They did what? “The two have turned the space into a plywood box, modeled in part on the kind of temporary military installations that U.S. troops have mounted in deserts in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last dozen years or so, and put the audience on three sides of the action.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Pedro Almodóvar Talks About Adapting Alice Munro’s Words For The Screeno
“Despite the cultural and geographic distance, I have always felt very close to Alice Munro’s themes: the family and family relationships in a rural, provincial, or urban setting. And also the desire, the need to escape from all that; always one thing and the opposite, without that meaning the slightest contradiction.”
Women Make TV And Movies, Duh, But They Had To Sue To Get In The Door
It’s not like now is a great time for women directors and DPs, but the 1970s were way worse. “These were guys who very solidly did not believe a woman could do this. I wasn’t getting political, but just by doing the job that only they thought they could do, it was a very political statement.”
Where Are All Of The Disappeared Women Of Theatre?
Structural challenges keep people who are caregivers from theatre – and this group of women are so very finished with that. “For many of them, it was the first time anyone wanted to know who they were as artists, where they were in relationship to their art, and what was holding them back in terms of their artistic role in society.”
Filmmakers Rush Standing Rock, But Not Everyone There Wants This Story Told By Randos With Cameras
At least 34 (34!) teams of documentary makers have rushed to the Sioux reservation to record the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. To put it mildly, “the throng of film projects at Standing Rock has provoked a debate about cultural appropriation among documentary makers.”
How The Heck Did They Film That L.A. Freeway Dance Scene In ‘La La Land’?
They shut down the exit ramp connecting the 105 and the 110 for two days to film the scene: “Six months of planning, 30 dancers, 100 extras, and at least 60 cars later, the opening number from La La Land, ‘Another Day of Sun,’ is a triumphant masterpiece that has critics swooning and audiences immediately adding it to the canon of great production numbers from movie musicals.”
Why A 1928 Play About WWI Might Be One Of The Most Important War Movies Coming Next Year
“It became an unofficial war memorial; a meeting-place for people who had one thing in common – loss. People didn’t really talk about it when they came back. They didn’t want the degradation to infect their families.”
In Los Angeles, The DIY Music Scene Tries To Plan A Response To Crackdowns After The Ghost Ship Tragedy
Police are cracking down on spaces all over the country – but music lovers, producers, space owners and fans say they can fight back. “There are cool people [in government] who understand what these spaces are, and we can seek them out and explain that we want to be safe.”
A Longtime Gallerist Lowers Her Guard And Gives Her Thoughts On The Hot Art Market
Basically, she’s not into the hot market: “Ms. Goodman said disdainfully: ‘There are people who buy and sell art as if it were shares in ranches or something that like.’ And one of her most important jobs now, she said, is ‘to keep the work out of auction so that it’s dealt with by responsible people and by museums.'”
The Makers Of The New ‘Star Wars’ Film Resurrected A Dead Actor Using Digital Effects, And That’s A Big Deal For The Industry
It’s not exactly a new idea – think digital Tupac – but the tech keeps on getting better and better. And weirder: “There’s a whole new phenomenon where famous actors are getting themselves scanned in order to provide for their family and their family’s trust in perpetuity, so that they can be recreated in films in the future.”