If there’s one character Brady Corbet runs the risk of being typecast as, it’s the creep. Corbet pushed the edge of creepdom in Michael Haneke’s Hollywood remake of Funny Games, where he played one of two homicidal preppy kids who slowly torture and murder a family vacationing at their Long…
Miami Beach Cinematheque director Dana Keith finds it difficult to make time for anything else but cinema. That’s particularly true this week; his art house is in the middle of hosting screenings for the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which included an appearance by James Franco whose film, Interior…
Something rubbed off on director Ron Morales when he worked as a key grip on Martin Scorsese’s The Departed and Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton. The two Oscar-winning films have come to be loved for their labyrinthine layers of suspense. Now, with Graceland, Morales has produced a comparable work that blew…
Peter Murphy Grand Central Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Better than: Dalis Car live. It was nice seeing Peter Murphy channel some of the primal strangeness of Bauhaus, even though all his original cohorts were probably somewhere in England, sipping their tea and not giving a shit. The music will exist,…
As Peter Murphy prepares for a solo tour featuring only songs from his career as Bauhaus’ frontman, he seems compelled to contemplate the late-’70s U.K. postpunk scene. Speaking via phone, riding a bus headed to the first night of his Mr. Moonlight Tour, the 55-year-old Murphy and Crossfade discuss the…
Wanna see that hot new film from Sundance or Cannes? Miami cinephiles often wait for months, even up to a full year, for buzzworthy movies to hit our indie screens. Oftentimes, U.S. theatrical premieres come and go in New York and L.A., while the wait continues in South Florida, as…
Let’s start with Peter Murphy’s infamous arrest on March 16 in Glendale, California, for allegedly fleeing a hit-and-run crash that left another driver’s car damaged and ended with Murphy’s detention and a meth charge. Asked for his version of events via cell phone while riding on a tour bus headed…
Brigitte Bardot was the trailblazing hottie of the mid-20th Century, but she had so much more than sex appeal. As the liberated woman before Women’s Lib, Bardot made the unattainable female desirable to heights that had yet to be conceived or understood. Temperamental and alluring, she harnessed the seductive power…
O Cinema’s mini-Kubrick Film Festival, “Stanley Kubrick: The Man & His Movies,” has made a last-minute addition to its participants. Matthew Modine, the lead actor in the iconic director’s 1987 Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket, and more recently seen in The Dark Knight Rises, will appear via Skype for a…
U.K. at Grand Central March 30
One of the many great things about Robert Rodriguez’ Planet Terror, besides the zombies and Rose McGowan’s machine gun leg, were the homicidal twin babysitters who would not let a zombie apocalypse stop them from getting paid. The director has now rehired Electra and Elise Avellán (his own nieces) to…
For belonging to a popular music genre — progressive rock — often derided as pretentious, violinist and keyboardist Eddie Jobson seems humble about where he and his music have ended up: on a cruise ship. “I can’t believe my career has gone down to playing cruise ships,” the English musician…
No one who has regularly attended the Miami International Film Festival during its 30 years will argue against the choice of Fernando Trueba for a career tribute award. The Oscar-winning director has repeatedly debuted well-regarded films at MIFF from as far back as 1986 with El año de las luces…
MIFF 2013 Closes Out Its 30th Year With Stories of Fame, Fear, and Family
As news of Hugo Chávez’s death spread across South Florida, last night was a good night to see a movie about the end of a dictatorship. A packed house attended the Miami premiere of No, Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s final film in his Pinochet trilogy. The Miami International Film Festival…
If you want to see the power of cinema at its best, watch a film by Robert Bresson. The young actor/director Brady Corbet knows this, and he will take advantage of his pedestal at this year’s Miami International Film Festival to express it by presenting what he thinks is one…
From the album’s title, The Next Day, to the (mostly) straight-forward nature of the 14 tracks that compose it, David Bowie’s new album declares itself a reboot. The songs shine with ferocious life, even if they follow a simpler structure than one would expect from Bowie. Guitars by Earl Slick…
Hollywood filmmakers have made weddings the ultimate goal in romances for so long it almost feels cliché to note the cliché. But weddings only signal the start of something often far too complex and intimidating for most filmmakers to explore. Argentine director Carlos Jaureguialzo offers a fine take on the…
MIFF 2013: Murder, Marriage, and Madness in This Week’s Biggest Movies
MIFF’s Jaie Laplante Talks Cinema at the Intersection of Hollywood and Latin America
To hear Bonnie Clearwater tell it, there was no competition when it came to deciding who will become the Museum of Contemporary Art’s first full-time curator.In her introduction to Alex Gartenfeld’s talk on his exhibit of New York artists in Rome (Empire State: New York and Beyond), Wednesday night, the…
Cult film legend Alejandro Jodorowsky burst on to the art film world in the late 1960s with a style of cinema that offended audience members and frustrated film programmers. His debut film Fando and Lis premiered at the Acapulco Film Festival in 1968 and caused a riot in the mostly…
