From left, Darrick Penny, Ann Marie Olson, Alexandria Lugo, Anthony Massarotto and Jason Plourde in Putting It Together at the Broward Stage Door Theatre. (Photo by George Wentzler) By Dale King Music is the medium that has carried most of the shows at the Broward Stage Door Theatre in Margate during the 2015-2016 season. And we’ve got the stats to prove it. Putting It … [Read more...]
Delray SQ, Aleida deliver impressive Danielpour at Mainly Mozart
For two centuries or more, the string quartet has been the favored medium for a composer’s most intimate, profound thoughts. In his series of quartets, the American composer Richard Danielpour has explored themes of the Holocaust (No. 3, Psalms of Sorrow) and farewell (No. 6, Addio), and for his Quartet No. 7, which received its world premiere May 31 in Coral Gables at the … [Read more...]
‘Five Star Life’: On the border of freedom and loneliness
Irene, the career woman at the center of A Five Star Life, spends most of her days in laps of luxury around the world. As an inspector of five-star resorts, we see Irene (Margherita Buy) jetting to Paris and Gstaad and Berlin and Morocco and China, traveling incognito and, like a spy, inventing professions when fellow guests inquire about her job. The actual answer to that … [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...]
Rudin show offers glimpses of five rising photo stars
Sometimes not having made it pays off. Just ask the five photographers currently showing their work at the Norton Museum of Art and competing for a $20,000 award. They are the finalists of a new international photography competition the museum is hoping to turn into a new tradition called the Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers, for which one of the requirements is to … [Read more...]
Smart, subversive ‘Cabin’ a horror film for our time
As a parody of horror cinema, The Cabin in the Woods is so ingenious, it’s hard to believe nobody thought of it before now. There have been attempts to reach a similar end, of course: Scream, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Baghead and Behind the Mask all integrated humor and self-consciousness into their narrative toolbox to some extent. But The Cabin in the Woods should be … [Read more...]