Film
-
Pique About Paik
Video Artist Skip Blumberg Responds to Review
By: - Apr 03rd, 2007Video artist and producer Skip Blumberg was less than pleased by the review of his tribute to the late Nam June Paik in a recent piece in Berkshire Fine Arts.
-
Videos Featuring Nam June Paik and Robert Rauschenberg
Covering Paik's Funeral by Skip Blumberg and Nine Evenings from 1966
By: - Mar 28th, 2007Covering the wake and reception following the funeral of video artist Nam June Paik. Also documentary footage of the 1966 Rauschenberg performance piece "Open Score."
-
Movieplex Finally Opens in North Adams
Dreamgirls Oscar Bound
By: - Feb 05th, 2007After months of delays the Movieplex finally opens in the North Adams downtown mall. While convenient and accessible to the region it is hardly the state of the art movie palace promised by Major John Barrett. Still we enjoyed the stunning Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls.
-
Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima
Japanese language version of World War Two battle
By: - Jan 09th, 2007The earlier film "Flags of Our Fathers" opened to tepid reviews and poor box office. The second and more Indie version of the Pacific battle with a Japanese cast seems destined to be Oscar nominated for popular director Clint Eastwood.
-
Edward Zwick's Diamond in the Rough
Bloody Hell in Sierra Leone
By: - Dec 20th, 2006The ambitious but flawed film "Blood Diamond," directed by Edward Zwick, attempts to conflate a love story starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly with the pursuit of a spectacular rough diamond found by the forced laborer played by Djimon Hounson in war torn Sierra Leone in 1999.
-
Borat and Comedy in America
The Joke's On Us
By: - Nov 22nd, 2006Why is it problematic that Americans have embraced the anti Semitic comedy of "Borat," while denouncing the racism of Michael Richard's, or Kramer, when a "comedy" routine devolved into a racist skreed. What is the issue with comedy in America? Including an important response from the Native American artist, Jaune Quick to See Smith. And remarks from a former student Nikolas Foster who has lived in Europe as well as the USA.
-
Megaplex As Flop House
In the Tank with Clint Eastwood and Sean Penn
By: - Oct 24th, 2006Considering two ambitious but failed films "Flags of Our Fathers and "All the King's Men." What is the difference between bad, or dissapointing, and bad as in stinking rotten awful? But why even bad films can be interesting. Sort of.
-
World Trade Center Stoned
Controversial director presents restrained take on 9/11
By: - Aug 23rd, 2006Oliver Stone creates an odd feel good film with a happy ending for two of the twenty survivors of the tragedy that took 2,000 plus lives including more than 300 police and firefighters.
-
The Devil Made Me Do It
Summer Movies for the Fun of It
By: - Jul 21st, 2006The Devil Wears Prada Directed by David Frankel Screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna Based on the novel by Lauren Weisenberger Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs Emily Blunt as Emily Stanley Tucci as Nigel Adrian Grenier as Nate...
<< Previous