by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is, I realize, July and it is already summer. I tend to post my Annual Summer Wish List a good bit earlier, sometime in June. Better late than never, people! In general, I end up with a dizzying list that includes many things I may or may not ever do (that...
by Jack Brown | Jun 30, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
Remakes, reboots, and reinventions have a long history in the world of Hollywood. It’s one of those things, like dubbed foreign films, that film lovers love to complain about. But the truth is probably a bit more complicated than we like to think. To be sure, there...
by Jack Brown | Jul 8, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Music
Director Asif Kapadia’s 2010 documentary Senna managed to do what many might have considered impossible: it got the art-house crowd interested in the life of a race car driver. Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian driver at the heart of the story, lived to push the envelope —...
by Jack Brown | Jun 23, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
It can be hard to remember, in these days of shared links and 900-channel cable subscriptions, just how big a role the movie theater used to play in the American cultural landscape. It was especially so during Hollywood’s Golden Age, when television was still in its...
by Jack Brown | Jun 16, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
If you go online to track down recordings of musician Arthur Russell, you’ll quickly realize that the late composer is a divisive figure. An avant-garde artist whose cello-and-voice works still seem like something from the near future (despite the fact that their...
