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Visual Arts Review: “The Dying of the Light” — An Elegy for the Beauty of Celluloid

This engaging exhibition features the work of 6 artists who meditate on the demise of the analog film image, exploring celluloid’s “particular visual, material, aural, and even metaphoric characteristics.”

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Anthony Merino, Film, Film as Medium and Metaphor, Lisa Oppenheim, Matthew Buckingham, Photography, Rodney Graham, Rosa Barba, Simon Starling, Susan Cross, Tacita Dean, The Dying of the Light

Film Review: “Growing Cities” — Searching for America’s Urban Farmland

Although “Growing Cities” plays a bit like a home movie, it at least scores points for enthusiasm.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: documentary, Film, Growing Cities, Paul Dervis

Film Commentary: Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, and Discovering the Value of “The World of Yesterday”

Perhaps a movie such as “The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Stefan Zweig.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Film, German literature, literature in translation, Stefan-Zweig, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The World of Yesterday, Wes Anderson

Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up this week.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Author readings, Bill-Marx, Dance, Debra Cash, Film, Jazz, Jon Garelick, Matt Hanson, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, roots music, Theater, Tim Jackson, Visual Arts, World Music

Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, visual arts, and dance that’s coming up this week.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Author readings, Bill-Marx, Dance, Debra Cash, Film, Jazz, Jon Garelick, Matt Hanson, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Roots, Theater, Tim Jackson, Visual Arts, World Music

Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up this week.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Classical Music, Dance, Debra Cash, Film, Jazz, Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Matt Hanson, Readings, Susan Miron, Theater, Tim Jackson

Film Review: Back from the Moscow International Film Festival

Russian intellectuals privately grasp that they must seem like jackasses to the outside world with their primitive attitudes about homosexuality, aligning not with Western Europe but with Nigeria and Uganda and the Muslim world.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Film, Matterhorn, Memories They Told Me, Moscow International Film Festival, Rosie, Russia, The Particle, The Role

Movie Review: “The Deep Blue Sea” — A Feast for the Eye and the Mind

While “The Deep Blue Sea” may be a throwback to another era, director Terence Davies has used his masterful style to engage the audience cinematically and psychologically in an elegant circular structure.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: 1950s, British, Film, Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale, Terrence Davies, The Deep Blue Sea

Fuse Movie Feature: What’s “The Czar of the Bizarre” Been Up To?

Director David Lynch, “The Czar of the Bizarre,” hasn’t been working on a new, full-length film, but he’s still been busy delivering on his artistic promise to produce that which is Lynchian.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Film, Popular Music Tagged: David Lynch, David Lynch Signature Cup Coffee, Film

Film Review: Should We Fear Miranda July’s “Future”?

THE FUTURE, director/actor Miranda July’s followup to 2005’s ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW is brave, unexpectedly poignant and devastatingly sad.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: American, Boho, contemporary, Film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July, THE FUTURE

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