Incendies opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: The new French-Canadian film Incendies, from the young director Denis Villeneuve, opens with two attention-grabbing scenes: First, there’s a haunting opening-credit sequence in which we see what appears to be an orphanage somewhere in the Middle East, as a group of angry, battered young […]
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Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu star in nostalgic comedy Potiche
Potiche opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: François Ozon’s Potiche is a sentimental exercise in reuniting two of the great lions of the last half century of French cinema in a film: Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu. The big scene is straight out of Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (itself a series of […]
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Team USA’s road show comes to Cary; UNC’s Heather O’Reilly stars in 2-0 win over Japan
Photo by D.L. AndersonThe next generation lines up for autographs. WAKEMED SOCCER PARK—The mighty United States women’s national soccer team came to a stadium and a region that has been the site of so much history. Before a crowd of 5,323, the Americans put in a solid performance, winning 2-0 in an international friendly over […]
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France’s bloody 16th century comes to life in The Princess of Montpensier
The Princess of Montpensier opens Friday at Chelsea (see times below) Our rating: When an internationally powerful Frenchman was arrested recently and charged with a sexual assault against a hotel maid in Manhattan, it opened up a startlingly retrograde can of worms. While the alleged malefactor succeeded in permanently embalming the caricature of “French” and […]
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The well-timed Danish drama In a Better World examines violence and vengeance
In a Better World opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: On Sunday night I watched a review screener of In a Better World. When this absorbing but schematic melodrama ended, I made a brief visit to Facebook and found that not only was there big news in the worldthe killing of […]
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After the deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, looking at the work of war photographers
Photographs by Chris Hondros Gregg Museum of Art and Design On temporary display through April 28 and in slideshow below The Bang Bang Club Available video on demand (Direct TV, iTunes, etc.) through June 20 Diary A short film by Tim Hetherington Available on his Vimeo page and at the end of this story The […]
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Gorgeous period detail but flat acting in Water for Elephants
Photo by David James/ Twentieth Century FoxRobert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon share a dance. Sara Gruen’s million-selling novel—a blockbuster publication for Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill—gets the movie treatment courtesy of director Francis Lawrence. Last night, we caught the long-awaited movie version in a special invited-guest premiere at the Lumina Theatre in Chapel Hill. Although […]
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Monks on the brink in stirring Of Gods and Men
Of Gods and Men opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: As far back as Carl-Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc in 1928, filmmakers have understood the affinity for cinema with religious contemplation and inspiration: People sit in the dark and gaze upward at flickering images that inspire awe, images […]
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Full Frame Day 4: taking refuge from the storm—in reality
The big news of the area Saturday was the destructive system of tornadoes that whipped through at about 3 p.m. But for 1,200 people inside Fletcher Hall, our biggest concern was whether David Carr, one of the paper’s higher-profile writers, would get his big story about the Tribune media group and its clownish, destructive leaders. […]
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Full Frame Day 3 (Friday review): the Kerouac-like DRAGONSLAYER plus thoughts on the Lovings
dragonslayermovie.comLeslie Brown in DRAGONSLAYER The late-night slot at Full Frame—those movies that start in the witching hours of 10 p.m. or so, are always a tough call for the intrepid Full Framer. By then, we’ve seen three or even four movies. We’ve stuffed some food and a beer or two and coffee and water and […]
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