L’Atalante Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. N.C. Museum of Art Tickets: $5, $3.50 students Material girls and boys may recall that Madonna adopted the moniker of Dita Parlo for her 1992 picture book Sex, and the title song on the accompanying Erotica album is sung in the voice of a character named Dita. The real […]
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Cinema of desire
Pedro Almodóvar is surely one of the most famous filmmakers in the world, even for those who’ve never been to the candy-colored, romantically topsy-turvy Madrid we see in his films. In the sort of film series not usually found outside of cultural capitals such as New York, the Galaxy Cinema is showing a series of […]
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Generation JC
After the 2004 election that returned George W. Bush to the White House, untold numbers of shell-shocked Americans, including me, traded a quickie Web gag: a new map of North America that showed the East and West Coasts as being part of “The United States of Canada” and the remaining heartland labeled “Jesusland.” The essential […]
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Ladies of leisure
It’s remarkable how an initially inflammatory premise can quickly seem perfectly normal. Thus, Heading South, a film about rich white women of a certain age who vacation in Haiti so they can have hot sex with young local studs, is by the end a perfectly solid and sober drama about aging, loneliness, poverty and power. […]
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Dialect heaven
The term “executive producer” is most often associated with the likes of Michael Mann and Jerry Bruckheimer, men who package scripts with actors and directors. Most importantly, executive producers locate the money that makes the projects possible. While N.C. State linguistics professor Walt Wolfram has little in common with the men who brought us Miami […]
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Perchance to dream
The Science of Sleep is a title that lends itself to abuse by wisecracking moviegoers, should they have difficulty digesting Michel Gondry’s alternately beguiling and frustrating follow-up to his nearly miraculous Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Indeed, the first time I saw Gondry’s new film, it was in January on the final day of […]
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The Queen Family
One of the most quietly productive filmmaking partnerships in the Triangle is that of Raleigh’s Neal Hutcheson, who makes the films, and N.C. State linguistics professor Walt Wolfram, who provides the mission and the executive production through the North Carolina Language and Life Project. Their studies of lingering rural dialects have led to four films, […]
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Innocence lost
The postmodern opera composer and filmmaker Mikel Rouse has never seen an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. It’s the principle of the thing. “It’s not that I wouldn’t enjoy one. It’s just that what he represents is so pervasive,” Rouse said in a recent interview from New York. Lest he be considered a killjoy, Rouse adds, “I’m […]
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Class wars
Ever since The Believer, I’ve believed in Ryan Gosling as a candidate for the next iconic male actor in American movies. Physically, he’s an odd-looking guy. He has a long, thin face with none of the square-jawed blankness of Josh Hartnett or the fey charm of Orlando Bloom or the dopey je ne sais quoi […]
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Georges Rousse shows Durham the big picture
There is a room in Durham that tells you much of what you need to know about the Bull City’s past. It’s located in the Chesterfield building of the vacant Liggett & Myers cigarette factory on West Main Street. Deep inside the first floor, there is a conference room of the kind you know from […]
