Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight begins with a lengthy overture. We know this because the word “Overture” fills the screen in black 1950s-movie typeface, over a mountain landscape tinted the gaudy red of an Italian giallo. The film is then divided into six chapters, each functioning like a movement in a composition, and a 12-minute intermission divides the experience … [Read more...]
The View From Home 48: A great French comic’s film legacy
Unavailable for more than four decades thanks to legal disputes and film stock degradation – take your pick – the five feature films and three shorts from French auteur Pierre Étaix have finally been digitally restored and released on home video, and they’re absolutely irresistible (Criterion, $43.83 Blu-ray, $36.83 DVD). A clown both before and after his surprisingly limited … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 7-9
Art: Elwa Productions, a New York-based contemporary art company with roots in West Palm Beach, returns to the city tonight to open A Connection That Binds, a show featuring work by Swedish sculptor Chris Vicini and American painter Devin Powers, at Elayne and Marvin Mordes’ Whitespace gallery on Australian Avenue. Vicini is noted for his extravagant porcelain creatures, which … [Read more...]