When we get caught up in the tempestuous waves of today’s scarily surreal socio-political shitstorm, cinema offers us a lighthouse guiding us back to our shared humanity. This is the premise by which Barry Rivers and his dutiful team of cinephiles present the movies that make up this year’s Maui Film Festival. Just as they’ve done for the last 17 years, Rivers and company … [Read more...] about Maui Film Festival: ‘Grand Unified Theory’ asks what you want in the world
Celestial Cinema
Our Guide to the 2016 Maui Film Festival
The best movies are journeys–trips to places and times we may never visit in our own lives. Movies take us on two-hour jaunts into deep space, show us battles from a century ago and put us in the middle of worlds that only exist on an animator’s drawing board. Movies offer both escape from our terrestrial, contemporary lives as well as moments of emotional and intellectual … [Read more...] about Our Guide to the 2016 Maui Film Festival