New Yorkers will immediately recognize the opening shots of One of Us, the new documentary from Jesus Camp filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady: ultra-Orthodox Jewish families roaming the big city, the women and girls in skirts and tights, the men and boys in long black coats and hats, looking…
Employing elements of both classical painting and magical realism, Edouard Duval-Carrié explores the culture and history of his home in 37 new paintings and sculptures collected by PhD and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, Anthony Bogues. “Metamorphosis” continues the artist’s scrutiny of Haiti’s contemporary social and political…
Over the phone from his Los Angeles office, David Lynch tells me, “It was all Harry Dean. I’d do anything for Harry Dean.” The visionary director is referring to taking on an acting role in John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut, Lucky, which stars Harry Dean Stanton, and is largely based…
A University of Miami faculty exhibit opening next week will include American flags fashioned into Ku Klux Klan hoods on a cart with wheels shaped like like a Nazi swastika.
Twitter is everything right now. Excuse the hyperbole, but it could very well decide the fate of the world. For the last decade, Twitter has brought us breaking news, celebrity gossip, and memes upon memes upon memes. However, with the ascent of Donald Trump to the presidency, it has also…
“This year we hunt big game. This year you get your first kill.” So says seasoned hunter Cal (Matt Bomer) to his teenage son David (Josh Wiggins), who’s arrived in rural Montana for his annual visit, and even those going in unfamiliar with the premise of Alex and Andrew Smith’s…
Have you ever walked into a place and felt that ineffable “spooky feeling”? If you’ve ever felt the hairs on the back of your neck stand, a drop in temperature, or a shift in the electromagnetic charge, congratulations: you may have had contact with a paranormal entity. Horror movies set the expectation that paranormal experiences only happen in abandoned buildings covered in ivy and flanked by naked trees during the dead of winter. But ghosts don’t discriminate, they can also linger in the scorching heat and stifling humidity of Miami. Mysterious and ghastly deaths, suicides, and murders, ever too popular in Miami history, are rife with phantasmagorical potential. Dr. Paul George, resident historian at HistoryMiami, and Marlene Pardo Pellicer, a paranormal researcher, share their collection of stories on the most haunted places in Miami.
At this one-night-only event, watch short films produced by Borscht Corporation, mingle with local filmmakers, and bid on auctioned artworks for less than the price of a movie ticket and popcorn.
Lav Diaz’s penchant for ethical quandaries and psychological angst has earned him comparisons to Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment inspired Diaz’s Norte, the End of History (2013), in which a radicalized youth spirals into despair after committing murder. Now the prolific Filipino filmmaker gives us The Woman Who Left (2016), a…
The Mutiny at Sailboat Bay was a notorious hotel and club in Coconut Grove that became the nerve center for Miami’s drug culture when the venue opened in 1969. It was there that the city’s lawless cocaine cowboys reigned over an era of unbridled excess heralded by a revival of…
In the opening shot of Only the Brave, a flaming bear — not just a bear that happens to be burning but one that looks as if it had been created entirely from fire — lunges at the camera in the middle of a blazing forest. The image returns a…
Something of a prank, a farewell, an art project, a buddy comedy, a vox populi tour of the French countryside, and an inquiry into memory and images and what it means to reveal our eyes to the world, Faces Places is a joyous lulu. It finds the great documentarian and…
Born and raised in Miami, Stryker, now 26, became a viral sensation when he released a series of themed costumes on social media.
Filmmaking is not a poor man’s game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a film worthy of release 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…
Still trudging through the blasted desertscape of the mind 33 years after Paris, Texas, Harry Dean Stanton hoofs along beneath the opening titles of Lucky, his richly aimless swan song, past cacti and scrub brush, the sparseness of the landscape suggesting something of the lead’s drift of mind. Stanton’s Lucky,…
Instead of subsisting off of canned beans for six days, why not venture out to these events without squandering your precious weekend cash.
Ahead of III Points music festival this weekend, organizers are announcing the arrival of Brian Eno’s The Ship, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The installation will be housed in the Design District’s Moore Building, as the ICA prepares for the grand opening of their permanent home…
The Miami Film Festival’s mini film festival event, Gems, returns for a fourth year this week. The festival has long catered to Miami’s Spanish-speaking audience, bringing films from Latin America as well as Spain to Tower Theater. New Times was granted a preview of two films from Spain that would…
For the past three decades, Art Miami has established itself as an indispensable fair during Miami Art Week. While heavy-hitters such as Art Basel, Design Miami, Scope, and Untitled have monopolized Miami Beach, Art Miami and its sister fair, Context Art Miami, have commanded the streets of midtown for the past nine years.
With III Points in the mix, the weekend is sure to be magical in Miami, but you don’t need to spend big bucks in Wynwood to get the most out of the next few days. DWNTWN Art Days offers exhibits and tours all over the city for little to no money, and other large-scale events — Grovetoberfest and the Yes and Kid Cudi concerts — are worth shelling out a few extra clams. So go forth and make the most of your fleeting freedom!
The new film from director Sean Baker focuses on homeless people living in motels near Disney World.
Gary Nader plans to sell $100 million worth of art come December to build a Latin American art museum in downtown Miami.
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