Nov 11, 2019Inside the Spider-Verse: An Oral HistoryThe making of an Oscar winner — On February 24, 2019, five filmmakers took to the Oscars stage to accept the Best Animated Feature award for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. “There’s 800 filmmakers who pushed boundaries and took risks to make people feel powerful and seen,” producer Chris Miller said. We spoke to a handful of…Movies10 min read
Nov 8, 2019At The Academy: THE REPORTBased on true events, the harrowing docudrama The Report charts the decade-long investigation of staffer Daniel J. Jones and the Senate Intelligence Committee as they investigate the CIA’s use of torture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The Academy welcomed several of the talents behind the film to discuss…Torture5 min read
Nov 8, 2019At The Academy: MARRIAGE STORYThough the title might make you think of a romance, the dramatic and comic Marriage Story offers a complex look at the collapse of a relationship and the impact it has on the lives involved. The latest film from producer-writer-director Noah Baumbach offers a showcase for actors Scarlett Johansson and…Movies5 min read
Nov 8, 2019At The Academy: 63 UPFor 55 years, director Michael Apted has spearheaded one of the longest-running projects in cinematic history: the Up series, which began with the short film 7 Up chronicling the lives of 14 British children in 1964. …Film4 min read
Nov 1, 2019At The Academy: MAKING WAVES: THE ART OF CINEMATIC SOUNDThough the term “motion picture” might indicate we’re focusing on what our eyes see on a screen, the sounds we hear can have just as profound an impact. The artistry of sound design takes center stage for this documentary featuring pioneers in the field as well as their innovative creative…Movies6 min read
Nov 1, 2019At The Academy: PAIN AND GLORYSpain’s most famous living filmmaker, Pedro Almodóvar has built a diverse and colorful career that earned him an Academy Award for Writing, Original Screenplay, for Talk to Her (2002), as well as winning his home country an Oscar for Foreign Language Film for All About My Mother (1999). With his…Movies5 min read
Nov 1, 2019At The Academy: HARRIET“We thought this is a film about freedom; this is what everybody knows about Harriet Tubman. She escapes, she goes back, she liberates others. We really wanted that momentum, that exhilaration and what freedom means and that she was willing to die for it. …Harriet Tubman5 min read
Oct 25, 2019At The Academy: THE KINGThree William Shakespeare plays become one sprawling story in The King, which charts the tale of young Hal (Timothée Chalamet) as he becomes King Henry V and has an evolving lifelong rapport with the disreputable Falstaff (Joel Edgerton). …Movies5 min read
Oct 25, 2019At The Academy: THE CURRENT WARIt took a long time for audiences to get a chance to see this dramatization of the events 150 years ago that brought electric light to the masses through an industrial age showdown involving Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla. The Current War had a hard road getting to…Film3 min read
Oct 25, 2019At The Academy: THE LIGHTHOUSEAnticipation ran high for the next film by writer-director Robert Eggers following The Witch (2015), and four years later he delivered another intense, claustrophobic period piece: The Lighthouse. Featuring only two speaking roles for Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, the film takes place in the 1890s as two lighthouse keepers…Movies6 min read
