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|Ben Tuthill| In late 1994, high off the box office fumes of Speed, Keanu Reeves took a break from movies to play Hamlet in a two-month run for the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg. Opening night was by all accounts a disaster, but Reeves found his nerve in the coming weeks... Continue reading The post YOUNG, DUMB, FULL OF WHAT’S TO COME: Keanu Reeves’s Transformative Summer 1991 first appeared…
|Abraham Tueber| Though it embarrasses me to admit it, I own just a single DVD. At one time, I had many more I could proudly hold in my hands. Now, sheaves of plastic collect dust in my parents’ basement, entombing masterpieces like Spy Kids, Ice Age, and Akeelah and the Bee... Continue reading The post In My Own Private Idaho, Being Gay Is a Choice first appeared on Perisphere .
|Luis Lopez| Gregory Nava will be at the Trylon in person and I plan to ask him if he shot a version of El Norte in which Enrique’s sister Rosa survives at the end. She dies after a solo teardrop escapes her body that’s wrapped in a white hospital gown adorned with... Continue reading The post Journeys North first appeared on Perisphere .
|Ben Tuthill| Maybe nothing has raised the moviegoing populace to space-brain meta-awareness more than the sequel. The sequel presents itself as a new window into an already established cinematic universe, but in reality it exposes the moviemaking infrastructure to which that... Continue reading The post HUSTLED AGAIN: The Color of Money and the originary sequel first appeared on Perisphere .
|Cole Seidl| There’s a very specific existential crisis that happens to many film students. It occurs with such frequency as to almost feel like a cliché. You spend 4 years drowning in film. Film history, film theory, film production, film conversations. Then, you suddenly find yourself... Continue reading The post A Sentimental Journey Through the Films of Tsai Ming Liang first appeared on…
|Louis Gagnon| On July 8th, St. Paul mayor Khaoly Her announced her plan to evict the city's homeless encampments. This is set to begin on August 5th. Upwards of 400 people will be displaced and have their belongings confiscated by the cleaning crews. The city is going ahead... Continue reading The post The Long Dark Night of the 21st Century first appeared on Perisphere .
|Amelia Foster| In an era when Minneapolis desperately needs courageous leadership, Jacob Frey fails us again and again. During Operation Metro Surge, he took a press tour when he should have been protecting us from abduction and murder by ICE agents. He has literally run from... Continue reading The post Dark Days of Frey’s Minneapolis first appeared on Perisphere .
|Devin Warner| Note: There are many links to Muppet related material that I am referencing. You do not need to see them to understand this piece but should watch them because they are all delightful. The Muppet Movie starts with the camera descending into the swamp as we... Continue reading The post Searching for the Rainbow Connection: The Community, Optimism and Hope of the Muppets first…
|Dan Howard| Dom DeLuise, James Coburn, Madeline Khan, Telly Savalas, Carol Kane, Paul Williams, Milton Berle, Elliot Gould, Edgar Bergen (and Charlie), Bob Hope, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Cloris Lechman, and Orson Welles! Talk about an... Continue reading The post It’s The Muppet Movie! With Our Very Special Guest Stars… first appeared on Perisphere .
|Ben Jarman| We always went to Taco Bell for lunch in a 1989 Honda Civic. Four or five other teens were stuffed in the car, some sitting on laps, just to flee class and get a bite to eat. Steak soft tacos and bean burritos were my thing, but I was there for something else: my classmate... Continue reading The post Big Date Night first appeared on Perisphere .
