Tag: Missouri

  • True/False Film Festival 2018 Day 4

    True/False Film Festival 2018 Day 4

    On its face, 96 hours feels like a lot of time, especially when you’re thinking in terms of 90 minutes movies. But in reality, it flies by, leaving you in a kind of glorious exhaustion. Your head is swimming with ideas and images, and all you want to do is drink a cup of tea…

  • True/False Film Festival 2018 Day 3

    True/False Film Festival 2018 Day 3

    After a difficult day two at the 2018 True/False Film Festival, there was a sense of lost time I was battling. Having only seen a handful of films in two days, I wondered if that time could be made up in the ensuing two days, busy days though they would be. There was a conflicting…

  • True/False Film Festival 2018 Day 2

    True/False Film Festival 2018 Day 2

    Films: Lovers of the Night; Caniba; Three Identical Strangers As magical as it can be, one of the unfortunate realities of True/False is that one bad experience can set your day off course. The festivals programs trend both heady and heavy, and while they’re (mostly) all entertaining in their own ways, the wear-and-tear of one…

  • True/False Film Festival 2018 Day 1

    True/False Film Festival 2018 Day 1

    Films: Shorts: Red Wine 73 (Mini Miss; Duelo; La Bouche; Palenque), American Animals One of the best parts about True/False is the near-guarantee of being transported to another world. I say “near-guarantee,” because there are always films that are willing and able to take you to places about which you’d never think or dream. However,…

  • True/False Film Festival 2018 Preview

    True/False Film Festival 2018 Preview

    Only once a year do I find it acceptable to be running full-speed through the back alleys of Columbia, Mo., a heavy backpack strapped on my shoulders and a floppy slice of pizza slinging grease all over my shirt as I attempt to corale it into my mouth. That’s right: it’s True/False season. I’m a…

  • True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 4

    True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 4

    It seems like every year I’m sitting in one of the two biggest venues in Columbia looking to a friend and lamenting the end of the True/False Film Festival. During no other weekend does this city shine so bright and love so fiercely. The heartland of America takes on a new vitality each year during…

  • True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 3

    True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 3

    It always takes me a day or two to adjust to a film festival schedule: wake up early to sit in a theater; cram meals in during short breaks; stay late at Q&A sessions; then go to bed even later writing about what you saw. Unfortunately, I’m usually only adjusted during the third and fourth…

  • True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 2

    True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 2

    It’s hard to tie a day of True/False to one central theme. This year’s official festival theme is Out of the Ether because the lineup is dominated by films taking audiences out of their traditional surroundings, be they geographic or artistic. But the 4 films I viewed – I ended up skipping one because of technical delays…

  • True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 1

    True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 1

    Unfortunately, my first day of True/False 2017 wasn’t as long as I’d have hoped. In past years, I was a student at the University of Missouri, and the only boundaries between the delights of True/False and I were classes and homework. They could always be pushed to the side for my favorite weekend of the…

  • True/False Film Festival 2017 Preview

    True/False Film Festival 2017 Preview

    If you’ve never had the pleasure of attending the annual True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Mo., I truly feel for you. Film festivals can assume an almost mythical air to movie lovers: we all dream of attending Sundance, TIFF or Cannes. But in the past decade, True/False has clawed its way into the collective conscious…