Uh-oh. Week five of the American Dance Festival, which was to be given over to four dance companies from Argentina, may be in severe jeopardy. The festival is announcing tonight that travel funding to Compania Contenido Bruto, Gabriela Prado & Eugenia Estevez; Edgardo Mercado and Krapp has been denied by the Argentine government’s newly formed […]
David Fellerath
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Posted inCulture
Welcome to the Indy’s American Dance Festival blog
Our ADF preview is on newstands starting today. We’ve got a pullout section that provides company profiles and tips on what to expect. Our consumer guide is invaluable to dance novices, letting us know if a piece is especially accessible, esoteric, ribald or disturbing (this is particularly intended for those considering bringing their children). Also, […]
Posted inGuides
Water worlds
“There is no small pleasure in sweet water.” Ovid Oil may be the lifeblood of the global industry, the stuff of speculation, profits and war, but water is the lifeblood of life. Over the years, the Independent has devoted significant resources to documenting threats to our water table and citizens’ efforts to preserve this most […]
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Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh may have had his cultural moment in the mid-1990s, when British rave-punk culture took over both sides of the pond. Danny Boyle’s film version of his debut novel Trainspotting came out in 1996, just as the Spice Girls, Pulp, Oasis, Belle and Sebastian and Tricky were making the British youth scene as vital […]
Posted inFilm & Television
Year of the Dog and Avenue Montaigne
There’s no feeling like wanting to like a film and not being able to. Year of the Dog, the directing debut of writer Mike White, whose work I have admired, is a failed but noble effort to address seriously the plight of a lonely woman, Peggy (Molly Shannon), who responds to the death of her […]
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Climates
Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer and Nobel laureate, recently wrote a memoir of growing up in Istanbul, a city that was worn out before he got to it. In a new film from Turkey called Climates, a couple seems exhausted from the opening frames: We see the face of an attractivebut not glamorousyoung woman in […]
Posted inFilm & Television
Evil empires: Inland Empire and The Lives of Others
David Lynch has done it again. In 2001, he returned from cinema’s margins to the near-mainstream with Mulholland Drive, a movie that achieved masterpiece status within a year or so of its release. The opening was there for him to rejoin the Hollywood family, to make weird but commercially palatable movies. Instead, five long years […]
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J. Peder Zane
For years, one of best reasons to pick up the Sunday News & Observer has been the book section edited by J. Peder Zane, who also supplies invariably thoughtful essays that give a good name to cultural conservatism and aesthetic restraint. Zane’s new book is entitled The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books, the […]
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Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy
Old Joy Opens Friday in select theaters There were some good movies in 2006perhaps not as many as in other yearsbut the one that may linger longest is both modest to the point of ephemera and already a bit past its political moment. I speak of Old Joy, Kelly Reichardt’s oddly titled naturalistic marvel that […]
Posted inArt
Wilmington’s hipster cadre burns the indie flame at the Cucalorus Film Festival
It wasn’t just that the November temperatures in Wilmington were in the 80salthough they wereand that this seaside town’s charms include careworn Queen Anne houses and spectral Spanish moss that adorn the dimly lit streetsalthough they’re there. No, the best reason to visit the city at the end of I-40 is its peculiar, homespun film […]
