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James Schamus Imagines Philip Roth’s “Indignation”
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By Laura Blum It’s taken James Schamus nearly three decades to tackle directing — and he had to charm Philip Roth in the process. That’s because he chose to adapt the author’s novel Indignation for his feature debut. But Schamus hadn’t exactly been twiddling his thumbs ...
- 8.87 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Games for Change, Games for Health
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By Laura Blum A video game a day keeps the doctor away. Maybe not yet, but as the Games for Change Festival highlighted during its June 23-24 run at The New School’s Parsons School of Design, growing numbers of games are being designed as Rx for the body and mind. Play, it seems, is a serious ...
- 8.9 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Tribeca Spotlight: “Reset” Dances with Choreographer Benjamin Millepied
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By Laura Blum One of the first silhouettes we glimpse in Reset is Natalie Portman’s, greeting François Holland during a September 2015 gala premiere at the Opéra National de Paris. It’s also our last sighting of the starlet in this intricate ballet documentary about her sp ...
- 9.03 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Tribeca Spotlight: “Elvis & Nixon”: A Meeting of Movie Minds
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By Laura Blum Elvis & Nixon recalls Elvis Presley’s 1970 rendezvous with President Richard Nixon at the White House. If, like me, you’ve never read Jerry Schilling’s first-person account in Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley, your next best bet ...
- 9.03 years ago - By Laura Blum
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“Viva” Director Paddy Breathnach Points the Limelight at Havana Drag Queens
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By Laura Blum Irish director Paddy Breathnach (I Went Down, Shrooms) gleaned the idea for his latest film Viva during a visit to Cuba 20 years ago. Now that film, a study in transformation, arrives as the socialist island country braces for inevitable change. Viva follows a gay 18 year old named J ...
- 9.05 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Tribeca Spotlight: Film Editor Alexander Berner Puts Together “A Hologram for the King”
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Byline: Laura Blum The king in A Hologram for the King is Saudi Arabia’s, and the hologram involves the Boston sales exec who pitches it to his royal highness. Alan Clay’s the name. Every bit the emotional golem that would suggest, he is America itself, a creature of the corporate mud. ...
- 9.07 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Art Bastard & Cenedella
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By Laura Blum You might not expect much tender concern for legitimacy in a film called Art Bastard. Its subject, artist Robert Cenedella, trumpets his rogue status with glee. But Victor Kanefsky’s empathic character study probes the soft underbelly beneath the swagger and exposes the scars of ...
- 9.11 years ago - By Laura Blum
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\"Theeb\": Jordan\'s Official Submission to the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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By Laura Blum What the title hero of Theeb does for his bedouin tribe, avenging a dishonor, the Arab world has dreamed of doing ever since modernity and colonial intrigue took a shot at its integrity a century ago. Naji Abu Nowar\'s stunning debut film unfolds on the Arabian Peninsula dur ...
- 9.25 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Yarn Bomber London Kaye Has New York in Stitches
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By Laura Blum NEW YORK, NY -- London is once again prepared for a bombing. Not the English city blitzed in WWI, but Brooklyn crochet artist London Kaye, who has steadily yarn bombed the New York landscape since mounting her first sortie three years ago. Armed -- with skeins -- and dangerous -- to m ...
- 9.42 years ago - By Laura Blum
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