Last month, Nicholas Philibert’s celebrated documentary To Be and To Have played in the Triangle. A huge hit in France, this film about one year in the life of a one-room French schoolhouse won the top jury prize at last year’s Full Frame fest. However, there’s some disquieting news about the film in the current […]
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Triple treat
There are three animated features nominated for the Academy awards that will be given out later this month. One of them is Brother Bear, which I and most adults who are not parents missed. Another is Finding Nemo, which I and half the planet saw and loved, and which must be considered the prohibitive favorite. […]
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In African-American films
A rich variety of African-American experience will be screened at the 10th Black Diaspora Film Festival. Presented by the St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation at the Hayti Heritage Center, the scheduled events will feature works by local African-American artists, new films from well-known filmmakers and second looks at classics from the past. Visual art is the […]
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FilmBeat
One of the most interesting bits of trivia I learned last year about the history of race relations in North Carolina is that, in 1947, famed civil rights activist Bayard Rustin was arrested in now-so-liberal Chapel Hill for sitting next to a white man on a city bus. That tidbit came courtesy of Brother Outsider, […]
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Nevergore
This weekend, the Carolina Theatre of Durham is hosting the fifth running of its enormously popular Nevermore film festival, a ritual celebration of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. However, I have to confess that in past years, I’ve held the festival at arm’s length. I’ve never been much of a fan of schlock–not since I was […]
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FilmBeat
On the face of it, the story represents preposterous wishful thinking, a tale so unlikely and so sweet that it would challenge the narrative magic of Steven Spielberg. But, as Chapel Hill filmmaker Diane Bloom’s short documentary An Unlikely Friendship recounts, it really did happen. That is, at the height of racial tensions in Durham […]
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Desert hearts
Wayne Kramer’s The Cooler can best be characterized as a good-enough movie, particularly if one tends to like movies set in Las Vegas. After all, is there any more natural setting for movies than Las Vegas? More than Los Angeles even, Vegas is an ersatz city built on seduction and illusion, beckoning to gullible types […]
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In inspiring stories
Among the many events scheduled around the Triangle to commemorate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a public screening and a broadcast of An Unlikely Friendship, a fascinating documentary by Chapel Hill filmmaker Diane Bloom. This film recounts an extraordinary meeting of antagonists that took place in Durham, in the summer of 1971. Although […]
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The good, the bad, and the downright ugly
When I compiled my year-end survey in 2002, I bemoaned what I considered to be an off-year. Now that I’m looking over 2003, I think I might have been unfair to 2002. My problem last year was that there were so many heavily hyped, adventuresome films that turned out to be disappointing to me: Gangs […]
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The good, the bad, and the downright ugly
When I compiled my year-end survey in 2002, I bemoaned what I considered to be an off-year. Now that I’m looking over 2003, I think I might have been unfair to 2002. My problem last year was that there were so many heavily hyped, adventuresome films that turned out to be disappointing to me: Gangs […]
