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“House/Divided” – a mélange of dazzling videography, startling and inventive lighting/props/stage craft, and spoken snippets of John Steinbeck’s quasi-Biblical prose – does not add anything new to our understanding of the current national malaise.
Read MorePierre Reverdy’s poetry that is suspicious of the deceiving beauty of words, hence its pared-down, elemental, stylistic qualities.
Read More“Gloria” explores better than any movie I’ve seen how, when middle-aged divorcees become a couple, they are still affected by their relationship with their ex-spouses and children.
Read MoreThe major film companies must divest themselves of their independent arms (which are anything but independent) and allow a return to the system that was in place for decades until greed and cinematic carpet bagging crushed it.
Read MoreWho doesn’t want to be in a movie?
Read MoreMusic Interview: Mavis’ Man — Guitarist Rick Holmstrom on Backing Mavis Staples With Taste and Space
“Yeah, Mavis Staples is everything you see onstage and more. She gives and gives and gives.”
Read More“Dallas Buyers Club,” though it does get decidedly sunnier once Ron is introduced to natural self-medication, which extends his life well beyond the projected thirty days, is not an open-and-shut case.
Read MoreDirector Asghar Farhadi is a master storyteller. He is particularly adept at painting characters in deep shades of gray.
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Fuse Appreciation: The Late Pete Seeger — Creating Music on a Human Scale
One of the more fascinating contributions Pete Seeger made to our collective musical sensibility was the effortless way in which he introduced what we now call “world music” to his audiences.
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