Last Thursday, the Michael Ann Russell Jewish Community Center screened Benny Toraty’s new film, The Ballad of the Weeping Spring, as part of its bi-monthly Israeli cinema night. Toraty’s film is a swan song and utopian what-if, a Blues Brothers/Magnificent Seven hybrid in which the “get the band back together” storyline is filtered through the [...]
Earlier this year, Baz Luhrman released a trailer for The Great Gatsby that started off with Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild.” With the wild being capitalism, and the no church being the way tons of money allows the 1 percent to believe they transcend god, the song’s pairing with the film seemed appropriate. Unfortunately, the [...]
Quentin Tarantino’s new Western slave epic, Django Unchained, has momentarily resurrected Franco Nero in a hat tip to one of the actor’s more iconic roles, a coffin-wielding drifter named Django. Now through January 3, Miami Beach Cinematheque will be showing Django. For Tarantino fans, it should be a compelling footnote. Nero has long been one of Italy’s rawest, most vital [...]
Saturday night at the Arsht Center in downtown Miami, the main event of the quasi-annual Borscht Film Festival proved triumphant on several accounts. For Borscht Corp. itself, the program turned out to be its most ambitious to date. The evening boasted nearly three hours of impressively high-quality short films in one of the city’s fanciest [...]
With Basel gone, life goes on — and now, as South Florida locals, we can get back to focusing on the cool shit that’s happening here regardless of out-of-towner largesse. There’s plenty of homegrown stuff going on this weekend, and, unlike the Basel ridiculousness, much of it is free or cheap, and easy to get [...]
In our last post, we rounded up the sprawl of Halloween events starting this weekend and continuing until the actual holiday, next Wednesday. But, believe it or not, not everyone is going with a ghoulish theme for their weekend events, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out a few worth a visit. And [...]
Devoted music collectors have vinyl, a format that’s anachronistic enough for hipster cred but still common enough to easily buy and play. We might give extra dedication points, then, to a certain breed of film buffs who can do one better. Just take locals Barron Sherer and Kevin Arrow. Tomorrow night, the two friends, film [...]
When legendary director John Waters took the stage at Fort Lauderdale’s Parker Playhouse Saturday night, his message was unsurprising, but worth hearing again: It’s okay to be weird. In fact, weirdness should be nurtured. “I always tell parents that if your kid is messing up in high school, be happy,” Waters told the audience to [...]
What’s going on? Summer is supposed to be the slow season, and everyone is supposed to get exponentially more stupid thanks to the heat and humidity. For whatever reason, though, the next few weeks bring a slate of fun, young, evening things to do around Miami-Dade and Broward counties that don’t necessarily involve binge-drinking in [...]
John Waters, the filmmaker, raconteur, author, “Pope of Trash,” and gentleman of the world, is bringing his one-man show, This Filthy World, to Fort Lauderdale’s Parker Playhouse on Saturday. Salty Eggs is co-sponsoring the appearance, along with Radio-Active Records, Cinema Paradiso, FLIFF, and Strong Reaction Booking. Our all-purpose editorialist, Brandon K. Thorp, spoke with Mr. Waters last [...]