Retro Couture Recalls Miami’s History as a Fashion Capital

Miami is known for many things: beaches, babes, and booze. But fashion? Not so much. One local filmmaker aims to change that. Retro Couture, a documentary short by Christopher Rapalo, unveils Miami’s tangled history as one of the nation’s leading clothing manufacturing meccas, and follows its journey to reviving its…

Miami Film Festival Announces GEMS 2016 Lineup

As October approaches and cinephiles are craving fresh films from the festival circuit, Miami Film Festival is handing us exactly what we need when we need it. In an announcement today at the Wynwood location of the festival’s official timekeeper, Shinola, Miami Film Festival revealed its lineup for GEMS, the…

Donald Glover’s Atlanta Is a Slice-of-Life that Slices Back

To show all that he can do, to show something of what life’s actually like, Donald Glover first has to break your heart. Glover – the star, creator, and often writer of FX’s tense, downwardly mobile hangout comedy Atlanta – is best known, still, as a handsome clown on NBC’s Community, Dan…

Zbigniew Preisner on His Longtime Collaboration With Krzysztof Kieslowski

Starting with 1985’s No End, composer Zbigniew Preisner served as one of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s closest collaborators — he worked on all of the director’s films until Kieslowski’s death in 1996, with several of their collaborations actually revolving around the world of music. (The duo even created a fake Dutch composer, Van den Budenmayer,…

Superheroes Killed the Movie Star: A Lament

Looking back at this dismal summer of superhero adaptations, I am reminded of something Chris Rock said during the 77th Academy Awards: “There are only four real stars, and the rest are just popular people.” This was February 2005, mind you — a few months before Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins…

Bridget Jones Presses on Into Adulthood – and Her Best Film Yet

Bridget Jones mines the riches of embarrassment. Her gaffes, blunders, stumbles and pratfalls provide the laughs in the atypical romcoms built around her, films that rely heavily on the comedy of idiosyncrasy. Bridget is no outsider: She’s a straight, white, middle class, university-educated woman with a London apartment, a media…

III Points Announces Vanguard Film Week With NuWave Music Video Showcase

Since III Points launched in 2013, its mission has been bringing the most innovative talent in three industries—music, technology, and art—to Wynwood. This year, the festival is expanding its definition of art with the addition of Vanguard Film Week, a four-day series of films from prestigious festivals like Sundance and…

Showtime’s The Circus Actually Makes Sense of This Election

The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth airs Sundays on Showtime In filmmaking, an assembly cut is when recent dailies are strung together in rough narrative order to create the first, very raw draft of the movie. Though it by no means lacks polish or editorial intent, Showtime’s…