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Air Loaf: Holiday movies

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about films opening during the holiday season, including Milk, Australia, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, and Bolt.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Air Loaf: Online cinema

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about online cinema, including the documentary Slacker Uprising and the YouTube flick The Princess of Nebraska.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Air Loaf: Movie openings

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

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).

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Air Loaf: Iranian Films Today

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

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).

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chante LaGon and David Lee Simmons discussing Christopher Bell’s documentary about steroid abuse, Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, opening Fri., June 13 at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Sex and the City debate

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

In its six seasons on HBO, Sex and the City” reinvented mainstream perceptions of New York City, fashion and gal-pal gossip. But after seeing the big-screen version, we couldn’t help but wonder … why go to the theater when you can watch reruns on TBS for free?

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A BIG MISTAKE? Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker, left) and Big struggle to keep it together in Sex and the City: The Movie.

David Lee: As a man, it was fun to watch the women. I hate to use the verb, but watching them bond. I think the movie was at its best when it showed them kind of getting each other’s backs.

Debbie: I see what you’re saying, but it always confused me a little bit, that the premise is, “I’m this independent woman, but my life revolves around men.” And then it gets wrapped up all nicely with the four gals sitting there drinking, and saying, “Oh aren’t boys silly and we don’t really need them.”

Besha: It was always strange to me that Carrie’s family was never mentioned. Even in the movie, she’s getting married! Where’s her family? In the same way that those women present an unobtainable view of how you would spend your life and money, they also presented this unobtainable model for how you should live, who your relationships should be with and how much time you can put toward those relationships.

Debbie: From a male’s perspective, how do you perceive the dynamic that the four of them have?

David Lee: Thomas’ response is a sigh.

Thomas: I think it was definitely realistic. But it’s also terrible. God. How much of their problems do they create themselves? I mean, by harping on it, are they creating problems because they need something to fall apart so they can put it back together?

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Air Loaf

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about Surfwise, a film about the traveling Paskowitz family (opening tonight at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema), as well as comedian Margaret Cho whose Beautiful Tour stops at the Tabernacle this Sat., June 7.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about the 2008 Summer Guide — dropping today! Check it out for the best 111 things to do this summer.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about Chapter 27 starring Jared Leto and Then She Found Me starring Helen Hunt.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Friday, April 25th, 2008

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Rodney Carmichael and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing the Darfur Now College Tour. Fri., April 25. Free. Screening: 7-9 p.m. Goizueta Business School; Concert: Anthony David, DJ Drama, Janelle Monáe and Novel. 9:30 p.m. Glen Memorial, Emory Univeristy, 1300 Clifton Road. www.darfurnowtour.com/tour/atlanta.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Air Loaf

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s David Lee Simmons and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing the film Priceless directed by Pierre Salvadori and starring Gad Elmaleh and Audrey Tautou. Playing at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema and Lefont Sandy Springs.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Haaz Sleiman from The Visitor

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

CL’s Edward Adams and Allison Keene speak with actor Haaz Sleiman (right) on the film.

Read David Lee Simmons review of The Visitor.

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Son of Rambow

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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Will Poulter plays Carter in the new film Son of Rambow

Creative Loafing film critic Curt Holman interviews Garth Jennings, director and Nick Goldsmith, producer for the new film Son of Rambow.

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Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal

When Clouds Clear

Friday, April 11th, 2008

When Clouds Clear (Sun., April 13, 7:30pm; Wed., April 16, 5 p.m.), directors and Atlanta natives Danielle Bernstein and Anne Slick offer a beautifully shot portrait of Junin, a small town in the jungles of Ecuador, where the residents band together to resist local mining development. Bernstein and Slick take an in-their-own-words approach to the film, and Junin’s residents display immense dignity when they speak of preserving the land for future generations.

CL Staffer Allison Keene speaks with directors Danielle Bernstein and Anne Slick.

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Podcast produced and edited by Alejandro Leal / Music for this podcast was provided by the Podsafe Music Network

Air Loaf

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Curt Holman and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing the Atlanta Film Festival.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Ryan Reynolds

Friday, February 15th, 2008

TOUCHING, ISN'T IT? Ryan Reynolds (right) and Abigail Breslin in Definitely, Maybe CL Staffer Allison Keene had a chance to sit down an chat with the star of the new film, Definitely, maybe.

Click here for Felicia Feaster’s review of the film.

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Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal

Danny Glover, star of the new John Sayles film, Honeydrippers

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Writer/director John Sayles is known for his penchant for multiple subplots and peripheral characters to help tell stories. But that weight all but sinks his latest effort, Honeydripper, which tries to come off as mythology but instead feels too much like cliché.

Which is a pity, considering Sayles was once one of the shining stars of filmmaking with movies ranging from Matewan (1987) to Lone Star (1996). During that decade-plus stretch, Sayles showed an obvious affection for his people and their places (Appalachia, Louisiana, Ireland, Texas, etc.), and often their music. But the decade since has all but signaled a gradual downward spiral in his storytelling spark.

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David Lee Simmons speaks with actor Danny Glover 

Photo courtesy Jim Shelton/Emerging Pictures – Podcast produced by Edward Adams

Holiday Movie Previews podcast and video!

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

MUSICALLY INCLINED? Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd

Photo © 2007 Paramount Pictures

This week, Creative Loafing film critics Felicia Feaster and Curt Holman discuss what movies you should look out for this Holiday season. CL’s webmaster extraordinaire Ed Adams edited down some clips from each movie to go along with the discussion to make a nifty video.

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Read the “Season’s screenings” feature in this week’s paper.

Can’t watch the video? Download the audio here – “Season’s screenings podcast“.

AJ Schnack, director of latest Kurt Cobain film

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Kurt Cobain: About a Son may not be the documentary that satisfies Nirvana fans with some fascinating new vantage. Much of this material – parental divorce, drugs, depression – has been covered before. Director AJ Schnack’s hook is more sensual: His film capitalizes on the intimacy afforded in actual audio recordings of Cobain’s voice. Schnack has used audio from 25 hours’ worth of interviews Cobain did from December 1992 to March 1993 with journalist Azerrad to reanimate the singer. He sets those interviews to imagery of Cobain’s Pacific Northwest stomping ground, attempting an impressionistic portrait of what life might have looked like through Cobain’s eyes.

(Photo from the documentary, in which viewers see more of the Pacific Northwest and less of Cobain – Courtesy Balcony Releasing)

A&E Editor David Lee Simmons interviews the director – Download.

Read the rest of Felicia Feaster’s review.

Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal

Julien Temple, Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten director

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten doesn’t look much like the usual rock-star documentary of the “Behind the Music” model. Director Julien Temple crafts something of an Irish wake for the Clash’s frontman, who justly called himself a “punk-rock warlord” and died in 2002 of a congenital heart defect.

In his later years, Strummer extolled the virtues of campfires as venues for fellowship and sharing ideas, so Temple films his present-day interviewees around open-air bonfires, as if we’re part of an impromptu gathering in honor of Strummer. Via old interviews and audio clips from his BBC World Service radio show, Strummer feels almost like an invisible presence at your elbow.

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David Lee Simmons interviews the director – Download.

Photo © 2006 The Independent Film Channel LLC
Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal

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