We've Got Your Must-See Picks for October 2, 3, 4, and 5
Baltimore's New/Next Film Festival is back, with 30 feature-length movies, premiers, vintage gems, and more shorts than you can possibly watch. Brandon Soderberg has your guide to what not to miss.
We've Got Your Must-See Picks for October 2, 3, 4, and 5
Baltimore's New/Next Film Festival is back, with 30 feature-length movies, premiers, vintage gems, and more shorts than you can possibly watch. Brandon Soderberg has your guide to what not to miss.
Union organizers accuse BMA Director Chris Bedford of privately stalling election while publicly championing security guards through a new exhibition
On Tuesday, March 22, a group of seven workers who are part of the ongoing effort to unionize the Baltimore Museum of Art held signs with slogans such as “1 Voice, 1 Union” and “No More Delays”; one sign had “Guarding the Art” changed to “Guarding the Guards.”
The bookstore/cafe announced that the cooperative has purchased two buildings that will become their "forever home" in Waverly
A cooperative rather than collective, Red Emma’s tweaks the sometimes oppositional, puritanical perspective of radicalism, expanding without compromising.
Not so much an interview as one friend interrogating another, pushing him a little
Musician and MDVLA executive director Adam G. Holofcener’s new album GEE-ZA-WHIZ begins with a deep breath and a deeper exhalation
People who can build and tinker and think super hard, who are malleable by nature, can be lifesavers
A 2019 report showed Open Works’ membership was significantly more diverse than that of other maker spaces around the country: 43 percent of its members are people of color, 54 percent are women.
Bombarded by all of this awful surreality, you might start to think that everything out there could very well be cake
It's like reality is bending.
Reboot removes the original's hammy atmospherics, keeps the police-procedural worship and vigilantism
Jerry Lewis Gone ACAB and Howardena Pindell’s Free, White and 21
Two movies that make sense right now amid endless terror-scrolling Twitter.
Podcasts may have messed with filmmaking a little bit
With all of us ostensibly inside, talking less or at least talking to less people, the appeal of hearing voices that aren’t our own for extended periods of time has taken on a certain restorative luster.
What industry disruptions mean for independent filmmakers in Baltimore
COVID cancellations don’t just deprive filmmakers of a chance to show their movies to audiences, but it’s at festivals where movies end up being purchased for distribution.
Programmed like a TV channel, Cinephobe is guided by a passionate, discerning, and decidedly inclusive approach to movies
“We’re a small group of film enthusiasts with a sense of humor and a low tolerance for stupidity,” The Cinephobe told BmoreArt.
Not journalistic filmmaking exactly, but it isn’t hagiography either
This meandering documentary uses the 1997-1998 Chicago Bulls season (the last one with Jordan and, therefore, the last time the Jordan-led team won big) as scaffolding for a larger story about Michael Jordan and basketball.
Curated and programmed like a TV channel, QuaranTV showcases arthouse features, YouTube compilations, cartoons and more
With set times for morning cartoons and kid stuff, lots of movies, live musical performances, and original programming, there’s a mixtape quality to QuaranTV.
Director/writer Eliza Hittman's new film Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Never Rarely Sometimes Always is something of a procedural, except the procedure here isn’t a police investigation or anything along those lines, it’s an abortion.
Director Louie Schwartzberg, who has made a name for himself over the past few decades because of his ravishing time-lapse photography, has likely found the ideal subject to suit his schtick in Fantastic Fungi, a movie about the inarguable special-ness of mushrooms
Fantastic Fungi is also a portrait of a community of mushroom obsessives—who journalist Eugenia Bone beautifully describes as, “bloated pleasure-seekers with a scientific bent.”
Bacurau, streaming via the Parkway, will make you wanna start the revolution—if only you could leave your house
The town of Bacurau fights back, they do some damage, and it feels like a victory for its characters and for viewers, a blueprint for imminent direct action and self-defense.
On Marnie Ellen Hertzler's Crestone which you can’t watch anywhere right now
Baltimore filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler’s Crestone feels like a great piece of outré journalism. It found the sweet spot of making you feel as though you’re there watching something happen and commenting on it all only when necessary.
A less cloying way for “mainstream” movies to ponder #MeToo, an encouraging trend in Hollywood movies
