Film: Miss Representation (2011) Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom Genre: Documentary ?Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.? Liz Stanley and Sue Wise Like a Smile from a Big Sister Who Really Believes in You Several intelligent, sensitive high school girls… Read more »
Album: Holly Cole, Night (2012) ?A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.? Maya Angelou ?When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.? Montserrat Caballé This Songbird Built the Golden Cage and Comes and Goes at… Read more »
Film: The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2012) Interviews featuring the following: Bernardo Bertolucci, Charles Burnett, Jane Campion, Claudia Cardinale, Youssef Chahine, Terence Davies, Claire Denis, Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Abbas Kiarostami, Baz Luhrmann, Paul Schrader, Alexander Sokurov, Robert Towne, Gus Van Sant, Sharmila Tagore, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Haskell Wexler, Yuen Woo-Ping Director:… Read more »
Film: Give Me the Banjo (2011) Writer/Producer/Director: Marc Fields Cast: Narrated by Steve Martin, with appearances by Béla Fleck, Dom Flemons, Pete Seeger, Rhiannon Giddens, Alison Kraus, Taj Mahal, and many others Genre: Documentary ?This machine kills fascists.? A sticker on Woody Guthrie’s guitar ?This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.? Inscribed on… Read more »
Album: Song from the Uproar: the Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt (2012) Artist: Chamber opera by Missy Mazzoli; libretto by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek ?Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.? Simone Weil The Joy and Discontent of a Holy Nomad In 1904 a lovely young Swiss aristocrat, Isabelle Eberhardt, rents… Read more »
Film: Miss Representation (2011) Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom Genre: Documentary ?Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.? Liz Stanley and Sue Wise Like a Smile from a Big Sister Who Really Believes in You Several intelligent, sensitive high school girls… Read more »