Actress Tangi Miller Joins TFC Film Festival

In celebration of the 3rd Annual Trinity Film Coalition Film Festival, on September 12, 2009 actress Tangi Miller (Felicity, Madea’s Family Reunion) will make a special guest appearance for the screening of her newest film release titled My Girlfriend’s Back.
My Girlfriend’s Back, a romantic comedy which stars Tangi Miller, Malik [...]

Summer Goes Out With a Bang! The Final Festivals

None of us want to admit it, but we all know it’s true: Labor Day means summer is coming to a close.
Luckily, that’s not all it means.  Labor Day weekend in Detroit also means a lot of great art and music festivals–we like to save the best for last and then cram them all into [...]

Food Matters Screening at Royal Oak Main Art Theatre

[ August 27, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] Please join us on August 27th at 7:30 p.m. at the Royal Oak Main Art Theater to view Food Matters as provided by our hosts Regeneration Raw. All proceeds go to David Wolfe’s Fruit Tree Planting Foundation. Please check out their website: http://www.how2eatraw.com/index.htm

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Free Tickets to Screening of “Paper Heart” at the Magic Bag

The new romantic comedy starring Superbad’s Michael Cera will be screened at the Magic Bag’s Brew & View next Wednesday, August 5th, and we’ve got your free tickets here!  Just email Mike Orlando at MOrlando@alliedadvpub.com and let him know you read it on thedetroiter.com.  You’ll receive passes for two to this intelligent, self-flective film which explores [...]

Soul Power at the DFT

[ July 31, 2009 12:00 am to August 9, 2009 12:00 am. ] The now-legendary boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman that took place in Zaire in 1974 (aka the “Rumble in the Jungle”) actually turned out to be two spectacles in one. Complementing the fight was a three-day music festival featuring some of the greatest rhythm and blues talents of all time: James Brown and [...]

Film Review: Jerichow

Jerichow is a modernized, Teutonic film noir.
Sort of.
Let’s try this again.
Jerichow is an intellectualized exploration of greed and desperation.
Well, yes, it’s definitely that, too.
One more time.
Jerichow is full of surprises.
That pretty much nails it.
While it would be pretty easy, and also accurate enough, to sum up Jerichow as a loose interpretation of James M. Cain’s [...]

Jerichow at the DFT

[ July 24, 2009 12:00 am to August 2, 2009 12:00 am. ]
“A taut, brilliantly acted thriller.”
-Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
One of literature’s supremely steamy and enticingly lurid portraits of desire, writer James M. Cain’s classic tale The Postman Always Rings Twice has been adapted for the movies by filmmakers from America to Italy to China, with each version putting its own unique spin on the [...]

Film Review: Tulpan

I know that it is written somewhere in the top-secret handbook of film critics that you must give rave reviews to all foreign films no matter what, especially when that foreign film deals with a specific culture or practice that is scarcely touched upon (such as: goat herders inhabiting the steppes of Kazakhstan), filling some [...]

Seraphine at the DFT

[ July 10, 2009 12:00 am to July 19, 2009 12:00 am. ] Séraphine
“Sublime. One of the most evocative films about an artist I’ve ever seen.”
-David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The great, still far-too-little-known painter named Séraphine de Senlis (1864 – 1942) was a [...]

Film Review: “Séraphine” A Self Taught Primitive Painter

Séraphine is the story of an ordinary person doing extraordinary things. Séraphine Louis was a housecleaner in a tiny provincial town in France called Senlis. She was in her forties already when she first took up the paint brush, following the instruction of her “guardian angel.” Her work was a joke amongst the other townspeople, [...]