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…

Building on a history of partnerships between their two institutions, Walker Art Center film curator Sheryl Mousley and University of Minnesota associate professor Charles Sugnet have produced a timely retrospective of the work of Ousmane Sembene, to screen in the Walker Cinema November 5-20.  Sugnet specializes in fiction and film of the African diaspora, with a focus on the work of Ousmane…

This month, the Walker Art Center presents four films from the life of notorious beat poet Allen Ginsberg. As a part of 1964 Ginsburg appears in Stockhausen’s Originale: Doubletakes.Screening through October 24th in the Friedman Gallery, Ginsberg appears alongside Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, and others in a performance filmed during Moorman’s Second Annual New York Avant-Garde…

Walker Film on Demand presents Shirin Neshat’sWomen Without Men, streamed to your home computer.  With help from Indiepix, the film can now be streamed live at www.womenwithoutmenfilm.com/walker. For $5.99, anyone in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa or Wisconsin can stream the film,  they might have missed, or watch it again.  This feature is available through June 30th. The after-screening discussion…

Six years ago, while the Walker was still under construction, a little-known Thai filmmaker was brought to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for a Walker Film/Video Regis Dialogue and Film Retrospective.  Apichatpong “Joe” Weerasethakul (A-pich-at-pong Wair-a-seth-ical) is a director who has always blended truth and fiction, split narratives and characters in two. It is what we do. We always…

In its fifth anniversary program, Queer Takes delves into the complexities of the topic of families within the LGBT community—those who have been rejected by their blood relatives and formed new families among tight kin they’ve chosen as well as those facing the challenge of obtaining legal and official recognition of their relationships.

Director Debra Granik is no newcomer to the harshness of reality. Drawn to subjects with daunting conflicts, Granik’s work focuses on perhaps the grittier facets of life, but does so in a present, observational manner—not to mention starkly beautiful. Similar in title, Down to the Bone, her first feature length film, shares the parallel themes of human struggle and perseverance withher latest release…

Béla Tarr is a bit of an enigma. He’s not interested in making things easy on his viewers.  His films are often called difficult, and even in interviews, he is not likely to give you many hints that will make them any easier. He likes to contradict himself, and often comes off as a bit of a contrarian. He seems to enjoy a spirited conversation, and even when he seems most passionate, or even a bit angry…

screens on April 28 at 7:30 pm as part of the Walker’s Views from Iran series. Tehroun is a captivating directorial debut by Nader T. Homayoun that is likely to surprise anyone who walks into the viewing with a preconceived notion of what “Iranian cinema” is as a whole.  Homayoun made the feature-length documentary Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution, this is his first feature-length narrative.  The…