Screening Wednesday, Nov. 30, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, “We Were Here” is spare, somber and unsentimental. It is also thoroughly inspiring. Directors David Weissman and Bill Weber illustrate AIDS’ devastating impact on San Francisco by narrowing the focus to a handful of interview subjects. The interviewees — gay-rights activist Paul Boneberg, florist […]
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Magic Trip
In the summer of 1964, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” novelist Ken Kesey and a dozen friends and hangerson piled into an old school bus and journeyed from the hills of Northern California to the World’s Fair in New York City. Along the way, the “Merry Pranksters,” as they called themselves, took LSD, had […]
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Magic Trip
In the summer of 1964, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” novelist Ken Kesey and a dozen friends and hangerson piled into an old school bus and journeyed from the hills of Northern California to the World’s Fair in New York City. Along the way, the “Merry Pranksters,” as they called themselves, took LSD, had […]
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
If you’re a parent, grandparent or otherwise have spent a lot of time with kids, chances are you have an appreciation for Elmo, the furry, red Muppet of “Sesame Street.” Elmo’s cute but not ingratiating (mostly), sweet but with enough of a toddler’s self-absorption to keep things from getting too cloying. The documentary “Being Elmo: […]
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
If you’re a parent, grandparent or otherwise have spent a lot of time with kids, chances are you have an appreciation for Elmo, the furry, red Muppet of “Sesame Street.” Elmo’s cute but not ingratiating (mostly), sweet but with enough of a toddler’s self-absorption to keep things from getting too cloying. The documentary “Being Elmo: […]
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
If you’re a parent, grandparent or otherwise have spent a lot of time with kids, chances are you have an appreciation for Elmo, the furry, red Muppet of “Sesame Street.” Elmo’s cute but not ingratiating (mostly), sweet but with enough of a toddler’s self-absorption to keep things from getting too cloying. The documentary “Being Elmo: […]
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Inni
That’s only partially due to the Icelandic post-rockers’ otherworldly approach to music. Shot during a two-night stand in 2008 at London’s historic Alexandra Palace, French-Canadian director Vincent Morisset transferred digital footage to 16mm film, then again, through prisms and “found objects,” according to the “Inní” website. Combined with the abstract and always beautiful cinematography, the […]
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These Amazing Shadows
The doc is a love letter to the moving image, using the National Film Registry as its diving board. Created by a literal act of Congress, its board has selected 25 films of cultural, historic and/or aesthetic significance annually for preservation since 1989. From a mix of “sprocket-worn classics” to “consciousness-expanding” works, these chosen few […]
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These Amazing Shadows
The doc is a love letter to the moving image, using the National Film Registry as its diving board. Created by a literal act of Congress, its board has selected 25 films of cultural, historic and/or aesthetic significance annually for preservation since 1989. From a mix of “sprocket-worn classics” to “consciousness-expanding” works, these chosen few […]
Posted inArts & Culture
These Amazing Shadows
The doc is a love letter to the moving image, using the National Film Registry as its diving board. Created by a literal act of Congress, its board has selected 25 films of cultural, historic and/or aesthetic significance annually for preservation since 1989. From a mix of “sprocket-worn classics” to “consciousness-expanding” works, these chosen few […]