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 […]
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Thirty years of surveillance in Israeli doc The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeepers opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: The Gatekeepers opens in sobering fashion. A few years ago, the adjective might have been “chilling” or “shocking,” but a culture of drone strikes and Wikileaks videos has acclimated us to the sight of eye-in-the-sky surveillance and the vaporization of a van driving down a city […]
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Historian and economist Gar Alperovitz on the possibilities of the Great Recession
Gar Alperovitz Free public lectures Thursday, March 14, 7:30 p.m. United Church of Chapel Hill Friday, March 15, 9:15 a.m. Duke’s East Campus, Richard White Lecture Hall, Durham A couple of weeks ago, a wonky data visualization became a viral sensation. Titled “Wealth Inequality in America,” it provided a stark illustration of the distribution of […]
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Emperor tells a story of America’s post-WWII occupation of Japan
Emperor opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: Recently I spoke to a college class about movies and writing. One student asked me if I had a favorite type of moviea go-to genre that I’m automatically drawn to. My not-entirely considered answer was the historical epic, which encompasses everything from Intolerance to Spartacus to Lincoln. […]
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Is college basketball getting worse? and other thoughts on a changing game
Here at Triangle Offense, we’re catching our breath in the last lull of the college basketball season. Next week sees the buildup to the season-ending UNC-Duke tilt that will determine the course of the free world until the next time the two teams meet. Week after that is the ACC Tournament, which despite its extreme […]
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A brilliant doctor exiled to the country in Barbara
Barbara opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: East Germany has an image problem. When you think of East Germany, you think of concrete buildings, concertina wire and massive files kept by the Stasi. But even East Germany was lovely in the summertime. One could pick basil from the garden for the ratatouille and take […]
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Two Swiss outcasts in Sister
Sister opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: What if Shakespeare had decided that foreign editions of Hamlet were going to be called Ophelia? An audience sitting down to a play called Ophelia might wonder why they’re spending so much time with the crazy-talking boyfriend. A similar switch is at work with Sister, the new […]
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Michael Haneke’s powerful, Oscar-nominated Amour
Amour opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: Most films come with press notes for the reviewers. Typically, a synopsis is followed by interviews with the director, actors and other key personnel, all testifying to their movie’s amazingness. After seeing the indelible, deeply moving Amour, I consulted the 17-page press packet, interested in the thoughts […]
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Battered but unbowed, Mike Daisey brings his new show to Durham
Mike Daisey: American Utopias Duke Performances at PSI Theatre, Durham Arts Council Jan. 30–Feb. 3 Wednesday night’s performance is a pay-what-you-can, $10 minimum. In addition to Daisey’s five shows at Durham Arts Council, he appears at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at Manbites Dog Theater, where he and Duke law professor Jedediah Purdy will converse […]
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I’m a gun owner. But I want nothing to do with the NRA.
Read more Statistics from the Brady Campaign, including: In one year in America, more than 100,000 people (all ages) and more than 18,000 children and teens (ages 0-19) are shot in murders, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, accidents, or by police intervention. Every day in America, 282 people (all ages) and 50 children and teens […]
