Members of the Walker and IFP MN are invited to free screenings of 21 films nominated for the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards, celebrating the finest achievements of today’s filmmakers. Exclusively for members, screenings of nominees four categories—Best Feature, Best First Feature, Best… More
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Widely recognized for its presentation of moving-image arts that define and influence our time, the Walker’s Moving Image program oversees a 21st-century cinema and a vast collection of global and avant-garde films, documentaries, and video works. More
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2016: The Year According to Mariah Garnett
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2016: The Year According to Ephraim Asili
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Next Month in Walker Cinema: January 2017
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A Cameraperson’s Letter to Robert Redford
Nov 2016Crosscuts
Judith Guest on Robert Redford’s Adaptation of Ordinary People
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Moral Ambiguity, Meritocracy, and Robert Redford’s Quiz Show
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Filming Process: The Mundane, Remarkable Stories of Certain Women
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Urgent Cinema: Terrance Franklin and a Failure of Justice
Sep 2016
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2016: The Year According to Mariah Garnett
Dec 2016Crosscuts
2016: The Year According to Ephraim Asili
Dec 2016Crosscuts
Next Month in Walker Cinema: January 2017
Dec 2016Crosscuts
A Cameraperson’s Letter to Robert Redford
Nov 2016Crosscuts
Judith Guest on Robert Redford’s Adaptation of Ordinary People
Oct 2016Crosscuts
Moral Ambiguity, Meritocracy, and Robert Redford’s Quiz Show
Oct 2016Crosscuts
Filming Process: The Mundane, Remarkable Stories of Certain Women
Oct 2016Crosscuts
Urgent Cinema: Terrance Franklin and a Failure of Justice
Sep 2016
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Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon with Scott Foundas
Jan 2016Trailer
The Walker Needs You
Aug 2015Dialogue / Interview
Walker Moving Image Department: A History
Jul 2015Dialogue / Interview
Walker Dialogues: A History
Jul 2015Dialogue / Interview
In Case of No Emergency: The Films of Ruben Östlund
Jan 2015Commentary
Works for New Spaces (1971)
Oct 2014Trailer
Vincent Price PSA for Walker Art Center (1985)
Oct 2014Trailer
Question Everything: Celebrating the Walker Art Center’s 75th Anniversary
Oct 2014
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Next Month in Walker Cinema: January 2017
January brings cold temperatures and long, dark nights, which the Walker antidotes by lighting up its cinema. With a schedule packed full of screenings curated by our Moving Image team, here are a few films you can enjoy in the coming month. A Monster Calls, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona Screening… More
Tom Schroeder
Finding the Door: The Quay Brothers’ Street of Crocodiles
“I would call it more of an ordeal than a viewing,” recalls Tom Schroeder of his first exposure, in 1987, to the Quay Brothers. That first experience with Street of Crocodiles, as he recounts here… More
Scott Foundas
Todd Haynes: Modern Cinema’s Great Plastician
Todd Haynes is a grown man who plays with dolls, and American movies are immeasurably the richer because of it. For Haynes—whose films include Far From Heaven (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Safe (2002), and Carol (2015)—is the great… More
Ed Halter
“Pop Cinema at Its Best Pop”: George Kuchar’s Hold Me While I’m Naked
“Here is the most macabre sense of humor at work,” wrote Jonas Mekas in 1964, introducing young filmmakers George and Mike Kuchar to Village Voice readers. “Here is the Pop Cinema at its best pop… Here… More
Ed Halter
Light and Freedom: William Klein’s Pop Politics
Of his first film, a study of illuminated advertising signs in New York City, William Klein remarked, “I think it’s the first Pop film.” Critic and curator Ed Halter examines the Pop resonances in Klein’s work, from the beauty and… More
Scott Foundas
Christopher Nolan: A Practical Magician of Modern Movies
A master of misdirection, director Christopher Nolan seems to methodically tell us what he’s doing, only to blindside us with his astonishing narrative reveals and reversals. Watch films like … More
Mia Lopez
A Culture Wars Chronicle
As identity politics made their way into galleries and museums in the ’80s and ’90s, social conservatives took note, lashing out at artists like Robert Mapplethorpe, Karen Finley, and Ron Athey for work that addressed sexuality, multiculturalism, and LGBT rights… More
