Read our review of At Any Price Ramin Bahrani, a Winston-Salem native, has charted an unlikely path to making a film with Zac Efron in the cornfields of Iowa. His three previous, widely praised features were marked by their devotion to a realist aesthetic most closely associated with foreign filmmakers. This was underlined by his […]
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A teenage girl grows up on a journey across Germany after the war in Lore
Lore opens Friday (see times below) Our rating The new German-language drama Lore, which is set at the end of the Second World War, is Hunger Games meets Downfall meets The Road. That’s a simplistic formulation, but if you think such a combination sounds good, then this film is for you. And me. In the […]
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Renoir the painter and Renoir the filmmaker
Renoir opens Friday (see times below) Our rating I’m not much of a Renoir fan. He was my teenage gateway into French painting, an early enthusiasm to be discarded. Once I’d moved on to the likes of Cézanne, Courbet and Manet, I didn’t return to Renoir’s boating party luncheons, dances in the country and naked, […]
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We love the Durham Bulls, but do the Bulls love us back?
On May 6, Durham City Council will likely approve a new 20-year lease between the local baseball club and the city-owned Durham Bulls Athletic Park. In a complex reworking of the old lease terms, the city is offering a substantial discount on the rent in exchange for the Bulls taking on operating expenses that approach […]
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Marketing our growing hip factor in branded clothes and collectibles
Oak City Collective Website Twitter Facebook On a recent trip to England, my wife and I visited Bristol in the country’s southwest. That city may be the closest English equivalent to a “cool” city, in the sense Americans mean when they talk about places like Austin, Portland and, perhaps increasingly, Raleigh. Bristol is known for […]
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2013 Poetry Issue
This year, we decided to move INDY Week‘s poetry contest to April to coincide with National Poetry Month. As it happens, several of our winners have ties to organizations devoted to the appreciation and practice of the art. We had well over 100 entries this year, and our screening judges read all of them and […]
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Oscar-nominated Chilean film NO returns to Pinochet era
NO opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: In the late 1980s, one of the great Western liberal causes was Chile, and the sclerotic, violent dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Sting sang “They Dance Alone” and U2 recorded “Mothers of the Disappeared,” both songs inspired by the grieving women dancing at Santiago’s Plaza de Mayo. […]
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INDY Week at Full Frame: What’s the difference between bearing witness and exploitation?
At the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, INDY Week contributor Ashley Melzer spoke to several filmmakers and one festival-goer about the line between bearing witness and exploitation.
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INDY Week at Full Frame: Why Documentary?
INDY Week contributor Ashley Melzer asked several filmmakers attending the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival what makes documentaries special. Indyweek asks: Why documentary? from Independent Weekly on Vimeo.
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Full Frame 2013: Four fine documentaries by Durham filmmakers
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival April 4-7 Downtown Durham Full Frame began its life late last century, conceived at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. In the ensuing years, the festival grew to international renown; meanwhile, the city of Durham became a home base for filmmakers themselves. This year, several Durham filmmakers have finished work in […]
