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Partygoers quaff electric blue Martinis in celebration of independent film

By Mason Riddle, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Mason Riddle

It was a party with brains, a thinking persons’ event featuring fine champagne, inventive food and IFPinis. IFPinis?MORE »

Film note: All dried up

By Cyn Collins, TC Daily Planet

Images courtesy the Water Project

“Thousands have lived without love. Not one without water."MORE »

Film note: "The Judge and the General," a mass-murder mystery

By Lydia Howell, TC Daily Planet

Images courtesy Walker Art Center

In 1973, a military coup overthrew and murdered the democratically-elected president of Chile, socialist Salvador Allende, replacing him with General Augusto Pinochet, whose regime perpetrated tortureMORE »

Mystery Science Theater of the mind

by Dustin Nelson, Minneapolis Street Art Observer • July 20, 2008 •
This is probably my new favorite stencil. How awesome. (Click here for detail.) MORE »

Film note: Are we really "hated for our freedom"?

By Lydia Howell, TC Daily Planet

Image courtesy Walker Art Center

Minneapolis residents Dominic Howes and Joel Weber, co-directors of The Listening Project, pose an urgent post-9/11 question: What does the world think of America?MORE »

Loni Anderson to be immortalized on Hennepin

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • July 17, 2008 • It's heartening to know that despite the scads of money it's losing, Northwest Airlines hasn't forgotten the importance of investing in its community. Specifically, investing in the arts. More specifically, investing in a celebration of our proud artistic heritage.MORE »

Tanked on beer, Minneapolis crowd gawks at pandas and priests

by Mark Weaver, TC Daily Planet • July 11, 2008 • As promised, the 10 Second Film Fest took place immediately following the St. Anthony Main fireworks display. When I arrived, it felt like a party.MORE »

We coulda been a contender

by Rebecca Collins, MNDialog • June 9, 2008 • There was an article in the Twin Cities Daily Planet earlier this week about a casting call in St. Paul for Hmong actors to star in the next Clint Eastwood film, called Gran Torino.MORE »

Film note: Native stories on film at the Walker

By Cyn Collins, TC Daily Planet

Image from Sikumi courtesy Walker Art Center

Four Sheets to the Wind begins with a Muscogee language narration of a story of a rabbit that swallowed a bear, while Cufe (Cree for “rabbit") Smallhill (Cody Lightning, Smoke Signals) fMORE »

Bike-centric film festival comes to Minneapolis

By Troy Pieper, TC Daily Planet

The Pedal Pushers, subjects of a short film. Photo courtesy Bicycle Film Festival.

With gas prices rising and the environment at risk, bicycling has a "cool factor" like never before.MORE »
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