ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT
THE WAY WE WEREN’T
CIFF INTERVIEW: DIRECTOR J.P. SNIADECKI, OF “EL MAR LA MAR”
The new film primarily displays landscape footage of the Sonoran desert, while the audio track features interviews with numerous figures that have experienced the location firsthand—including immigrants who had just crossed the border, as well as some patrolmen who consider it their job to stop them.
POE RETURNS TO BOSTON IN GRAPHIC NOVEL FORM
“He describes the narrator dismembering this body, which is horrifying enough, but when you do that visually, it becomes over-the-top grisly,” Hinds said. “I had to strike the right balance, which actually was to show very little and leave a lot to the reader’s imagination.”
PREVIEW: 70MM & WIDESCREEN FILM FEST
2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] A second festival of film formats begins at the Somerville Theatre In September 2016 the Somerville Theatre hosted its first annual 70mm and Widescreen Festival, dedicating nearly two weeks to film screenings projected via high-resolution analog formats. And for evidence of its apparent success, one need only take […]
THE ART OF MAKING ART
Stephen Spinella and Dan Butler in WARHOLCAPOTE With WARHOLCAPOTE, an unprecedented look at Warhol’s Marilyn portfolio, plus a series of fascinating post-production conversations There is little doubt that WARHOLCAPOTE, now in previews at the American Repertory Theater, is one of the most compelling and hotly anticipated theatrical events of the season. This “non-fiction […]
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THE WAY WE WEREN’T
GALLERY REVIEW: Angela A’Court: Thisness—Gallery BOM
Monday Morning—Copyright 2017 Angela A’Court Soft pastel is as close as an artist can get to working with pigment itself, the powder that gives paint its color. It is also regarded unfairly as an amateur’s medium, though the impression is correct in that not many people use it with as much urgency and personal […]
GALLERY REVIEW: Sean Downey: Wholly Idle—Steven Zevitas Gallery
Wholly Idle—Copyright 2017 Steve Downey Sean Downey’s work at Steven Zevitas is dealing with an old problem, that of painting in an age in which painting is an obsolete medium, at least in the respect that there have been easier ways to make images for a century and a half. Downey is digging into […]
