Salina Art Center

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Films

The Messenger

There are many facets of warfare, and actual combat is only one of them. The battlefield is like the tip of the iceberg: it’s the visible portion that appears above the ocean’s surface, while more than two-thirds of the conflict is submerged and invisible. The best films always seek out the hidden facets of life and politics, society and conflict. The Messenger, a hard-hitting debut from director Oren Moverman, is such a film. It’s about the conflict in Iraq and war in general, but not…

The Young Victoria

When Americans today hear “Queen Victoria,” we’re likely to recall our impressions of the “Victorian Age” and link the British monarch to notions of class consciousness, social intolerance, sexual repression, and suffocating corsets. Film lovers might conjure an image of Dame Judi Dench as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown, dressed in black and looking depressed and sour-faced and judgmental. Many historians would assert that Queen Victoria was not the stone-hearted moral crusader of the…