Information about True/False Film Festival from Intersection
Posted on 28 February, 2010
David Wilson, co-director of the True/False Festival and Joanna Hearne, Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Missouri joined Intersection in the studio on Monday February 22nd to talk about the 2010 True False Film Festival. Intersection airs every Monday live online from 12-1pm.
Intersection is a live online community talk show [...]
“The Tightrope” from True/False Film Festival
Posted on 28 February, 2010
By Lisa Appleton
When I think of a tightrope, I think of balance and this movie was anything but balanced. Director Nuria Ibanez gives the viewer a look into the life of a traveling family circus in Mexico that is struggling to make ends meet. The family is [...]
Kicking off True/False with Cowboys in India
Posted on 26 February, 2010
by Gwen Ragno
Any journalist or documentarian can tell you that sometimes, the hard-hitting investigative story that you are looking for just doesn’t pan out. Simon Chambers spent a year in rural India trying to make a documentary about the evils of a British mining company, Vendanta, and its effects on the local communities. He made [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day from iKnowCoMo
Posted on 14 February, 2010
By David Goldstein and Sam Schleicher
This is our first valentine’s day, so all of us here at iknowcomo.com wanted to do something special for Columbians. We decided to put you in front of the camera for the chance to give some V-day shout outs. Thanks everyone for helping us out, you were awesome!
True/False weekend is almost here!
Posted on 08 February, 2010
The 7th annual True/False film festival takes place this year Thursday Feb. 25th through Sunday Feb. 28th. True/False is a film festival that occurs every February and features documentaries. The films show at various venues around Columbia, but if you miss a show you want to see, don’t fret. The films are all played at [...]
“Invictus”, Rugby and Learning to be the Captain of your Soul
Posted on 14 December, 2009
by Erin Riley
“Invictus” (meaning “unconquered”), directed by Clint Eastwood, is an empowering and breathtaking film about a subject that is still difficult to discuss in a public forum – racism.
The film opens in 1990 with the release of the newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) from his 27-year stint living on Robben [...]
Don’t stare too hard at ‘Goats’
Posted on 23 November, 2009
by Erin Riley
Director and producer Grant Heslov brings a psychedelic, drug-induced comedic outlook at life with “Men Who Stare at Goats.”
The film is about reporter Bob Wilton(Ewan McGregor) at a ho-hum newspaper and who is fed up with the dullness of his life. After interviewing a local man claiming to be a former “psychic soldier” [...]
‘Pirate Radio’: The Ship that Rocked
Posted on 23 November, 2009
by Erin Riley
Director and writer Richard Curtis(”Notting Hill” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral”) brings to life the story of outlaw DJs who defied the British government for all that is worthy: drugs, sex and rock ‘n roll.
The government banished modern pop and rock ‘n roll from the mainland radio stations. Rock DJs took to [...]
‘Precious’, a Gothic Harlem Tale
Posted on 23 November, 2009
By Erin Riley
Director Lee Daniels’ “Precious” based on the novel Push by Sapphire has been generating a lot of buzz since it won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film follows the journey of Claireece “Precious” Jones(Gabourey Sidibe), an overweight sixteen-year-old African-American living in Harlem in 1987. She [...]
“The September Issue” is a Fashion Do
Posted on 24 October, 2009
by Erin Riley
Fashion is an artistic, marvelous and often times a frightening thing. When some people pick up a fashion magazine, they flip through the pages and gawk at the clothes they see before them.
“Why would someone pay that much money for that whatever it is clothing disaster when no one would wear it in [...]
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