Five reasons to look forward to the work week: 2011 Oscar-nominated shorts, taking better pictures, contemporary Indian art lunchtime lecture, ArtRage, South First Fridays Art Walk.
Attractions News - page 45
Twenty-one years after it began, Cinequest is the biggest item on the local film fancier’s calendar. A generation ago, the festival was a meeting place for film fans who wanted to a chance to see movies that flew under the radar.
A musical adaptation of Studs Terkel’s book examines where, how and, most importantly, why people work. It runs at Foothill College through March 6.
Schulberg and Silverman’s newest stage adaptation of the 1954 film runs at the San Jose Stage through March 13.
CAFO stands for “concentrated animal-feeding operation.” They are the beef feedlots, poultry warehouses, fish farms and pig prisons where the vast majority of American livestock live their miserable and short lives. To meet the demands of an increasingly concentrated number of agribusiness conglomerates like Cargill, Smithfield and ConAgra, animals have largely been removed from the land and placed in densely packed, cruel conditions, so that they can be raised more “efficiently.”
The International Kabob House serves a mix of Middle Eastern and Greek foods that you’ve no doubt encountered elsewhere;kebabs, falafel, moussaka, shawarma. But what sets the place apart is the hearty, fresh quality of the food, the excellent service and the attention to detail.
(U.S.; 105 min.) Dustin Schuetter is the star, director and writer of a would-be Greek tragedy set in Terrebonne Parish, La. Of the various roles Schuetter takes on, none impresses more than his role as producer. On a sub-shoestring budget, he has assembled a fine cast.
(Belgium; 88 min.) There’s genuine horror in this Dutch import, which shows a Shyamalanesque use of the uncanny to weigh moral character. Maybe part of the horror is the city backdrop: Rotterdam, which is infamous as the one of the first places of “total war.”
It seemed like a good idea at the time (1958). Conceited aliens in a flying saucer, peeved at human violence, decide to give Earthlings a good scare by resurrecting their dead. When the dead consist of wrestler Tor “The Big Swede With a Heart of Gold” Johnson, the late, lamented TV hostess Vampira and chiropractor-turned-actor Dr. Tom Mason, you can see why Earth fails to take notice.
(France; 103 min.) As the “trophy wife” of the title, Catherine Deneuve is at once regal and sensible in director Francois (8 Women) Ozon’s gift to Deneuve and to French politics—sexual and otherwise.
