“We don’t have bad publicity about the war here in Fayetteville until out-of-town folks bring protests here,” says John Lancaster, Fayetteville resident, Korean War Army veteran and 30-year Navy man. We’re standing in the “American Zone,” situated across from the anti-war demonstration in Rowan Street Park, separated by a street and a steadily increasing number […]
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Superstar
There are familiar words, epithets usually, that one takes for granted without really knowing what it means. For me, “tarnation” was always such a word, and upon investigation it turns out to mean “the act of damning, or the condition of being damned.” It’s a great word and, in its latter sense, an absolutely perfect […]
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Korean cinema now
Most Korean films that have played in the Triangle, including Chunhyang, Chihwaseon and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring, have been high-brow and traditional in execution. The two Korean films opening this weekend, however, showcase Korea’s more flamboyant and exuberantly pop sensibilities. Untold Scandal opens with a stern, perhaps tongue-in-cheek warning from a narrator: […]
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Eye and thou
For the first time in years, if not decades, a Jean-Luc Godard film is getting a theatrical engagement in the Triangle. Godard has been making movies for 50 years, and for all I know, he’s got another decade or two left in him. But Notre Musique (Our Music) represents one of his loveliest, most reflective […]
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Our dreams don’t fit on your ballots
In the months leading up to last year’s presidential election, documentary filmmakers produced an extraordinary and impassioned deluge of films that attempted to persuade Americans to depose George W. Bush. With Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 leading the charge, these films argued for the fundamental duplicity of the Bush administration and its exploitation of the Sept. […]
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Black woman rising
In Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Kimberly Elise takes the title role through seven stages of grief, past 14 Stations of the Cross, ascends through nine stages of Dantesque hell, pauses for the kind of two-handed revenge theater that William Mastrosimone gave us in Extremities, and emerges on the other side as a free […]
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in film festivities
In four short years, the Ms. Films fest has grown from being a one-day, one-off celebration of films by and for women to being a four-day event with a wide-ranging slate of panels and screenings. Now getting something of a national reputation with its commitment to encouraging and nurturing filmmaking by women, this year’s festival […]
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4th Annual Ms. Films Festival
Under the energetic stewardship of Niku Arbabi, Ms. Films Festival has grown from a one-day event to an increasingly vital four-day extravaganza, complete with an opening night party, specially-curated programming and the perennial offerings of submission-based screenings and hands-on workshops. After Thursday’s opening night party at the Durham Arts Council, with music by Wigg Report, […]
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Blowing smoke
Like many people my age, my first encounter with Orson Welles–if we hadn’t seen him on television as Long John Silver or in the Muppet Movie–was as a wine salesman. After the umpteenth time I’d snickered at the absurdly self-important old man telling me in his florid voice, “Paul Masson will sell no wine before […]
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Bad revelations
Bad Education, the latest must-see from Pedro Almodovar, is, unfortunately, a bit of a disappointment. Not coincidentally, this is his first film to feature an all-male cast, and the result begs the question: Does he simply like women more than men? On the evidence of this sour and misanthropic film, this indeed may be the […]
