Four years and six months after That Day, the inevitable has arrived: Hollywood’s version of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Many will be understandably and rightly wary of venturing to the movie theater to relive the day, or worse, be entertained by it. But the good news is that there could not be a […]
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Bait and switch
I walked out of Hard Candy with very mixed feelings, knowing that, for all of its button-pushing and cringe-making, the movie was unsatisfactory to the point of being reprehensible. At a loss for the single perfect adjective to describe Hard Candy, I turned to the film’s official production notes for ideas. In the first sentence […]
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United 93
Four years and six months after That Day, the inevitable has arrived: Hollywood’s version of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Many will be understandably and rightly wary of venturing to the movie theater to relive the day, or worse, be entertained by it. But the good news is that there could not be a […]
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Full Frame-up, and up and up
From the vantage point of someone with a tendency to carp, this year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival was a smashing success. Despite the relative dearth of blockbuster docs–no Super Size Me or Murderball this year–a strong and diverse array of films generated record turnout, with an 8 percent increase in ticket sales over last […]
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Class struggles
In his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela describes the tsotsis, or thugs, that terrorized the populace of the black townships of his youth. “Life was cheap; the gun and the knife ruled at night. Gangsters–known as tsotsis–carrying flick-knives or switchblades were plentiful and prominent; in those days they emulated American movie stars and […]
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Preaching to the Choir
The only misstep in the infectious family film Preaching to the Choir is its unfortunate title. There may be preaching and there may be a choir, but there is no redundant and self-congratulatory moralizing in this Afro-indie, which should have an appeal that is considerably broader than its limited release would suggest. The narrative follows […]
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Forbidden games
If Italian is a language meant to be sung, and French is one to be whispered, the new drama Sophie Scholl suggests that German is a language intended to be shouted. No doubt Deutschlanders are more than weary of the popular lampooning of their language, always married to the demented gesticulations of Hitler and Goebbels. […]
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Katrina fills the screen
If 9/11 was the singular catalyzing event of this young American century, Katrina may well have been the singular paralyzing event. While the U.S. president seemed dumbstruck, blindsided and flat-footed in the face of both calamities, it’s undeniable that the 9/11 attacks stirred largely uniform reactions of sorrow, rage and calls to assistance and action. […]
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Our towns
Those attending next week’s Full Frame Festival will have an opportunity to see the first documentaries to emerge in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. However, there is a locally produced documentary that, although not in Full Frame, is shedding important light on a disastrous hurricane much closer to home. This film is called This Side […]
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The subterraneans
Lovers of Renaissance art expecting to walk into the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Rembrandt show to see chiaroscuro grandeur are in for a surprise. The pieces on display here are not large framed images of smoky squalor. This is an exhibition of ephemera, etchings reproduced on tiny scraps of paper, each tacked into its […]
