Béco Dranoff has returned from six weeks in Brazil with a precious cargo of CDs released in 2011 - an amazing year for the modern Brazilian MPB scene. Here he selects some favorite tracks focusing on a progressive vibe, and celebrating Carnaval.
Once again, into the breach! Or at least the morass of 2010 movies for a Top 10 list done, as is custom now, with another critic. This year Wilson Morales of BlackFilm.com has rejoined our gentle expert Stephen Schaefer to sift through entries.
New York-based Brazilian music producer and A&R Béco Dranoff hosts this monthly, hour-long radio program dedicated to modern and classic Brazilian music.
A series of talk and musical programs assembled from our various trips to Venice for the Biennale dating back to 2005. The programs range from round table discussions to interviews to DJ sets to virtual pavilions rendered in music and sound.
Jeannie Hopper is the Station Manager for Art International Radio, as well as on-air personality, engineer, producer & reporter for Liquid Sound Lounge on WBAI, which features artist interviews, and live performances and music.
The renowned Catherine Deneuve discusses why she values a relationship with the director of a film, what the legendary Luis Bunuel was like to work with, and why after only two Hollywood movies she returned to France.
In this two-part interview director Gaby Dellal and actor Lynn Collins consider the challenge of Angels Crest, an ensemble drama that illuminates how the tragedy of a child’s accidental death reverberates in a tiny Western community in the Rockies.
Spain’s Elena Anaya’s stand-out role as the captive Vera, the subject of mad skin tissue experiments by Antonio Banderas’ plastic surgeon in Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, easily rates as her most memorable role. She talks about it and them.
For PERFORMA 09, artist Mike Kelley presented 3 dance/performance pieces with a circus like cast in the Judson Memorial Church, inspired by the darkly funny vignettes of his 2005 film installation Day Is Done. The music is by Kelley and Scott Benzel.
Phil Stocker discusses two great new happenings going on in London in August 2011: a new exhibit on cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and a little store in the East End called Les Trois Garcon that ends up being even more creepy than it first appears to be.
Stephen Schaefer flies out to Berlin for the Berlinale film festival, and while there interviews Michael Roskan, writer, and Matthias Schoenaerts, lead actor, in the Belgian thriller Bullhead, a movie about corrupt cattle farming.
Film critic and entertainment reporter Stephen Schaefer hosts this half-hour weekly Web interview show where guests range from independent and foreign language filmmakers, documentarians, actors and critics from around the world.
Joe Ahearn, Curator of Performance and Installation, is a leading voice in the national network of underground music spaces. He is curator for the Silent Barn, and Managing Director of Showpaper, a non-profit bi-weekly arts/music newsprint.
In this substantive talk on art and politics with Michael Rush, the provocative, and proactive, Martha Rosler recalls her famed collages of the Vietnam War era as well as her recent series picturing the war in Iraq as...Read More
David Von Ancken actually got the two actors on his wish list for his feature directorial debut, Seraphim Falls: Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson. Von Ancken discusses the pressures of filming entirely outdoors,...Read More
Two love affairs gone sour – one with art and one with artist Cindy
Sherman. That is the saga Paul H-O traces in Guest of Cindy Sherman, an autobiographical documentary
that began in the mid 90s when Paul...Read More
Bobby Fischer Against the World by documentarian Liz Garbus and partner Rory Kennedy kicks off HBO’s 2011 summer documentary series. Perhaps the greatest chess player ever, he became a cold war hero/villain, a fugitive, and arguably a madman as well.
Called "the Dean of Independent Filmmakers," Ken Loach's 40-year career hits a critically acknowledged high point with The Wind That Shakes the Barley. For the social realist and politically committed filmmaker,...Read More
The multi-tasking painter and sculptor whose "music reviews" (graphs and charts of his assorted observations experiences at concerts) have wowed New York Times readers discusses his connections to Modernism, alternative rock and the art world.
Academy Award nominated actress Michelle Williams talks about her reunion with writer-director Kelly Reichardt in this 19th century Western, along with Oscar anecdotes and a horrible image that still sticks with her from when she was a child actor.
On a visit to Hamburg, Will Corwin sits down with videographer/photographer Jeanne Faust, asks her about the vaunted Hamburg Hochschule für Bildende Künste and about her current undertaking, a film about Vietnamese flower arrangers in Berlin.
Daniel Durning is a New York artist whose practice lies mainly in the digital media. Durning organized the Red Hook Film and Video Festival and currently teaches as an assistant professor at Pratt, Long Island University, NY Tech, and CUNY.
