Live Culture

Video: Watch Local Kids' Epic Time-Travel War Film From BCA Filmmaking Institute

by Margot Harrison Posted on September 8, 2015 at 6:34PM

BCA offers the Filmmaking Institute in partnership with Vermont Community Access Media. And the camp has been getting some notice.

What? You've never heard of luminous toxin?

What I'm Watching: D.O.A. (1950)

by Ethan de Seife Posted on September 5, 2015 at 9:00AM

So, again, why include the title card? I can only come back to the idea that its inclusion granted, in the eyes of the film’s producers, some sort of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity.

Newfane Author's Book Now a Film Starring Anthony Hopkins

by Margot Harrison Posted on September 4, 2015 at 12:30PM

on the adaptation? CF: I was in touch with the screenwriters, but not much.

Vermont's Ernest 'E-Knock' Phillips Competes on 'The Amazing Race'

by Margot Harrison Posted on September 4, 2015 at 11:29AM

Phillips may have a gift of gab, but he doesn't need to talk to get attention on the dance floor. Watch him practice his craft in collaboration with local filmmaker Michael Fisher in this Stuck in Vermont video from 2014, which also has clips of Phillips' past reality-show appearances.

Trekonderoga Beams 'Star Trek' Into the North Country

by Ken Picard Posted on September 1, 2015 at 1:33PM

A young Daniel Johnston holding one of his homemade cassettes

What I'm Watching: The Devil and Daniel Johnston

by Ethan de Seife Posted on August 29, 2015 at 9:09AM

The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a thoughtful, sensitive, well-structured film that truly offers insight into its subject’s unusual life and creative process. I found my admiration for Johnston deepened by watching it, but I also sympathized with him more fully than I thought I would.

Two Former Vermont Laureates Collaborate, Again

by Ken Picard Posted on August 28, 2015 at 4:30PM

Duplass as Josef playing "Peach Fuzz." There's a song that goes with this dance, I'm afraid.

Movies You Missed: Creep

by Margot Harrison Posted on August 28, 2015 at 3:56PM

Through his exceedingly low-key performance as Aaron, Brice portrays the little dance we go through whenever we meet an over-friendly stranger: Is he a threat, or just a harmless, puppyish eccentric? Should we trust him and accept his overtures, or does he creep us the hell out?