It feels wrong to be excited about war. Even if that war is just a make-believe version of a real war made by the same guy who directed Jurassic Park.


An intriguing assortment of new, classic and experimental moving-image presentations is on the program of the 17th James River Film Festival, reeling in Richmond from March 19 to 25.
Guests include the critic/teacher/writer/experimental-film champion Scott MacDonald, a Bard College-based film professor who first came to the JRFF in 1995. Celia Maysles presents Wild Blue Yonder about her father, the late David Maysles, who died when she was young. Maysles and his brother Alfred (a past Read full story