs’ Last Address will be screening at museums across the country.  The Tate Modern, The Museum of Art & Design, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Museum, El Museo de Barrio, Grey Art Gallery at NYU, CCS Gallery at Bard College, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, and The LGBT Center of NYC, among others, will mark 20 years of action…

At the Walker we are proud of the success of the recent film retrospective, Ousmane Sembene: African Stories, co-presented by the University of Minnesota’s Global Spotlight.  Not only did it bring out the Twin Cities’ film loving community in droves, but it sparked important discussions with the professors and authors who introduced the films.  This overwhelming success proved, once again, why the Twin…

To close off this month’s Regis Dialogue and Retrospective, Olivier Assayas: Between Love and Terror, the Walker will screen Assayas’ epic new work, Carlos, this Saturday and Sunday. The five-and-a-half-hour portrait will include two intermissions, and span 20 years of Carlos the Jackal’s revolutionary life. Every ticket will also include a limited edition program book from the IFC center in New York…

Benjamin Heisenberg, a young director in the New German Cinema movement, will be here this Wednesday to introduce his newest film, The Robber (Der Räuber). After a successful run through the festival circuit, this film is finally making its rounds to the Twin Cities, and will be screening one time only here at the Walker Cinema. Heisenberg is a part of a new group being referred to as the New German…

We at the Walker are pleased to be one of three U.S. sites hosting filmmaker Olivier Assayas and a retrospectiveof new prints of his films (along with BAMcinématek in New York and the American Cinematheque in LA). This Wednesday, Kent Jones joins Assayas on the Walker Cinema stage to discuss his prolific filmography, inspirations, and history. In addition to the retrospective, October 30-31, Assayas’ new…

Just in time for the Minneapolis release of the new film Howl, the Walker Channel now features the introduction and post-screening Q&A for the Twin Cities premiere of the film that took place in our Cinema on September 30. In attendance were directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and producers Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Walker. Take a look! Oscilloscope Laboratories is releasing the film…