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Cinema Detroit hosts pop-up series of outdoor movies this summer

The arthouse closed its doors last month but will continue screening films in different locations

By Steve Neavling
Jul 5, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, movies at New Center Park, Detroit, Cinema Detroit, 10 Things I Hate About You, Moonstruck, Moonrise Kingdom
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Motor City Cinema Society launches 16mm series at Redford Theatre

The program kicks off with ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,’ tickets are $5

By Lee DeVito
May 17, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Redford Theatre, Detroit, art house movies in Detroit, classic movies in Detroit, 16mm in Detroit, Redford Theatre Annex
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‘Burn X’ follows a decade of struggle for Detroit firefighters

In a sequel to 2012’s ‘Burn,’ co-directors Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez found ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to document DFD

By George Elkind
Dec 5, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Burn X, Detroit, firefighters, documentary, Tom Putnam, Brenna Sanchez
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‘Lust for Life’ paints Van Gogh — convincingly — as a realist

The 1956 Kirk Douglas-starring biopic screens Saturday at the DIA to coincide with its new ‘Van Gogh in America’ exhibition

By George Elkind
Oct 5, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Lust for Life, Vincent Van Gogh, DIA, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Film Theatre, Video
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Noir City film fest brings a world of classic movies to Detroit’s Redford Theatre

More noir: This year’s fest as a return to basics, with double features of films from the 1930s-50s

By George Elkind
Sep 19, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Noir City, Redford Theatre, Detroit, film, film noir
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Coppola’s Detroit auto drama ‘Tucker: The Man and His Dream’ is a wild ride

Jeff Bridges plays a forgotten automaker in this 1988 film, which screens this weekend at the DFT

By George Elkind
Sep 12, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Detroit, Detroit Film Theatre, Francis Ford Coppola, automobile, Jeff Bridges, Video
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Set-in-Detroit horror flick ‘Barbarian’ is one of the year’s best

Don’t try to understand it. Don’t try to explain it. Just go watch it.

By John W. Allman
Sep 9, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Barbarian, Detroit, Zach Cregger
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‘Daron, Daron Colbert’ spotlights Delray actor and his Detroit neighborhood

The 13-minute film is set in Southwest Detroit and is screening in this year’s Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland

By George Elkind
Aug 16, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Kevin Steen, Daron Colbert, Delray, Southwest Detroit, Detroit
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Cinema Lamont and Detroit Puppet Company bring a month-long puppet film series

(Some) strings attached

By George Elkind
Aug 3, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, film, movies, puppets, art house, Detroit, Michigan
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Al Nuke’s ‘Detroit Dreams’ is like a Motor City version of ‘Krush Groove’

The rapper’s new film tells the story of a producer trying to make it in the music industry, drawing on real-life experiences

By Kahn Santori Davison
Apr 28, 2022

Tags: Movies, Detroit Dreams, Al Nuke, Detroit
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With Freep Film Festival and more, documentaries of all stripes land in metro Detroit

What's up, doc?

By George Elkind
Apr 26, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Freep Film festival, Detroit
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In ‘The Worst Person in the World,’ romance is and isn't easy

By George Elkind
Mar 7, 2022

Tags: Movies, The Worst Person in the World, Detroit, Cinema Detroit, Joachim Trier
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‘Skin City’ brings erotica film series to Detroit’s Outer Limits Lounge

By George Elkind
Feb 1, 2022

Tags: Movies
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Director Mike Mills draws inspiration from Detroit in ‘C’mon C’mon’

By George Elkind
Nov 29, 2021

Tags: Movies, Mike Mills, Detroit, C'mon C'mon
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Actress Selma Blair takes on a role of a lifetime in new documentary about life with MS

By Jerilyn Jordan
Oct 13, 2021

Tags: Movies, Selma Blair, multiple sclerosis, Introducing, Selma Blair, Michigan, Detroit, Cover Story, Video
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Doc about Detroit’s Boblo Island history weaves a stranger-than-fiction ‘Ferry Tale’

By Jerilyn Jordan
Sep 22, 2021

Tags: Movies, Boblo Island, Boblo boats, Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale, Freep Film Festival, Aaron Schillinger, Detroit, Windsor, Ontario, Cover Story, Video
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How a Detroit woman’s stripping saga-turned-Twitter thread became ‘Zola’

By Jerilyn Jordan
Jun 30, 2021

Tags: Movies, Zola, Detroit, A'Ziah King, #TheStory, A24, Twitter, Cover Story, Video
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‘Ovid and the Art of Love’ imagines Ancient Rome with a Detroit twist

By George Elkind
May 13, 2020

Tags: Movies, Ovid and the Art of Love, Detroit, Video
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A critic’s picks for this year’s Cinetopia film festival

By George Elkind
May 1, 2019

Tags: Movies, Cinetopia, Cassandro, the Exotico!, Detroit, film festival
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'White Boy Rick' goes to Hollywood

By Jim McFarlin
Sep 12, 2018

Tags: Movies, White Boy Rick, Detroit, Richard Wershe, Yann Demange, Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Cover Story, Video