What Will Raleigh’s New Alamo Drafthouse Add to the Triangle’s Bustling Retro-Film Scene?
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE 2116-D, New Bern Avenue, Raleigh 984-444-6620 www.drafthouse.com/raleigh The fierce visage of Zardoz, the floating stone head from the unintentionally hilarious 1974 Sean Connery sci-fi flick of the same name, looms in the corner of a colorful mural on a marquee outside the new Alamo Drafthouse in Raleigh. After its soft opening on April…
A Boy and His Horse Must Save Each Other in Andrew Haigh’s Slow, Sad, Gorgeous Lean on Pete
LEAN ON PETE Opening Friday, May 4 Writer-director Andrew Haigh is back with Lean on Pete, an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s novel of the same name. After devastating deep dives into a brief connection between two queer twentysomethings in Weekend (2011) and the waning love of a long marriage in 45 Years (2015), Haigh delicately…
The Chelsea, Chapel Hill’s Last Old School Art Cinema, Might Close at Year’s End
Though the Chelsea Theater is a Chapel Hill institution, it has never made a big deal about itself. Tucked away in the Timberlyne strip mall, almost literally in the shadow of the Regal multiplex, the little-art-house-that-could has discreetly held its ground in a volatile cinema market for almost thirty years. So it’s no surprise that…
Fall into Films
You’re either already pumped about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Blade Runner 2049, Thor: Ragnarok, and Justice League or you’ve read your fill about themmaybe both. Here are twelve fab fall films less liable to inspire déjà vu. (Remember: the smaller the distributor, the slipperier the release date; IMDB’s “Showtimes & Tickets” feature is a…
Chapel Hill’s Joy Goodwin discusses producing Black Nativity
While others spent their Thanksgiving Eve preparing for the turkey-and-stuffing consumption and an incoming onslaught of family and friends, Joy Goodwin spent the evening at the movies. Sitting in a screening room of the Carmike Wynnsong 15 in Durham, Goodwin was a spy among audience members who were unaware of her role in making the…
Notes from the Raleigh set of Bad Grandpa
Like Fight Club, the first rule of this movie was not to talk about the movie. So when Bad Grandpa came to North Carolina, it was as an unnamed entity in order to fly under the radar. Because the film was to be a hidden-camera comedy, it was crucial to keep the public in the…
Divine and James Franco top this year’s N.C. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Aug. 9–18 Carolina Theatre For Carolina Theatre Senior Director Jim Carl and the other programmers for the North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, there’s usually a moment, when all the films are locked down and scheduled, when they wonder if some or most of the films have…
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Greta Gerwig on the end of youth and Frances Ha
Apologies to all those millennials who buy into the idea that 30 is the new 20: Writer and actress Greta Gerwig thinks you need to grow up already. “At 27, your youth is over,” she says. “It’s done.” Perhaps that’s a bit harsh, but it’s this theme of growing up in a climate of postponed…
N.C. native Ramin Bahrani on At Any Price, the state of movies, and Roger Ebert’s death
Read our review of At Any Price Ramin Bahrani, a Winston-Salem native, has charted an unlikely path to making a film with Zac Efron in the cornfields of Iowa. His three previous, widely praised features were marked by their devotion to a realist aesthetic most closely associated with foreign filmmakers. This was underlined by his…
You can see great movies at NCMA; why can’t the facilities match the programming?
Spring films at NCMA from & about Italy Last month, the North Carolina Museum of Art completed its slate of winter films, which was a celebration of 100 years of Universal Studios. The titles ranged from Destry Rides Again to Touch of Evil, from Written on the Wind to two James Whale classics. Before the…
Offbeat gems mingle with the zombie classics at this year’s Nevermore Film Festival
Nevermore Film Festival Carolina Theatre Feb. 22–24 The Academy Awards are presented this Sunday and feature an eclectic lineup of offbeat studio fare and daring independent productions that will vie for the gold. But none of them has a scene where a hot dog is used as a cell phone to the spirit world, and…
Local filmmakers Joey Shanks and Kendall Music succeed at Slamdance with “Sci-Fly”
Chapel Hill filmmakers Joey Shanks and Kendall Music got a lot out of their five-day trip to Park City, Utah, last week: A world premiere screening of their eye-popping short film, “Sci-Fly”; face time with fellow artists, in screening rooms and at the parties that buzzed nightly; and a cemented partnership (more on that later).…
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