APRIL Viewing Recap + Movie(s) of the Month

Spring is in the air!! It's still relatively cool this weekendΒ and the sun was being bashful yesterdayΒ soΒ we spent some time at Minneapolis Museum of Art on Saturday during its Art in Bloom exhibition.Β It's so lovely to see cherry blossom tree bloomin' at the park across the street… it was a perfect Spring day! So here …

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MSPIFF review: L’Attesa (The Wait) starring Juliette Binoche

It seems tradition that duringΒ every film festival in town that I have at least one Juliette Binoche movie on my schedule. Well, she's still the main reason to see this one. The film centers on two women who's somehow thrown together just before Easter, set in a picturesqueΒ Sicilian town. The actors speak in both Italian …

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Indie film spotlight: DRAGONFLY (2016) & Interview with the creators of the film

When I first heard about DragonflyΒ about a year and a half ago, I was immediately intrigued by theΒ fact that it's a female-led feature and that it's filmed in the Twin Cities. This is a debut feature for bothΒ Maribeth Romslo and Cara Green Epstein (who also wrote AND acted in the film). I was thrilled that …

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Everybody’s Chattin + Music Break: Pride + Prejudice + Zombies (2016)

HappyΒ Midweek everybody! Well after a balmy March, April has been pretty darn cold, windy and downright blech! I can't believe I had to wear my parka today and still I'm freezing my pants off. Well, I remember a snow storm a couple of years ago made me miss theΒ screening for Mud during MSPIFF, so hopefully …

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Weekend Roundup: counting down to MSPIFF 2016 + ‘Meet the Patels’ documentary (2014) review

How's your weekend everyone? It's kind of an uneventful one for me but April is going to be quite busy with the Minneapolis/St Paul Film Fest coming nextΒ weekend!! I can always rely on MSPIFF to bring an excellent selection of world and regional cinema and independent films, manyΒ of which I never would've been able to …

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