A FORCED ENTRY
Movie: A Dirty Shame
Movie: Festival Express
Our Rating: 3.50 This documentary follows the nigh-genius idea (and breathtaking financial ruin) that was a traveling Canadian music festival in the summer of 1970. Some Woodstock-era draws – Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Buddy Guy Band and others – played three concerts in the course of a…
Movie: Festival Express
Festival Express Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes Studio: ThinkFilm Website: http://www.festivalexpress.com/ Release Date: 2004-09-24 Cast: Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Flying Burrito Brothers, Buddy Guy Director: Bob Smeaton WorkNameSort: Festival Express Our Rating: 3.50 This documentary follows the nigh-genius idea (and breathtaking financial ruin) that was a traveling Canadian music festival in the summer…
Movie: Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
Our Rating: 3.50 Performed in urban clubs and on street corners, “freestyle” hip-hop occurs when rappers perform unwritten and unrehearsed rhymes over an improvised beat. The subgenre gets a thorough treatment in this hour-long documentary, shot mainly in New York, L.A. and San Francisco (and previously seen as part of the 2003 Florida Film Festival).…
Movie: Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme Length: 1 hour, 14 minutes Studio: Organic Films Website: http://www.organicfilms.com/ Release Date: 2004-09-24 Cast: Supernatural, Mos Def, Black Thought, Freestyle Fellowship, The Last Poets Director: DJ Organic Music Score: Darkleaf, DJ Organic, Omid WorkNameSort: Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme Our Rating: 3.50 Performed in urban clubs and on street corners,…
Movie: The Forgotten
Our Rating: 1.50 What would you think if someone tore the covering off your walls to reveal the bedroom decorations of a child you no longer remember? That the crew from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition had developed a vicious streak, most likely. That’s not the situation facing the grieving Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) as she…
Movie: The Forgotten
The Forgotten Length: 1 hour, 31 minutes Studio: Revolution Studios Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/theforgotten/index.html Release Date: 2004-09-24 Cast: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Anthony Edwards Director: Joseph Ruben Screenwriter: Gerald Di Pego Music Score: James Horner WorkNameSort: The Forgotten Our Rating: 1.50 What would you think if someone tore the covering off your walls…
Review – Seven Steps: Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964
Artist: Miles Davis
BLOOD, ACTUALLY
Movie: Shaun of the Dead
Review – Seven Steps: Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964
Artist: Miles Davis
A FORCED ENTRY
Movie: A Dirty Shame
Review – It’ll Be Cool
Artist: Silkworm
Movie: Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
Our Rating: 3.50 Performed in urban clubs and on street corners, “freestyle” hip-hop occurs when rappers perform unwritten and unrehearsed rhymes over an improvised beat. The subgenre gets a thorough treatment in this hour-long documentary, shot mainly in New York, L.A. and San Francisco (and previously seen as part of the 2003 Florida Film Festival).…
Review – It’ll Be Cool
Artist: Silkworm
Review – Couture, Couture, Couture
Artist: Frausdots
Movie: The Forgotten
Our Rating: 1.50 What would you think if someone tore the covering off your walls to reveal the bedroom decorations of a child you no longer remember? That the crew from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition had developed a vicious streak, most likely. That’s not the situation facing the grieving Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) as she…
Review – Couture, Couture, Couture
Artist: Frausdots
Review – Exploring the Dangers of
Artist: Dub Trio
Review – Exploring the Dangers of
Artist: Dub Trio
BLOOD, ACTUALLY
Movie: Shaun of the Dead
Review – Seven Steps: Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964
Artist: Miles Davis
TRUTH, OAR, CONSEQUENCES
Movie: Mean Creek
A FORCED ENTRY
Movie: A Dirty Shame
Review – It’ll Be Cool
Artist: Silkworm
Movie: Festival Express
Our Rating: 3.50 This documentary follows the nigh-genius idea (and breathtaking financial ruin) that was a traveling Canadian music festival in the summer of 1970. Some Woodstock-era draws – Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Buddy Guy Band and others – played three concerts in the course of a…
Review – Couture, Couture, Couture
Artist: Frausdots
BLOOD, ACTUALLY
Movie: Shaun of the Dead
Movie: Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
Our Rating: 3.50 Performed in urban clubs and on street corners, “freestyle” hip-hop occurs when rappers perform unwritten and unrehearsed rhymes over an improvised beat. The subgenre gets a thorough treatment in this hour-long documentary, shot mainly in New York, L.A. and San Francisco (and previously seen as part of the 2003 Florida Film Festival).…
Review – Exploring the Dangers of
Artist: Dub Trio
TRUTH, OAR, CONSEQUENCES
Movie: Mean Creek
Movie: The Forgotten
Our Rating: 1.50 What would you think if someone tore the covering off your walls to reveal the bedroom decorations of a child you no longer remember? That the crew from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition had developed a vicious streak, most likely. That’s not the situation facing the grieving Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) as she…
TRUTH, OAR, CONSEQUENCES
Movie: Mean Creek
A FORCED ENTRY
Movie: A Dirty Shame
A GREAT SECOND CHOICE
Several years ago, my husband and I temporarily moved to the southwest side of town while our downtown home was under renovation. What we especially missed in our short stint there were our frequent Vietnamese meals at the restaurants peppering the corner of Colonial Drive and Mills Avenue. We had uncontrollable cravings for summer rolls.…
LIFTING FOG
Never mind the storms; the 25 or so board members of Downtown Arts District Inc. managed to pull off their Sept. 18 retreat and make some decisions to clarify the nonprofit’s mission and mode. As reported in our Aug. 19 issue (“Not your father’s D.A.D.” target=”_blank”), the organization was incorporated in 2002 but has remained…
MOONSTRUCK
Time to pull my expectations off the sole of my shoe again, like so many condom wrappers and trails of unused toilet paper. Admittedly, I spend most of my time staring upward without noticing that my ass is dragging on the ground, and collecting phone numbers, but what’s it gonna take to bring on the…
THE GETTING IS GOOD
There is a theater tale about a young player who asked his director if he could become a better actor by “doing Chekhov.” According to the story, the mentor replied simply, “Get good first … then do Chekhov!'” The same could be said about “doing” Stephen Sondheim, the master of the late 20th-century American musical.…
RELATIVE GENIUS
Tolstoy said that “All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Whether or not his words reflect the true nature of family life can be argued. What is clear, however, is that no family ought to be as unhappy as the Tyrones in Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play,…
NASTY SKIES
After six years of demotions, cutbacks and intimidation from corporate headquarters, the unionized pilots of Pan American Airlines fought back, and won. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), a union representing 64,000 airline pilots and 42 United States and Canadian carriers, was granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the parent company of…
WHERE TO NOW?
The second and final weekend of the Florida Film Festival commenced with a whimper, not a bang, last Friday night, with a screening of “Our God’s Brother,” the film adaptation of a stage play written by one Karol Wojtyla, now better known as Pope John Paul II. His Holiness, I’m sorry to report, makes a…
Culture
Thursday night’s Florida Film Festival program at the Enzian imparted a clear vision of where the medium has been and where it’s going — and the picture wasn’t always pretty. The evening began pleasantly enough, as I was able to collar Michael McNamara, director of Festival spotlight film “The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati,” for an…
Culture
I had come out of Tuesday’s documentary-heavy endurance test hungering for livelier fare, and I got it in spades Wednesday night at the Enzian, where I was treated to a three-ring circus of oddball visions that left me with a renewed appreciation of a world gone weird. A brief introduction by affable cartoon king Bill…
Culture
Innocent World By Ami Sakurai (Vertical, 89 pages) Any book built around the conceit of a dead-eyed, school-age prostitute whose first (and many subsequent) sexual experiences were with her autistic brother is a book that describes a world quite far from “innocent.” But Japanese journalist Sakurai – through her brevity and rigorous realism – is…
A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY
MOLVANIA: A LAND TOUCHED BY MODERN DENTISTRY By Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch (Overlook Press, 175 pages) As both a traveler and a writer, I’ve always noticed it, but never known quite what it was – that nagging sense from “travel writers” and their “guidebooks” that they know everything there is to know…
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONCEPT OVERLOAD
What do plastic antlers, a nonworking fireplace and free wireless Internet access have in common? Not much, unless you’re immersed in the unnecessarily overthemed environment that is Bear Rock Café. Feeling that fresh, substantial sandwiches wouldn’t quite set them apart from Panera, Atlanta Bread Company and all the other similarly oriented chains, Bear Rock decided…
STILL IN LINE
MONUMENTAL PROPAGANDA By Vladimir Voinovich Soviet satire is an acquired taste. It’s intricately plotted, alludes to opaque historical particulars unfamiliar even to well-read Westerners, and varies so subtly in tone that a casual read may pass right over the targets. Since the Soviet Union’s fall, it’s an era slowly slipping into mere history and already…
Buddy Dyer turns artist
When we heard that our teddy bear of a mayor had entered a piece of his own art into a special competition just for county and city employees and their families, we naturally had to have a look. (And we admit to hoping for a good laugh, because we’re perverse like that.) We wanted to…
ALL YOU ZOMBIES
Filmmakers Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg say they hit on the idea of lensing a zombie comedy while they were collaborating on an episode of the British sitcom Spaced. Wright was the director, Pegg was the co-writer and star, and the scene had Pegg’s character trapped inside the video game Resident Evil 2. To the…
A WELL-DONE WAR
The Seattle grunge scene may have long ago dried up like the mop bucket in the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video, but the Melvins have defied the odds and, this year, are celebrating their 20-year anniversary. Well, “celebrate” isn’t quite the word Melvins frontman/songwriter Buzz “King Buzzo” Osborne uses when reflecting on the band’s longevity:…
DIVERSIFY YOUR BONDS EARLY
Barry Bonds just might be the greatest baseball player to ever pick up a bat. At the age of 40, he is closing in on a record that was previously thought to be untouchable: Hank Aaron’s 755 home runs. Pitchers are so intimidated by Bonds that he sees fewer strikes than the Olsen twins see…
RESPECT EARNED
When Brand Nubian dropped their debut album (One for All) in 1990, the hip-hop landscape was a very different beast. Gold chains were still the flossy standard, Puffy was an intern at Uptown Records and the only time you could see a rap video on television was on Yo! MTV Raps. But despite the changing…
50 Books/50 Covers, Colostomus, Iqu and more
THURSDAY • 23 EUGENE SNOWDEN This should be amazing. Oh, sure, the music will be all right, but that’s not what we’re talking about. What will be amazing is if Eugene shows up. When it comes to leaps of faith, booking Eugene Snowden into a monthlong residency ranks right up there with actually believing those…
“You had me at Heil!-lo”
A new film portraying Adolf Hitler as both a delusional madman and an occasionally softer father figure premieres in Germany on Thursday. Parts of the film `”Der Untergang,” or “The Downfall”` portray Hitler as a psychopath, wandering the corridors of `his` bunker under below the streets of Berlin, ignorant to the collapse of his empire…
