If there’s one figure whose life and work were just waiting to be represented in a documentary, it’s Maya Angelou. That is why it’s crazy when you realize that there hasn’t been a single feature film produced about the revolutionary writer until now.
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Get shorty
Mr. Hublot Size matters; sometimes smaller is better. At least that can often be the case at the multiplex, where movie studios confuse running time for substance. In screening a slew of short films nominated this year for Academy Awards, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art reminds cinephiles that length isn’t everything. The live-action nominees […]
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Romeo and Juliet, (U.S., 2014, dir. Don Roy King) get your heart racing for Valentine’s Day with the timeless love story Romeo and Juliet, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 13, 14; 2 p.m., Feb. 16. Quail Springs Mall, 2501 W. Memorial, 755-6530, quailspringsmall.com. THU–FRI, SUN 2014 Academy Award-Nominated Animated Short Films, see all of the animated short […]
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Short Term 12
Although she has been acting since the age of 8, Brie Larson only started to become “a thing” in 2009, as the daughter of Toni Collette’s dissociative-identity housewife on the Showtime series United States of Tara. For all three seasons, the 20-something Larson stood out by playing sassy, brassy and smug. She was so good […]
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Manhattan Short Movie Night at the Downtown Library, enjoy a film at the downtown library, 6-8 p.m., Sept. 25, Oct. 2. Downtown Library, 300 Park, 231-8650, metrolibrary.org. WED, WED Manhattan Short Film Festival, 628 film entries from 48 countries, winners judged by audience, 5:30, 8:30 p.m., Sept. 27-28; 2 p.m., Sept. 29. Oklahoma City Museum […]
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Manhattan Short Movie Night at the Downtown Library, enjoy a film at the downtown library, 6-8 p.m., Sept. 25, Oct. 2. Downtown Library, 300 Park, 231-8650, metrolibrary.org. WED, WED Manhattan Short Film Festival, 628 film entries from 48 countries, winners judged by audience, 5:30, 8:30 p.m., Sept. 27-28; 2 p.m., Sept. 29. Oklahoma City Museum […]
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Running Deer
“I was going to business school, and I had the opportunity to work on a film, so I moved to Panama for three months and worked as a production assistant, and that’s when I really caught the films bug,” Green said. “So, eventually, I bought a camera and traveled around the world, doing different little […]
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The Naked Jungle
Back in print through Warner Archive, the meat-and-taters adventure is based on Carl Stephenson’s classic short story “Leiningen Versus the Ants” of two decades prior. Heston is the clenched-jaw Leiningen, owner of a cocoa plantation in South America, and so lonely and away from civilization that he has to mail-order a wife, played by Parker. […]
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Suddenly
Especially for generations who were introduced to Ol’ Blue Eyes via Cannonball Run II, it’s easy to forget Sinatra could act, and in Suddenly, he does that quite well as John Baron, an assassin for hire who takes over a nice family’s home in the small town of the title in order to whack the […]
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Orbit(film)
Slip these surly bonds of Earth, and acclimation is required. And so it is with Orbit(film), an omnibus project in which each planet in our solar system earns its own short, all but one under 10 minutes, by a different indie director. The very definition of microbudgeted DIY filmmaking, the shorts vary wildly in approach. […]