Author Archives 
Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of "a memoir of dangerous moviegoing" called Through a Screen Darkly, and two fantasy novels – Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight. He blogs at LookingCloser.org. Each month he writes about foreign, independent, and overlooked movies at Christianity Today and Image. He received the 2007 Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival. Favorite filmmakers: Kieslowski, Malick, PT Anderson, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Miyazaki, Brothers Dardennes & Coen, Brad Bird & Andrew Stanton. He's the contributing editor for Seattle Pacific University's award-winning Response magazine. When he's not at SPU, or Seattle's $3-ticket arthouse theater (the Crest), he's probably lurking in Shoreline coffee shops. Also on Twitter (jeff_overstreet) and Facebook.
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Chronicle of Higher Education on “The Death of Film Criticism”
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Two Lovers (Gray, 2009)
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Favorite Scenes of 2009 – Part Three
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Celebrate Ron Reed’s birthday: What’s your favorite stage-to-screen adaptation?
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David Brooks on Avatar’s familiar falsity
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Filmwell’s Favorite Scenes of 2009 – Part Two
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Filmwell’s Favorite Scenes of 2009 – Part One
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Séraphine (Provost, 2009)
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Michael Haneke in Film Comment
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Hoop Dreams: The story behind the Oscar snub.
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Wings of Desire (Wenders, 2009) – Criterion Takes Angels to New Heights
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Long-lost Alfred Hitchcock interview discovered
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The Onion drops the jokes: Publishes the hard truth on “Couples Retreat”
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Bong Joon-ho will give us the chills.
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Victor Morton’s TIFF coverage: The next best thing to being there.
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Michael Stuhlbarg on being cast as a Coen Brothers lead
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Hey, Bill Condon. Have you heard Joe Henry’s song about Richard Pryor?
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Gaiman’s Girls: Part 2 – Mirrormask’s Mysteries
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Gaiman’s Girls: Part One – Coraline’s Dreams
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Earn a film degree at Filmwell.
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Harlan Ellison Performs a Seussian Version of Josh Olson’s Article about.. um, well, Script-reading.
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The End: A trailer for the end of the world by Richard Seitz and Matt Zoller Seitz
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The Class (Cantet, 2008) and To Be and To Have (Philibert, 2002) – Teacher Appreciation Day on DVD
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Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom: Excerpt 6 – Orson Welles
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In memory of Andrew Sarris’s New York Observer reviews.
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If Filmwell had an official short film…
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Caille en Sarcophage? Hallelujah! — A Tribute to Films About Feasting
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Where Your Treasure Is: Finding Value in the “Stuff” of Summer Hours
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“…the one issue that really counts…”
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Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom: Excerpt 1 – Bergman