In Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, emotion becomes motion and psychology becomes space. It’s a coming-of-age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them. The Fits follows Toni (Royalty Hightower), an 11-year-old tomboy…
Director Jake Paltrow (Young Ones, The Good Night) met Brian De Palma at a party. He’d had a few drinks and worked up the courage to talk to the legendary filmmaker, who turned out to be surprisingly open and kind. The next day, Paltrow got an email from the friend…
Let me tell you all the good things about Nicolas Winding Refn’s high-art, lowbrow horror film The Neon Demon before I tell you what I will not tolerate. After Drive, Refn seems obsessed with his idea of Los Angeles, one where there’s always a full moon, no traffic and everyone…
Mother and daughter Marilyn Bisignano and Sandra Orza are self-taught artists. They have turned their Sweetwater home on SW 109th Avenue into a space for uninhibited artistic expression. And though they produce art because of their personal need to create, their inspiration and hard work have spilled into the home’s…
If you have ever watched a documentary film about Latinos in Miami, there’s a good chance it focused on a specific group of immigrants — like Cubans of the ’50s. But have you ever seen a film that represents our diverse city’s entire Latino community? Miami Our City: The Documentary, a…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Farmers Market at the Adrienne Arsht Center: Start the week fresh with a visit to the Arsht Center’s weekly farmers market. Yoga at Bass Museum: Grab your mat and head to the…
The most surprising thing about the new buddy action-comedy Central Intelligence is the sight of Kevin Hart playing straight man to another actor’s antics. In previous comedies, Hart has been the pint-sized, fast-talking dynamo at the center of the action. Even in movies where he’s the guy in over his…
Have you ever seen a work of art and thought it so beautiful you wish you could wear it? Thanks to sisters Claudia and Flavia Giardinella’s new fashion line, Artteca, now you can. Many clothes people wear are beautiful — almost artistic pieces on their own. However, it’s rare that…
Imagine it’s February 7, 2013, and you’re leaving Miami after a monthlong visit with family and friends and resuming your dance career in Israel. At the airport, TSA agents repeatedly search and interrogate you, causing you to miss your connection. Why? Maybe it’s because of your Cuban passport and the…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend — and Miami offers just about every activity. It’s three days of a festive cacophony of music, art, and frosty libations. This Sunday is Father’s Day. Treat Dad to brunch at one of Miami’s many eateries offering the…
It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with WorldRedEye, New Times…
Forget Halloween as the time to indulge in all sorts of horrific goodies. The Popcorn Frights Film Festival is back, and it’s got bigger films, bigger ambitions, and a bigger lineup. The fest will take place in August instead of October this year. This edition of Popcorn Frights will offer…
Cue Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out for Summer” and watch kids everywhere go apeshit with excitement. But for moms, the onset of summer vacation prompts another emotion altogether: fear. How are you supposed to keep high-energy offspring from bouncing off the proverbial walls when there’s no classroom to contain ’em? Don’t…
When founder and artistic director of the non-proft Antiheroes Project, José Manuel Dominguez, set out to create a new work, he stumbled across the nothing short of epic life of French aviator and writer, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The author’s Little Prince is still one of the best-selling books in publishing…
Move over, Kylie Jenner, Miami has its own makeup queens. Cousins, best friends, and business partners Vanessa Enriquez and Marivette Navarrete launched Nevermind Cosmetics back in February. The pair went all in and invested all their savings to build the company. They were were inspired to start their project through…
Thursday, June 16 Sweat Records and O Cinema have collaborated to present some very cool music-related films over the past few years. Documentaries on David Bowie, Elliott Smith, Arcade Fire, Nas & Pulp, and others have screened at the art-house theater. This Thursday at 9 p.m., the two Miami staples…
Out in the Tropics is a weeklong celebration presented by FUNDarte that boasts a diverse lineup of talented artists and performers. In its seventh year, the fest will feature music, theater, and dance events in locations throughout Miami and South Beach. The founder and executive director of the performing arts…
Last summer, two filmmakers from Colorado were on a mission to create the ultimate documentary that would shed light on first-generation Latinos. The enterprise, titled Project Enye, is both a film and a movement. For one year, Denise Soler-Cox and moviemaking partner Henry Ansbacher worked tirelessly to collect unique stories from…
Summer 2016 officially kicks off next week on June 20. Although it feels like the season never really left — thanks to Miami’s year-round hot weather and never-ending humidity — the reality is it did. But now school’s out and our favorite time of year is here, and that’s worth…
Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, a 1900 novel about the depravities in all social strata written from the point of view of a servant named Célestine, has famously been adapted twice before, by two of cinema’s immortals. Benoît Jacquot’s uneven take on the material won’t challenge the stature…
If you can get past the spectacle of British and Australian actors portraying some of the most important figures of 20th-century American literature, Genius is a good example of a prestige pic that is not only literate but surprisingly vibrant. It’s the story of the tumultuous relationship between hot-tempered, Asheville-born…
Finding Nemo may have been a cartoon about a clownfish traveling across the ocean looking for his son, but it was also one of Pixar’s first overt forays into the workings of the human mind. The film, from 2003, was haunted by loss: The protagonist, Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks),…
