Bites & pieces: Cheddars, Form, Swank
Cheddars in Pooler Sometimes, I get e–mail lambasting me for “liking everything.” To set the record straight, I don’t look for bad food. We’re not so over–blessed with restaurants that I can run from one to another letting the chips fall. Besides, with once a week to point you toward a dining option, why would…
Conviction, Stone, Tall Dark Stranger
CONVICTION ** The title of the new movie Conviction surely refers more to the actors than to those who toiled on the other side of the camera. Whereas the performers like Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell inhabit their roles with impressive dedication, folks like director Tony Goldwyn and screenwriter Pamela Gray merely seem to be…
Political cartoon by Jason Combs
Here’s a political cartoon from local sequential artist Jason Combs.
Review: A Tribute to Motherhood @ S.P.A.C.E.
As Swiss Cardinal Gaspard Mermillod once said, “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” Mothers can adopt any form-cooks, doctors, teachers, artists. Yet they are often a forgotten whisper in the realm of art, represented with a passing glance and a pat…
Exhibits & openings this week
Birds in Flight – An installation by Matt Hebermehl of his signature, patterned bird forms hanging in the Jepson’s atrium. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. Chakaia Booker, ‘Sustain’ – SCAD exhibitions department presents a solo exhibition featuring the work of Chakaia Booker. Sustain pairs Booker’s signature abstract sculptures fashioned from found tires with a…
Does all the pink stuff really help fight breast cancer?
We’re bombarded with fundraisers and retail products sporting pink ribbons to raise money to “fight breast cancer.” Do pink ribbon campaigns do any good, or are they mainly a way for corporations to fleece consumers by leveraging fear and sympathy? Where is all the money raised by pink ribbon campaigns going? – Jill Gatwood, Albuquerque…
Lights, camera… action!
It’s time once again for one of Savannah’s favorite yearly events, the Savannah Film Festival. Hosted by SCAD and sponsored in part by the City of Savannah as well as many other donors, the week of cinematic events running Oct. 30-Nov. 6 never fails to please and enrich. This week check out our advance interviews…
Savannah Film Festival: SCAD student shorts, Part One
There are 13 student–made short films in competition at the 2010 Savannah Film Festival. Of these, seven were made by current or recently–graduated SCAD students. Over the festival’s eight days, they’re being screened in groups, as addenda to various features, and as part of the SCAD Student Showcase on Nov. 1 (see our Screening Schedule…
Gardening guerrilla style
You see them one night as you drive alone through a gritty neighborhood. With a shiver of fear you check the door locks and consider doing a fast U–turn. The gang, wearing murky clothing and carrying what might be shotguns, stops in front of a chain link fence and begins lobbing something over the top. …
Savannah Film Festival: Panels and workshops
All events in Gutstein Gallery unless indicated. Admission is free for SCAD students, faculty and staff, $3 for other students, and $5 for the public. Adobe CS5 and the DSLR Video Revolution/Stereo 3D Editing (Part One) Nov. 5, 2:30-3:30 p.m.: Adobe digital workflow specialists Dave Helmly and Mike Kanfer tour you through an end-to-end solution…
Savannah Film Festival 2010
There is, of course, a little bit of Hollywood in all of us. The annual Savannah Film Festival taps into that tendency to admire and vicariously participate in the cinematic arts, on a grand scale, with eights days of screenings, competitions and celebrity appearances, all intended to give us that heady rush of red–carpet specialness.…
Extreme closeup: Vincent D’Onofrio
Although television — more specifically, Law and Order: Criminal Intent — has been his bread and butter for the past nine years, actor Vincent D’Onofrio is making a concerted effort to get back to his first love, the movies. Before he began his successful stint as Det. Robert Goren on the long–running TV drama, D’Onofrio…
Savannah Film Festival: Screening schedule
Saturday, Oct. 30 Festival Opening: 6 p.m., Broughton Street in front of Trustees Theater Black Swan: 7:30 p.m., Trustees Theater Sunday, Oct. 31 Dressed: 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Wanting Alex: 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Frog in the Well: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater To Whom it May Concern: Ka Shen’s Journey: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater The…
Prepare to be scared
Scary movies have always had a special place in the hearts of filmmakers and audiences. Even in the earliest days of cinema, tales of supernatural terror quickly rose to the forefront; the silent movie classic Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens was made in 1922 and released in the America in 1929. The genre expanded through…
Extreme closeup: ‘Night Catches Us’
For her first feature film, writer/director Tanya Hamilton takes us back to 1976, when the political unrest of the previous years was taking something of a breather. Things in America weren’t perfect, but Vietnam was over, Nixon was gone, and the turbulence of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s had given way to a sort…
The best government money can buy
It’s not only Film Fest time and Halloween season — election day’s coming up. This week, courtesy of our own Patrick Rodgers, we give you interviews with all three Georgia gubernatorial candidates: Roy Barnes, Nathan Deal, and John Monds. (They’re presented in alphabetical order, for any knuckleheads who want to accuse of us bias.) Earlier…
Extreme closeup: ‘Beneath Hill 60’
One of the most fascinating — but curiously little–known — chapters of military history came during World War I in Belgium. In an attempt to break the stalemate of trench warfare, British, Canadian and Australian miners, most of them civilians, spent more than a year digging 22 tunnels under German lines. At the end of…
Mark your calendar: Oryx and Crake
I was in Florida last weekend, visiting family, and several times I was asked about the music scene in Savannah: What kind of stuff comes through there? What are the local bands like? The answers were easy, because in all the mid-sized Southern cities I’ve called home, Savannah has the most fertile musical ground I’ve…
Extreme closeup: Edward Burns
For an initial outlay of $24,000 (paid, for the most part, through his credit cards), Edward Burns made his first film, The Brothers McMullen, in 1995. After it took the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Fox Searchlight picked up the rights, tacked on a Sarah McLachlan song, and put Burns’ Irish Catholic comic drama into…
Extreme closeup: ‘The Kid’
Come the 19th of November, Nick Moran will be on movie screens all over the world, playing Scabior the Snatcher — a bad, bad dude — in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. As an actor, Moran is well remembered as hapless Eddie the card sharp in Guy Ritchie’s ultra–vi Lock, Stock and Two Smoking…
Governor’s race: John Monds
A third party candidate never has it easy in what are essentially two-party elections in this country. But in a year most notable for voter outrage and anti-incumbent sentiments, Monds stands a chance to capture an unprecedented amount of support as the Libertarian candidate. We caught up with him by phone last week to talk…
Governor’s race: Nathan Deal
Republican gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal came out on top of one of the most toughly contested primaries in recent memory, and then won a run-off vote against former Secretary of State Karen Handel by a margin of less than one percent. After a few months slugging it out with Democratic candidate Roy Barnes, Deal is…
Halloween, Flashbulb Fires, Kevin Barry’s
The big orange–and–black falls on a Sunday this year, so your nightclub Halloweeny stuff pretty much happens Friday and Saturday nights. Of course, there’s always The Rocky Horror Show at Club One, but for out–and–out musical madness, and Halloween decadence on a rock ‘n’ roll scale, check out Free Candy at Tantra Lounge on Friday…
Governor’s race: Roy Barnes
Roy Barnes is a familiar face in the Governor’s mansion, but that doesn’t mean he’s had an easy time during this campaign. Since winning the Democratic primary, he’s been part of a media street fight with Republican opponent Nathan Deal, from campaign commercials to debates. We caught up with him last week by phone to…
Piece of Cupcake
A value–driven family of wine varietals makes shopping for holiday parties easy — and that’s what you’ll find with the Cupcake Vineyards line. I’ve written about the Merlot before, but last week tasted Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc from the same producer. I was especially interested in the Pinot Noir, with a price tag…
Meet your machete
A man was sitting at his mother’s house when a woman came to the door and asked to speak with him. His sister, who’d answered the door, left the house after she notified him of the visitor. The woman at the door ran into the house and began to ask the man to give back…
