Damsels in Distress opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Throughout the world of people old enough to remember the American indie filmmakers of the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was quiet rejoicing as word trickled out that Whit Stillman had made a new film after 14 years of obscurity. And […]
David Fellerath
Bio: David Fellerath is INDY Week's culture and sports editor.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/dfellerath
Posted inFilm & Television
The Kid With a Bike is a moving tale from the great Dardenne brothers
The Kid With a Bike opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: The Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, after devoting the first 20 years of their career to making documentaries, shifted focus in the early 1990s and began making fiction features. In 1996 they announced themselves with La Promesse, a tale […]
Posted inFilm & Television
Strikingly similar stories from Israel and Japan in Footnote and Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Footnote opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Jiro Dreams of Sushi opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: It was surely an accident that two new films, so different yet so eerily similar, were booked to open on the same weekend by local art houses. One is a […]
Posted inFilm & Television
Polish film In Darkness digs deeper into WWII anti-Semitism
In Darkness opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: For better or worse, English speakers tend to view the near-genocide of European Jews through the prism of an us-against-the-Nazis conflict, a view supported by 70 years of fine filmmaking. This perspective has the advantage of putting good guys in the story, along […]
Posted inFilm & Television
The human beast in Bullhead and Thin Ice
Bullhead opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Thin Ice opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: The Belgian crime drama Bullhead, among this year’s foreign film Oscar nominees, is as clumsy and misshapen as its unfortunate protagonist, a bulked-up cattle farmer and gangster named Jacky Vanmarsenille. He tells […]
Posted inCulture
Hoop Cheese: Round 2 edition. Mighty Wolfpack. Greensboro. The Duke women minus Williams.
To be honest, we’ve been so busy with our new Google+ page (circle us now! Or click the magic badge above!) that we barely noticed that N.C. State won its opener in convincing fashion, knocking off San Diego State 79-65. They’re even calling it an upset, as the lowly, lowly Wolfpack were a mere 11-seed […]
Posted inCulture
Hoop Cheese: Why you should see Joe Nocera Wednesday, and why all hell could break loose Monday
It’s Saturday morning in March in North Carolina. Bradford pears are blooming, young people are in love and the ACC tournament in Atlanta is shaping up to be the most interesting and consequential it’s been in years. It was an inauspicious beginning on Thursday. The referees got taken to task for their forlorn effort to […]
Posted inCulture
Hoop Cheese: Is there a basketball game today, or looking beyond Duke and UNC
File photo by D.L. AndersonDuke fans in April 2010, after watching the NCAA title game versus Butler Ah, Duke and UNC, the rematch. Two treats that occur twice a year, in quick succession. Just like Christmas is followed a week later by New Year’s Eve, just like Memorial Day is followed a month later by […]
Posted inFilm & Television
From Iran, the Oscar-winning A Separation
A Separation opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: On Sunday night, the Oscars ceremony was more nostalgic than ever as it tried to stave off declining interest by invoking the Magic of the Movies. Fittingly, the night’s big winners, The Artist and Hugo, were nostalgic odes to the bygone days when […]
Posted inCulture
Hoop Cheese weekend special: The not-in-Hollywood edition
You know how people say, “It’s five o’clock somewhere”? Well, it’s in that sense that we say it’s a big weekend somewhere. Maybe in Los Angeles, for example? But there are a lot of bouncing balls to chase before we bunk down in front of our teevees Sunday night. Mike Potter tells us that the […]
