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Last weekend, Little Rock played host to two drastically different film festivals. At the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA), the Arkansas Cinema Society (ACS) presented a summer film program that included screenings of several Arkansas-connected short films and features; they also brought in filmmaker Craig Brewer ("Hustle & Flow" and "Coming 2 America") to showcase a couple of his films, and provide a lecture on filmmaking. On the other side of town, the 9th annual Kaleidoscope LGBT+ Film Festival took place at The Studio Theater, celebrating queer cinema by featurin...

Last week, the film department at the University of Central Arkansas hosted cult filmmaker Todd Solondz, this semester's artist-in-residence. So, I decided to take a trip to my alma mater to see what words of wisdom this writer/director/teacher had to offer, and maybe get an autograph or two. It's always a bit strange walking back into your old school. A specific saying comes to mind: "The more things change the more they stay the same."