You know an exhibit is extraordinary when the woman standing next to you, who happens to be Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwich Gallery, says this: “I’m blown away. We have a wonderful collection, but this puts it to shame.” That was how it was during a recent preview for Recapturing the West: The … [Read more...]
The View From Home 29: New releases and notable screenings, Aug. 8-31
J. Hoberman famously coined the term “hippie Western” to describe ’70s counterculture films like El Topo. But Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, released in 1995 and a budget title on Blu-ray as of Aug. 9 (Echo Bridge, $7.99) could be read as a hippie Western for Generation X. Not that the film is necessarily about free love – though we do witness a cowboy receiving oral sex outside a … [Read more...]