Recommended by a special person, I traveled to Sunshine Theatre to watch the “Exit Through the Gift Shop“. The documentary was about street art and the most notable artists who create it. In addition, this documentary has a chilling, meaningful twist. I don’t want to give away the story, but I do encourage that you go see it before it leaves theaters. The theatre experience does the film justice! Watch the trailer below and follow this link to find local listings.
May 11, 2010 | Posted in
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Life is good as long as you’re living. A tragedy inspires a mother toward action, in the hopes of stopping deaths of the innocent by gun violence. A reason to get out of bed in the morning.
Most young filmmakers quickly define themselves in terms of both their creative roles and genre specialties, however Daryl Wein has so far benefited from doing exactly the opposite. Born in Santa Monica in 1983, Wein grew up in Connecticut and commuted to auditions in New York City as he pursued a career as a child actor, mostly in commercials. At the same time, Wein’s father’s interest in chronicling their family life on home video lead the young thespian to become fascinated with being on the other side of the camera. At the age of 16, he made Life is a Train, a short film which won him an award at the International Young Filmmaker’s Festival in New York, as well as the inaugural You Belong in Connecticut Young Media Maker Award. He went to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts to study drama and film, and also appeared in small roles in the films Magic Rock (2001) and The Hebrew Hammer (2003) as well as the Comedy Central TV movie Porn ‘n Chicken (2002). In 2007, he co-wrote, directed and edited the short film Unlocked, starring Olivia Thirlby and executive produced by director Stephen Daldry, which played at the Tribeca Film Festival. Wein’s first narrative feature, Breaking Upwards, which is based on Wein’s relationship with actress Zoe Lister-Jones and features the pair playing versions of themselves, premiered at SXSW earlier this year.
Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (Pronounced like Seth) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal.
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In The Vice Guide to Liberia, VBS.TV travels to the capital city Monrovia to meet three men who participated in the 14 years of civil war that ravaged the West African country. Former warlords General Rambo, General Bin Laden and General Butt Naked give us guided tours of some of the most dangerous, impoverished spots including jails, brothels and heroin dens. The film is out later this year, but you can watch the trailer here and read on for an interview with the film’s producer Andy Capper about making friends with former mass-murderers.
La Dolce Vita (Italian for “The Sweet Life”) is a 1960 film by the critically acclaimed director Federico Fellini. It was rated PG-13 upon US release. The film is a story of a passive journalist’s week in Rome, and his search for both happiness and love that will never come. Cited as the film that signals the split between Fellini’s earlier neo-realist films and his later art films, it is considered as one of the great achievements in world cinema.
Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.
Watermelon Man is a 1970 comedy-drama film directed by Melvin Van Peebles and based on the book The Night the Sun Came Out on Happy Hollow Lane by Herman Raucher. Written by Herman Raucher and distributed by Columbia Pictures, it tells the story of a typical 1960s, somewhat bigoted white insurance salesman named Jeff Gerber who wakes up one morning to find that he has become black.
A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth, ranging from lighthearted whimsy to a deeper look at issues like self-esteem and societal attitudes toward standards of beauty. Interviews were conducted with over one hundred women, including model Lauren Hutton and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. This film is 31 minutes.
Whygee’s walked the Earth in Colorado from Red Rocks to Boulder. Doctors might be quick to call it ADHD, but he just calls his journey curiosity. He has walked Colorado’s mountains and plains first hand, both in the vast open areas for a zen-like experience, and showing more crowded towns like Vail and Breckenridge how Denver’s Underground Hip-Hop scene is second to none.
