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(12/15/13 7:57pm)
Actress Yolanda Ross has been in a plethora of films from Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works” to the propulsive drama “Antwone Fisher.” Ross occasionally directs with a short entitled “Breaking Night” completed. Initially auditioning for a different film for writer-director John Sayles (“Amigo”), she ended up nabbing a part as the strong-willed protagonist of Fontayne in “Go For Sisters.” The film tracks the travails of the friendship between Ross’s character and Bernice (Lisa Gay Hamilton, “Jackie Brown”) as they attempt to save Bernice’s son from kidnappers in Mexico.
(12/15/13 7:55pm)
Bettie Page was notorious for her salacious pictures as a pin-up model, and Mark Mori’s “Bettie Page Reveals All” shows a far less decadent side to the flamboyant pin-up girl from the 1950s. Told from the perspective of Page herself, Mori’s documentary showcases the small beginnings of Page’s life in Tennessee to the free wheeling cardinality of her days as a model for Playboy and beyond.
(12/15/13 7:53pm)
For prolific filmmaker and author John Sayles (“Amigo”), “Go For Sisters” is particularly estranged from his previous films filled with vivid characters, engaging themes and sweeping storylines.
(12/10/13 5:43am)
In Shaul Schwarz’s documentary, he follows Edgar Quintero, a member of the band Bukanas de Culiacán, and a police investigator Richi Soto in Juarez, Mexico. Schwarz began as a photojournalist shooting for publications ranging from TIME magazine to Rolling Stone. His new documentary “Narco Cultura” follows the music scene of the Narcocorridos that arose as a result of the Drug War.
(12/08/13 3:29am)
In Scott Cooper’s (“Crazy Heart”) sophomore directorial effort “Out of the Furnace,” the story sets its backdrop amid weathered mill towns, ramshackle suburbs and seedy dwellings of Bergen County, N.J.
(12/08/13 3:28am)
In a year filled with softball films, “Narco Cultura” comes as a punch to the jaw.
(12/08/13 3:19am)
Michel Gondry’s (“The Green Hornet”) documentary about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, as well as semiotician and linguist, Noam Chomsky is particularly crazy, albeit charmingly crazy.
(12/08/13 3:18am)
Michel Gondry’s films are fanciful romps as they dip their toe into the world of fantasy, but they always have some sort of reality built into them. “Be Kind Rewind” ushered in the “sweded” movement where anyone could remake classic films using cardboard boxes and fishing wire to create backyard imitations. Gondry’s “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” follows in a similar vein of the whimsical with elaborate doodles illustrating the concepts of Noam Chomsky.
(12/06/13 8:46pm)
AU Rude Mechanicals will perform “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” by Jeff Goode on Dec. 5-7 at 8:30 p.m. in Kreeger Auditorium.
(11/23/13 12:05am)
Taking place amid the political upheaval of the 1980s, “Ourselves Alone” traverses the emotional landscape of citizens living in Ireland after the 1981 hunger strike against the British government.
(11/22/13 11:22pm)
The ideal family supposedly has two children, the husband and wife have steady jobs and they go about their life with a stable formalism.
(11/22/13 3:22am)
Billowing cigarette smoke, flowing alcohol and the tightly wound knot of the 1950s business world describes AU Rude Mechanicals’ production of “Othello,” which runs from Nov. 21-23 at the Kreeger auditorium.
(11/21/13 12:23am)
William Tazewell Jones finds himself in an unusual quandary: his more conventional half leans toward advocacy and justice, but his other side gravitates toward music. Jones will combine both of these passions tonight at the Black Cat as the nonprofit he works for, Justiceaid, brings a night filled with rhythm, advocacy for public justice and blues.
(11/20/13 1:27pm)
Kevin Barry, author of “City of Bohane,” knows how to make polite conversation, but on page, his sentences have a pyrotechnic immediacy. Beginning in Limerick, Ireland, Barry was well traveled at a young age. He started writing as a freelance journalist —- taking the odd review here and there in his 20s —- before settling down and writing short stories. In his second collection “Dark Lies the Island,” the story “Beer Trip to Llandudno” won the Sunday Times Short Story Award.
(11/20/13 4:22am)
At a glance, the chairs designed and constructed by artist Joel D’ Orazio are playful and inviting. Some are large, others are small. Some have long tubes flowing from their neck curvature and some have jolly spectral gardens of color planted upon the seat.
(11/11/13 2:33am)
The God of Thunder along with his cunning brother return once again in “Thor: The Dark World” with loud pangs, explosions and just about every visual effect that the universe can gather to throw in their way.
(11/11/13 2:27am)
School of Communication sophomore Danny Dubin shuttles between classes and homework during the day, but at night, he performs magic tricks utilizing the power of illusions.
(11/09/13 8:52pm)
Alan and Gabe Polsky have an interesting cinematic history as producers with films such as Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” and the documentary about producer mogul Jerry Weintraub “His Way.” They have finally arrived with their own creative debut of “The Motel Life” with Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff as two brothers living life as a pair of hard drinking vagrants.
(11/08/13 10:16pm)
Living isn’t easy, but in “The Motel Life” it feels like an abject burden.
(11/06/13 11:41pm)
At least four centuries separate modern society from the first performance of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The play remains an enduring tale of love staged across the globe, and is in D.C.’s backyard at the Folger Theatre.