[Warning: Spoilers and angst ahead!]
Have you recovered from last night’s Game of Thrones yet?
It’s all right if the answer is “no.” The last scene of “The Rains of Castamere” may have been the most brutal, shocking, heart-breaking sequence ever made for television — and though they’ve been primed to expect the worst (Ned Stark’s beheading, anyone?), Thrones fans who haven’t read George R. R. Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire” books are still reeling from its effect.
Moments after the slaughter at Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey’s wedding began in earnest, Twitter feeds filled with expressions of...
Have you recovered from last night’s Game of Thrones yet?
It’s all right if the answer is “no.” The last scene of “The Rains of Castamere” may have been the most brutal, shocking, heart-breaking sequence ever made for television — and though they’ve been primed to expect the worst (Ned Stark’s beheading, anyone?), Thrones fans who haven’t read George R. R. Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire” books are still reeling from its effect.
Moments after the slaughter at Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey’s wedding began in earnest, Twitter feeds filled with expressions of...
- 6/3/2013
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Born in 1920 in Illinois, Anna Halprin studied modern dance and later abandoned her training in favor of improvisation and other investigative movement practices. Considered one of the pioneers of postmodern dance, Halprin founded the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop in 1955, hosting and collaborating with many of the dancers and artists who later founded the Judson Dance Theater. For decades Halprin has been at the forefront of the expressive arts healing movement and continues to teach workshops at the Tamalpa Institute in Marin County, California—an organization she founded with her daughter in 1978. celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first dance concerts at Judson Church ttracting young people, like Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, and Meredith Monk...
- 9/8/2012
- by suzon_f
- Twilight Examiner
The Tree Of Life (12A)
(Terrence Malick, 2011, Us) Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan. 139 mins
Successor to Kubrick's 2001 or extended perfume ad? Either way, Malick's macro/microcosmic take on life, the universe and family life makes most films look unadventurous. Beyond the head-trip "creation of the universe" sequences, it's largely Sean Penn's impressionistic reminiscence of his conflicted childhood, rendered in gorgeous imagery, with introspective voiceovers and a dreamy intensity.
The Princess Of Montpensier (15)
(Bertrand Tavernier, 2010, Fra) Mélanie Thierry, Gaspard Ulliel, Lambert Wilson. 140 mins
There's costumes and courtliness, but this 16th-century saga remains unstuffy. Sought-after Thierry's quest for self-determination is the focus, and the treatment is modern and immediate.
Trust (15)
(David Schwimmer, 2010, Us) Liana Liberato, Clive Owen, Catherine Keener. 106 mins
Those who saw Catfish will know where this teen's online relationship with an apparently nice boy is headed. But what follows is an exercise in parent-worrying technophobia.
(Terrence Malick, 2011, Us) Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan. 139 mins
Successor to Kubrick's 2001 or extended perfume ad? Either way, Malick's macro/microcosmic take on life, the universe and family life makes most films look unadventurous. Beyond the head-trip "creation of the universe" sequences, it's largely Sean Penn's impressionistic reminiscence of his conflicted childhood, rendered in gorgeous imagery, with introspective voiceovers and a dreamy intensity.
The Princess Of Montpensier (15)
(Bertrand Tavernier, 2010, Fra) Mélanie Thierry, Gaspard Ulliel, Lambert Wilson. 140 mins
There's costumes and courtliness, but this 16th-century saga remains unstuffy. Sought-after Thierry's quest for self-determination is the focus, and the treatment is modern and immediate.
Trust (15)
(David Schwimmer, 2010, Us) Liana Liberato, Clive Owen, Catherine Keener. 106 mins
Those who saw Catfish will know where this teen's online relationship with an apparently nice boy is headed. But what follows is an exercise in parent-worrying technophobia.
- 7/8/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Short and snappy documentary on the veteran dance pioneer with a great gusto for life
"But they said she was really old." A man arriving to watch a performance choreographed by the experimental dance pioneer Anna Halprin can't quite believe he's face to face with the woman herself. "Damn, you don't look 86." Not a bit. Halprin's secret, judging from this short and snappy documentary, is her gusto for life and art. Here she is on getting old: "Ageing is like enlightenment at gunpoint." From an outdoor stage surrounded by redwoods in her California garden, Halprin has danced her life – motherhood, cancer, radical politics. Congenitally unconventional, she's been issued with an arrest warrant for indecent exposure, and gleefully recalls a shoe-lobbingly hostile audience in Venice, one heckler bellowing: "For this Columbus discovered America." She still dances beautifully, with dignity and the intensity to the marrow that takes your breath away.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryDanceCath Clarke
guardian.
"But they said she was really old." A man arriving to watch a performance choreographed by the experimental dance pioneer Anna Halprin can't quite believe he's face to face with the woman herself. "Damn, you don't look 86." Not a bit. Halprin's secret, judging from this short and snappy documentary, is her gusto for life and art. Here she is on getting old: "Ageing is like enlightenment at gunpoint." From an outdoor stage surrounded by redwoods in her California garden, Halprin has danced her life – motherhood, cancer, radical politics. Congenitally unconventional, she's been issued with an arrest warrant for indecent exposure, and gleefully recalls a shoe-lobbingly hostile audience in Venice, one heckler bellowing: "For this Columbus discovered America." She still dances beautifully, with dignity and the intensity to the marrow that takes your breath away.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryDanceCath Clarke
guardian.
- 7/7/2011
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (12A)
(Michael Bay, 2011, Us) Shia Labeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Josh Dempsey, John Malkovich. 155 mins
Despite the bombastic patriotism, drooling machine porn, all-round political dodginess, atrocious comedy, antiquated alien-invasion plot, etc, there's something oddly compelling about metropolitan destruction and high-tech combat rendered on this scale. If only there weren't those irritating humans getting in the way. It's an improvement on the last one, but this is so defiantly crass, it's almost admirable. Best watched with a 10-year-old boy, a hangover, or a cultural historian by your side to tell you how wrong it all is.
A Separation (PG)
(Asghar Farhadi, 2011, Iran) Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami. 123 mins
The complete opposite of Transformers: a complex, intricate and deeply satisfying study of Iranian society. Built around a divorcing couple, but ranging far wider, it's a web of social taboos, domestic clashes and building tension.
(Michael Bay, 2011, Us) Shia Labeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Josh Dempsey, John Malkovich. 155 mins
Despite the bombastic patriotism, drooling machine porn, all-round political dodginess, atrocious comedy, antiquated alien-invasion plot, etc, there's something oddly compelling about metropolitan destruction and high-tech combat rendered on this scale. If only there weren't those irritating humans getting in the way. It's an improvement on the last one, but this is so defiantly crass, it's almost admirable. Best watched with a 10-year-old boy, a hangover, or a cultural historian by your side to tell you how wrong it all is.
A Separation (PG)
(Asghar Farhadi, 2011, Iran) Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami. 123 mins
The complete opposite of Transformers: a complex, intricate and deeply satisfying study of Iranian society. Built around a divorcing couple, but ranging far wider, it's a web of social taboos, domestic clashes and building tension.
- 7/1/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
A rare chance to see Anna Halprin at work over the last 50 years. Not the same as seeing her in person but close The performance by Anna Halprin in the first part of the film is as much fun as it is high art. But the punch line comes when she tells you she is 86 years old. The secret to her youthful attitude is dance, she says. This assertion is hard to argue with considering she fought and won her own battle with cancer with her dance by her side. Never a stranger to controversy, Halprin is an early pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement. Anybody who fights the establishment when it comes to health care is...
- 4/30/2010
- by Ron Wilinson
- Monsters and Critics
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