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Film Feature: Favorite Fiction Features Directed by Women — An International Poll

The result of critics polled for their Ten Favorite Fiction Features Directed by Women — with the choices of Arts Fuse reviewers.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David Stewart, Evelyn Rosenthal, Gearld Peary, Peg Aloi, Tim Jackson

Film Interview: Foster Hirsch on “Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King”

“I’m hoping people will revisit Otto Preminger’s movies because he made some of the best films ever made in America.”

By: David Stewart Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: David Stewart, Foster Hirsch, Otto Preminger, The Man Who Would Be King

May Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: 2 Cents, Adam Nussbaum, Allen Michie, David Stewart, Douglas Olsen, Enfant Terrible, Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration, Gene Perla, Gene Perla 3 Trios, Harvard University Press, Mark Edmundson, Michael Ullman, Naga, New Deal For Artists, New World Records, Ojoyo Plays Safrojazz, PM Records, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Scott Wheeler, Song of Ourselves, Steve Provizer, Sunnyside, Walt Whitman, Wieland Schultz-Keil’

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Film (Part Two)

1971 gave us bursts of magnificent cinematic iconoclasm that had no future — culturally or politically.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Clockwork Orange, David Stewart, Ezra Haber Glenn, Nicole Veneto, Peg Aloi, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Last Picture Show, The Nightcomers

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Film (Part One)

If you like your films “weird, sexually provocative, and intellectually stimulating” (add violence to the mix) then our critics will feed your appetite splendidly.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Beware of a Holy Whore, David Stewart, Dušan Makavejev, Punishment Park, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sam Peckinpah, Straw Dogs, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadaaas Song, W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

Film Review: The Soulful Comic Legacy of John Belushi

Belushi is a warts-and-all look at one of comedy’s raging bulls.

By: David Stewart Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Television Tagged: Belushi, David Stewart, documentary, John Belushi, R.J. Cutler, Saturday Night Live

Film Review: “Feels Good Man” — A Far Right Frog-napping

Feels Good Man is a provocative, entertaining, and moving documentary about an artist trying to retain his identity along with the innocence of the cartoon character he created.

By: David Stewart Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Arthur Jones, David Stewart, Feels Good Man, Pepe the Frog

Book Review: “Chasing the Light” — The Agitated Life of Oliver Stone

Filmmaker Oliver Stone’s memoir is an exhilarating primer for anyone who wants to understand his reputation as a writer and director.

By: David Stewart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Chasing the Light, David Stewart, Oliver Stone

Film Review: CREEM on Top — The Story of America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine

The documentary is about “the power of the community and how rock and roll, and music in general, is worth fighting for: sometimes that means doing it yourself.”

By: David Stewart Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: CREEM, David Stewart, documentary, Scott Crawford

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