Each act in Mountains May Depart, Zhangke Jia’s latest disquisition on China in the 21st Century, takes place in a different time period with a steadily escalating aspect ratio: 1999 in 1.33:1, 2014 in 1.85:1, and 2025 in 2.35:1. As time moves forward, the possibilities expand in kind, with the…
Careful what you wish for. When it was announced that Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt would be joining Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth for the followup to 2012’s humdrum action/fairy tale Snow White and the Huntsman, many filmgoers, myself included, got unduly excited. The original film, while a hit, had…
North Miami-born-and-raised writer/director Kelly Reichardt is a well-respected indie filmmaker. More than 20 years after she debuted her first film at Sundance Film Festival in 1994, River of Grass has been restored and re-released. For three nights only, it will screen at the Miami Beach Cinematheque beginning Wednesday, April 20. The…
Let’s be real — Miami is ridiculously expensive. The city’s median condo rent is the eighth-highest in the nation, ringing in around $1,900 a month. Luxury cars, fancy restaurants and clubs, and high-priced designer shops are frequent sights for a local. But for better or worse, many of us don’t…
The world is filled with long-winded storytellers and boring status updates about babies and dinner. Unless you’re Keith Richards, Ozzy Osbourne, Richard Branson, or some other filthy-rich British person, there’s a good chance your life is pretty mundane. Still, there are the rare few who can take a seemingly unexceptional…
The dingy spot where a Wendy’s restaurant once stood on NE 62nd Street in Little Haiti will soon be transformed into a pearlescent, polychromatic iron mountain range shimmering with warm, tropical chartreuse, indigo, and fuchsia. Across Second Avenue, a $2.5 million cultural arts center with studio and exhibition space, a…
The musician biopic might be stale and stupid as a genre, but it will endure. Each new one offers the possibility of the wondrous thing that made Hollywood into Hollywood: presence. You can guess from the trailers that I Saw the Light might be a botch job as drama, but…
Deep into her earnest, uncertain Nina Simone drama Nina, writer-director Cynthia Mort at last musters up a sequence of gravity and power. The inimitable Miss Simone — imitated here by Zoe Saldana — reads a letter from a woman who has recently lost her mother, a great Simone fan. It’s…
By now, the internet has offered plenty of images of actor Oscar Isaac as the omnipotent deity in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse. But amid all the commotion surrounding the release and while the actor is filming Star Wars Episode VIII, the Miami native took time out of his busy schedule to…
You might remember seeing a bleach-blonde, grillz-wearing hair genius on Season 14 of America’s Next Top Model and wondering who the hell he was. For starters, he calls himself Weaven Steven. Think of him as the “baddest white boy in the hair business” (and that’s not because he fancies a sophisticated…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events — the best part? It’s all free. Monday Miami Jazz Jam at Churchill’s: Get funky at Churchill’s weekly jazz jam. Music starts around 9 p.m. Improv at Palmetto Bay Library: Practice your best jokes with Cutler Bay Community Theater actors at 7 p.m. …
The first Saturday night in April, Curator’s Voice Art Project (CVAP) buzzed with the opening of the latest show by Argentine artist Amalia Amoedo. The Wynwood gallery unveiled the new project, titled “Vestales.” The evening was a whimsical unpacking of mythic themes curated by CVAP director Milagros Bello. Twelve multicolored…
Diamond Minds Transformational Leadership Academy, a private elementary and middle school, will host its inaugural Art in the Gardens community art event tomorrow. The outdoor gathering will feature works of local artists including Marcus Blake and Ronald Sanchez. Students at the school worked alongside the painters to create murals throughout…
Miami can be a weird place. Weird, but great. And as the people behind the Bas Fisher Invitational (BFI) know, unique things are innately interesting. “We see anything outside of the norm as beautiful and wonderful,” says Danielle Bender, operations manager at BFI. Often, the artist organization puts together Weird…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend — and Miami offers just about every activity. It’s three days of festive cacophony of music, art, and frosty tropical libations. End the weekend on a tasty note with the Wynwood Diner’s Crawfish Boil, where eaters can indulge in…
Miami City Commissioners on Thursday afternoon came within a hair of firing City Manager Daniel Alfonso. The issue? Alfonso’s ham-handed removal of Little Haiti Cultural Complex manager, Sandy Dorsainvil. “This should be a come-to Jesus moment for you,” Commissioner Ken Russell said as he headed off Alfonso’s removal. Just minutes before,…
Renee Chavez, priestess of Aggayu (the Afro-Cuban deity of volcanoes), descends from a chain of environmental stewards linked back to prehistory. Some might even say her people know the Earth from the inside out. “My ancestors entered this lifetime through the sipapu,” she says, using the Native American word for 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…
The Teatro Cinema theater company is one of the most genre-breaking groups to present their work in South Florida. Frustrated by the limits of both stage and screen, they fuse them. Although it isn’t as simple as using background images as stage sets. For one, they use a scrim between stage…
This weekend, alumni from the United States Artist (USA) fellowship program will descend upon Miami. The nonprofit organization is based in Chicago and its mission is to support working creatives by offering grants of up to $50,000. Each year, the philanthropic group hosts an Artists Assembly that brings together the…
What do you get when you make a superhero movie with a male lead but keep your female audience at the forefront in your decision-making? Apparently a box office hit. By now, you’ve probably heard about the wild success of the little superhero film that could: Deadpool. Nobody expected much…
Hardcore Henry screened as a midnight movie at last September’s Toronto Film Festival, and was so ecstatically received that a distributor bidding war ensued. Six months later, the film has hit theaters nationwide and fallen flat, thanks to intensely negative reviews from critics upset by its unceasing violence. It didn’t…
