Movie Blog: ‘Cave Of Forgotten Dreams’ A 3-D Masterpiece
By Jonathon Sharp, WCCO A disclosure: I’m a huge Werner Herzog fan. From the moment I saw him describe the Amazon jungle as a place of “overwhelming and collective murder” in “My Best Fiend,” I knew he...
View ArticleMovie Blog: Herzog’s ‘Abyss’ A Great American Crime Film
Into the Abyss is a documentary of such enormous gravity that is belongs among the best of American crime movies. It’s a colossus of human horror and heartbreak that uses our landscapes (strip malls,...
View ArticleMovie Blog: The Lagoon’s Spring Obsession Series
I’m considerably bummed that I allowed myself to miss the first movie in the Lagoon Cinema’s Obsession Film Series. Two questions: (1) What caused me to miss the movie? And (2) what movie was it? In...
View ArticleMovie Blog: Werner Herzog Takes On Texting And Driving
(credit: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images) Werner Herzog — the Bavarian art-house master — isn’t one to back down from a challenge. The self-described “soldier of cinema” once hauled a steamboat...
View ArticleMovie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
April is fast approaching, and that means the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival needs to be on every Minnesota cinephile’s radar. The festival runs from April 9-25, and it features,...
View ArticleLineup Revealed For MSPIFF 2016
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Rejoice, Minnesota cinephiles! This lineup for this year’s Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is out. The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul released Wednesday the...
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