“Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism” underscores the sad fate of Kahlo’s legacy as an iconoclastic proto-feminist painter whose image has come to overshadow her politically confrontational, albeit deeply personal, self-portraits.
Laura Jaramillo
Bio: Durham's Laura Jaramillo is a poet and film scholar pursuing her doctoral studies at Duke University.Twitter: http://twitter.com/@mtrlgrrrl
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Cinema Giant Abbas Kiarostami, the Subject of a Carolina Theatre Retrospective, Revealed in Three Decades’ Worth of Interviews
The New York-based, North Carolina-bred film critic Godfrey Cheshire discusses his book “Conversations with Kairostami,” for which he had unprecedented access to the great Iranian filmmaker.
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How Does Latin-American Pop Art Complicate a Canon Dominated By North America?
If Pop in North America was a willing embrace of the merger between art and the market, Pop in Latin America would have a much more chilling meaning.
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Full Frame: The Feeling of an Era and the Majesty of a Musician, All Bottled in Aretha Franklin Doc Amazing Grace
Sydney Pollack shot a concert film about the record, but technical difficulties prevented a commercial release for almost fifty years.
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Based on (and Condemned by) Gerhard Richter, Never Look Away Is an Art-World Film for the Post-Truth Era
After press time, the local release of Never Look Away was pushed back to March 1.
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Modern Classic or Mega-Bomb? Unfortunately, A Star Is Born Is Neither.
The Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga remake of a remake opens nationally this Friday, October 5.
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Movie Review: A Talented, Tortured British Fashion Supernova Receives a Compassionate Tribute in McQueen
McQueen ★★★½ Now playing Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui’s documentary about the life and career of British fashion supernova Alexander McQueen reveals a man whose personal demons drove his prolific, darkly beautiful designs. The film gains unprecedented access to the designer’s family and revisits key moments of his archive and inspirations. It paints McQueen as […]
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Movie Review: Sebastián Lelio’s Hotly Anticipated Disobedience Is a Strangely Flat Look at Lesbian Love in a Hasidic Community
Disobedience ★★½ Now playing Acclaimed Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s hotly anticipated Disobedience sets out to explore the complexities of lesbian sexuality within the conservative, hermetic Hasidic community. The film stars Rachel Weisz as Ronit and Rachel McAdams as Esti, former teenage lovers who became estranged when Ronit fled the restrictive life of the Hasidim to […]
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John Akomfrah Blends Historical Witness and Imagination to Resurrect a New Orleans Jazz Legend at the Nasher
JOHN AKOMFRAH: PRECARITY Through Saturday, Sep. 2 Nasher Museum of Art, Durham www.nasher.duke.edu “I like the sense that once something drops out of the universe of history, [it goes] into a parallel universe of fiction,” John Akomfrah told the INDY at the opening of Precarity, his three-channel video installation on view at the Nasher through […]
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Foxtrot Asks What Happens to a Society When It Considers Itself to Be Under Siege for Generations
FOXTROT Opening Friday, April 20 Samuel Maoz’s gorgeous and tragic Foxtrot poses the question, what happens to a society when it considers itself to be under siege for generations? The film introduces us to Michael (Lior Ashkenazi) and Dafna (Sarah Adler), an affluent Israeli couple who have just been informed by the military that their […]