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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about three movies that open this weekend, including I Served the King of England (opening Fri., Oct. 10), A Girl Cut in Two (opening Fri., Oct. 10 at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema), and the Latin American Film Festival featuring La Zona (opening Fri., Oct. 10 at the High Museum).

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1) Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann plays Variety Playhouse.

2) The 11th annual Iranian Film Today, a six-part series, begins at the High Museum.

3) It’s Elephant’s, O’ Brother and the Winter Sounds perform at the Earl.

4) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is being staged at the Rosewater Theatre.

5) Weight, featuring new work by Dosa Kim, opens at Aurora Coffee in Little Five Points.

(Photo courtesy Aimee Mann)

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This week I write about the High Museum’s latest program in its “Iranian Film Today” series, its 11th annual celebration of the vibrant cinema of Iran. Based on the screeners for the three films I watched, however, Iranian film might have an Achilles’ Heel: the subtitles. All three films had some kind of glitch with the English-language subtitles. Persian Carpet suffered from the least consequential problem: the subtitles were white letters with no borders, so if the characters happened to be wearing white clothes or standing in colorless landscapes, their words turned invisible. (Austin Powers in Goldmember made an elaborate gag about that kind of snafu.)

Unfinished Stories (pictured) included many of the kind of typos that resemble spellcheck errors. Among the actual lines I read in the film were:

1. A young woman orders “a stake sandwich” at a restaurant.
2. Two different characters “sewer to God” that they’re being honest.
3. “We were chocked up.”
4. “He thinks the boggy man is going to get him.” (Actually, that would probably be as bad as the bogey man.)
5. “But I don’t know anywhere!”
6. “Sir, clime in.”

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about the annual Iranian Film Today series taking place at the High Museum. Films include Unfinished Stories (Sat., Sept. 13), A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral (Fri., Sept. 12) and Persian Carpet (Sat., Sept. 6).

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This photograph was taken in front of The High Museum, where a gallery show titled History Remixed: Road to Freedom and After 1968 was on display. I couldn’t help but try to get a shot of these two men holding hands walking past the gallery’s sign on the museum, which depicts Martin Luther King Jr. holding hands with fellow peaceful protesters. Alas, I wasn’t quick enough to get the shot. Instead, I decided to simply capture a moment between the two of them.

(Photo by Dustin Chambers)

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1) Amos Lee and Dayna Kurtz perform at the Variety Playhouse.

2) The World Wide Theatre hosts Improv Comedy.

3) Delia Champion discusses her new cookbook at Decatur Library.

4) Face Off: Decorative Arts and Design is on display at the High Museum.

5) Eddie’s Attic presents Ten Out of Tenn.

(Photo by Lucille Reyboz)

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (reviewed here) opens in theaters today. It’s the third film in Brendan Fraser’s Mummy series, not counting the spin-off The Scorpion King, and if you like the kind of sequels in which characters say “Here we go again!” it should be right up your sarcophagus.

I’ve noticed that some of the geekier movie critics have pointed out that, despite all the mummy references in the dialogue, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor does not technically feature traditional “monster-mummies.” Jet Li, for instance, plays undead Emperor Han, who has a crumbling clay/metal body and power over the elements, but he’s not the kind of reanimated, guaze-bandaged mummy of vintage horror fame. The film takes inspiration from the Terracotta Army of Shi Huang Di, the real-life First Emperor of China, who was buried with thousands of terracotta statues of soldiers and horses around 210 B.C. Apparently if they come to life and cross the Great Wall of China, they’ll become indestructible warriors, too.

Coincidentally (or not), the bona fide Terracotta Army will descend on Atlanta in November when the High Museum presents the exhibit The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, which showcases 100 works from the ongoing excavation. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a pretty frantic and labored piece of entertainment, but if it inspires just one person to go to an actual museum, it’ll be worth it. Plus, visitors can rest assured that the terracotta statues won’t rise up and throw fireballs at them. Probably.

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1) The Color Purple opens at the Fox Theatre.

2) Charles Linton performs at Haze.

3) In the Classical Tradition: Designs by Philip Trammell Shutze is on display at the Atlanta History Center.

4) Joel Restaurant is hosting a French beer dinner.

5) Street Life: American Photographs from the 1960s and ’70s is at the High Museum.

(Text by Darren Benda, photo by Paul Kolnik)

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FREE DAY AT THE HIGH: “What did I expect for free?”

(Photo by Joeff Davis)

On the first Saturday of each month, the High admits 600 Fulton County residents to the museum for the exciting low, low price of free. Last Saturday’s free-loaders seemed especially attracted to Annie Liebovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005. The exhibit features dozens of Liebovitz’s most famous portraits of famous people, alongside previously unseen photographs of her family. You may show up for the Demi Moore nudes, but it’s the Susan Sontag nudes you’ll remember.

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Tickets to the High Museum are free-ish tomorrow! Admission fees are waived for the first 600 Fulton County residents who attend by 4 p.m.

As if that wasn’t enough of a reason to go to the High tomorrow …

CL art writer Felicia Feaster and I recorded a podcast audio tour to accompany the museum’s current main attraction, the Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005 exhibit.

It’s not comprehensive. It’s just Felicia and I walking through the exhibit and talking about the photos we liked.

1) Click here to download it.

2) Place the downloaded file on your iPod or portable music device.

3) Go to the High Museum.

4) Enter the Leibovitz exhibit and turn to your left.

5) Press play.

6) Imagine you’re walking through the exhibit with two chatty friends.

The Annie Leibovitz show runs until Sept. 9.

WARNING: This podcast makes no sense unless you’re listening to it while standing in the Annie Leibovitz exhibition. Even then, I’m not sure how much sense it makes.

(Thank you, High Museum, for letting us record it. Thank you, Ed Adams, for putting the “ed” in edit. Thank you, William Fox Talbot.)

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