Chris Hamel
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President and Chief Executive Officer at Gateway Film Foundation. Co-founder at Nightmares Film Festival. Co-founder at Cinema Columbus.
Columbus, OH
Joined June 2016
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Sundance breakout “Passages” received a NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association, which writer-director Ira Sachs has called a form of “cultural censorship.” Reps for MUBI and the film have shared a joint statement in response to the rating: https://t.co/2G8w2gkvje
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If guns made us safer, America would be the safest place in the world. But the opposite is true. Nowhere else do students, concertgoers and bank patrons get slaughtered on a daily basis. Because as it turns out, it's all the guns that make us so unsafe.
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Just announced! Only in Theaters will be playing at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus, Ohio on March 17th! Be sure to check out our full schedule to see Only in Theaters at a theater near you. https://t.co/1ffwx2jkkf #onlyintheaters #columbus #movienight #documentary
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I can’t wait for everyone to see Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool. Great read from Hyperallergic here: @hyperallergic @infinitypoolmov
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While sex is clearly in its cultural flop era, intimacy with ourselves and with others is being deftly portrayed in body horrors.
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If it takes 871 votes to get nominated for Best Picture does Tar (2022) get 7,000? #2023awardsseason
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The figures range from a high of 871 votes for Best Picture to a low of 29 for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
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Japanese poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love
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Great list of 2022 films to see from @hyperallergic
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Nope, Neptune Frost, and Laura Poitras’s portrait of Nan Goldin are on our list of the best films made this year.
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Great list from NPR and Justin Chang.
It was a terrific year for movies — but also a dispiriting one, says film critic Justin Chang. Blockbusters brought audiences back to theaters, but romantic comedies and grown-up dramas often struggled.
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Next week’s program at Gateway Film Center is drop dead amazing.
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"The greatest rock movie of the decade" - Esquire Experience David Bowie like never before. MOONAGE DAYDREAM is Now Playing exclusively in IMAX, Everywhere This Friday
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People make a lot of assumptions about what kind of workers carry student debt. Years ago I wrote about an Amazon warehouse temp who died on the job. One detail his family shared that I’ll never forget was how he struggled to dig out of his debt from DeVry
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Previewing the highly efficient, incredibly disposable workforce of the future.
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Flashback to January 2022 when we starting planning Uncut Gems, a 50 film retrospective at @GatewayFC, celebrating 10 years of @a24 films, also this August. See these films with us in Columbus.
HBO Max To Add Massive Collection Of @A24 Films In August 2022 [EXCLUSIVE] https://t.co/1Hn8SIjFbJ
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Daniel Theis already has two fouls in his first game back with the Celtics.
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Happy 12th birthday to the Film Center 🧡 Here's to many more years of championing creative independence and supporting our community of film lovers! Now, time for a birthday bag of popcorn.
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Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' will make you believe in movies again
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Gorgeous tale of longing and love, #ICarryYouWithMe opens this weekend at @GatewayFC Our review:
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I Carry You with Me by Hope Madden If the final act of I Carry You with Me has a documentary feel about it, that makes good sense. Director/co-writer Heidi Ewing—known primarily for docs including...
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Great documentaries all day! @GatewayFC
A day of incredible documentaries today in our ~beloved~ Screening Room Eight. The lineup: First, at 2PM, an Official Selection of the 2021 @sundancefest, ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE from @ProxyTheo Learn more and get tickets at https://t.co/I26zIEIeLw
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Powerful new take on the vampire, #MyHeartCantBeatUnlessYouTellItTo opens this weekend @GatewayFC along with our short film Godspeed! Our review:
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My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To by Hope Madden Horror films are often—perhaps even always—metaphorical. Classic monster myths seem to be endlessly malleable in this way, one generation’s...
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