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Real Art Ways eNews August 22, 2017
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| Some of the artists profiled or providing commentary in "Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World" - Left to right: Link Wray, Buffy St. Marie, Robbie Robertson, Pat Vegas (Redbone), and Mildred Bailey. |
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| Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World |
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Rocker Link Wray, blues pioneer Charlie Patton, jazz singer Mildred Bailey, and metaphysical wizard Jimi Hendrix are among the many music greats who have Native American heritage. Using little-known stories alongside concert footage, audio archives, and interviews with living legends, this deeply insightful film cements how some of our most treasured artists and songs found their inspiration in ancient, native melodies and harmonies that were infused with a desire to resist.
"'Rumble' makes it abundantly clear that the time has come to rewrite the book on American music." - Adrian Mack Georgia Straight
"If you couldn't name two Native American musicians at the beginning of the documentary, you'll remember at least a half-dozen after the end. And it's a good bet you'll be searching for their albums, too." - Ken Jaworowski New York Times
"...Rumble invites us to hear more, to consider the source of the American rhythms and sounds...'" - Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
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| The Last Dalai Lama? |
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The Last Dalai Lama? takes a nostalgic look back on his life. It then asks the hard questions about the future of a spiritual leader who follows a long tradition of reincarnation. Moving back and forth between past and present with film of the young leader and the now 82 year-old, director Mickey Lemle brings into focus the basic Buddhist tenet that nothing is permanent, and that the knowledge of impermanence is liberating.
"There's a lot to be said for really digging your subject, and in his documentary "The Last Dalai Lama?" Mickey Lemle gently captures something charming and warmly thoughtful about the exiled Tibetan leader." - Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
"Mickey Lemle's documentary... is both a primer on who the Dalai Lama is and the political reasons for why he may be the last." - Sherilyn Connelly, SF Weekly
"The more an audience member sees the beauty left in the Buddhist leader's wake, the more it becomes clear that his influence has the power to continue generations beyond his passing." - Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
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| Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge |
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The scientist Marie Curie (Karolina Gruszka) becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics together with her husband Pierre (Charles Berling). She later loses Pierre in an accident and must continue her research alone. She falls in love with the married scientist Paul Langevin (Arieh Worthalter) and becomes the subject of a scandal. She must bitterly learn that reason and passion are not compatible.
"This is a film with both beauty and brains, though the latter has a stronger presence as Marie pushes forward in her research and encourages others to seek and learn." - Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper
"Mesmerizing, heartfelt and powerful with an Oscar-worthy performance by Karolina Gruszka. It's one of the best films of the of the year. Marie Curie is a true "Wonder Woman."" - Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru
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| A Movie in the Afternoon. Every Day. |
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Based on a true story, the film tells the story of the unlikely romance between the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) and a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie (Sally Hawkins). Maudie yearns to be independent and to create art. The movie charts Everett's efforts to protect himself from being hurt, Maudie's deep and abiding love for this difficult man and her surprising rise to fame as a folk painter.
"What shines through is the beauty of Guy Godfree's cinematography - the light has a lovely, soft stillness to it, like a painting - and a remarkable performance by Hawkins, whose impossibly wide smile seems to bring the sun." - Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
"Hawkins disappears into the performance, capturing Maud's physical limitations but also the light in her eyes, the sly humor in her observations about life -- and her gift for seeing the greatest beauty in the simplest things." - Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
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| Whose Streets? |
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Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising in St. Louis, Missouri. Filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis know this story because they are the story. Whose Streets? is a powerful battle cry from a generation fighting, not for their civil rights, but for the right to live.
Stay after the screening of Whose Streets? for an engaging talk with Bishop John and Pamela Selders, former residents of Ferguson and co-founders of Moral Monday CT, an organization that gathers voices in the struggle for freedom and justice for black and brown people. They will lead a discussion to help contextualize the movements in Ferguson and in Hartford and explore how communities can band together.
"It's likely not even the most well-intentioned and determined news crews could gain the kind of access and give us the unfiltered viewpoints provided by the smart-phone visuals and home video camera footage shot by residents of Ferguson." - Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
"A riveting street-level account, not only of Ferguson's days of rage, but also the decades of marginalization and mistreatment that led up to them." - Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
"Here's what you didn't see if you aren't from there. Here are the voices you didn't hear if you didn't go there." - Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
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| Beatriz at Dinner |
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Beatriz (Salma Hayek), an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has built a career as a holistic health practitioner in Los Angeles. Doug Strutt (John Lithgow) is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same. Also starring Jay Duplass, Chloë Sevigny, Connie Britton and David Warshofsky.
"The seriousness of its themes in no way detracts from the delight in watching Ms. Hayek and Mr. Lithgow perform their eccentric, intricate dance." - A.O. Scott, New York Times
"Hayek turns Beatriz into her own breed of wonder woman, Lithgow's Strutt is definitely a super villain of sorts and their head-to-head battle is clearly worth seeing even if, in real life, it has only begun." - Susan Wloszczyna, RogerEbert.com
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| A Movie in the Afternoon. Every Day. |
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A dark and layered romance, MY COUSIN RACHEL tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious and beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. Starring Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen, and Pierfrancesco Favino.
"Not only a triumphant exercise in dark and delicious romantic ambiguity, the pitfalls of being taken in are what this melodramatic thriller is all about." - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Weisz and the sharpest supporting players lift "My Cousin Rachel" to a higher plane." - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
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| COMING SOON TO THE CINEMA |
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Swim Team - Opens Friday, September 15. Opening-night post-film Q&A with director Lara Stolman
COMING SOON IN THE AFTERNOON
The Big Sick - Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter Ray Romano
STEP - Documentary, directed by Amanda Lipitz
Lady MacBeth - Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Bill Fellows
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Mark Dresser is an internationally renowned and Grammy nominated bass player, improviser, composer, and interdisciplinary collaborator. At the core of his music is an artistic obsession to expand the sonic and musical possibilities of the double bass through the use of unconventional amplification and extended techniques.
The Mark Dresser 7:
Nicole Mitchell-flutes; David Morales Boroff-violin; Marty Ehrlich-clarinets; Michael Dessen -trombone; Joshua White-piano; Jim Black - drums; Mark Dresser-bass & compositions
Support for RAW JAZZ comes from the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee.
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The exhibition features a series of large-scale, hand-poured paperworks recently completed during Hong's artist residency at the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio.
The works are a part of Hong's multidisciplinary investigation of the temporal parameters of human perception, and its effects on social, cultural, and environmental systems.
Ultimately, the works on view in All the Light in a Vivid Dream attempt to harness the momentary, such as the passing of a single hour, to allude to the eternal, like the dissolve of dusk into night.
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Stewart Crone has been collecting paper - and experimenting with text and images - inspired by commercial printing, since he began working in the trade in the 1970s.
The effort has been motivated by a desire to escape the daily challenge of catching errors and instead to celebrate the occasions of error, chance, disorder and the misbehavior of ink and paper.
Save the Date:
Thursday, September 14 | 6:30 - 8 PM
Panel Discussion based on Stewart Crone's exhibition
Panelists:
- Peter Waite: Curator / Moderator
- Marty Baron: Art collector
- Stewart Crone: Artist
- Peter Good: Designer / Artist
- Chris Passehl: Designer
- Kelly Walters: Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, UConn
Discussion Topics Include
- Fine Art vs. Applied Art
- Tradition vs. Innovation: can traditional techniques be used in innovative ways?
- Where are lines drawn between commercial print and design and fine art?
- Who is the client for fine art?
- How does print democratize art? Does print devalue art?
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