Student filmmaker John Henry F. Hinkel ’12 co-directed his first feature film, “The Death of Richard Young,” with scriptwriter Kieran Scarlett. Hinkel and Scarlett began the project together in December 2007.

John Henry Hinkel

John Henry Hinkel

Oscar-Nominated Short Films Preview

The Institute of Contemporary Art will be screening a series of short films nominated for the 82nd Academy Awards, which will be held on March 7.

Blur

For Blur fans, “No Distance Left to Run” is perfect in just about every way.

Drawing financial support from the university and inspiration from the colorful Boston film community, film students find ample opportunites to pursue creative projects from within the department of Visual and Environmental Studies.

The Scenic Route

In the summer of 2009, film student Alexandra E. Zimbler ’10 visited her grandmother in Saint-Malo, Brittany, to interview her ...

A young girl listens fearfully as her grandmother tells her a strange and morbid version of Sleeping Beauty in Nick Phelan and Darragh O’Connell’s Oscar-nominated animated short film ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty.’ The Academy Awards will take place on March 7.

Brazilian Migrants Start Anew in Japan

“They should show this to everyone going to Japan,” said Charles D. Teague ’74 as he walked out of the screening of “From Brazil to Japan,” a new documentary directed by Aaron Litvin ’04 and Ana Paula Hirano Litvin, focusing on the new trend of Brazilian immigration to Japan.

Hot Times with ‘Tub’ Travelers

“You have to be subtle with the comedy in movies,” says Craig Robinson, who plays warehouse manager Darryl on NBC’s “The Office” and has starred in films such as “Knocked Up.”

Shutter Island

Martin Scorsese has made a habit of crafting films that employ genre tropes to illuminate the human condition.

In Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island,” Leonardo DiCaprio plays a federal marshal sent to a penal insane asylum situated on an isolated island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the disappearance of a resident. DiCaprio’s character is plagued by a troubled personal and professional past.

Harvard Shorts—Your Three Minutes to Fame

Harvard what? Harvard Shorts Film Festival, the first of its kind at Harvard, is a university-wide filmmaking contest that will feature the best three-minute digital movies made by anyone in the Harvard community. If walking down the crimson carpet and enjoying celebrity status aren’t enough incentives, winners can also win prizes of up to $750.

St. John of Las Vegas

What are the similarities between Dante Alighieri and Steve Buscemi? First time writer and director Hue Rhodes may be the only one. Loosely based on Dante’s “Inferno,” “Saint John of Las Vegas” follows a reformed gambler’s trip to his own personal “hell” as he is led on his first investigation of insurance fraud.

‘Food at 24 Frames Per Second’ Satisfies a Cinematic Appetite

In the opening scene of “Tampopo,” a man dressed in a white tuxedo and seated in a theater looks into the camera and says, “So you’re at a movie, too. What are you eating?”

Tambellini Discusses Blackness at HFA

Painting, poetry, film, sculpture, humanitarianism, experimentalism and curiosity about the black, curving infinity that lies beyond—these concerns underpin the life and work of Aldo Tambellini.

Red Riding Trilogy

The best word to describe “Red Riding Trilogy” is “epic.” Clocking in at five hours (not including intermissions) the trilogy is emotional, stimulating, beautiful, and haunting.

“Red Riding Trilogy” is composed of three films directed by three different directors. The trilogy tells an interlocking crime narrative spanning nine years.

Valentine's Day

Ladies, get your red wine and ice-cream ready for the perfect blend of break-ups, make-ups, awkward moments, sex, new love, Queen Latifah, old love, Abercrombie models, tears, and Ashton Kutcher. “Valentine’s Day” may not live up to the high-points of other ensemble romantic comedies such as “Love, Actually” or “He’s Just Not that Into You,” it will likely please you in a way that only Leonidas and Jake Sully can please my manly, manly soul.

Jennifer Garner and Ashton Kutcher headline an all-star ensemble cast in Garry Marshall’s “Valentines Day.” The film follows a group of diverse people over the course of a single Valentine’s Day as some relationships end, new relationships begin, and destinies converge in surprising ways.

Steve Buscemi plays John Alighieri in “Saint John of Las Vegas,” first time writer and director Hue Rhodes’s loose adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno.”

North Face

In this film, the mountain represents everything that is impossible and everything that man fears.

A 'Frame by Frame' History

“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive,” said Walt Disney of the cinematographic field he helped pioneer. Since Disney popularized animation however, its creative potential has been largely underestimated and the genre has often been relegated to essentially childish themes.

'New Moon' Panel Unveils CGI Tricks

Many fans of the popular “Twilight” saga and its film franchise would like to maintain the illusion that the Cullens’ sparkling diamond-like skin is merely an unfortunate sun-induced vampire affliction, or that Taylor Lautner’s transformation into a werewolf in the film version of “New Moon” is a manifestation of a Quilete tribe member’s coming-of-age in a troubled, vampire-ridden world.

'Frozen' Director Adam Green Unthaws

As Green says, if you are going to see “Frozen,” be ready for a “psychological mind-fuck of a movie.”