Since the late-’60s, Todd Lockwood has been shooting black and white studio portraits of friends and acquaintances. His large-scale prints are an exercise in hyperrealism, exquisite light, and authenticity. Every well-earned wrinkle and blemish are magnified and gloriously rendered. In 2015, he began experimenting with a new kind of portraiture, combining portrait photography, cinema, and […]
VTIFF remembers the fabulous Shelley Duvall with one of her peak performances as the fast-talking, self-absorbed Millie from Robert Altman’s 3 Women. Though perhaps best-known for her committed (and woefully misunderstood) performance as Wendy Torrance in 1980’s The Shining, Duvall had a long and varied career. Still, it’s hard to deny that Duvall’s spirited take […]
French Foreign Legion officer Galoup loves his tough, strictly regimented life of leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti . . . at least until that pesky new recruit Sentain comes along and ruins everything. Jealousy and obsession take over and things don’t end well in this absolute barn-burner of a movie by the great […]
Celebrating Silent Movie Day It’s national Silent Movie Day, so we’re joining in with this 108-year-old film (!!!) directed by Lois Weber, just before Hollywood basically froze women out of the director’s chair for the next few decades. Shoes is a socially conscious picture, the story of a working woman trying to support a family […]
UVM students Kiere Skuntz and Daniella Sanson Copatti love David Lynch, so they’ve gone looking for some of his sources. They found some good ones, which they’ll share in their Lynch Before Lynch series this weekend; for instance, Otto Preminger’s 1944 noir masterpiece Laura. Laura (Gene Tierney, radiant) had everything. Who’d want to kill her? […]
Sunset Boulevard as a template for things Lynchian? Yes indeed, say hosts (and UVM Film & Television students) Kiera Skuntz and Daniella Sanson Copatti. They’ll introduce the film and set us up for an opportunity to see Billy Wilder’s stone-cold classic through a new lens. In case you’re unfamiliar with the plot: screenwriter Joe Gillis […]
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated Black leader through various sources, focusing mostly on newsreels, archival footage, riveting public appearances, and speeches by the man himself. Poet Rajnii Eddins hosts the film as part of his duo of screening selections, which concludes with Spike Lee’s summer-in-Brooklyn […]
VTIFF members get first access to tickets for this event. Become a member any time. This year’s Vermont International Film Festival—AKA the best 10 days of fall—is right around the corner. Join us on October 9 in the Film House at Main Street Landing for the unveiling of the jam-packed 2024 lineup of buzzworthy cinema […]
“If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be?” Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named Marie, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and anti-patriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic pursuit of […]
Vermont poet Rajnii Eddins presents one of Spike Lee’s finest films, a vibrant, semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband, and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973. Blessed with a fabulous soundtrack of great R&B hits from that era, and alive with Lee’s often-experimental visual sense, the film buzzes […]
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SOLD OUT. CHECK BACK FOR TICKET RELEASES. The Grand Prix winner at Cannes, Payal Kapadia’s remarkable film finds poetry and profundity in the everyday, creating magic from a tale of two nurses navigating life in a teeming Mumbai. Given her unerring eye for imagery, and her ability to get beyond the surface and dig into […]
Let your little ones discover the magic of the big screen with Little Kid Flicks. VTIFF is excited to bring this popular collection of family friendly short films back for its 25th year. Whether diving down into the ocean for a pufferfish standoff or skating to victory across the ice, these shorts are sure to […]
SOLD OUT: CHECK BACK FOR TICKET RELEASES It all sounds blissful and idyllic and totally of a different era: in 1968 a group of radical journalists leave New York City for the country, landing in Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont, where they set up a commune and become pioneers in back-to-the-land organic farming. But what […]
Amidst the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, hummingbirds fit right in. Zippy and sequined, they are gorgeous, vibrant creatures that are gone in a flash. A heartwarming film of joy and wonder, Every Little Thing tells the deceptively simple story of a woman in Los Angeles, Terry Masear, who nurtures wounded hummingbirds back to health. […]
A new cult classic indie sports movie in the making, EEPHUS is an elegy for America’s pastime and an affectionate depiction of beer league camaraderie. It’s also just flat-out funny, with a hell of a comedic batting average and a lovable Massachusetts-brand of brininess. It’s the end of an era for a recreational baseball league […]
“If you had the chance to talk to a loved one who died, would you take it?” That’s the pitch of Eternal You, the thought-provoking documentary about AI technology from German filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck. But that question doesn’t quite get to the heart of the matter. What the technology on display here […]
When we last heard from writer-director Andrea Arnold—Academy Award winner, three-time Jury Prize awardee at Cannes, and one of the most celebrated auteurs in the world—she was taking a detour to document the life cycle of a cow in cinéma vérité style. Bird marks her triumphant return to narrative feature film and synthesizes a number […]
It’s a story that is depressingly familiar, especially over the last few years: a powerful man (and sexual predator) drugs and assaults a young ambitious woman trying to build her career. What makes Black Box Diaries stand out? First and foremost it is the remarkable courage and winning personality of journalist Shiori Itō, the woman […]
Set in the Bolivian capital of La Paz, The Dog Thief is told through the wild eyes of Martin, a teenager scraping together a living as a shoeshiner. Martin is an orphan and a loner with few friends and fewer opportunities, but he hatches an ill-conceived scheme to take advantage of his best client, the […]