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PREY

August 4, 2022 By 1 Comment

PREY

It’s a darn shame that PREY will not be coming to a theater near you soon. It’s not just the wide shots of the gorgeous vistas to be found on the Canadian Great Plains that make this so very big-screen worthy. Nor is it the nifty effects that we’ve come to know and love with… Read More »

Tagged With: circle-of-life, Comanche, hunter, Native-American, prequel, warrior

ANTLERS

October 31, 2021 By Leave a Comment

ANTLERS

I don’t know that I subscribe to the idea that there are some works of prose that are “unfilmable.” This is not to say that a successsful translation from one art form to another doesn’t require a certain amount of compromise around the source material. Prose, while relying on the eyes in order to absorb… Read More »

Tagged With: Filial Relationships, glistening viscera, myth, mythic creatures, Native-American, Oregon

NEWS OF THE WORLD

December 22, 2020 By 1 Comment

NEWS OF THE WORLD

NEWS OF THE WORLD is a somber and sober tale of post-Civil War Texas with few surprises as it wends its way through the mythos of the Old West, unfolding as it does as a metaphor. Or is it an allegory? Perhaps a microcosm of the world’s ills, both then and now? All those elements… Read More »

Tagged With: Civil War, Confederate, Kiowa, Native-American, occupation, Reconstruction, Refugees, Texas, western

DAMSEL

July 11, 2018 By Leave a Comment

DAMSEL

This fiercely iconoclastic western uses many tropes from that cinematic genre, from the classics of John Ford to the more recent idioms of Sergio Leone, but the references are merely window dressing. Part comedy, part tragedy, part feminist manifesto, and all engrossing, it subverts expectations at every turn while delivering a film that refuses to be pigeonholed.

Tagged With: miniature horse, Native-American, preacher, true love, western

HONEYGLUE with James Bird, Anya Remizova, and Adriana Mather

June 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment

HONEYGLUE with James Bird, Anya Remizova, and Adriana Mather

When I spoke with James Bird, Adriana Mather, and Anya Remizova on May 25, 2016, the first thing I wanted to know about was the clichés that they wanted to avoid in this story of young lovers facing their own mortality. It was only natural that we would discuss the spiritual influences that inspired Bird,… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, bees, brain tumor, broken fingers, Buffalo, Cotton Mather, dragonfly, Ezequiel Stremiz, Gender fluid, Kevin Webber, Mortality, Native-American, Ojibwe, romance, Salem Witch Trials, Smurfs, Steve Curcuru, Zombot Pictures

THE DARKNESS

May 13, 2016 By 1 Comment

THE DARKNESS

THE DARKNESS, released without a press screening, and on Friday the Thirteenth, is everything you’d expect.  It’s a tame and insultingly derivative version of POLTERGEIST, right down to the sulky teenage daughter and the darling little kid who sees spirits. That the little kid is a boy, not a blond cherub of a girl, and… Read More »

Tagged With: Anasazi, autism, bulemia, demons, eagle feather, exorcism, horror, Native-American, psychic healer

BROTHER BEAR

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BROTHER BEAR

You can’’t fault Disney’s latest animated film, BROTHER BEAR, for the message it wants to send to all the kiddies out there. That would be a philosophy of respect for all nature’’s creatures and of taking responsibility for your own actions are both worthy lessons. Alas, the execution is 90% generic and 100% unfunny. The story… Read More »

Tagged With: animated, bears, manhood ceremony, Native-American, Northern Lights, totem

Alex Mar and the AMERICAN MYSTIC

October 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Alex Mar and the AMERICAN MYSTIC

As we head into the holiday season, Halloween just passed, and the quasi-religious rituals surrounding our national holidays of Thanksgiving and the orgy of spending that has become Christmas on the horizon, KMR takes a look back to a conversation with Alex Mar for her 2010 documentary AMERICAN MYSTIC. Mar’s film looks at the draw… Read More »

Tagged With: Alex Mar, ceremony, Halloween, Lakota Sioux, Native-American, pagan, ritual, spirituality, Sundance, witchcraft

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