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Cleveland Int’l Film Festival Will Get Bigger Next Year

(Film, Cleveland) After breaking attendance records this year, with its 36th installment, the Cleveland International Film Festival has taken the understandable step of giving the people what they want ...more...

FEP, M.I.T. Look to Preserve the Polaroid, Might Want Your Pics

(Visual Art, National) Right now, the St. Louis Museum of Art has mounted a new retrospective of Andy Warhol’s Polaroids, and in some curious way it feels like the obsolete medium is having another small moment in the sun. ...more...

New Redford Documentary ‘Watershed’ Is Streaming, Fittingly

(Film, National) The Colorado River is mighty enough to have carved the Grand Canyon over many, many millions of years on its trek from Colorado down through the desert to Sonoma and the Pacific. It is, as you may expect, a fairly important waterway, and one we might not want to mess with too much, lest we finally find the point at which “mighty” starts to become “a trickle”. ...more...

More Thoughts about the ‘Met in HD’ and What it Means

(Opera, Film, National) You can now, very easily, go to a movie theater and see Anna Netrebko sing ‘Manon’, or Renee Fleming sing ‘Rodelinda’, or any number of operatic eminences singing on live simulcast from the Metropolitan Opera. On balance, this is largely a positive development… ...more...

This Year’s Berkshire International Film Festival is Heavy on the Docs

(Film, The Berkshires) The seventh annual BIFF gets under way May 31 with the debut of Ethel, the new film about Ethel Kennedy. ...more...

There Are Lots and Lots of New Films about Detroit

(Film, Detroit) Yeah, we’re not talking about that initiative to get studios to film in Detroit – this is straight-up Detroit documentary filmmaking. ...more...

2012 Twin Cities IFF Throws Its Spotlight on the Arab World

(Film, Minneapolis/St. Paul) The thirtieth annual festival kicked off yesterday, and runs through May 3. ...more...

A Small Rabindranath Tagore Festival is Underway in Chicago

(Art Museums, Film, Chicago) The city’s doing its part to elevate Nobel laureate and polymath Tagore to the prominent position that he so richly deserves. ...more...

Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’ Just The Latest Theatrical Hit to Bomb Onscreen

(Film, Theater, National) The film version of Yasmina Rega’s “God of Carnage” sank without a trace last winter, yet there will be more than twenty regional productions of it this year. Clearly, people like the material; why didn’t they like the film? ...more...

Kovacs Retrospective Set for Museum of the Moving Image

(Film, New York) The retrospective, dedicated to the work of television pioneer Ernie Kovacs and wife Edie Adams, gets started April 27. ...more...

‘Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye’ Hits Twin Cities’ Walker Art Center

(Film, Minneapolis/St. Paul) Genesis and Lady Jaye loved each other, and tried to become each other. “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye” has much more to say on the topic this Wednesday at the Walker Art Center, and afterward Genesis will tell you even more. ...more...

‘Clerks’ on Broadway In Two Years? Maybe

(Film, Theater, New York) The entire plan is barely in its preliminary stages, but if all goes well, Kevin Smith will bring his slacker duo Dante and Randal to Broadway in 2014. ...more...

Met Plans to Bring Entire ‘Ring’ Cycle to Movie Theaters

(Opera, Film, National) The first opera, “Das Rheingold”, screens May 9 nationwide. ...more...

This Year’s Atlanta Film Festival Stays Close to Home

(Film, Atlanta) Proving that Atlanta is far less anonymous than it usually gets credit for being, the 36th AFF is focused on the city’s quirkiness and character. ...more...

New Directors/New Films 41 Kicks Off at MoMA

(Film, New York) The NDNF Festival, a showcase for emerging directorial talent, runs tonight through April 1 at MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. ...more...

Restored “Napoleon” Finally Makes It to the U.S.

(Film, San Francisco) Abel Gance’s silent masterpiece Napoleon wends its way to our fair shores this weekend and next, in the fully restored, five-and-a-half-hour version. It’s at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, and nowhere else. ...more...

Cleveland Orchestra Gets Ready for “City Lights”

(Film, Classical Music, Cleveland) Guest conductor William Eddins puts the Cleveland Orchestra through its paces on Saturday the 31st, when the orchestra will accompany Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 masterpiece “City Lights”. ...more...

‘Chico & Rita’ riffs on Cuban jazz culture as animation for adults

(Film, National) Animated films have been geared to kids for so long it’s a surprise to see a full-length cartoon designed strictly for adults. ...more...

LACMA’s ‘Levitated Mass’ Will Get a Documentary

(Art Museums, Film, Los Angeles) The 340-ton boulder that comprises most of Michael Heiser’s “Levitated Mass” is in position at LACMA after a sixty-mile ride from the quarry to the museum. Now, apparently, there’s going to be a movie at some point. ...more...

LA Phil’s Gershwin Tribute Screens Nationally Sunday

(Classical Music, Film, National) Interestingly, this one’s only playing in large, chain theaters, like AMC. ...more...

Wall-to-Wall Robert Bresson at the National Gallery of Art

(Film, Washington, D.C.) French father of cinematic doom Robert Bresson is the subject of a 13-film retrospective at the National Gallery beginning tomorrow. ...more...

Examining “The Artist”, Once Again

(Film, National) David Edelstein explains why “The Artist” is probably going to win Best Picture by default. ...more...

Antonio Banderas Will Play Pablo Picasso

(Film, Arts, National) The Desperado star will play Picasso circa 1937 in “33 Days”; the film is scheduled to shoot this summer. ...more...

New Joffrey Ballet Film Is Making The Rounds

(Dance, Film, National) “Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance” will be at art houses nationwide this month. ...more...

Premiere of “Leonardo Live” Hits Theaters Worldwide Today

(Arts, Film, National) The film, which will play an erratic schedule in theaters nationwide over the next two weeks, details the record-shattering “Leonardo: Painter at the Court of Milan” exhibition that the National Gallery of London recently ran. You may have already heard something about this. ...more...