Blog Topic: Film

Culture Briefs: Atlanta Film Critics Circle Announces 2018 Award Winners

By Drew Wheeler | December 10, 2018 3:23pm

Roma

The Atlanta Film Critics Circle, of which I am a member, announced the winners of its second annual awards Dec. 3. Last year, six of the films on my ballot made the final list; this year, only five of my picks wound up in the official 10, though the other films that made it would probably be in my top 20.

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Culture Briefs: Psychedelic Nic Cage Stunner Mandy Screens at Ciné This Weekend

By Stephanie Rivers | October 3, 2018 1:51pm

Cage gonna Cage.

After watching director Panos Cosmatos' Mandy, my friend Kris Deason described it as "a baking-soda-infused, water-soluble, completely smokable concentration of Heavy Metalmagazine… like a nightmare where the worst monster you can imagine comes for you and you stomp its dick."

That's really the only review you need, but here are a few more words of praise.

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Culture Briefs: Atlanta Film Critics Circle Announces Top 10 and Awards

By Drew Wheeler | December 19, 2017 12:31pm

Dunkirk

The Atlanta Film Critics Circle, of which I am a founding member, released its first-ever top 10 list and awards in early December. I'm proud that six of my top 10 films made the list, and I have yet to see two of the other four, so they still could make a revised list.

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Culture Briefs: Double Feature: Halloween and Blue Velvet Offer Spooky Visions of Suburbia

By Jon Hogan | October 29, 2016 7:25pm

Halloween

Some holiday traditions are inescapable. Independence Day isn’t Independence Day without fireworks-related mishaps. Christmas will forever be marred by godawful fruit cake. And Halloween will always have Halloween.

In preparation for Beechwood's Sunday, Oct. 30 screening of John Carpenter's Halloween (likely not your first), put the slasher flick into new perspective by pairing it with David Lynch’s noir-ish Blue Velvet.

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Culture Briefs: Cine Is Screening 'Aliens'—With Laser Tag

By Blake Aued | May 20, 2016 12:31pm

Ciné is screening James Cameron’s space-Marine classic Aliens this weekend. As if that wasn’t cool enough, there will be Alien-themed laser tag, too. My body is ready.

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Homedrone: Q&A With Sparklehorse-Documentary Filmmakers Bobby Dass and Alex Crowton

By Dan Mistich | April 4, 2016 12:50pm

Mark Linkous

Few artists maintain the kind of haunting mystery after their passing like Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous. Much like Athens’ Vic Chesnutt, Linkous suffered bouts of severe depression and paralysis before committing suicide in 2010. To celebrate Linkous’ life, British filmmakers Bobby Dass and Alex Crowton directed The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse, which screens at the 40 Watt on Tuesday.

Flagpole caught up with the filmmakers and Angela-Faye Martin, a singer-songwriter with close ties to Linkous, to discuss the film and Sparklehorse’s legacy.

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Culture Briefs: Athens Documentary 'Old South' Airs Tonight on GPB Knowledge

By Blake Aued | February 2, 2016 4:15pm

Photo Credit: Danielle Beverly

If you missed the screening in Athens last July, Old South, a documentary about the Confederate-themed UGA fraternity Kappa Alpha moving into the predominantly African American Hancock/Reese neighborhood, will air on a Georgia Public Broadcasting digital subchannel at 8 p.m. tonight.

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Culture Briefs: Avoid Sensory Overload at This 'The Force Awakens' Screening Saturday

By Blake Aued | January 15, 2016 1:06pm

As any Gen X or Millennial parent knows, Star Wars is a rite of passage for children. This Saturday at 10 a.m., you can take your young ones to see The Force Awakens at a volume and lighting level appropriate for their sensitive ears and eyes.

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Culture Briefs: The Dollar Theater at the Mall Is Closed

By Blake Aued | December 9, 2015 3:02pm

Georgia Square Value Cinemas 5 at Georgia Square Mall abruptly closed earlier this week, according to multiple sources on the Internet and elsewhere.

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Culture Briefs: Gaspar Noé's Controversial Love Screens at Ciné Through Thursday

By Stephanie Rivers | November 16, 2015 10:03am

After watching the repugnant monster man in I Stand Alone, the brutal rape scene inIrréversible and the psychedelic weirdness of Enter the Void, one might expect Gaspar Noé’s latest film to be another assault on the eyeballs. But though the movie has been marketed as a gimmicky 3D porno, Love offers some softcore tenderness amidst its many hardcore scenes.

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