Film Section :: Page 5

• Back to the land, 40 years on

  By Audrey HackettAugust 1, 2019

  

  The year was 1976. Fifty people pitched in $1,200 each to purchase a former ranch in southwestern New Mexico. In the language of the age, they sought to go “back to the land.”

• Little Art shows ‘Strangelove’

  By Guest ContributorJuly 25, 2019

  

  An unhinged general with his finger on the button, ordering a nuclear strike on Eastern Europe? In 2019?

• Steve Bognar receives a ‘Welcome to the Academy’

  By Audrey HackettJuly 18, 2019

  

  The news came by email. Subject line: “Welcome to the Academy.” For a moment villager Steve Bognar was stumped. “The Academy? The Taekwondo Academy in Fairborn?” he joked in an interview at his Yellow Springs home this week.

• ‘American Factory’ to be released on Netflix Aug. 21

  By Megan BachmanJune 28, 2019

  

  The new documentary, ‘American Factory,’ a documentary by local filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert, will be released on Aug. 21 on Netflix, it was announced this week.

• Yellow Springs filmmaker gets MoMa retrospective

  By YS News StaffMay 31, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs filmmaker Julia Reichert is being honored with a retrospective salute at the Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA, in New York City, now through June 8.

• Big story fuels ‘Little Village’

  By Lauren ShowsMay 2, 2019

  

  Imagine a village that looks a lot like this one, but it’s entirely self-sustaining, with its own independent infrastructure, economy, governance — and a whole lot of secrets.

• Animated documentary at the Little Art—The tragic history of nuclear testing

  By Megan BachmanApril 25, 2019

  

  On the morning of March 1, 1954, on an island in the central Pacific, the United States detonated the most powerful atomic bomb it would ever test. In less than a second, the 15-megaton blast irradiated the island chain, as well as 23 Japanese fishermen on a fishing boat.

• Film on nuclear weapons testing to screen

  By Megan BachmanApril 23, 2019

  

  During Earth Week in Yellow Springs, a new documentary film will screen on the infamous Castle Bravo nuclear test and the history and legacy of U.S. nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific.

• Free screening of ‘Dark Money’ slated

  By YS News StaffMarch 19, 2019

  

  Greater Dayton Move to Amend will host a free screening of “Dark Money” at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, at the Little Art Theatre. The box office will open at 12:30 p.m.

• ‘Careful man, there’s a beverage here…’ Little Art, Yellow Springs Brewery team up for ‘Big Lebowski’ event

  By Gary McBrideJanuary 24, 2019

  

  There are two types of people: those who love the film “The Big Lebowski” and those who don’t.