Hannah Arendt opens Friday The sheer existence of Hannah Arendt seems like kind of a miracle, as if the filmmaking era of the 1970s and ’80s suddenly came back to life. The director is the great German feminist filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, whose career began in the 1960s, when she acted in films by the […]
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A troubling documentary about WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks opens Friday (also available on demand) The first two problems with the new, troubling documentary by Alex Gibney are contained in the title, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. It comes as a surprise to learn, near the end of the film, that the first part is […]
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Freedom summer: Reviving Thomas Paine
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. from The American Crisis by Thomas Paine On a trip to England that […]
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On the trail of America’s covert operations in Dirty Wars
Dirty Wars opens Friday at Raleigh Grande (see times below) Our rating: Dirty Wars is a fever swamp of paranoia, painting a picture of a Global War on Terror that has no boundaries, no limits and no end. This documentary explores the shadowy war against terror conducted by drone and special ops that continues in […]
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An intimate look at Levon Helm in Ain’t in It for My Health
Ain’t in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm opens Friday at Chelsea (see times below) Our rating: Hatley, Vickers, producer Stephen Brower and musician Laurelyn Dossett will appear at the Chelsea for the 7:10 p.m. screening Friday, and Hatley and Brower will also appear Saturday at the Chelsea’s 2:10 p.m. screening. Rock […]
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George Packer’s The Unwinding is a novelistic nonfiction about how we live now
The Unwinding by George Packer Farrar, Straus and Giroux 448 pp. George Packer Quail Ridge Books Tuesday, June 25 7:30 p.m. If you’ve ever driven through freshly paved suburbia and wondered at the absurdity of two different pharmaciesa CVS and a Walgreens, sayoccupying opposite corners, George Packer’s The Unwinding might be for you. On the […]
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A sympathetic depiction of eco-anarchists in The East
The East Opens Friday It’s not often that Hollywood movies portray America’s radical left in any light at all, let alone a sympathetic one. Eighty years after the Depression, there’s still a subculture of people riding the rails, living in modern hobo jungles and “living off the fat of our great land,” as Merle Haggard […]
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Jesse and Celine return in Before Midnight, getting old in Greece
Before Midnight opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: I approached Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight with the kind of trepidation with which you might approach a Belle and Sebastian record you haven’t listened to in a couple of decades. I was 25 when I met Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) in Before Sunrise. […]
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With Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach makes a bid to be the next Woody Allen
Frances Ha opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: Woody Allen may be a national treasure, and his movies come and go every summer as regularly as the Perseid meteor shower. But the Woodman’s not going to be around forever. With the new comedy Frances Ha, writer and director Noah Baumbach demonstrates the wit, urbanity […]
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How Carol Peppe Hewitt and Slow Money NC are raising funds for farmers, one loan at a time
It’s a little after noon on a recent rainy Saturday in Pittsboro, and the Chatham Mills Farmers’ Market is winding down. Children are dashing about while a band plays on the porch of the nearby Chatham Marketplace co-op grocery. We’re in the heart of Slow Money NC, a small but growing movement of radical microfinance. […]