Fayetteville History Alive ‘Among The Hills’ “It is a fallacious notion that a newspaper should or could be an isolated affair. Its life-blood should flow in the veins of the community in which it lives.” — Roberta Fulbright By Terrah Baker “Up Among The Hills,” (2012) the documentary film written and produced by Emmy award-winning…
By Blake Wilkins I recently revisited Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut “Synedoche, New York” (2008). Kaufman is the mastermind screenwriter behind such works as “Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation,” and the brilliant “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” “Synecodoche,” probably the most underrated and least known of Kaufman’s works, is by far his most unique film, and…
By Claire Ala Desperation leads to careless and costly decisions in Chan-Wook Park’s 2002 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the first of a trilogy. This South Korean movie is artistically filmed with a sad, yet interesting plot. Characters spiral out of control when faced with losing a loved one. The movie begins with a green-haired Ryu…
By Terrah Baker For the past four years, new images of adventure, culture and nature have been brought to Fayetteville in the form of award-winning films. The films highlight the beauty of history, locations around the world, the bravery of men and women setting out on often dangerous adventures and allow a little bit of…
By Mathew Dekinder The movie “300” was important because it was one of the first films to fully embrace the idea that action movies are all about style over substance. The movie “Immortals” embraces the “300” template and while it lumbers under its plot of hodgepodge Greek mythology, it is unquestionably one of the most…
Here’s a smattering of what we have to look forward to — or in some cases dread — and a few predictions to go along with them: