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17.04.12 Missed Opportunities in The Tents, a History of New York Fashion Week

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Tags: Barbara Walters, Betsey Johnson, Brown vs Board of Education, Bryant Park, BT, Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan, Fashion Week, Fern Mallis, hagiography, Isaac Mizrahi, James Belzer, Jason Wu, Lauren Ezersky, Lincoln Center, Manhattan, Oscar de la Renta, Paper Magazine, Patrick McDonald, Robert Verdi, The New York Fashion Week Documentary, The Tents, Tommy Hilfiger, trailer, who’s who, Zac Posen

Screening Thursday at SCAD-Atlanta, this informative film is high on fashion but a little low on deeper insights.

23.03.12 Preview: Atlanta Film Festival Puts the Spotlight on Local Film

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Tags: 1080 Bruxelles, 23 Quai du Commerce, AKA Blondie, ATL Film 365, Atlanta Film Festival, Barbara Walters, Beauty is Embarrassing, Blondie, Brantly Watts, Clermont Lounge, Jeanne Dielman, Jennifer Rose Ligler, Jimmy Carter, John Portman, John Portman: A Life of Building, Jon Watts, Kings of Pops, L!fe Happens, Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, Life Happens, Nick Carse, Not Yet Begun To Fight, OK Good, Paul Kaplan, Plaza Theatre, Steve Carse, Sweet Old World, The Seventh Continent, Varsity, Wayne White

From King of Pops to John Portman, this year’s AFF highlights the idiosyncratic locals who’ve shaped our city. Opening tonight!

19.03.12 From Crazy House to Crazy Horse

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Documentary legend Frederick Wiseman looks behind the curtains of a high-class nude dance club in Paris.

14.03.12 Question Bridge: Black Males Reaffirms the Importance of Race Issues

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Tags: Adrian Piper, Andrew Young, Bayete Ross Smith, Branded, Bryan Michael Cox, City Gallery at Chastain, David Lemieux, Delroy Lindo, featured, featured Christopher Johnson, Gillian Wearing, Grady Hospital, Hank Willis Thomas, Hannah Wilke, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America, Jesse Williams, Kamal Sinclair, Killer Mike, Master Card ads, NPR, Otis Brawley, Priceless, Question Bridge, Question Bridge: Black Males, Richard Billingham, StoryCorps, Sundance Film Festival, The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Dubois

Question Bridge: Black Males, a traveling exhibition, serves as a reminder of how urgent race issues remain.

16.02.12 A Separation, a Humanizing Snapshot of Wounded Family in Iran

Category: Ciné 1.0, Film Review | Tags:
Tags: A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, Tara Theatre

Opening in Atlanta this Friday, A Separation is an eye-opening portrait of modern life in the Middle East.

02.02.12 Documentary Fathoms the Fierce Badassery of Charlotte Rampling

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Felicia Feaster’s first look reveals the deep soul behind The Look, opening at Midtown Art Cinema this Friday.

13.01.12 Ciné 1.0: Polanski’s Carnage Explores Polite Social Mannerisms

Category: Ciné 1.0 | Tags:
Tags: Alan Cowan, Bitter Moon, Brooklyn, C, Carnage, Christoph Waltz, featured, Frantic, Guy Ferrandis, Holocaust, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Kinfe in the Water, Michael Haneke, Michael Longstreet, Nancy Cowan, Penelope Longstreet, Peter Cayote, politeness, Repulsion (1965), Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby (1968), Satanists, Sony Picture Classics, Susan Sarandon, The Gods of Carnage, The Ninth Gate, The Tenant (1976), Yasmina Reza

Polanski returns to a theme of apartment show downs, and the potential for violence and hatred lurking inside polite social behavior.

03.01.12 Ciné 1.0: Cronenberg’s Sensual Tale of Freud, Jung, and their Muse

Category: Ciné 1.0, Film Review | Tags:
Tags: A Dangerous Method, Carl Jung, David Cronenberg, featured, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, psychoanalysis, psychology, Sabina Spielrein, Sigmund Freud, Tara Cinema

Now in theaters, A Dangerous Method recovers the story of Sabina Spielrein.

23.11.11 No Ordinary Bull: Kate Javens at Marcia Wood Gallery

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Tags: Harlem, Kate Javens, Marcia Wood Gallery, New York, Reverend Linnette C. Williamson, The Rev

We coo and kiss and speak in baby voices to the domesticated animals in our care. So the one thing they may want the most for Christmas is not a tiny sweater, but a shred of dignity. Along comes New York painter Kate Javens, anxious to put a gleam of sentience in the eyes and [...]

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15.11.11 Ciné 1.0: Melancholia, an Artsy Romance of Planetary Doom

Category: Ciné 1.0 | Tags:
Tags: 1950s, 2000s, 2011, 50s, Another Earth, Antichrist, Breaking the Waves, Bruegel, Caravaggio, cataclysm, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Communist, David with the Head of Goliath, depression, Fifties, film, formalist art, Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Wall, John Everett Millais, Kiefer Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst, Land of Cockaigne, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Michael Haneke, Ophelia, Pieter Bruegel, planet, planets, Take Shelter, Terrence Malick, The earth is evil, The Hunters in the Snow, The Tree of Life, von Trier, Wagner

Melancholia opens with one of life’s most joyous occasions: a wedding. The doll-like, delicate Justine (Kirsten Dunst) has just married a handsome, adoring husband Michael (Alexander Skarsgard). The pair hold court at a lavish wedding reception bathed in opulent golden light in the upscale resort home of Justine’s sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her husband [...]

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05.10.11 Siegel’s GERALDINE Subverts the Traditional Fashion Photo

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Tags: Alabama, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Archer Gallery, Birmingham, Blonde and Jewels, Blonde Hair Gaze, Diane Arbus, Geraldine, Hollywood Boulevard, Jerry Siegel, Jerry Siegel: GERALDINE, Katy Grannan, Katy Grannan's Boulevard, Kohl's, Obama, Pearls and Bandaid, PennySaver, Plastic Headband and Red Scarf, Point Blank, Rt. 2 Box 348E, San Francisco, Scott Schuman, Ten Jews Left, Terry Richardson, The Sartorialist, Vice Magazine, Wal-Mart, Zooey Deschanel

Even if you don’t know a Geraldine, no doubt you have seen one. She’s the solitary elderly lady riding the subway with a passel of shopping bags at her feet, or camped out at the Waffle House nursing a bottomless cup of coffee and leafing through the PennySaver.

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23.09.11 Ciné 1.0: My Playground Transforms the Built Environment

Category: Ciné 1.0 | Tags:
Tags: Anthony Minghella, B.I.G., Bernard McCoy, Bjarke Ingels Architecture, Bjarke Ingels Group, Breaking and Entering, Casino Royale, Copenhagen, Danish Documentary, Elayne Deleo, Gary Hustwit, Jerome Robbins, Kaspar Astrup Schroeder, modern atlanta, Mountain Dwellings, My Playground, Objectified, parkour, Plaza Theatre, Team Jiyo, traceur, West Side Story

Like the battling, uber-stylish street gangs in the 1961 movie musical West Side Story, the lithe city folk in My Playground leap through Copenhagen’s immaculate concrete jungle, run up walls, and sail from stair cases with moves that could have been choreographed by Jerome Robbins.