Arts + Scene
Reviews, interviews and upcoming highlights from the week in visual and performing arts around Humboldt County.
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Limited Indeed
Previews I suppose the major opening on Friday, Nov. 2 is American Gangster , a film based on a true story and directed by Ridley Scott in a return to the action film genre. Starring heavyweights Denzel Washington as a Harlem drug king and Russell Crowe as the cop determined to take him down, the […]
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A Great Film Week
‘La Vie en Rose’ Previews Finally, opening locally on Friday, Oct. 26, is Julie Taymor’s ( Frida ) homage to Beatles music, Across the Universe , a film that uses the Liverpool group’s songs to tell a generational love story. The trailer looks promising. Rated PG-13 for some drug content, nudity, sexuality, violence and language. […]
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Clooney Good, Wahlberg Bad
Previews Come back, Charlie Myers! There’s a zillion movies opening this week, and we have neither the chops nor the time to say anything interesting about them. So we’re just going to run through them rapid-fire, and hope that the massive Hollywood marketing campaigns can fill in the blanks. Assassination of Jesse James by the […]
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Peacham’s Autumn (Part One)
Silas Peacham sits astride his aging Minneapolis Moline,…
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Two Photographers, Two Visions
Jeanne Scranton got her first camera when she was 8 years old and she’s been taking pictures ever since. However, she did not use a camera at all for her current show. Jeanne has recently discovered a new technique that is fascinating her — scanner photography. Jeanne fitted her flatbed scanner with a box spray […]
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Topical Theatre
In times like these that try the soul, public crises lead to private cries of conscience, and to the inquiries numbered among the obsessions of art. Theatre, arguably the most public and the most intimate of arts, inevitably responds. There are several examples this coming week on North Coast stages, each addressing a different (though […]
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Ben Stiller, You Schmuck
Previews For my money, the pick of the week has gotta be Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which, believe it or not, is a sequel to the great Cate Blanchett Elizabeth pic from a few years ago. (Sorry, Internet’s down.) Blanchett is back for the sequel, as is Geoffrey Rush as Walsingham, the devious Machiavelli-quoting proto-spy. […]
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All Bases Covered
Previews No, I can’t get enough of Jane Austen. Opening Friday, Oct. 5, is The Jane Austen Book Club, based on the popular novel by Karen Joy Fowler. Written and directed by Robin Swicord, who wrote the screenplay for Memoirs of a Geisha, the story is about a Jane Austen book club in California whose […]