Featured: Week of June 3 (Film Criticism)

By on Jun 3, 2013 in Issue Archives

Film reel in orange

This week, our contributors take a probing look at film, featuring:

Radmila Djurica’s write-up of the Gijon International Film Festival

Alexandra Coker-Schwimmer’s essay about the process for finding movie extras, “I Am Iron Fan

Stephen Lee Naish’s essay about the metaphorical meaning of night in the city, “The Nighttime Metropolis on Film

About

Alyce Wilson is the editor of Wild Violet and in her copious spare time writes humor, non-fiction, fiction and poetry and infrequently keeps an online journal. Her first chapbook, Picturebook of the Martyrs; her e-book/pamphlet, Stay Out of the Bin! An Editor's Tips on Getting Published in Lit Mags ; her book of essays and columns, The Art of Life; her humorous nonfiction ebook, Dedicated Idiocy: How Monty Python Fandom Changed My Life, and her newest poetry collection, Owning the Ghosts, can all be ordered from her Web site, AlyceWilson.com. In late 2019, she published a volume of poetry by her third great-grandfather, Reading's Physician Poet: Poems by Dr. James Meredith Mathews, which also contains genealogical information about the Mathews family. She lives with her husband and son in the Philadelphia area and takes far too many photos of her handsome, creative son, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda.