1) The B-52’s play Mable House Barnes Amphitheater.
2) Eyedrum drums up support with its Benefit Art Auction.
3) Jonathan Kane plays 529.
4) In the Loop opens at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
5) Mos Def performs at the Tabernacle.
(Photo by Joseph Cultice)
FEMME FATALE: Kristin Scott Thomas as Juliette
In screen roles such as her Oscar-nominated turn in The English Patient, Kristin Scott Thomas personifies aristocratic elegance — like a U.K. equivalent to Katharine Hepburn. In reality, Thomas may be English more by birth than by choice. She’s lived and worked in Paris since she was 19 and speaks perfect French. For decades she’s worked in French films such as I’ve Loved You So Long, where her role as Juliette Fontaine still qualifies as casting against type: Thomas plays an ex-con who served 15 years for a crime that seems like the stuff of Greek tragedy. (more…)
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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Tonight the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a reproductive and sexual health rights activist group, hosts a film screening at Landmark of Orgasmic Birth, a documentary by “birth activist” Debra Pascali-Bonaro that asks the question, “What would happen if women were taught to enjoy birth rather than endure it?”
I might be a bit more open to the idea of having kids if it involved 36 hours of, ahem, “enjoyment.” Of course that’s not the only reason I’m not interested in giving birth, but the prospect of labor certainly doesn’t help.
You can watch a clip on the film’s website, but just so you know, it’s probably not “work appropriate.”
Movie starts at 7 p.m. and is followed by a discussion at 8:30 p.m. with local birth activist, Piper Lovemore, among others, about natural childbirth and midwifery.
1) Mogwai plays Variety Playhouse in support of The Hawk Is Howling.
2) The Aesthetics of Politics and Philosophy continues at Apache Cafe.
3) Gospel choirs square off for How Sweet the Sound at Philips Arena.
4) Argintinean drama XXY is at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
5) Helene Cooper discusses The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood at Decatur Library.
(Photo courtesy Mogwai)
Some of us love ABBA more than we would like to admit. Some of us hum “Take a Chance on Me” to ourselves in the shower. Some of us got repeatedly “hushed” in the movie theater when we saw the ABBA musical Mamma Mia! because we were singing louder than Pierce Brosnan.
And if it’s true that you can dance, you can dance, having the the time of your life, then so, too, should we be able to sing.
Now’s the chance.
Mamma Mia!: the Sing-Along Edition is coming to Landmark Midtown Art Cinema Wed., Aug. 27 at 7:30 p.m. Hosted by STAR 94 and the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus, this screening is a one-night special event coming to selected theaters nationwide, especially for the some of us who just can’t say no when someone asks, “Voulez-Vous?”
Song lyrics will appear on the big screen karaoke-style, and everyone is encouraged to sing along. For more information, visit www.mammamiamovie.com.
(Photo by Peter Mountain)
Despite his indelible association with the punk movement, rock filmmaker Julien Temple didn’t become friends with Joe Strummer until the final years of the Clash co-founder, who died in 2002 at age 50. Temple’s documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, deftly chronicles Strummer’s life, giving equal weight to the wilderness years that followed the Clash’s breakup in the 1980s. They shared a love of the Glastonbury festival, chronicled in Temple’s recent documentary.
Film critic Curt Holman has written insightful reviews of both The Future Is Unwritten (opening today, Nov. 9, at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema) and Glastonbury. I recently got a chance to interview Temple (The Filth and the Fury) and discuss his latest work and the challenge of making a compelling rock biography.
Also, feel free to check out my review of Pat Gilbert’s excellent Clash bio, Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash, while I was at Gambit Weekly in New Orleans.
Note: This really is just a snippet of a 25-minute interview. Send your comments if you’d like to hear more. Be glad to edit up another, extended version for you Clash fans. Also, just for the record, for a man who’s pretty much a legend unto himself, Temple’s incredibly accessible and engaging and didn’t seem to snicker too loudly when I confessed to being a Clash fan. (Talk about your Chris Farley moments.)
