Paul Risker

The @FantasiaFest audience should prepare themselves for moral & didactic restraint with Lisa Brühlmann's coming-of-age feature debut, BLUE MY MIND. Cinema driven by a desire to emotionally connect with an audience; not preach. Read @PopMatters' interview: https://t.co/YBTKuy6SgB https://t.co/mPCTywPtjg

RT @PopMatters: Dreams tell stories, but movies are so much more than just dreams. Enjoy this Dir. Lisa Brühlmann #interview re: her coming…

"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie" - Godard. Cinema has moved me throughout my years by way of "action & empathy", and to not have felt about a film is surely missing out on a precious life experience?! https://t.co/J8CCCrz3Yv

PopMatters @PopMatters

.@FirstReformed may explore the edges of faith but director Paul Schrader believes that what moves us in cinema is no mystery: it's simply "action and empathy". Enjoy this #Interview with Schrader by @PaulRisker. https://t.co/HBW3Yr6gv2

I always think recalling these kinds of moments are like reconnecting with the simple pleasures of storytelling. Whilst storytelling can be embraced on an intellectual level, we should never forget its innocence to just evoke a sense of joy/pleasure. https://t.co/ZjNLvM3wOp

"...the end game is that we'd rather people just think: I want to see it because it's a Moorhead & Benson film" @AaronMoorhead & @JustinHBenson discuss with @FrightFest their new film #TheEndless amidst audience expectations, film authorship & aspiration https://t.co/rnbcS6mUIb https://t.co/oDDZDhGkLk

The old adage: "Ignorance is bliss." Yet as painful as it is to pay attention to what's going on, to develop that all important sense of awareness as well as self-awareness, to and to challenge in order to think for oneself, the pain remains preferential to ignorance. https://t.co/Y9lzQMM2u3

Karen Zarker @KarenZarker

For all of us at PopMatters. https://t.co/E0lFxL9nt2

"You want to make a philosophically bent film in black and white, a junkie vampire movie, and remember, this was the 90s in America." Director Abel Ferrara reflects on the 'miracle' that was THE ADDICTION with @FrightFest: https://t.co/nq38QNGbiU https://t.co/1npT7Fz9HE

Genre cinema is said to capture a snapshot of the social anxieties of any given decade, and this Protest Songs feature shows the importance of music in helping us to understand our cultural and social history. This is inspiring stuff that has a genuine power to educate. https://t.co/YARrnaQyeu

Karen Zarker @KarenZarker

I met a college grad who knew nothing of the American War in Vietnam. @PopMatters amazing Protest Songs feature feeds the thusly anemic with rich, nutritious History, in word and song. I’m so very proud of our work, here. Listen, learn, realize. @humcommons https://t.co/egL4L9DVny

Chris Barsanti's educated review of Paul Schrader's @FirstReformed leads me to question whether there is a tendency for the modern critic to watch & have an opinion on as many films as possible, that one's filmic education is continually compromised? https://t.co/wAe20b5L1o https://t.co/XFbrbjGWNo

If one side is making fun of Trump & the other is not, can we not use this to divide those with the faculty for common sense & those lacking. Also is humour not used as a coping mechanism for the sad & undesirable aspects of life? And Trump is a contemporary tragedy! https://t.co/3rwbre5rwN

Karen Zarker @KarenZarker

Shame on @pittsburghpg for firing @rob_rogers & perpetuating the creep of fascism in America. Creep? Nah. It’s upright & walking on its own - aided by this & others news sources that are clearly operating without historical awareness, to be generous. https://t.co/nZH1z8oZAW

Not sure if @DebOnTheArts would describe getting lost in thought as going down the rabbit hole? Regardless read her interview with @DavidSedaris for @PopMatters here: https://t.co/NKwPtVUyg6 & her review of his newest essay collection CALYPSO: https://t.co/7s2PDbc1Al @littlebrown

Thanks for the kind words my friend and for giving a mention to these conversations that hopefully bring something of value to the discussion of freedom of expression. https://t.co/KqxJiKbuyv

Stelio Savante @StelioSavante

Conversations about freedom of expression from my friend the brilliant @PaulRisker and @PopMatters checkout @amyadrion director of @halfthepicture https://t.co/21xGnL7sj7 and @sarmenz director of @AfghanCycles https://t.co/mZvH5JzCX7 @wendyshepherd @Dylan_Bostic @MovieCriticSA

"The concept that documentary is truth to us is ridiculous" says one half of the Mansfield 66/67 directing partnership P. David Ebersole. My interview with @EbersoleHughes published by the super-duper @PopMatters: https://t.co/fQA4nMHuh5 On DVD & On-Demand June 25th @peccapics https://t.co/bwb5RkM4Xb

JOURNEY'S END by immortalising R.C Sherriff's first hand account of his WWI experience yields the value of art to our culture. My interview with director Saul Dibb published by @PopMatters: https://t.co/LsewwO5khH

"@JourneysEnd2017 was doing something quite revolutionary, certainly for the time the play was written by looking at the psychological impact of war" - director Saul Dibb. Read the exclusive interview with @PopMatters here: https://t.co/LsewwO5khH https://t.co/cfvfto3T0b

RT @PopMatters: For Afghan women, moving forward in a country that is moving backward is extraordinarily difficult. Sarah Menzies documents…

RT @PopMatters: There are movies that you watch and movies that you experience. American Animals asks viewers to be present and believe wha…