January 17, 2013 - 2:03pm
Is religion the answer? Is it helpful? Is it good for the world? For the individual? This is a very intense and long-standing philosophical debate. Many people turn to religion in times of trial and tribulation. This is interesting, because many people turn away from religion in times of trial and...
January 10, 2013 - 12:35pm
With live musical accompaniment!
Silent film is wonderful. It's a view of the movies from a whole other world. With the absence of the availability of wordiness, ideas needed to be expressed almost exclusively through movement and pantomime, with maybe a few title cards thrown in. It is this writer's personal opinion that...
December 21, 2012 - 12:15pm
Presenting the first ever X-rated animated film.
Cartoons are not just for kids. We know this – hell, mine is the generation of stunted maturity, where only the koolest kids still drool over Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Still, despite the existence of South Park, Adult Swim, and the various works of Seth MacFarlane, the...
December 21, 2012 - 11:45am
Forget the Mayans - support local film this weekend at the Dreamland Film Center
Film noir... The very phrase sounds dark, dusty, smoky, seductive... It is French for “black film,” and it evokes images of hard-boiled detectives in trench coats smoking a cigarette in a rain-soaked alley, or of a sexy femme fatale in a slinky dress you just know is red, even though...
December 14, 2012 - 5:27pm
Presenting two concert films by the iconic filmmaker.
It's been a musically-themed last couple of weeks over at the Dreamland Film Center. It's a good thing. Music is important. It stirs the soul and lifts it up. It is a healing balm, something that can help us get along during our rough patches – or it can take our good times and...
