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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 image, however, that most structures gain the admirers they are due. As the documentary “Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman” makes clear, few architectural photographers have done more […]

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 light into the darkness. Within the context of this documentary, Hannah is the match. Hannah Senesh, originally Szenes […]

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 Companion” is a radio show that has been broadcast from St. Paul, Minn., for almost 40 years. While the show […]

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 than enough space on which to build a singularly haunting tale of desperation, resilience and sacrifice. In short, this low-budget indie says more about the human condition […]

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 upside-down aerial view of downtown L.A. The image is striking, if unsubtle ” a visual announcement that this iconic sun-drenched oasis of opportunity has […]

“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 heady days of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s. They came from New York and the Deep South, and despite […]

Uptown United, 24 W. Park Place, will host a free 7:30 p.m. Tuesday screening of Pictoplasma’s “Characters in Motion Vol. 2,” a showcase of some of the most cutting edge, independent animation work in the industry. Uptown United co-founder Chad Mount found out about the Berlin-based organization through his work as an animator and participated […]

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is providing a unique way to prepare for Hollywood’s biggest night. The museum hosts the seventh annual “Oscar Tune-Up” throughout February in its Noble Theater, 415 Couch. Movie lovers can view some of last year’s most talked-about films, nominated in more than a dozen categories, including best acting, screenwriting, […]

New York City has seen hundreds of art movements come and go, but none quite like the skateboard/graffiti/punk/DIY scene in the 1990s when street-level outsider art began infiltrating mainstream galleries and museums. “Beautiful Losers” is a documentary about the cultural epicenter that fed off an assortment of artists collectively pushing the medium into mainstream pop […]

A free screening of an award-winning nature documentary will be held Thursday at the Oklahoma City Zoo. “America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie,” will unspool 6:30 p.m. at the zoo’s Rosser Conservation Education Center. The Nature Conservancy’s 2005 film explores a prairie ecosystem mired in a complex relationship with humans. “America’s Lost Landscape” is narrated […]