George Lucas

Oregon Trail: How three Minnesotans forged its path

It's one of the most popular educational games of all time

Clint Eastwood tackles Mandela and the hereafter

Famous actor-director cements his career in 2009

Batman returns in disturbing but dazzling blockbuster

Heath Ledger's final role is as foil to the Dark Knight

Local Music Yearbook '06

Prince went to Vegas. Smokers went to Maplewood. Tapes 'N Tapes went to the moon. And sometime after the last zombie dance party got busted, we wrote it all down for you.

My Summer of Love

Minnesota filmmakers remember the warm-weather flicks that got them hot (or bothered)

The God of Small Things

Steve Kiwus's six-inch plastic universe

Beyond the Pale

Screwing the white guy and dancing with the devil: Race matters at the 40th annual New York Film Festival

The Man Who Loved Women

The cinema valentines of avant-garde giant Bruce Conner

Altman's Orphans

Oak Street Cinema brings the neglected offspring of an American master in from the cold

Flat Pop

Lecherous teddy bears, chart-topping dummies, and hypersexed schoolgirls bubble up from the Walker's "Superflat" exhibit of Japanese art

The Comforts of Home

Twenty-four hours of watching paint dry with Eric Rohmer

The Movie House Massacre

Swelling monsterplexes. Bankrupt chains. Cutthroat competition. A glut of screens leaves the national and local movie-theater business reeling.

The Age of Work

Photographers Lewis W. Hine and David Parker frame the debate over child labor

Reality Bites

Terry Gilliam's fantastic dreams do battle with the Hollywood nightmare

Love for Sale

Real to Reel

Minnesota filmmaker Wendell Jon Andersson has devoted the better part of his youth to creating his debut feature, With or Without You

Opera Man

Performing a Ritual: Matt Damon makes a new case for his old-fashioned director in John Grisham's The Rainmaker.

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