Jay Craven
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MNFF to bring images, ideas and conversation to Middlebury this week
In mysterious ways, each year’s MNFF selections tend to fall into clusters, thematically. Artistic Director Jay Craven says this year’s crop of films includes characters acting on deeply…
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Don’t Miss These Films: Jay Craven’s MNFF Recommendations
This year’s Middlebury New Filmmakers Festivals features 107 films. Here are a few from Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven’s must-see list.
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Film festival guests offer highlights, insights and ideas
Jay Craven offers a look behind the curtain of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival guest-list.
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‘Winter’s Bone’ breaks ground as a rural film noir
Winter’s Bone,” Debra Granik’s 2010 four-time Academy Award-nominated rural film noir, won multiple awards and it introduced the larger world to fast-rising star, Jennifer Lawrence, who plays teenage,…
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Screening of ‘Lost Nation’ to be held in New Haven
The film is a Revolutionary War-era action drama set in the early upstart Republic of Vermont. It features Vermont founding father and rebel schemer, Ethan Allen, who leads…
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‘No Country for Old Men’ to screen March 16 at THT
Last week, before Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, Washington Post film critics reviewed Oscar choices over the last 50 years, weighing in on which films they thought should have…
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Ferrisburgh to host director Jay Craven
The Friends of the Union Meeting Hall in Ferrisburgh will present a special screening of Jay Craven’s award-winning 1997 film, “A Stranger in the Kingdom,” based on the…
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MNFF to screen noir doc ‘The Thin Blue Line’
I remember the surprise I experienced in 1988 when I first saw Erroll Morris’ pioneering true crime documentary, “The Thin Blue Line.” I’d never seen anything like it,…
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MNFF to debut neo-noir film series with screening of ‘Chinatown’
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival will try something new this winter and spring, with a Selects Series we’re calling “Lost Chances: Neo-Noir Here and Now.”
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‘Jim Henson: Idea Man’ to play on Dec. 19
Film director Ron Howard’s five-time Emmy-winning documentary film, “Jim Henson: Idea Man” will screen at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 19, at the Town Hall Theater, as part of…
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Movie review: Using film to ask the right questions
“The Teachers’ Lounge” was one of this year’s Best Foreign Film nominees — though its closely observed drama set inside a contemporary seventh-grade German classroom could have easily…
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Jay Craven remembers Kristofferson fondly
Like many people, I was sad to learn the heartbreaking news that Kris Kristofferson passed away on Sept. 28. Kris was a rare figure in popular culture —…
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Jay Craven: My new film digs into Vermont’s origin story
I’ll play my new film, “Lost Nation,” this Saturday at Middlebury Town Hall Theater, as a part of the film’s Vermont 50 Town Tour. It will screen here…
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Craven’s new film, ‘Lost Nation,’ to screen in Middlebury on Saturday
This Revolutionary War-era action drama is set in the early upstart Republic of Vermont with some notable historic characters fleshed out in an exciting story.
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Where the Rivers Flow North: A reunion with an old friend
It’s been 30 years since Jay Craven was on the road touring his film “Where the Rivers Flow North.” Now he’s looking forward to a special screening this…
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Curtain to rise on MNFF8; film festival to offer thrills, stars & more
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival 8 will screen more than 140 films on six screens in MIddlebury next week.