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Documentary Explores Film Criticism

Film criticism is a specialized form of journalism with a tradition as old as films themselves. Two visiting artists on our campus, Gerald Peary and Amy Geller, explored this topic in their film ”For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.” Peary and Geller, who are married, also spoke to journalism classes last week. The 90-minute film [...]

Grad Students Show Films Tonight

Watching horror, comedy and drama films dealing with caffeine addicts and haunted movie theaters is just the kind of break a college student needs from the stress of the semester and you can find it all in the student films being shown tonight in Reynolds Performance Hall.   There will be four films, each between 20 and [...]

Art Can Pay, Auteur Says

Film students learned about the business aspects of film making yesterday from Ivan Rogers, a 25-year veteran of the industry. Rogers was on campus yesterday and today as part of the Artist-in-Residence program in the College of Fine Arts and Communication. He talked to film classes, the UCA Film Club and met individually with senior [...]

Actor on Campus Today, Tomorrow

Ivan Rogers, an internationally-acclaimed actor and filmmaker, is on campus today and tomorrow to critique students’ work, conduct workshops on producing films, and host a public screening of Forgive Me Father (2001) – a film Rogers wrote, directed, and starred in. You can see a trailer of the film here. He has also starred in [...]

OMG: New RSO is PDK

There’s a new registered student organization (RSO) on campus that you won’t find in that big, multicolored spreadsheet on the university Web site. Allow us to introduce you to Psi Delta Kappa.   It’s UCA’s first co-ed honor fraternity for film students, according to its founder and president, Lesley Allen. If things go as planned, it will become [...]