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Why Wasn’t All the Spring Breakers Hate Dumped on On The Road?

Adam Katzman — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:23:01 +0000

If you go to the On the Road website, which works Kerouac’s rallying cry about “the mad ones” into HTML shorthand, you’ll notice an attempt to meme the movie into modern relevance. Be it “Were you born into the wrong generation? How would you fare with the Beats?” (hashtagged #TheMadOnes) or “Have you done your [...]

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Q&A: Joey Halegua of Gutter Films Talks April, or “Fatal Fauna Month,” at O Cinema

Adam Katzman — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:48:09 +0000

It used to be that going to see a B-movie in a theater was nearly a 4-D experience, with the decrepitude of the cinema matching the scuzz on screen. Multiplexes and boutique art houses have basically done away with those kind of lively rat holes, making baby noise and excessive texters the primary terror to [...]

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I’mma start a Pussy Riot: Harmony Korine Sets It Off with Spring Breakers

Adam Katzman — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:36:16 +0000

When the Spring Breakers trailer hit, with its lewd rendering of youth culture run amok, one guess was that film director Harmony Korine was going through a midlife crisis. One forgets that Korine’s life is crisis, partly indebted to his youth (any shades of Larry Clark a callback to Kids). For instance, remember Gummo? That [...]

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Tough Questions and Easy Answers at the Gatekeepers-inspired Pathways to Peace panel; Film Plays Through Sunday at Coral Gables Art Cinema

Adam Katzman — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:35:56 +0000

The Gatekeepers is unprecedented in the open confessionals it gathers from the formerly mute heads of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet. Incisive comparisons between the Israeli occupation and the German occupations of Poland and Czechoslovakia, references to the Hannah Arendt-coined term the “banality of evil,” acknowledgement that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom [...]

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Brad Bernstein’s “Far Out Isn’t Far Enough” Chronicles the Trials, Tribulations, and Magic of Tomi Ungerer

Monica Uszerowicz — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:37:56 +0000

The beginning of Miami-based director Brad Bernstein’s film, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story, features images of the titular figure’s home in Ireland, displayed in a dreamy, pastoral slideshow. Then the music goes quiet and Ungerer appears in his studio, his smile too knowing to be mischievous, too impish to intimidate. He [...]

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Documentary Surrealism: Oscar Nominations Play Out Farce of Occupation

Adam Katzman — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:00:57 +0000

A mysterious prisoner died in Israeli custody! There’s a Palestinian hunger strike! Ethiopian women are given forced sterilization! It’s been a few weeks since the Israeli elections have passed, and the country’s looking as good as it ever has, for better or worse (for worse, obvs). The bid between Bibi Netanyahu, the war criminal in [...]

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The Riotous Body Politics of “Frankenhooker,” Playing Sunday as Part of Splatter-Rama

Adam Katzman — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:41:45 +0000

Advertised as “A Tale of Sluts and Bolts,” in which a man rebuilds his dead fiancée with the body parts of prostitutes, Frank Henenlotter’s Frankenhooker (playing Sunday as part of the monthly “Splatter-Rama” at Cinema Paradiso) on the surface reads like it could just as well be called Fratboystein. The film’s original selling point, a [...]

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Saturday Night: At Sea in Search of Miami, Our City of Gold

Salty Eggs Staff — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:25:56 +0000

“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship…” — theme from Gilligan’s Island Last Saturday, the Miami-based arts group SPRING BREAK (headed by Patti Hernandez and Domingo Castillo) realized an idea of artist Carlos Rigau’s in collaboration with [...]

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Oscars Blind Spot: Rafi Pitts’ “The Hunter”

Adam Katzman — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:32:14 +0000

The Foreign nominations in the Oscars has always been a bit weird. Essentially, it’s one category for the rest of the world, but somehow Britain always makes the cut on Best Picture, giving the sectioning a neo-colonial bent. Last year, the Academy awarded A Separation with an Oscar. It was the second Iranian film to [...]

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Django Unimproved: Four Movies and One Comic That Did It Better

Adam Katzman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:58:04 +0000

Last week, Django Unchained received some Oscar nominations. Not even waiting until Seth McFarlane’s Oscar night for the usual offenses — Billy Crystal in blackface, showing the KFC clip from precious before panning to every black actor in the room — the Academy gave none of the black cast any nominations, only Christoph Waltz, who already received an Oscar when [...]

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