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La Cava, Cage and Overground

Around Town Summer is, perhaps, boom time for film festivals (the chills of Sundance in January notwithstanding), and it’s easy to see why. Festivals involve...

From Dreck to Pooh Bear

Around Town Highlighting film festivals in this column is a joy. These events help to defy the current state of film culture as passive, isolated...

Circling for 90 Years

Around Town It’s hard to believe, but Tulsa’s Circle Cinema – for many years the standard bearer for art films in Okahoma – celebrates its...

Guilty-Pleasure Camp

  Around Town There’s something uniquely pleasurable about seeing a bad movie in a crowd; fans of camp classics like The Rocky Horror Picture Show...

In May the Force Be With Solo

Around Town This column is a success if it can convince one person to see a film in 35mm (projected from actual film stock, not...

Another Look at Griffith

Around Town D.W. Griffith might be the most influential director in film history. He helped to move cinema from novelty entertainment, built on films under...

From Docs to Bots

Around Town It’s March, which means it’s time to leave Oklahoma’s borders for the best film festival in the region: the True/False Film Festival in...

Films to Catch Your Fancy

Around Town It’s almost Academy Awards season, which means plenty of chances to catch up on films you may have missed in the past year....

A Panoply of Offerings

Around Town Catch ’em young – that’s the best way to develop a love of film in people. Oklahoma City University is doing its part...

Nostalgia to Oddities

Around Town Apparently it’s my new holiday tradition – two years running now – to recommend that you make your own holiday tradition out of...