From November 4 to November 20, the Walker Art Center and the University of Minnesota will be presenting And Yet She Moves: Reviewing Feminist Cinema, a film series showcasing the diverse international cinema of the “second wave” of the feminist movement. Spanning three decades and more than five countries (including Czechoslovakia, Cuba, England, and the U.S.), these films exhibit a complex, groundbreaking…

From ’60s Czech “girls gone bad” to a meticulous depiction of a Belgian mother’s domestic routine, the series “And Yet She Moves: Reviewing Feminist Cinema” highlights the complex contours of the so-called “secondwave” of the women’s movement. Walker film curator Sheryl Mousley and University of Minnesota English professor Paula Rabinowitz organized these 15 films in light of a broader resurgence of…

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film !Women Art Revolution (!W.A.R.)(which will be playing at the Walker in November in conjunction with our upcoming film series And Yet She Moves: Reviewing Feminist Cinema) has been nominated for the prestigious 2011 Freedom To Create Prize. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, on November 19. Other nominated artists include Ai Wei Wei…

Tonight the Walker Art Center will be screening the documentary Benda Bilili! for free, as part of its Target Free Thursday Nights series. This remarkable movie showcases an even more remarkable band: Staff Benda Bilili (loosely translated as “look beyond appearances”), a Congolese group comprised of four disabled musicians afflicted with polio since birth, as well as a rhythm section that features…

Following the wildfires that recently rampaged through Bastrop, Texas—leaving more than 1,550 homes destroyed in this small community—director Richard Linklater, actors Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey, and producer Ginger Sledge held a special fundraising premiere for their new film Bernieat Austin’s Paramount Theatre on Sunday, September 18. Co-presented by the Austin Film Society (along with…

George was born 1 hour after his twin brother Mike in Manhattan NY in 1942, and he grew up in the Bronx. When he was 12, inspired by their father’s prolific porno collection, George and his twin brother Mike made their first film. Shot on 8mm with a camera they got for their birthday, the twins fell in love with filmmaking. George and Mike worked together through the 60′s (and some beyond) making 15…

While the main screenings of Location:MN wrapped up last month, one key historical work continues to play for free in the Walker’s Lecture Room through this weekend. Hampton Alexander was shot around the former Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul and grew out of the work of the Inner City Youth League. Bobby Hickman, a leader of the Inner City Youth League, was inspired by the lessons spelled out by his…

As a form of late introduction (or internduction) we took a swing at interviewing each other. See below for Matt Levine’s interview of Jeremy Meckler, and Jeremy Meckler’s interview of Matt Levine (or vice versa). 1. What was the last film you saw in theatres? I saw Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s World on a Wire (Welt Am Draht) at the Trylon. It’s a 3 1/2 hour made-for-tv film by the notorious New German…

On August 25 1977, the Walker Art Center screened two films as part of its tribute to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Sam Peckinpah’s second feature film, Ride the High Country (1962), and John Boorman’s trippy actioner Point Blank (1967), starring Lee Marvin in what may be his most iconic role. (Point Blank also played, incidentally, as part of the Walker’s Summer Music & Movies series in 1999.) A double-feature that…