After premiering in Indonesia in June, a film shot in the Oklahoma City metro in 2016 will have its first public showing in Oklahoma. Lord Finn — which won awards for best actor, director, screenplay, music and ensemble at the Asia Pacific International Filmmaker Festival & Awards in Jakarta — screens 6:30 p.m. Sept. 14 […]
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Our time
For actress and producer Michaelene Stephenson, being a filmmaker is exactly what it sounds like. “My main goal would be to help movies get made, and if that means I’m the right person for a role and I need to act in the film, awesome. I really love doing that,” said Stephenson. “But if that […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Lights, camera, Oklahoma
The latest big-budget Hollywood feature to film in Oklahoma will tell the story of corruption and a systematic cover-up that usurps money and power from its rightful owners into the hands of a greedy minority. No, we are not referring to the modern-day oil industry, but rather the film adaptation of Killers of the Flower […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Damonic justice
In June, sightings of actor Matt Damon (EuroTrip, Mystic Pizza) temporarily exceeded sightings of Bigfoot in Oklahoma, and for good reason: Damon is apparently filming a movie here. According to Variety, Stillwater, written and directed by Oscar winner Tom McCarthy, will star Damon as an “American oil-rig rough neck from Oklahoma … who travels to […]
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Tackling subjects
Fathers of Football 18 p.m. Friday Rodeo Cinema 2221 Exchange Ave. rodeocinema.org 405-235-3456 $10 He lives in Austin now, but filmmaker Bradley Beesley has spent much of his life thinking about Oklahoma. His documentaries about barehanded fishing (Okie Noodling), the Oklahoma State Penitentiary rodeo (Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo) and The Flaming Lips (The Fearless […]
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Cover: Tech boom
For its 19th annual celebration of local, regional, national and world film June 6-9 in downtown Oklahoma City, deadCenter Film Festival selected 140 features and short films. Among the final films announced for this year’s event include director Danny Boyle’s musical fantasy Yesterday, about a world in which the Beatles never existed, and Growing Up […]
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Indelible images
Seen/Unseen: A Festival of Experimental Film May 9-11 Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. oklahomacontemporary.org 405-951-0000 $15-$40 When Kim Voynar was growing up in Oklahoma City, the chance to see a foreign film felt, well, foreign. “I distinctly remember in high school when the Will Rogers Theatre was screening Das Boot,” Voynar said, […]
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Film five
Mono Deux premiere 9:30 p.m. Saturday The Banquet Cinema Pub 800 NW Fourth St. banquetcinema.com $10 Mono Deux is only a sequel in the loosest sense of the word. With completely different characters and storyline, a (mostly) different cast and — perhaps most importantly — a different team of filmmakers from its predecessor, the new […]
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Motion emotion
Nicole Emmons Animation Shorts 7 p.m. April 26 Little D Gallery 3003 Paseo St. facebook.com/littledgallery 720-773-1064 Free Watching Heat Miser control the weather from his volcano headquarters in The Year Without a Santa Claus, Nicole Emmons fell in love. The 1974 Rankin/Bass Christmas Productions special, along with the studio’s better-known Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, inspired […]
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Wild scenes
Wild & Scenic Film Festival 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday The Mercury 426 E. Main St., Norman earthrebirthnow.org 405-358-3565 $15-$20 Environmental issues can be scary, but documentaries about them don’t have to feel like horror movies. Wild & Scenic Film Festival, advertised as “a festival by activists for activists,” showcases films about nature and the environment, […]