Kathie Smith

Despite the pathetic appearance on my blog, I have been doing a little writing here and there, as well as toiling away trying to find a job ...

( A commission to interview Shane Carruth on his new film Upstream Colo r fell through earlier this week, leaving m e with some useless res...

Local movie yokels unite in a grad spectacle of film gluttony! The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival starts tonight in the wi...

We'll see what that title does to my stats and comments. Other than eating bon bons, shoveling snow and getting laid off, here's som...

I watched 330 films this year, and this is what I have to show for it. God love the the Trylon, the Walker and the Heights for keeping this...

But here they are nonetheless: Eve Sussman's Cinematic World Without End I wrote about Eve Sussman's amazing installation piece...

There are few films nearer and dearer to my heart than the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli—animated masterpieces bursting with c...

There is an introspective pall hanging over Memories Look at Me that goes naturally with the thematic territory of visiting home as an adul...

After the wave of New Korean Cinema hit the world like a slap from the back of a hand in the late 90s and early 00s, certain expectat...

Society has a way of demanding that we find our career path early and stick to it, not only as a definition of character but also a bogus de...