Psych Movie Night at Headliners: French film 'Fantastic Planet' to be...
by Allan Day One film and two bands for the low price of $5, tomorrow night at Headliners. Science fiction has always been a useful tool for allegory. It serves to entertain audiences with an engaging...
View ArticleLove is love: LGBT Film Fest in review [Movies]
by Allan Day Now in its second year, the annual LGBT Film Fest showcased 48 films from around the world. LGBT-themed films are quickly coming into the mainstream. This is a wonderful thing – as...
View ArticleThe Asian Film Series at Village 8 presents 'I Wish' [Movies]
by Allan Day The story of a young boy setting out to make his dreams come true. Childhood is full of little superstitions. It's easy to believe in magic when you're young – the world is a place full of...
View Article"Reel Ecuador": The 19th Latin American Film Festival runs til November 3...
by Allan Day Featuring seven features and one documentary from Ecuador. In the minds of many, the idea foreign film evokes thoughts of artsy-fartsy European efforts, perhaps from France or Germany, or...
View ArticleMovie Meltdown presents the Yeti Spaghetti Show tomorrow at Nancy's Bagel...
by Allan Day Come for the spaghetti, stay for the Yeti! I saw Paranormal Activity 4 last night. I love the series. The first three are genuinely creepy; they took the [by that time] established “found...
View ArticleVillage 8 Louisville Exclusives presents 'Chicken With Plums'
by Allan Day Music and love lost... what is left to live for? In 2000, Marjane Satrapi wrote the critically acclaimed graphic novel Persepolis– an autobiographical account of her childhood in Iran and...
View ArticleVillage 8 Louisville Exclusives presents 'The Flat'
by Allan Day What's in YOUR storage space? I love attics. Cellars. Basements. Places where people keep all their junk. Give me a dark, dank room full of boxes, trinkets, and mysterious packages, and I...
View ArticleThe Floyd Theater presents 'Holy Motors' and 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
by Allan Day Kicking off the spring semester with a surrealistic French thriller and one of this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees. Happy New Year! It's 2013, and school is back in session. Did we...
View ArticleVillage 8 Louisville Exclusives presents 'Rust and Bone'
by Allan Day Presenting the new film by Jacques Audiard, Oscar-nominated director of 'Un Prophete.' The world will never run out of love stories. Never. There is too much. Too many ways to explore this...
View ArticleThe U of L French Film Festival presents 'The Princess of Montpensier'
by Allan Day The French Film Festival kicks off with Bertrand Tavernier's most recent effort. I first fell in love with foreign film when I was 18, a lonely young adult trapped in a small college town...
View ArticleThe U of L French Film Festival presents 'Le Havre'
by Allan Day The French Film Festival continues with Finland's submission to consideration for this year's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. I went to France once. It was two and a half years ago. That...
View ArticleThe 15th annual Jewish Film Festival kicks off this weekend
by Allan Day Features, shorts, documentaries, and student films all to be showcased at this years's Jewish Film Festival. Judaism is a very interesting religion – precisely because it transcends...
View ArticleThe University of Louisville presents the International Film Festival
by Allan Day Three films from three continents in three days - all for free! February is gearing up to be a good month for foreign film. We are smack in the middle of the French Film Festival at U of...
View ArticleThe Floyd Theater presents 'Outside Satan,''Knocked Up,' and 'This is 40'
by Allan Day French film, pregnancies, and dealing with adulthood, all this week at the Floyd Theater. It is another week in the ongoing spring semester, and all the young'uns are hard at work,...
View ArticleVillage 8 Louisville Exclusives presents 'War Witch'
by Allan Day Presenting the Oscar-nominated film of war and abduction. We are very lucky.read more
View ArticleVillage 8 Louisville Exclusives presents 'The Hunt'
The story of a small-town man wrongly accused of a horrendous crime... It has been probably close to ten years since I saw the film Kramer Vs.
View ArticleVillage 8 Louisvile Exclusives presents 'Stories We Tell' and 'Salma'
Presenting a documentary double feature! Art can be an odd thing. It's subjective – the best art lets you take away from it your own interpretations and reactions.
View ArticleThe Asian Film Series continues at Village 8 with 'Will You Still Love Me...
Explore issues of identity lost and found with hitmen, suicidal actors, and latent homosexuality. Today, class, we are going to talk about identity.
View ArticleThe University of Louisville presents the 20th Reel Latin America Film Festival
Featuring fine films from Mexico and South America. Latin America is rich with filmmakers.
View ArticleThe Asian Film Series at Village 8 concludes with 'The Mosuo Sisters'
Two sisters seeking different ways of life. Things are getting kind of crazy in here. Well, they kind of have been for a while.
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