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Best summer film events in the Twin Cities

48-Hour Film Project, Twin Cities Film Fest

Kristen Wiig in Bridesmaids

It's written by and starring women but still gets screwed

Garrison Keillor announces retirement to AARP

Keillor plots retirement.​Garrison Keillor may well have told Minnesota Public Radio privately about his plans to retire in 2013 from "A Prairie Home Companion." Still, it was a little jarring to hear the news via AARP instead of, say, wrapping his ride into the sunset into an episode of "Th ... More >>

Bill Hinkley, 1942-2010

Saying goodbye to the Prairie Home Companion musician

Bill Hinkley, 1942-2010

Photos courtesy A Prairie Home Companion​Midnight on the Water: Bill Hinkley, in memoriamBY MARTIN KELLER The choice moments that suddenly arise when you can see a grand life coming to a close in front of you seem to have no respect for death -- and even less reverence for the heavy grief waiti ... More >>

MSPIFF: Your passport to 58 countries via 145 films

Festival kicks off its 28th year in the Twin Cities

Tom Keith

Festival kicks off its 28th year in the Twin Cities

Kevin Mahogany Sings Big Joe Turner

Festival kicks off its 28th year in the Twin Cities

Lily Tomlin

Festival kicks off its 28th year in the Twin Cities

Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra

Festival kicks off its 28th year in the Twin Cities

Kevin McHale: Too sleepy for his own good

Festival kicks off its 28th year in the Twin Cities

Celebrity Justice

A journalist and TV starlet play nasty head games in the smart, subtle Interview by Steve Buscemi

Concert Highlights for the Week Of June 6-12

A journalist and TV starlet play nasty head games in the smart, subtle Interview by Steve Buscemi

More Shriek Than Shrek

A journalist and TV starlet play nasty head games in the smart, subtle Interview by Steve Buscemi

Artists of the Year

A journalist and TV starlet play nasty head games in the smart, subtle Interview by Steve Buscemi

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.

11/22 Morning Communiqué

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.

Altman '08: For Real

In his 80s, 'Prairie Home' director Robert Altman remains a player

The Long Goodbye

Keillor's 'Prairie' makes a fine pasture for Altman

Toe Jam

Keillor's 'Prairie' makes a fine pasture for Altman

Altman and "A Prairie Home Companion" the hit of Berlin

Keillor's 'Prairie' makes a fine pasture for Altman

Save Oak Street Cinema and Minnesota Film Arts

Keillor's 'Prairie' makes a fine pasture for Altman

Uneven Steven

Spielberg's weighty take on vengeance is a tad lopsided

Very overblown companion

Spielberg's weighty take on vengeance is a tad lopsided

Here Comes The Sun King

Sunny Adé talks about war, Nigeria, and good juju

Film Fest Coverage II: The Sequel

The M-SPIFF's second week brings 'The World' and more

We Heart Huckabees!

The Everything Movie lands on all four of our film critics' top 10 lists

A Couch Potato's Guide to TV On DVD

We see the VHS tapes on our shelves and we want to smash them! Or, the brighter side of planned obsolescence in the field of home entertainment

Enter Sandman

Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson leaves the California shore to journey into a darker state of mind

This Must Be The Place

In the documentary masterworks of Frederick Wiseman, ordinary people do battle with institutions--and the poetic tussles with the real

The Doc Is In

Nonfiction writes the prescription in Toronto

Artists of the Year

Nonfiction writes the prescription in Toronto

Beyond the Pale

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

Altman's Orphans

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

Clawless

Peter Bogdanovich loses it at the movies with 'The Cat's Meow'

Ripe For The Picking

Offspring of Spacek and Hanks Bring 'Orange County' to Harvest

What a Feeling

An Oak Street retrospective pulls us back to the flashy days of Eighties cinema

Storytelling Giant

The South Korean Chunhyang spins a yarn as big as the world

Steven's Sense of Snow

With the issue drama Traffic, Steven Soderbergh turns the flow of cocaine into a moving picture

The Year in Film

What you see is (not) what you get: Twelve months of well-screened duds and rarely viewed wonders

That Obscure Object of Desire

Flaws and all, Robert Altman's latest fresco is eminently lovable

Cinema of Cynicism

In a 29-film series, Oak Street Cinema puts Hollywood's most complicated decade, the Seventies, onscreen

The Year in Film

1999 brought a cinematic bounty to the art house and the multiplex alike

Screening New Heights

The ambitious Heights Theatre stretches to bring upscale cinema to an audience outside of Uptown

Comedy Under Control

The two Robert Altmans get reacquainted in Cookie's Fortune

Susan Minot: Evening

The two Robert Altmans get reacquainted in Cookie's Fortune

The Ties That Bind

Her life to live: Alice Houri in Claire Denis's Nénette et Boni

Tricky Dick

In Primary Colors, being president means never having to say you're sorry.

National Stage

More Songs About Buildings and Food: Robert Altman's Nashville.