Among the many ways Irma blew South Florida’s cover as being unprepared for a major hurricane is the infuriatingly slow return of cell and internet service, a situation that has resulted in tens of thousands of people being unable to reach family, friends, and loved ones, let alone go online, for days.
In many ways, Cuban author Alejo Capentier’s 1957 epic on the repercussions of slavery in Haiti, The Kingdom of This World, is a fantasy-fueled parallel of 21st-century America’s present tensions surrounding race and immigration. So it’s no surprise the book helped inspire the latest exhibit by Edouard Duval-Carrié, the Haitian-born,…
We did it, Miami. We’ve got another hurricane under our belt, which has brought strife for some and pride for others. But we can all attest to the incredible amount of money we spent on price-gouged gas and bottled water, not to mention the materials you might have gathered to survive what forecasters promised would be the end of Florida.
There’s no delicate way to say this, so I’ll just spit it out. I spent the first 10 minutes of Stronger, David Gordon Green’s eventually potent drama of trauma and recovery, trying to work out whether star Jake Gyllenhaal was intending to suggest that the real-life Bostonian at the story’s…
The documentary section of TIFF has a reputation for programming the types of films that can easily compete for audience attention with the narrative juggernauts, and this year is no different. From Agnes Varda’s wacky travelogue Faces Places to Frederick Wiseman’s ode to the New York Public Library Ex Libris,…
Writer-director Dee Rees is breaking all the rules with her third feature, Mudbound. In film school, they tell you, “No voiceovers,” yet this film about two WWII and post-war Mississippi families — one black, one white — is filthy with them. They tell you, “Play it safe until you’re more…
Like much of South Florida after Hurricane Irma, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens suffered damage to its property and is trying its best to recover. Like most of your neighbors, Vizcaya could also really use your help. Unlike your neighbors, however, the museum is offering more in return than a grateful hug and some bottled water.
Filmmaking is not a poor man’s game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a festival-worthy film still requires dough to get off the ground, which means the folks who tell stories through cinema tend to come from backgrounds of privilege. That breeds movies aimed at middle- to upper-class people,…
Due to Hurricane Irma, some of these events may be canceled or rescheduled. We will update this post as changes are announced. Friday Want to use Citi Bike free for a year? All you have to do is scarf down chicken wings, as many chicken wings as you can, more…
In Columbus, architecture takes the place of emotions, to sometimes startling effect. An outwardly chilly, resolutely static film that nevertheless finds poignancy in the most surprising places, Kogonada’s directorial debut does a couple of important things so well that I can’t help but forgive the things it doesn’t. (Kogonada, by…
I’d gone into the theater knowing nothing of the Chloe Zhao’s The Rider except that my colleague Bilge Ebiri adored it — and that I’d get to to witness some breathtaking cinematography capturing the dusky pastels streaking the American West. (I did.) For the first 20 minutes, I was transfixed…
Dictators are a certain kind of selfish, insecure insanity made manifest, and if you’re going to study them, Joseph Stalin is a good place to start. “Stalin” wasn’t even his real name. When he was 30, he changed it, so it would be “man of steel” in Russian — imagine…
Ask Angela Dazzio-Martinez how she’s doing in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, and she’ll offer a rueful laugh. “I’m not even sure what time I got to work this morning,” she admits. The mother of a 4-year-old daughter, Dazzio-Martinez returned to her Boca Raton home Tuesday after evacuating twice to…
Hurricane Irma tore through Jungle Island with 100 mph gusts and massive rain, ripping apart trees and blocking pathways through the park. But Christopher Gould, managing director of Jungle Island, insists his animal park has had reason to celebrate. All of Jungle Island’s 600 animals —which include orangutans, parrots, tigers and…
The tragic truth remains that all it takes in America for a white person to get away with killing a black person is for the white person to convince the right people — a judge, a jury, a prosecutor — of his or her own fear. If a white person…
It would have been easy for Angelina Jolie’s adaptation of Cambodian genocide survivor Loung Ung’s 2000 memoir to go ruthlessly and repeatedly for the emotional jugular. First They Killed My Father is, after all, the story of a young girl hurled into one of the 20th century’s most unthinkable nightmares…
Do you shop when you’re stressed? If so, you’ll be excited to hear that many Miami-area malls are reopening after Hurricane Irma. And even if you’re saving your money for home repairs or new hurricane shutters, you could probably use some time outside your home in a safe setting. Here…
It’s a sign of hope that Bill Morrison, arcane found-footage wizard and poet of nitrate decay, is nearly a household name, with his films routinely feted at the New York Film Festival, showcased in the Venice Biennial and, most brazenly of all, released onto actual movie screens. Using only archival…
Ordinarily, a building set right on the water with massive windows facing Biscayne Bay wouldn’t be most people’s choice for a hurricane shelter. But 14 staffers at the Perez Art Museum Miami rode out the storm in the museum’s downtown venue — and they might have been some of the…
The fish, birds, and reptiles living at downtown Miami’s new Frost Science Museum survived Hurricane Irma without injury, the museum reports.
You know the usual hurricane preparations: hanging shutters, boarding up your windows with plywood, stacking sandbags. But in Florida, nothing’s ever that boring. Plenty of Floridians put their own spin on storm prep — often with hilarious or head-scratching results. Best Meme: The internet’s favorite meme made an IRL appearance…
In Eliza Hittman’s debut feature, It Felt Like Love, a young girl tests the waters of adult sexuality, offering her body up to the statuesque bros who live in her Eastern Seaboard beach town. She tries her hardest to mimic the women in pornos, the ones all the boys want,…
