Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson: This 1976 comedy by Robert Altman (Kino, $16.99 Blu-ray, $11.99 DVD) isn’t as poetic as his earlier ‘70s Western, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. But whereas that film explored capitalism through the prism of frontier life, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson similarly employs Western tropes to … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 30-Nov. 2
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) and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) into an involving, fast-paced … [Read more...]