Kent Kay

What a College of the Desert World Film Course at PSIFF Taught Me About Cinema For eleven days, I lived inside other people’s lives. That sounds dramatic, but it is the most honest way I can describe what happened to me during the Palm Springs International Film Festival , where I participated in a Contemporary World Film course hosted by College of the Desert professor Michael Gladych. It was not “go see some films.” It was a deliberately designed immersion. We met one hour before each...

Every once in a while, a single image in a film finds its way under your skin and stays there. It lingers long after the story ends. You...

The first time R.P. McMurphy storms into the ward, he does not tiptoe in like the others. He barrels through, grinning wide, cracking...