It’s remarkable how much or little we have changed in America. Around the center of George Stevens’s 1942 Woman of the Year, recently married couple Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy) and Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) are going through a newlywed rough patch and come to the...
Time supposedly heals all wounds. At a certain point one wonders what does and doesn’t matter in a stable, lifelong, longstanding committed romantic relationship. For any couple to even outlast the trials and tribulations that comes with marriage for good length of...
Most of you know him as one of the most celebrated poets of the 20th century, but Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda also faced political persecution in 1948 after Chile outlawed communism. The 2016 Chilean film "Neruda", which will be screened at the Bijou Film...
After VCU computer science major Joshua Christian Akan-Etuk was rejected by their film school, he decided to turn that negative into a positive and forge his own artistic path. After VCU computer science major Joshua Christian Akan-Etuk was rejected by their film...
Before he would direct his later career epics like Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, director David Lean ended his string of play adaptations with perhaps the most celebrated romance movie ever. Before he would direct his later career epics like Lawrence of...