Perspectives from a Professor
Looking at Art Cinema Series Hope to see you at a series I’m curating for aperture cinema the last Saturday in April and the first two in May; there we can watch and discuss teachers who “cross the line” in different ways. These films are challenging and should lead to great discussion, which means we …
This new series on Hulu moved me more than I expected. Much more… Based on a memoir by Lindy West, Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman, the series stars Aidy Bryant as a woman who, as the logline puts it, “seeks out ways to change her life without changing her body.”
See Buddies Saturday, March 23 at Wake Forest University at 7 p.m. in the Byrum Welcome Center. At first, this watershed film — representing a genre now known as queer cinema — seems simplistic, or even slight, but very quickly it becomes engrossing and deeply moving. Buddies, released in 1985, was the first film released …
Movies change for us over time because we change. The first time I saw Gone with the Wind was at the age of six. Back then, before video technology (let alone DVDs and streaming video), the only way to see some classic movies was when they would go into theatrical re-release every few years. Gone with the Wind has shaped me as a …
For several months I’ve been meaning to watch Sara Colangelo’s second feature. (I was quite impressed with her first from 2014, Little Accidents.) Perhaps I delayed watching The Kindergarten Teacher because, more than most movies, I knew this one would require my focus; after all, examining depictions of educators in popular culture is one of my major research …