“Not to transmit an experience,” Elie Wiesel, renowned author and Holocaust survivor, once said, “is to betray it.” Since 2008, the Athens Jewish Film Festival has focused on transmitting a variety of Jewish experiences in a yearlong event culminating in February. “The purpose of the festival has been from the beginning to present a lineup [...]

Just how unsexy is Michael Fassbender as the sex-addicted Brandon in “Shame”? Well … he mopes a lot. And he dresses well. And he likes to sleep naked. If it sounds like there isn’t much more to his character, that’s because we don’t ever really learn if there is. In this, Steve McQueen’s second film [...]

Editor’s note: Jason Flynn decided to shoot a film for the Campus MovieFest. Then he realized, through practice, that was a horrible idea. And then he decided to write about it. Everybody wants to be a movie star. At least, everybody has whimsically considered being a part of a movie. So when Campus MovieFest came [...]

Students can travel to Kung Fu Island with the “super bad” and “outta sight” title character of “Black Dynamite.” Along the way, they might also learn something about race. Like a roundhouse kick to the face, the Institute for African American Studies is breaking through stereotypes with the African Diaspora Film Festival this month. The [...]

They wanted a hit. Evan Padgett, Vikas Shah and Sarah Walpert were working with Campus MovieFest — the latter as an intern — and, in their spare time, they were making videos. Friends since elementary school and creative partners since college, Padgett and Shah wrote and directed videos under the banner of 1072 Productions — [...]

People are hamsters — at least, “Carnage” makes an apt comparison of the two. Roman Polanski’s latest film cages two couples in an apartment to mitigate a fight between their sons. The film’s four main characters — a broker (Kate Winslet), a corporate lawyer (Christoph Waltz), a writer (Jodie Foster) and a small business owner [...]

Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life” might be a Cannes Film Festival award winner, but for University students, faculty and staff, the scrutiny is not over. Richard Neupert, from the film studies department, will moderate a roundtable discussion on the film, sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The discussion will feature four other [...]

From the age of magnificence comes a new magnificence in motion pictures. So reads the tagline for the 1965 biopic about Michelangelo, “The Agony and the Ecstasy.” The age of magnificence certainly earns its name in the film as well as the in the artwork — the museum’s Kress collection, made up of Italian Renaissance [...]

Ciné is revisiting a world of murderers, gum-shoes and mystery in traditional format. Ciné, Athens’ art house movie theater, is hosting a noir film series during January and February. As a part of the series Ciné will be showing “The Big Sleep,” “Kiss Me Deadly” and “Double Indemnity” — all in 35mm. The noir series [...]

“Like Crazy” is about love, but I wouldn’t call it romantic. I wouldn’t call it precisely anything, which is part of the problem. The other is that, in Drake Doremus’ sweet-and-sour rubber band drama, there is far too much, and also far too little, show. There is a girl (Felicity Jones) who likes a guy [...]