You might think that with the technological advances in moviemaking since 1956, this new version of Around the World in 80 Days would at least look better than its predecessor did. You could not be faulted for believing you’d be wowed by the Rube Goldberg gadgets of inventor Phileas Fogg,…
Thursday 6/17 You’ve seen the more than 140 dazzling images of hulking machinery and technological wonders that make up the exhibition “Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design, 1927-1936.” Now you’re left wondering how in the world anyone puts a major display like that together. How to decide what goes in…
Has it already been a year since Summer Shorts was last in town? This festival of short plays (twenty minutes max) has become a nationally recognized event in its nine-year history and something of a must-see/must-be-seen-there social event for South Florida cognoscenti. Shorts has its own cheerily subversive personality; this…
Three separate actions drive the narrative of Jim Tommaney’s Desert Storm, an ambitious but uneven drama that combines fact and fiction. The stories involve soldiers on the war front, their concerned parents, and President George H.W. Bush’s deliberations over sending troops into Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in August…
Contemporary art has rummaged through fashion, Hollywood, and pornography in an attempt to attach itself to the allure present in those modes. Aesthetic experience and erogenous pleasure have always been close relatives, to be sure. In two current group exhibitions, this is evident. The postures of subversion are everywhere. Rather…
The Gulf of Westchester: Deborah Zoe Laufer’s biting satire about the war in Iraq hurtles along with such passion and intensity it’s breathtaking. Laufer doesn’t get the gold at the finish line — she cartwheels out of control well before that — but her reckless bravado makes for the kind…
i am the resurrection: Works by Daniel Arsham, Ian Cooper, Jay Heikes, and Rachel Howe circle cautiously around Goth culture and the spate of recent school shootings by teenagers. The works suggest the saturation of violence permeating contemporary life, and explore the twin afflictions of victimization and vengeance plaguing youth…
It’s a sign that a nation may be losing its collective mind when it grants a nutty hack like Quentin Tarantino an exalted title like Officer of Arts and Letters, but there’s France for you. Whether Gallic pop culture is rousingly progressive or embarrassingly adolescent is anyone’s call, but few…
Beware the exclamation point. When found at the end of a title, it almost inevitably signals a level of self-hype rarely justified by the content of whatever it hopes to name. In the case of the movie Saved! — an amusing, if facile comedy about a good Christian girl gone…
So let’s get this straight: You’re a much-loved comedian who just did a low-budget, multi-award-winning film with an acclaimed up-and-coming director. In recent years, thanks in part to your work with the younger, edgier filmmaking set, you’re starting to be taken seriously as an actor. You even managed to score…
Tao Rey, one of the resident members of the art collective known as “the House,” gathers his personal items from the chaos of what is soon to be an abandoned home. He stacks paintings made by his former housemates against a wall at the front door of the 1920s building…
When night fell on June 16, 1904, it appeared that the day would go mostly unremembered. In Pennsylvania, Leah Bowman “died of the infirmities of old age.” Elsewhere, the Marlin (Texas) Democrat reported that Ike Low’s murder conviction was discharged. Dutch architect Gerald Holt was born and the New York…
SUN 6/13 Everyone knows the tale of the goose that laid the golden egg. As a conduit to wealth, at least in that legend, geese seem to get plenty of respect. Running far behind are ducks. In real life, they’re the dopey birds that float on water but can barely…
MON 6/14 While visiting the Skate Park at Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah this summer, don’t start meditating at the foot of the 3-sided pyramid. The structure is made to withstand leaps and grinds that make many a skate rat with time to kill salivate. In fact the skate park…
THU 6/10 Who is the most dangerous man in the world? In his new book, Rogue State: America at War with the World, author/journalist T.D. Allman bestows that dubious distinction on President George W. Bush, not on Osama bin Laden as most folks would think. A distinguished foreign correspondent who…
SAT 6/12 As artistic director of Miami’s Teatro Avante and the International Hispanic Theatre Festival, Mario Ernesto Sanchez is finding out that in a post-9/11 world, running such a festival requires some psychic abilities. Who would have guessed Spain’s government would abruptly change hands, thereby affecting a Spanish theater group’s…
Thursday 6/10 Displacement, alienation, and the inevitable depression that arise from the state of being stateless are common afflictions among many new South Floridians. Two Cuban artists, Erman and Danny Ramirez, will explore their feelings of being strangers in a strange land in the show “Surviving Memories,” opening tonight from…
Robert Wyndam Bucknell strikes an engaging argument as an aspiring art star humble enough to paint his toenails gold and title his solo show at OBJEX Artspace “Why I Think I Am So Fucking Special: It’s All About Me.” An impish yet erudite 27 years old, Bucknell is a capacious…
The Gulf of Westchester: Deborah Zoe Laufer’s biting satire about the war in Iraq hurtles along with such passion and intensity it’s breathtaking. Laufer doesn’t get the gold at the finish line — she cartwheels out of control well before that — but her reckless bravado makes for the kind…
i am the resurrection: Works by Daniel Arsham, Ian Cooper, Jay Heikes, and Rachel Howe circle cautiously around Goth culture and the spate of recent school shootings by teenagers. The works suggest the saturation of violence permeating contemporary life, and explore the twin afflictions of victimization and vengeance plaguing youth…
With any luck, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, himself, will make an appearance at the Brazilian Film Festival. Indeed Lula would make a jolly addition to the films which, this year, express a bent toward the left-leaning policies Lula himself personifies. The charismatic former labor leader who rose to…
Directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Screenplay by Alfonso Cuaron, based on a novel by J.K. Rowling. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, David Thewlis, and Michael Gambon. Rated PG.
