ALEX BEH isn’t afraid of a challenge. In his first feature-length film, Warren, he wrote the script, he directed it, and he stars in it as the title character. A […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Special Screenings
Some fun films coming your way this autumn viewing season, including a special benefit screening of Pee wee’s Big Adventure.
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Band of Horses’ acoustic stampede
Recorded last year at Nashville’s venerable Ryman Auditorium (which has, they say, the best acoustics in the South), their new album features Ben Bridwell and company pickin’ and a-strummin’ without all those pesky amplifiers.
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Seats of distinction
Local businesses, film buffs and sentimental citizens can own a piece of memorabilia from that elegant bygone era: Chairs from the historic Weis Theater are for sale in an effort to save them from the scrap metal yard.
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Mountainfilm: Chasing water in Africa
There’s been a subtle but noticeable shift in the subject matter of the outdoor-themed movies that visit us every year via Mountainfilm on Tour, the national arm of Telluride, Colo.’s […]
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Film Festival: Hank and Asha
Thoroughly charming and supremely enjoyable, Hank and Asha is a cinematic romance for the modern era.
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Film Festival: Alexander Payne
“If a feature film could be made in two months, why, I’d be the biggest sellout ever. And do all sorts of different things.”
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Film Festival: Jeremy Irons
“I never had the slightest inkling I would get the chance to work in movies, let alone international ones. I saw my career, if I was to have one, in British Theatre and hopefully in British Television.”
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Film Festival: Norman Reedus
“We film eight hours a day. By the end of the day, all of us are walking back from set to our trailers, limping, holding our backs like we’re 90 years old.”
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Film Festival: Natalie Dormer
“My Anne Boleyn days and so forth are behind me. And now I do want to challenge people’s perceptions of me. And run around in a post-apocalyptic era with boys, and in combat trousers and Army boots. I’m ticking that box!”
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Savannah Music Festival: Sarah Jarosz
In a way, Sarah Jarosz is the anti-Taylor Swift. They’re almost exactly the same age, and they’re both tremendously talented writers and performers. They even sorta look alike. But while […]
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Savannah Music Festival: David Grisman Folk Jazz Trio
‘Jerry Garcia and I both had very similar musical tastes and shared many musical heroes.’