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Next Week's Sneak Peek

Posted by: Colin Covert Updated: March 22, 2013 - 4:18 PM

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Here’s what’s oozing down the movie pipeline for next weekend.
Opening Thursday is the much-delayed sequel so eagerly awaited by Hasbro action figure fans, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation.” Starring Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum and, reprising his signature role as Old Bald Guy in T-shirt with a Machine Gun, Bruce Willis.


Friday It’s Ryan Gosling (easy there ladies) and Bradley Cooper (settle down, now) as a motorbike-riding bank robber and relentless cop. But since “The Place Beyond the Pines” is a film by art house darling Derek Cianfrance (“Blue Valentine”), it’s guaranteed to veer off into uncharted territory.


Those suffering “Twilight” withdrawal will be relieved can look forward to another blast of paranormal romance from Stephenie Meyer. In “The Host” Saoirse Ronan plays an earth girl sharing her body with an alien consciousness. We’ve all known one or two, amiright men?


Elle Fanning and Alice Englert give smashing performances as girls growing up too fast in 1962 London in “Ginger & Rosa.”


Animation fans revere the Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki for such weird and wonderful Studio Ghibli films as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.” His son, Goro Miyazaki, brings us the adventures of a group of Yokohama high schoolers aiming to save their school's clubhouse from the bulldozers clearing land for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in “From Up on Poppy Hill.”


It’s been weeks since the last Tyler Perry movie, but don’t worry, he’s okay. “Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor” stars Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lance Gross and the inexplicable Kim Kardashian. It’s about, y’know, infidelity and stuff.


The German police procedural “The Silence” delves into the decades-long repercussions of a pre-teen girl’s murder in the 1980s.


“Starbuck” is a French-Canadian artificial insemination comedy about a likable goof-off dealing with the consequences of his past as a massively prolific sperm donor. See it now before the inevitable Paul Rudd remake.


Jim Sturgess (“Across the Universe”) and Kristen Dunst (“Spider-Man”) play lovers from neighboring worlds with opposite gravity in “Upside Down.” Luckily she has some experience in inverted smooching from her Mary Jane/Peter Parker days.

Next Week's Sneak Peek

Posted by: Colin Covert Updated: February 28, 2013 - 6:08 PM

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 Everyone who's thankful Disney assigned its Oz spinoff to Sam Raimi rather than Tim Burton, raise your hand.

Wow. That's a lot of hands.

"Oz the Great and Powerful" 

 

How can one movie contain so much crazy awesomeness? Earthlings, drink heavily in preparation for Don ("Bubba Ho Tep") Coscareli's "John Dies at the End." Paul Giamatti not only costars, he produced irt because he's a huge horror geek. Who knew?

It takes a big actor like Tommy Lee Jones to play a big figure like Gen. Douglas MacArthur. In "Emperor," Matthew Fox costars as the military man put in charge of investigating Hirohito's responsibility for Japan's attack on, and surrender to, allied forces.

"Mad Men" meets "All the President's Men" in the Oscar-nominated political dramedy "No." Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a politically noncommittal 1980s advertising whiz who's drafted to sell democracy like soap flakes in Chile's first election since the 1973 Pinochet coup. Kind of a big week for deposed despots.

In "Dead Man Down," Noomi Rapace blackmails Colin Farrell to knock off the crime overlord who abused her, Terrence Howard. It's directed by Niels Arden Oplev, who did the original Swedish "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy. Standard action thriller + overqualified cast and crew = ? 

"West of Memphis" is a documentary detective story that tackles a horrendous crime -- the murder of three 8-year-old boys -- and a horrendous miscarriage of justice. Facts are re-examined, new evidence is revealed and new suspects arise in this Peter Jackson-produced true crime shocker.

See you at the movies.

Walker Art Center extends "Cindy Sherman" show hours

Posted by: Mary Abbe Updated: February 5, 2013 - 6:18 PM

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 Everyone loves photographer Cindy Sherman it seems, so much so that  Walker Art Center is adding hours on the Sherman show's  final weekend. (It ends Sunday, February 17).

Here's the deal: The popular show will open to Walker members one hour early, i.e. at 10 a.m., on Saturday and Sunday, February 16 and 17. And it will remain open for everyone two hours longer at the end of those days, i.e. until 7 p.m. General adult admission to the Walker is $12 and includes the Sherman show.

But, wait, there's more! Savvy art shopers know that the Walker is always free on Thursday evenings and that it always stays open 'til 9 p.m. Thursdays. Couple those fab facts with Valentine's Day, which just happens to fall on Thursday this year, and you've got a huge February 14 bonanza for your sweetie.

Other Valentine nite fun stuff:

5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Valentine's Day three-course prix fixe menu at Gather by D'Amico, plus Love Potion cocktails.

6 p.m. - 9 p.m.: Party People Pictures photo booth (dress up in Sherman drag, please)

7 p.m. - 8 p.m.: Social/Brief: The Love Version (share your own Hallmark-style love poems in 20 seconds or less)

8 p.m.: Take a "Love and Heartbreak" tour of Cindy's show.

 

 

'Tales from Hollywood' post-show party pics

Posted by: Claude Peck Updated: September 24, 2012 - 5:01 PM

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"Tales from Hollywood" stars, from left, Lee Sellars, Allison Daugherty and Keir Dullea. Photo by Heidi Bohnenkamp.

 

The Guthrie Theater opened its 50th season -- and its festival of works by British writer Christopher Hampton -- Friday night in Minneapolis. Post-play festivities were chock-a-block with local actors. We spotted Tracey Maloney, Sarah Agnew, Mo Perry, Barbara Bryne, Richard Ooms, and many more. Also present were "Tales" stars, both local and out-of-town. 

Go here for Rohan Preston's play review.

 

Immediately following the show, Guthrie director Joe Dowling brought St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak on stage with the show's cast to proclaim it Christopher Hampton day in both cities.

 

 

From left at the post-show party were "Tales from Hollywood" director Ethan McSweeny, Lee Sellars (Odon von Horvath) and playwright Christopher Hampton.

 

 

 

 

Artist books from Printed Matter at Walker Art Center

Posted by: Claude Peck Updated: September 11, 2012 - 3:37 PM

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The Printed Matter storefront on 10th Avenue in New York.

Printed Matter is to art and book lovers as an great big indy record store is to music fans. Each tim I visit the nonprofit store's Manhattan location, I always end up browsing much longer than I thought I would. It's a haven for zines, artists books, small-press books, chapbooks, catalogs, obscurities, hard-to-find periodicals and artist-writer collabs. Cool postcards, too.

Walker Art Center and Printed Matter launch a collaboration this week with "Over-Booked." The event brings merch and talks to the art center's shop, as well as related talks and an open house at the Walker's library to showcase it's Rosemary Furtak Collection.

The temporary show opens with a reception from 5-9 p.m. at the Walker's shop, with guests from Printed Matter present and books available for browsing and buying.

James Jenkin, executive director of Printed Matter, talks at 1 p.m. Saturday. The free event is in the Lecture Room.

Also on Saturday, the Walker hosts an open house from 1-3 p.m. in its library, which has a giant collection of modern art books, monographs, catalogs, clippings and periodicals from 1940 to the present.

That afternoon, there is a mini-fair of local indy publishers -- Rain Taxi, Midway Contemporary Art, Sam Hoolihan, OHM Editions, Location Books, Little Brown Mushroom, Katelyn Reece Farstad, Mystery Spot Books -- with books available for purchase.

A panel discussion at 3 p.m. Saturday, also in the Lecture Room, will focus on 21st-century publishing. On hand will be representatives from Twin Cities publishers Coffee House Press and Graywolf Press, Micawber's Books, and writer Brad Zellar.  

 

 

 

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