Hey, there. We know you’re feeling down, maybe a little out. (We’re right there with ya some days.) So, we thought it’d help to point out that 2008 hasn’t been a complete loss. As a matter of fact, Atlanta achieved a lot this year in the way of the arts. Here, CL theater critic Curt Holman and visual arts critic Cinqué Hicks take a look back to recall some of their favorite moments. (more…)
1) Holiday in Lights continues at Centennial Olympic Park.
2) Gentleman Jesse & His Men play the Earl.
3) Doubt opens in area theaters.
4) Lenny’s Bar hosts a Christmas Dance Party.
5) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button opens in area theaters.
(Photo courtesy Centennial Olympic Park)
Max Arbes and CL’s Curt Holman chat about movies opening this holiday season that have Oscar buzz surrounding them, including Doubt, I’ve Loved You So Long, The Reader, and Valkyrie.
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NO NUN SENSE: Philip Seymour Hoffman (left) as Father Flynn
In John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, a hard-line nun suspects a progressive young priest of committing improprieties with an altar boy. Their close quarters, cat-and-mouse confrontations and rich, pertinent discussions about the flaws of blind faith helped earn Doubt the Pulitzer for Best Play.
Many of the traits that make Doubt a great play inhibit it from becoming a great movie. Shanley directs his own adaptation to mixed results. Doubt’s setting, a Bronx church and middle school in 1964, looks exactly the way theater-goers would’ve imagined it. Shanley clearly has his dream cast, including Meryl Streep as old school Sister Aloysius, Philip Seymour Hoffman as passionate but enigmatic Father Flynn and Amy Adams as the naïve young nun who vacillates between them. (more…)
