Tagged: film

Russ Simmons, Tom Poe and Maria Asner, the Movie Critics on The Walt Bodine Show, review new movies as well as share their choices for winners and losers of 2008.

By The Walt Bodine Show, Dec 19, 2008

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Movie Critics Ratings for December 19, 2008

Dark Streets
R
2.0

Lisa Marie Evans explores the issue of gender identity, following four transgender people in the Kansas City area in her film The Same, But Different.

By Sylvia Maria Gross

Every other Friday on The Walt Bodine Show, the Movie Critics return keep you up to date on all the recent releases and help you decide which movie you simply must see.

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Critics Cynthia Haines and Steve Walker visited the KCUR studios to review the latest art, independent, documentary, and foreign films to show on area screens.

By Up to Date

Kansas City, MO – Today's movie reviews included Rachel Getting Married, Happy Go Lucky, What Just Happened, Changeling, RocknRolla, W and The Secret Life of Bees.

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Every other Friday on The Walt Bodine Show, the Movie Critics return keep you up to date on all the recent releases and help you decide which movie you simply must see.

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Kansas City, MO – Movie Critic Ratings for October 31, 2008

Every other Friday on The Walt Bodine Show, the Movie Critics return keep you up to date on all the recent releases and help you decide which movie you simply must see.

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Kansas City, MO – The Movie Critics Ratings:


July 25, 2008
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The term "silent film" is in some ways a misnomer since musical accompaniment was always a part of the viewing experience. The Sounds of Silents film series at the Kansas City Public Library pairs short films and a full-length feature with unique scoring by a local composer.

By Laura Spencer

For Grand Arts, photographer and video artist Laurel Nakadate shot her first feature length film in Kansas City last summer. It's called Stay The Same Never Change and notably doesn't include the artist on screen, but instead uses amateur and first-time actors.

By Laura Spencer

The debate coach in the film The Great Debaters is a graduate of Kansas City's Lincoln High School. Sylvia Maria Gross talks to a UMKC professor who wrote a biography of Missouri poet Melvin Tolson, played by Denzel Washington in the film.

By Sylvia Maria Gross

A new film examines the struggle between Tribal Nations and the US Army Corps of Engineers in the development of the Missouri River since 1927.

By Sylvia Maria Gross

Poet Stacey Tolbert and filmmaker Annie Walsh decided to interview a diverse group of women about their feelings about their chests. They spoke to KCUR's Delores Jones in 2006 about the film, which will be screened on Wednesday.

By Delores Jones and Sylvia Maria Gross

As a commemoration of Black History Month this February, the Gem Theatre will be screening double headers of "old-school" and "new school" movies from the history of black film.

By Delores Jones and Alex Smith

Kansas City filmmaker Gary Huggins joined Up to Date host Steve Kraske recently to discuss the film First Date. It's been selected for this year's Sundance Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in France.

The Latin American Film Festival begins in Kansas City this month.

By Sylvia Maria Gross

Latin American Cinema Festival of Kansas City

Local filmmakers Rodney Thompson and Stenson McClendon want to preserve the tradition of the KC Two-Step in a documentary about the two-stepping community.

By Delores Jones (produced by Linda Sher and Anna White)

Kansas City Two-Step