The Evening Class

"Cinema is the evening class for discriminating adults."--Ousmane Sembene

Sunday, June 14, 2026

A CHAPTERED LIFE—PETER ASHER: EVERYWHERE MAN (2025)—The Evening Class Interview with Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller

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Sometimes in the process of interviewing the directors of a film, they become your friends. Sometimes those newly found friends then go on ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2026

HUNGRY (2026)—REVIEW

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Hungry (2026) , written and directed by James Nunn, is an entertaining and novel twist on the animal attack genre. Great white sharks I’m ...

BACKROOMS (2026)—REVIEW

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The psyche, in considering itself, is architectural and both irreal and surreal in how it configures spatiality, let alone remembers it. Th...
Monday, June 01, 2026

CAROLINA CAROLINE (2025)—REVIEW

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Being “on the lam” originates from late 19th-century criminal slang. By the 1880s, American pickpockets used the word as a slang verb to me...
Monday, May 18, 2026

LED: MOVES + MOVIES—RUIN (2022)

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LED’s choreocinematic project Ruin (2022) , directed by Aidan Brezonick and written and choreographed by Lauren Edson, insinuates presence ...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

LED: MOVES + MOVIES—SILVER CITY (2021)

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Tony Carnell & Angel Abaya.  Photo:  © Steve Smith The partnership of dance with film elevated the movie camera from mere equipment capt...
Friday, May 15, 2026

LED: MOVES + MOVIES—LED + Friends (May 14, 2026)

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The symbiotic relationship between dance and film—both governed by aesthetics of movement—is near familial, like an older sister taking a yo...
Saturday, May 02, 2026

SFFILM 69 (2026): THREE CAPSULES—LATE FAME (2025), TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN (2026) & TIME & WATER (2026)

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Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee in Late Fame (2025) I have long found the film capsule to be one of the oddest short form film “review” formats...
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