Film festival will try to bridge gap between artists, audience
Award-winning filmmakers both local and national will descend upon Lawrence to be a part of a brand-new event that hopes to bring a sense of community and open dialogue to the area’s music and visual arts scene.
'Avengers' kicks off big summer movie season
The summer movie season starts next weekend, and it starts big.
'Sweet Little Lies' flmmaker taps Kansas roots, shot part of feature film in Eudora
Filmmaker Joe Saunders took Eudora and made it into Anywhere, USA.
Lawrence girl, 7, to make film debut in "Kick Me"
Tom Ruddy was having his former KU roommate Gary Huggins over for a barbeque at his house in west Lawrence when talk turned to the new independent movie that Huggins is shooting this summer.
Silent Film Festival hopes to capitalize on success of movies making noise this awards season
2012 may go down in history as the year that silent films made a comeback. The two movies with the most nominations this year at the Academy Awards — and the best chance to take home the Best Picture statue — are both tributes to silent cinema.
10 movies for those who love (and hate) Valentine's Day
Choosing a movie to watch on and around Valentine’s Day is like navigating a minefield. Here are five films for those who want to celebrate the romance of the day with something sweet and charming, and five more films that prove that happy endings are only in the movies.
Local filmmakers branch out into one-act plays at Lawrence Arts Center
Eight local filmmakers are stepping out their comfort zone, penning one-act plays with a twist at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Lawrence locations, cast and crew set the scene for 'Sublime and Beautiful'
Welcome to the set of an independent film. The playroom, the wooden model trains and the Christmas decorations are all part of Les and Kendra Kuhlman’s actual Lawrence home, but they are also live sets for Blake Robbins’ directorial debut, a feature he wrote called “The Sublime and Beautiful.”
10 in 2012: The most anticipated movies of the year
From Batman to Django, Eric Melin looks at 10 must-see movies for 2012.
Americana Music Academy's holiday performance features students young and old
This year's holiday shows have to cover a 25 percent budget gap left by state arts cuts.
Through A Glass Productions assembles 'Disintegration Man'
Lawrence production company Through A Glass Productions assembled the new music video for Rebecca Pidgeon. With a little bit of advice from her husband, David Mamet.
Documentarian prepares film on the punk rock days of The Outhouse
Before it became a BYOB strip club, The Outhouse was a bastion for punk and alternative music in Lawrence and the surrounding area. Documentarian Brad Norman's current project "The Outhouse: The Film 1985 - 1998" chronicles those early days.
Interview: Minus The Bear
Seattle prog/modern rock five-piece Minus the Bear is preparing for a stop in Lawrence as part of their 10th Anniversary Tour. In advance of the show, Drummer Erin Tate was interviewed about being in a band for 10 years, the challenges of playing an album in its entirety every night and the age-old question of Phil Collins- or Peter Gabriel-fronted Genesis.
Footprints film series brings four silent classics to Lawrence Arts Center
See two Chaplin classics and a pair of innovative silent films complete with live accompaniment from the Alloy Orchestra.
Harvest of The Arts Film Festival turns 20
For two decades, Harvest of The Arts has showcased local filmmakers and more than 300 shorts.
Part-time pixie
An architectural engineering student during the week, Erika O'Shea becomes Lady Titania, Queen of the Fae every weekend as part of the Kansas City Renaissance Festival.
Lawrence Action Network for Diversity to screen '9500 Liberty' at Liberty Hall
Immigration documentary chronicles a small county in Virginia and the effects of a controversial bill.
Final Fridays turns 1
The year anniversary of the Final Fridays art walk promises to be the biggest yet.
KU launches fall Foursquare campaign
Checking in on Foursquare at university buildings could win students iPads, autographed footballs and more.
Born to busk: Performer and director bring performance documentary to Lawrence
The movie, “Busking the System,” is making its way across the country with a three-day stop in downtown Lawrence, not coincidentally during the Lawrence Busker Festival.
Professor's book takes a scholarly approach to the Harry Potter franchise
With the final film out today, the Harry Potter series effectively draws to a close. KU professor Giselle Liza Anatol's new book takes an in depth look at the literally legacy.
Footprints Summer Foreign Film Fest showcases Japanese, French greats
This summer's two-day film festival to feature classics from Kurosawa, Malle and Carné.
Review: 'Earthwork'
Shot almost entirely in Kansas and based on the true story of Lawrence, Kan. crop artist Stan Herd, “Earthwork” is a testament to the power within art to bring people together, even in the most unlikely of circumstances.
'Kung Fu Panda 2' has local ties
Lawrence's Hamilton Lewis has graduated from Ringling College Art and Design, has been nominated for a Student Academy Award and at 24 is a rough layout artist for DreamWorks.
Slashers get recut in Horror Remix
Adam Jeffers is convinced that what Lawrence needs — whether the town knows it or not — are regular, free screenings of cheesy '80s horror flicks remixed and edited down to their basest essentials and shown in a bar.
Short film festival long on local talent
It is time once again for Lawrence residents to discover what an amazing talent pool of filmmakers reside right here in town.
Top 10: Running movies
Eric Melin highlights the best running movies to get you fired up for the Kansas Relays.
"Au Pair, Kansas": KU grad's debut film, which stars Traci Lords, premieres at Kansas City FilmFest
J.T. O'Neal's "Au Pair, Kansas," will premier at the downtown AMC Mainstreet 6 Theatre at 7:45 p.m. Saturday, April 9.
Elizabeth Taylor's 5 greatest performances
From "National Velvet" to "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Eric Melin collects Elizabeth Taylor's best performances.
The 5 best UFO first contact movies
In honor of the ReyKawvik UFO Summit, Scene-stealers.com's Eric Melin names the best first contact movies.
The must-see performances before the 2011 Oscars
These are the performances you need to see before the ceremony.
Reel views: New study suggests your movie buddy can affect your viewing experience
Anyone who goes to the movies with any amount of regularity has been witness to the two of the most annoying people in the theater: the talker and the texter.
Review: I Love You Phillip Morris
As you may be able to tell from its title, the new comedy “I Love You Phillip Morris” is a love story. It’s about infatuation, obsession, and the insane lengths people will go to when they are deep in love’s sway. It just so happens that the lovers in question are two gay men who fall in love in prison.
A retrospective on movies in 2010
A look back at the trends, successes and failures this year in movies.
Who's who at Hogwarts
A compendium of actors, roles, and trivia behind "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One."
Runaway trains are nothing new at the movies
Suspense and action movies fall into all kinds of subcategories.
Chills without spills: Ten horror movies that aren’t too gory for teens
Every year, Halloween comes along and scary movies are back in the spotlight. But if you’re a parent, it is a challenge to find a good horror movie from the last 50 years that isn’t rated R. The films on this list will do the trick (or treat), and don’t have much — if any — of the gore that’s so prevalent in the genre these days.
Audiences will feel beaten by ‘The Switch’
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston headline “The Switch,” which starts with a potentially adventurous sperm-donor premise and utilizes it as the backdrop for a tedious romantic comedy.
‘Pilgrim’ takes witty look at today’s youth culture
Overloaded by lightning-quick information via social media, text messages and computer screens, the teens and young adults of today finally have a movie that serves as a giant metaphor for their experiences.
Comedic reteaming offers muddled results
If “The Other Guys” is Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay’s attempt to educate the public about the evils and abuses of Wall Street, they sure picked a roundabout way to do it.
‘Inception’ a dazzling mix of action, concepts
Christopher Nolan’s first project since “The Dark Knight” offers an ambitious blend of fantasy, science fiction and action.
Review: Latest Harry Potter movie is half-baked at best
The sixth filmic adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s enormously popular book series arrives in theaters with an inordinate amount of baggage from five movies of myth-building and expectations—so it almost seems set up to fail.
There's no "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"
For all of its seeming assembly-line predictability, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" turns out to be a hilariously subversive take on manhood and romance in the 21st century. It also showcases a nervy, unflappable but ultimately sweet performance by Jason Segel that should turn the actor/co-writer into a star.
'Stop-Loss' does a service to its subjects
"Stop-Loss" is being marketed by MTV Films with its good-looking actors and new rock soundtrack upfront, but it's actually a thought-provoking, even-handed drama. Director Kimberly Peirce's Iraq war drama follows in the footsteps of "coming home" war movies, and asks some tough questions about the definition of duty.
The Triumph of 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'
At first, it's a little difficult to get your bearings. The camera wanders, is never completely in focus, and the audio is muffled, cutting in and out. It pans back and forth to simulate the movement of the eyes. A narrator begins to speak. Seeing the world through the limited perspective of a bedridden man wouldn't normally strike one as the most cinematic of ideas.
Provocative "There Will Be Blood" the Best Movie of the Year
From "Citizen Kane" to "Wall Street," cinema has been a fantastic forum for examining the frayed edges of unchecked ambition and greed. The latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson follows single-minded oilman Daniel Plainview to show us the dark side to this particular American dream-not knowing when to give it a rest.
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