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Oscar Tune-Up: Academy Award-Nominated Short Films Animated 5:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday Live action 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch www.okcmoa.com/film 278-8237 $8 adults, ...
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On its surface, fame seems like a straightforward proposition: Someone does something that is spontaneously recognized by a large number of people. These people all agree together that this person is...
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In the run-up to real war, the messiest battles are waged behind the scenes by bureaucratic troops armed with memos, leaked reports, white papers and committees. These soldiers are as fierce as they ...
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Last Saturday, indie distributor IFC Films bought the U.S. rights to “The Killer Inside Me,” a star-studded project shot last spring on location in Oklahoma, in a deal signed amid mixed reactions fro...
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, and a lot can be pretty damn devastating. That’s certainly the case in Danish director Lone Scherfig’s “An Education,” which is built around a superb, supple s...
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The end of the world is one of those subjects that people everywhere simultaneously fear and can’t stop thinking about. Our mixed reaction to the world’s death is a reflection of a struggle with...
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Each United States war has produced its own kind of war movie. World War II films generally celebrate the virtues of heroic sacrifice; the Cold War warned against the soul-vampirism of functional Com...
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“35 Shots of Rum,” Thursday-Sunday, Jan 14-17 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive 236-3100 In “35 Shots of Rum,” Joséphine and her father, Lionel, seem to need little more than each other....
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" The Beaches of Agnes" Friday-Saturday, Jan 15-16 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive 236-3100 A whimsical, self-guided journey back through the peaks and valleys of her life, “The Beaches...
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“Good Hair” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch. 236-3100, www.okcmoa.com/film Examining racial differences on film typical...
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Iraq War thriller “The Hurt Locker” was named the Best Movie of 2009 by the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Kathryn Bigelow was also named Best Director for her role in steering the war drama, which fol...
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The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle announced its fourth annual list of awards for achievement in film Dec. 22.
OFCC members are Oklahoma-based movie critics who write for print and online o...
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Francis Ford Coppola is an odd duck. Insofar as he has the same type of name recognition and public persona as Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg and many other directors of his g...
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Fall is critical to high fashion, and for the editors of Vogue, the season starts about the time its youngest readers make plans for spring break.
“The September Issue” is a documentary ...
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High art is both lampooned and championed in writer/director Jonathan Parker’s knowing satire “(Untitled).” Adam Goldberg (TV’s “The Unusuals”) is well-cast as the movie’s brooding m...
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A biopic is kind of like reality TV, but with people you’re actually interested in. It generally involves taking a famous person’s biography, cutting out some of the boring stuff while ignorin...
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It was beyond sundown, and two Oklahoma priests drove through from the city limits to the Guatemalan church. No streetlights were visible, but the Rev. Marvin Leven could see people everywhere...
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Collectively, the Japanese imagination is pretty effing wild. Moving from the “Godzilla” movies to Hayao Miyazaki’s crazy mind-scapes to the landmark “Ghost in the Shell” and cultural mashups ...
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Doug Bentin has been an Oklahoma Gazette contributor for more than 20 years, nearly a decade of that as a weekly film critic. He watches seven to 10 movies a week. Often curiously contrary, ...
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Americans tend to focus completely on what’s happening here and often overlook other countries that are struggling to catch up to the technological lifestyle we live every day. Filmmaker Jia Z...
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In 1992, to soothe tensions after riots induced by the Rodney King verdict, the city of Los Angeles sectioned off a 14-acre garden plot, hoping to sow seeds of community goodwill that would ov...
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Close male friendship — or “bromance,” as it’s been known — has long made some people uneasy. All the forceful hugging, grab-assing, sports stuff and general physicality between certain men ca...
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Guitarist Steven “Lips” Kudlow has a dream: to see his band, Anvil, achieve arena-level stardom.
In 1984, it appeared it might come true, as the Canadian group played a festival in Japan...
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The myth of the lone, misunderstood, genius artist toiling away in obscurity is a narrative that has come to overshadow — or at least dominate — the value we put on artists. That is, one has a...
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The documentary “Food, Inc.” begins, appropriately enough, in a grocery store, its brightly lit and vaguely antiseptic aisles stocked with name-brand cereals, soups and salad dressings. The ex...
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Modern horror films generally have a rough time attracting a wide audience unless they’re a remake or a “Saw” sequel. Lucky for “The Collector” producer Mickey Liddell, screenwriters Marcus Du...
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Alexander Olch’s documentary “The Windmill Movie” is a difficult film to like, and an impossible film to love.
Like its subject, documentarian Richard P. Rogers, it dissembles and remain...
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Welcome to the world of haute couture, where grown men argue passionately about whether an overpriced dress looks more beautiful with 20 strips of sequin-laden material or with 18. Valentino C...
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The Solo of “Goodbye Solo” is a cab driver (Souleymane Sy Savane) in Winston-Salem, N.C. Originally from Senegal, he has family back in the old country to which he sends as much of his paychec...
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There’s a new deputy in Guthrie — the simple sort of Stetson-wearing, small-town sheriff who keeps easy company and enjoys a cup of coffee and a slice or two of pie. Lou Ford is easygoing and ...
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At first blush, “Everlasting Moments” might sound like a litany of art-house film clichés. Set in Sweden in the early 20th century, its saga of a quiet, strong-willed woman and her lout of a h...
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“The Cake Eaters” is the story of two families whose present is bracketed and, in some ways confined, by a shared past.
Beagle (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand”) lives ...
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One of the basic tenets of armed rebellion holds that guerillas will ultimately prevail when patient and prepared for extended conflict and drawn-out battle.
Similarly, Steven Soderbergh...
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A uniquely symbiotic partnership exists between architecture and photography. Even the most breathtaking building might have only a limited number of visitors. It’s through the photographic im...
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The title “Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh” is from a poem by Hannah Senesh. The match in question is one that lights a single candle and thereby brings a glimmer of ...
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When a show — take “ER,” for example — has been around for a long time, it’s easy for people to start thinking it has more cultural significance than it really does.
“A Prairie Home Comp...
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Woman loses dog.
If you’re a bottom-line kind of person, the aforementioned sentence is essentially the bare-bones plot of “Wendy and Lucy.” That slender narrative, however, offers more ...
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Laugh, cry and sing Saturday at a play that celebrates the trials and triumphs of black relationships.
Sponsored by the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative, the musical drama “ Jump the Broom ”...
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In chronicling the evolution of gang violence in Los Angeles, “Crips and Bloods: Made in America,” which screens Thursday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, opens with an upsid...
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“Been Rich All My Life,” a 2005 documentary by director Heather Lyn MacDonald, has five things going for it: The Silver Belles, five chorus girls now in their 80s and 90s who met during the he...
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