On Ang Lee’s envelope pushing

One of the most intriguing recent film news stories – aside from the steady stream of rapturous reviews of Moonlight – has to do with Ang Lee’s new film, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime… Continue Reading


2016 New Orleans Film Festival picks

We’re really excited to be a partner to this year’s New Orleans Film Festival; we’ve brought in our projection equipment to outfit the festival’s newest venue, the Ace Hotel. We’ll be spending the… Continue Reading


Upcoming screenings and a new website

After wrapping up the True Orleans Film Festival, we jumped right into fall film festival season, working at Telluride, Milwaukee, and soon, New Orleans. With all of that happening, we wanted to give… Continue Reading


On the pleasures of George Kuchar

After last month’s screening highlighted proto-queer filmmaker Jack Smith, it only seemed appropriate to continue our examination of underground New York filmmakers in the 1960s with the lo-fi pleasures of George Kuchar. With… Continue Reading


The absurdity of fixation: Jack Smith and Flaming Creatures

More than most other underground films, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is valuable both as a film and as a document. It was a personal film made by an artist whose life and work… Continue Reading


On the past and future

Over at Shotgun Cinema HQ, we’ve lately been spending a lot of time listening to the podcast You Must Remember This, which zeroes in on what creator Karina Longworth calls “the secret and/or… Continue Reading