This time: Full Battle Rattle Last time: Speedo (Moss, 2003) An Iraq documentary like Full Battle Rattle was inevitable. “There are actors in the film who read lines from scripts and play parts in preconceived roles,” says co-director Tony Gerber. “One of the things that tickled us … is that Full Battle Rattle walks a […]
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Returning filmmaker: Margaret Brown
This time: Order of Myths Last time: Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005) A morning meeting with Margaret Brown for coffee in an Austin, Texas, hotel first means a hunt for “natural light.” The term comes from her mouth several times as we blunder, under-caffeinated, about the coffee lounge […]
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Married Life is familiar but rewarding; 21 goes bust
The pleasures of the film Married Life could be compared to the midpoint of a happy marriage; while some films elicit the ecstatic rush one might feel with a new lover, Ira Sachs’ sleek, smart tale comforts us with its familiarity, routine and trust. What Married Life lacks in novelty, in other words, is compensated […]
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An Eastside, Westside story
To me, the denotation of our sprawling suburban landmass that contains three major research universities and straddles two geophysical regions as “the Triangle” is simply a shorthand expression most useful to the statewide media and business boosters. While the word is elegant in its Euclidian context, as applied to a community it is featureless and […]
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Blade Runner returns—again
Twenty-five years ago, in the summer of 1982, Blade Runner hit theaters with a thud. It was E.T.’s year, and there was little interest in a moody, sluggishly paced film that combined features of sci-fi, film noir and a story by an underground writer named Philip K. Dick. Since then, Blade Runner has had a […]
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Spring awakening
More arts previews… Theater Film The old Murphey School, on the fringe of Raleigh’s historic Oakwood district, straddles the dividing line between the city’s white and black communities. That’s how Jerome Davis and Simmie Kastner, the founders of Burning Coal Theatre, saw the space eight years ago when they were profiled by this newspaper for […]
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Why are the Iraq War movies tanking?
A few weeks ago, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a maverick in the movie distribution business, was singled out by Bill O’Reilly for distributing Redacted, a new movie set in Iraq. The O’Reilly Factor host charged Cuban with “having a grudge against this country” and suggested that the film would put American […]
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Festival fever
A stroll down Wilmington’s Front Street after midnight Friday became a serendipitous window into understanding one of the most notorious incidents associated with the Wilmington film industry: the 2001 knifing of actor Steve Buscemi outside the Firebelly Loungewhich happened to be the destination of two Triangle filmmakers, myself and another companion. The sidewalks of this […]
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Acts to Follow, part trois, tonight in Baldwin Auditorium
Click here to see Indy photographer Rex Miller’s multimedia portraits of four regional dance artists who will present their work at tonight’s Acts to Follow program. Click here for a link to this week’s Indy print feature on Acts to Follow, by Sarah Lupton, Madison Owen and Megan Stein.
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The 2007 Indies Arts Awards
Often artists will ask themselves, prior to tackling a project, “Is it important?” This question must be answered in the affirmative, for there are few other reasons that make artistic endeavors worthwhile. For nearly two decades, the Independent has honored artists, arts groups and arts educators doing exceptional work in the Triangle with annual Indies […]
