Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in The Trip. Film: Fans of director Michael Winterbottom’s Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story are likely to get a kick out of the ad lib road comedy The Trip, for he has again enlisted the duo of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in a sly verbal romp. As in the earlier film, the two British actors play themselves, or at least a comic … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 30-Nov. 2
Noomi Rapace, center, in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.Film: The long waited third shoe in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest -- has just dropped locally, and it snaps the trilogy back into form, paring down the third weighty, introspective novel about Goth computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) … [Read more...]
Art review: Morikami’s Kyoto show impresses through its quietness
A panel from Scenes in and Around the City of Kyoto,Edo period, 17th-18th centuries. By Gretel SarmientoWith its simple harmony and elegant lines, much classic Asian art has been easy to digest but not to remember. This is its -- or rather, our -- struggle.And so it is with the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens’ current exhibit, Kyoto: A Place in … [Read more...]
Art review: Morkiami’s kettles, prints evoke classic Japan
The Moon of Yamaki Mansion -- Kagekado (1886), by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.From One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (27).By Jan EngorenReaders of Yasunari Kawabata's novel Thousand Cranes will have some idea of the significance of the tea ceremony in Japanese life, of how each element of the ritual, from kettle to the tea itself, is fraught with meaning.An exhibit at the Morikami Museum … [Read more...]