Cinematic – KC STUDIO

August 31, 2018

Kevin Willmott Goes Global

Kevin Willmott likes to make waves. Right now he’s approaching tsunami levels. Last year the noted filmmaker and professor of Film Studies at the University of Kansas made national news for wearing a bulletproof vest to his classes to protest guns being allowed on campus. Terming the policy “insane,” he says he will continue wearing the vest till the law is changed.

March 2, 2018

Robert Fletcher: A Star Among Stars, Now Living in KC

What do Shakespeare, Jack Palance and yak hair all have in common? Robert Fletcher, legendary set and costume designer for stage, television and movies, now living in Kansas City.

September 7, 2017

Arts News: Diary of a Storm Chaser

If 12-year-old Reed Timmer had been harmed the day he used the family video camera to shoot a severe thunderstorm in his West Michigan front..

May 18, 2017

Lights, Camera, Hixon!

Just a four-minute walk from Kansas City’s old First National Bank at Baltimore and 10th Streets —now the home of the downtown Central Library — some of the biggest names in American entertainment once made their way to a small photography studio and a man they trusted to cast them in just the right light. Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor. Fanny Brice and a local ingénue named Billie Cassin (who’d eventually become Joan Crawford).

May 1, 2017

Harold Smith: Art As a Platform for Activism

On a warm evening in late February, the premiere screening of “The Gospel According to Glenn North” played to a packed meeting room at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

March 29, 2017

A Compelling Tale of Tragedy and Recovery

The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. Hundreds lost their lives and thousands were displaced, land and livelihoods lost, making for another component of the Great Migration, which brought people from the agrarian south to the industrialized northern regions and the opportunities of the West.

February 16, 2017

Film Screening and Q&A: The Gospel According to Glenn North

Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art 5:00 p.m. cash bar, 6:00 p.m. | FREE Director Harold Smith’s documentary The Gospel According to..

January 12, 2017

A Tour de Force in One Long Take

“Someday” is a grab-you-by-the-throat short film about a man living several different lives all at once. According to the closing credits his name is Butler, and he is played by Wes Studi, the great Native American actor.

November 1, 2016

Back to Life

Could Kansas City become a major league moviemaking mecca like Austin, Tex.? For years that’s been the dream of many in the local film community.

Category: Cinematic