Composer Gabriel Pulido, who conceived the multimedia performance work Deep Surface, has a degree in music synthesis. Perhaps that’s one reason why the Venezuelan-born artist’s collaborations take him to Paris and New York from his home base in Miami, bringing together influences from a variety of sources to create a…
“He gave me half my performance with the lighting,” says actress Kathleen Byron of cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who shot her in 1947’s Black Narcissus. A rebuke to style-versus-substance segregationists, these words pay tribute to the star of Craig McCall’s documentary, a soapbox for the wizened eminence to explain the innovative…
The Real World Miami was one of the Magic City’s all time most popular reality shows. And right up there with it was Miami Ink, which exposed much of the mainstream to what goes on in a tattoo shop. So the prospect of combining both those shows into one has…
Just a few days ago, Meeka Claxton entered our lives as the new cast member on Basketball Wives. And there is one pure and simple reason why we like her so god damn much: She is actually a basketball wife. No, she isn’t a former wife, an ex-fiancé, or a…
The information presented in Werner Boote’s Plastic Planet, which opens at O Cinema this weekend, is so important that the documentary is a must-see for anyone even remotely interested in the staggering health costs of plastic to humans and the planet itself, or in the backroom machinations that have squelched…
YellowBrickRoad: indie horror a la The Blair Witch Project
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen’s way-back machine
Children of God at O Cinema June 2 through 5
Okay, so the word beg is a little strong. But yes, one of Adult Swim’s producers contacted Miami artist collective Coral Morphologic (Colin Foord and Jared McKay) and asked to use their Oyster Vision video in the new series, Off the Air. Watch above. Their video of the local thorny…
In YellowBrickRoad eight people venture into the remote woods of northern New Hampshire. Care to guess how many get out alive? This indie horror flick by Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland stands squarely on the shoulders of The Blair Witch Project. One of the party’s leaders even does video interviews…
Robert J. Escandon, a Miami director, actor, and therapist, breaks the confines of tradition — especially when it comes to filmmaking. He and his tight crew, which includes wife Ashley, are Masterflow Productions. His movies involve characters with tormented psyches who are experiencing some sort of torture — be it…
It’s back, bitches: Basketball Wives season three is here. From moment one, the ladies start hating on Royce Reed. Literally, in the first five minutes of the program, it’s pretty much decided by the HBIC (Head Bitch in Charge) that Miss Reed is a “non-mother f***ing factor.” So, yeah, she…
A deceptively light time-travel romance, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris uses fairy-tale devices as a way to get to the filmmaker’s familiar themes. A nebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is working on a book set in a nostalgia shop–much to the open frustration of…
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…New Times hits you with Michael Miller’s feature “Snuffed”on how shark populations are increasing while fishermen disappear — okay so they’re not being eaten, but still. And as if on cue the Miami Science Museum is hosting its…
The Hangover Part II: Didn’t we already see this movie?
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: The soggy franchise returns
Meek’s Cutoff: fractured trust in 19th-century Oregon
Most sequels are born of good box office rather than good ideas–if you build it and they come, you simply must build another one. But it’s hard to imagine a more calculating, creatively bankrupt piece of real estate than The Hangover Part II. Trade out Las Vegas for Bangkok, a…
Chlorophyl, the 25-minute short directed by Miami native Barry Jenkins, stars first-time actress and Miami local Ana Trevino. It premiered at last month’s Borscht Film Festival. If you saw the movie, regardless of your opinion, it didn’t quite fit into the context of the arena in which it was presented…
We’ve been told the best things in life come in threes. Or is it the worst? Considering we all didn’t die Saturday, were going to go with best. Let’s see: Miami’s dream team, little pigs and let’s not forget sheets to the wind. And now, seasons of Basketball Wives. Yep,…
The following review was provided by Village Voice Media critic J. Hoberman, who was in Cannes for the festival.The last day screening of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ruminative, challenging Once Upon a Time in Anatolia strengthened an exceptionally ambitious and coherent competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival–although Terrence Malick’s The…
Opening Friday at Coral Gables Art Cinema, Meek’s Cutoff, like all of director Kelly Reichardt’s previous features (River of Grass, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy), is essentially a road movie about both the unequal distribution of power and resources and the frustrations of the disenfranchised. Tracking three hungry and thirsty…
