A Southern voice in film

With the Little Rock Film Festival dominating the local movie scene, our critic Philip Martin muses in On Film on what — if anything — makes a movie Southern in Friday’s MovieStyle.

“It used to be that, for all its storytellers, the South wasn’t particularly good at making movies,” Martin writes. “The simple reason for this is that because, since the invention of movies, the South has been poor. Movies are expensive to make and expensive to promote and exhibit. Over the course of the last century or so, Hollywood so thoroughly established its hegemony over the movies that we all simply accepted it as the natural order of things.”

In other movie news, Piers Marchant says that in the underwhelming Snow White and the Huntsman “the beauty of the art direction goes in desperate search of suitably engaging characters to justify it,” while Dan Lybarger praises the Sound of My Voice for making “the fear seem real” enough to make “even the silliest ideas seem strangely seductive.”

Read more about this weekend’s new movies in Friday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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