Tamra Davis is bound by contract not to discuss the film that, at this very moment, she’s editing for release next year. “I’m officially not supposed to do any press for it,” the director says sheepishly, so she offers a few off-the-record comments about the movie, a road-trip comedy-drama starring…
Early on in Florida Stage’s The Pavilion, the narrator looks out at the audience and declares, “This is a play about time.” Normally such an audacious statement might undercut the play’s actual content, but The Pavilion delves into the concepts of time, memory, and perception so thoroughly, and often eloquently,…
Just when we culturally deprived, mystery-starved Americans were convinced that that most delicious of movie genres, the French thriller, was dead and buried, a literate and exciting new filmmaker named Dominik Moll has emerged to revive it — and set our nerves exquisitely on edge. It’s a minor miracle that…
Chalk up another one for George Dubya. A few weeks ago the U.S. Immigration Department refused to allow acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, director of both the Oscar-nominated The White Balloon and the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner The Circle, to change planes in New York on his way…
“Now wait a minute,” you may ask yourself during the setup of Ken Loach’s new film, Bread and Roses. “Is that Tom Green? Because it sure looks like Tom Green, and judging by the way he’s climbing into that garbage can, he certainly acts a bit like Tom Green….” Well…
The soothing sweet voices of a dozen women, their skin tones a subtle spectrum from pale bark to shining ebony and adorned by bright fabrics, chant a cappella in Goro, a West African dialect: “Don’t worry…. Welcome…. See everybody…. Say “hi’…. Enjoy yourself.” This inviting community — a mélange of…
With the first International Monologue Festival barely finished and the sixteenth International Hispanic Theatre Festival just beginning, South Florida audiences are reveling in one of our greatest assets: the abundance of talented local artists who work in Spanish and Portuguese. The International Hispanic Theatre Festival, which runs from June 1…
It’s 9:00 a.m. in Los Angeles, and Sergio Mendes, undisputed master of jazzy bossa nova, the man who put much of the ease in easy listening, the creature who created the soundtrack for the international jet set with his cohorts Brasil 66, has just gotten through 45 minutes on his…
The publicist asks if I’d like to speak to D.A. Pennebaker to commemorate the 60th birthday of Bob Dylan, which falls on May 24. She asks this because, during the spring of 1965, Pennebaker made a documentary about Dylan’s tour of England, Dont Look Back, which captured a drained, cagey…
Leave the tent and bug spray at home; there’s a better camp already set up at Miami Light Project Light Box Studio. The theater is now hosting two one-acts written by William Busch, an off-Broadway cult figure known for his high-camp style, and cleverly directed by Heath Kelts. Sleeping Beauty…
Welcome to the movies of summer 2001! Of course whether you’ll actually feel welcome is another issue: Hollywood is doing its usual stuff to attract the most dollars, which may not always mean your dollars … unless you belong to that centrally crucial demographic — males, ages 13 to 25…
Chopper, the first feature from Australian video director Andrew Dominik, is a strong, effective, but often stomach-churning portrait of notorious Aussie criminal Mark “Chopper” Read. It can be characterized as sensational — in both the positive and negative senses of the word. According to the filmmakers, Chopper Read is a…
“If you interview the artists, especially from the English-speaking Caribbean and the nonpopular Latin-American countries, you will hear this vast cry of not being able to show their work,” claims cultural crusader Rosie Gordon-Wallace of the local art scene. And it’s a situation that’s been going on for years, she…
A TV turns to static. A young girl lies motionless on a bed. A man in a suit enters a dark kitchen, loosens his tie, and opens a refrigerator. These scenes could be indiscriminate snapshots of anyone’s daily life, but placed in one of Michael John Garces’s plays, they become…
Fish. Nice in a net or attached to the end of a line. Great on the grill. Wonderful on the wall. But dangling from your neck? Hollywood, Florida, artist Pam Dugger seems to think it’s a perfectly fine notion as long as the fish are one of her spectacular glass…
There are not many stories left buried in James Ellroy’s past. In 1996, at the age of 48, he penned his memoirs, in which he paired his life story with that of his dead mother, Jean Ellroy, a nurse found strangled and beaten in the bushes of suburban Los Angeles…
Perhaps it’s sheer coincidence, but it seems largely appropriate that the first International Monologue Festival began with a voyage and ended with an enigmatic door. The festival, which took place from April 27 to May 6, began with Teatro Mio’s Waiting for Odysseus and closed with Teatro Buendia’s The Eighth…
ids might well be amused by the frenetic pacing of Shrek, the latest computer-animated film from DreamWorks, which moves so quickly it’s nearly a blur, though they need not get the jokes to enjoy frolicking in the muck (and the maggots) with a green, snaggletoothed ogre who wants only to…
With his hangdog face, rumpled overcoat and black beret, Tobias Schneebaum looks like one of those wild-eyed old men you find in, say, Prospect Park, absentmindedly feeding the pigeons and ranting on to exactly no one about Leon Trotsky, nuclear physics or the ’52 World Series. Time has taken its…
“I felt something slam into me … and it spun me around about 180 degrees,” says shark-attack victim Dawn Schauman, who will be among the speakers at the Miami Museum of Science’s glibly named Shark Shenanigans Day. Schauman’s survival story makes reality-based dramas like Survivor look like a day at…
For something that encompasses the word freedom in its name, the stately Freedom Tower has seemingly been in bondage for quite a long time. A bit of its tangled history: Modeled after Seville, Spain’s Giralda Tower, it was built in 1925 by Shultze and Weaver (the same firm that designed…
Heath Ledger, wearing the scowl of the anxious and uneasy, is having trouble standing still. He most certainly would rather be anywhere but here: killing time in a TV studio, waiting to be interviewed during a live afternoon newscast. Waiting to promote his new movie. Waiting to assume the guise…
