The second-to-last film completed film by Orson Welles, the director behind “Citizen Kane,” “F for Fake” is a trailblazing, video essay-esque exploration of essential themes at the heart of artmaking, like authenticity and authorship.
Omaya Jones
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘Little Fugitive’ (1953) Tuesday night
“Little Fugitive” (1953) — a black-and-white movie about a 7-year-old boy who goes on the run to Coney Island after mistakenly thinking he’s killed his older brother — was so influential that Francois Truffaut claimed in a New Yorker interview that “our [French] New Wave would never have come into being” if directors Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin and Raymond Abrashkin hadn’t brought it into existence.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens Julia DuCournau’s ‘Raw’ Tuesday night
Warning: this one contains graphic content. If that’s not your thing, sit this one out and join us for our screening of Nagisa Ōshima’s “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” on Tuesday, Dec. 20. Happy Halloween, y’all!
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The Arkansas Times Film Series is back
From his earliest films, Weerasethakul has always played in the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep. Languid pacing, long shots, and an emphasis on visual actions over dialogue. The director isn’t really concerned with whether or not the audience is able to remain alert though the course of the film and actually encourages viewers to zone out or even nap for a bit if the mood strikes you, the better to let the film seep into your subconscious and allow it to take the form of a dream.
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Arkansas Times Film Series: Omaya Jones talks “City of God”
We talk with Arkansas Times Film Series curator Omaya Jones about Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s 2002 Academy Award-nominated crime film “City of God,” next up in our screening series.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens Gillian Armstrong’s “My Brilliant Career”
Gillian Armstrong’s debut feature “My Brilliant Career” (1979) is as rural and wild as the Australian outback in which it’s set, and reads a little like a response to Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 book “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.” But, as Michelle Obama replied so aptly, though, “That shit doesn’t work all the time.”
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“Set It Off” Tuesday night at Arkansas Times Film Series
“Set It Off” goes up on the big screen tonight for the Arkansas Times Film Series.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” tonight
Though some found the use of modern pop music odd in a period western, the use of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s tune “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” emphasizes that, no matter what happens, Butch is able to maintain his trademark optimism. At its core, it’s a feel-good movie, and arguably the first buddy comedy.
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Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” tonight at Riverdale 10
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” will be screened tonight at Riverdale 10 Cinema as part of the Arkansas Times Film Series.