By Robert Croan A Single Rose: Modernism in the Americas was the arbitrary title of Serapic Fire’s March concerts, offered in several South Florida venues March 9-16 (seen in Fort Lauderdale’s All Saints Episcopal Church, March 12), but neither roses nor musical modernism were at the core of the program. The rose metaphor comes from a poem by Prague-born Rainer Maria Rilke … [Read more...]
The View From Home 68: Family angst, goofy Godard, bleak Tsai, race matters; plus Rivette, rabbits and Britt
Force Majeure: For approximately the first two minutes of this confrontational, uncomfortable Swedish drama (Magnolia, $13.49 Blu-ray, $12.14 DVD), its central family of four is having a happy vacation in the Les Arcs ski resort in Savoie, France. Some laughs are exchanged and photographs are taken, as father Thomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke), his wife Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and … [Read more...]
Brief reviews: Five movies at Palm Beach International Film Festival
African Gothic: Perhaps because his parents — Joe Bologna and Renee Taylor — have cornered the comedy market in the family, their filmmaker son, Gabriel Bologna, tends towards directing movies with a more dramatic bent. Certainly that is the case with his latest feature, a quirky, twisted, surreal thriller set on a remote, decrepit South African farm. There brother and sister, … [Read more...]