With the music industry’s strongest focus in New York City and Los Angeles, Mack said the “No Coast” title is fitting for both Oklahoma’s geographical location and its attitude.
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Norman Film Festival is now taking submissions ahead of its September debut
Chase Spivey started the festival in part to give opportunities to young filmmakers in Oklahoma.
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Barak Goodman’s Oklahoma City documentary explores the far-right anger that inspired Timothy McVeigh
The film screens Friday-Sunday at Oklahoma City Museum of Art and airs 8 p.m. Tuesday on PBS affiliates nationwide.
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OCU film series helps viewers explore other cultures
The series continues Sunday with the 1985 Swedish film My Life as a Dog.
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Sing fails to reach that perfect note that makes animated movies box office successes
In Sing, a theater lover inherits a theater and decides to host a singing competition to boost business.
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La La Land delights with old-school Hollywood charm
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone play a jazz pianist and an actress trying to make it big in Los Angeles while navigating a relationship.
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Neruda is a poetically crafted and surreal biopic
The Spanish-language film is Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s second biopic released in 2016.
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Oklahoma Gazette’s 2016 film year in review
From the bizarre alternate universe in The Lobster to the true-to-life small-town grit of Heartland, 2016 featured many quality local and national films.
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Megan Mullally rolls from comedy tour into holiday film role, hints at Will & Grace reunion
“It was so surreal to be back on that set,” Mullally said. “We have been off the air for 10 years, but [we] slipped back into those characters [like] it was like no time had passed at all.”
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Denis Villeneuve’s meditative alien contact drama has more on its mind than effects
Into this horror comes Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, a science fiction drama in which the effort to engage in thoughtful, careful communication could make the difference between the continuation of human existence and the real possibility that we could all get blown to bits.