My Winnipeg: Canadian experimentalist and silent-movie fetishist Guy Maddin called this 2007 feature (Criterion, $26.47 Blu-ray, $22.99 DVD) a “docu-fantasia.” This is as good a label as any to define My Winnipeg, an otherwise uncategorizable journey into the hypnogogic memories of Maddin’s past and the hometown in which he spent it. Shot mostly in soundless black-and-white, … [Read more...]
Art Palm Beach offers trip down rabbit hole into art Wonderland
“I chose the hammerhead because they’re on the red list and in danger of extinction,” said the artist Marc Hubert D’Ge— who looked like remarkably like a young Gregg Allman — in a charming Aix-en-Provence accent of his installation piece, Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves. He stood beneath a 10-foot, taxidermied shark mounted on an exhibition wall with a video running … [Read more...]