"What do you say about a movie that proves Zac Efron can act, introduces a master thespian in Christian McKay and launches a charm assault that is damn near irresistible? I say, see it." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Me & Orson Welles opens Friday, February 5.
"This is a very courageous documentary on the tattooing subculture in Russian prisons. I don’t know how it ever got made, but it’s beautiful, scary, and heartbreaking." -David Cronenberg. Meet filmmaker Alix Lambert at a screening of The Mark of Cain on Thursday, February 4, 8 PM.
Two short films by Bahaman filmmaker Kareem Mortimer: Float & Eleutheran Adventure. Sunday, Feburary 7, 2 PM. Part of teh Rockstone & Bootheel West Indian Film Series.
"The End of the Line is an apocalyptic documentary that is as beautiful as it is damning." - Kenneth Turan, LA Times. The End of The Line: late shows Friday February 5 & Saturday, February 6.
Also in the cinema: (Untitled) through Wednesday, February 3; Skin through Thursday, February 4.
Rockstone & Bootheel: Issue #2 of the e-mag is now available. Also: this week's enews artist spotlights: Oneika Russell and Marlon Griffith
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IN THE CINEMA
1. The Mark Of Cain | Meet Filmmaker Alix Lambert: Thursday, February 4, 8 PM
2. Me & Orson Welles opens Friday, February 5
3. The End Of The Line late shows Friday & Saturday, February 5 & 6
4. West Indian Film Series: Float & Eleutheran Adventure. Sunday, February 7, 2 PM
5. (Untitled) through Wednesday, February 3
6. Skin through Thursday, February 4
VISUAL ARTS
7. Rockstone & Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art through Sun., Mar. 14, 2010
8. Jamaican Dancehall Posters through Sunday, March 28, 2010
DAYTIME
9. Matinée Movie: The Pirate: Monday, February 15. 1 PM refreshments; 1:30 PM screening; discussion after
COMING EVENTS
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| IN THE CINEMA |
 The Mark Of Cain
meet filmmaker Alix Lambert
Thursday, February 4, 8-10:30 PM
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"This is a very courageous documentary on the tattooing subculture in Russian prisons. I don’t know how it ever got made, but it’s beautiful, scary, and heartbreaking."
-David Cronenberg
Listen NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross: David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen talk about the making of Eastern Promises and Alex Lambert's The Mark of Cain
(the The Mark of Cain segment starts at at about 7 minutes)
Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners – The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos. Captured in some of Russia’s most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the animus of the flowers of this carnal art.
According to The Book of Genesis, God placed a mark on the world's first murderer before sending him into exile. The mark of Cain proclaimed its bearer as a criminal and social outcast; for centuries, prisoners and those who broke social codes were forcibly tattooed. In Russian prisons, tattooing emerged as a visual mode of communication linked with social division. The Mark of Cain tells the story of a fading art form and how that practice's death reflects transition in broader Russian society.
.: Official Site
.: Alix Lambert: Pink Ghetto Productions
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 Me and Orson Welles
opens Friday, February 5
Starring Christian McKay as Orson Welles, Zac Efron, and Claire Danes.
"What do you say about a movie that proves Zac Efron can act, introduces a master thespian in Christian McKay and launches a charm assault that is damn near irresistible? I say, see it" - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Christian McKay as Orson Welles in Me and Orson Welles gives what I believe is the most exact and uncanny screen portrayal of an historical figure, ever ... an astonishing tour de force."
- Mark LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles is one of the best movies about the theater I've ever seen." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Nimble, likable and smart." - A.O. Scott, New York Times
(UK/USA, 114 minutes)
Fri 2/5: 7 PM
Sat 2/6: 2 PM; 4:30 PM; 7 PM
Sun 2/7: 4:30 PM; 7 PM
Mon 2/8 - Thurs 2/11: 7 PM
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 The End Of The Line
Late shows: Friday & Saturday, February 5 & 6
"The End of the Line is an apocalyptic documentary that is as beautiful as it is damning." - Kenneth Turan, LA Times
"The End of the Line documents what threatens to become an irreversible decline in aquatic populations within 40 years. Opportunist species move in to take advantage. Oddly, the disappearance of cod has resulted in an explosion of lobsters, as they lose their chief rival for food." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
(UK, 85 minutes)
Fri 2/5: 9:30 PM
Sat 2/6: 9:30 PM
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 (Untitled)
Extended through Wednesday, February 3
"A clever skewering of the New York art and music scenes is bolstered by a strong cast, led by Marley Shelton and Adam Goldberg" - Gary Goldstein, LA Times
"This is a good film, a smart film. It knows a lot about art and wears its knowledge lightly." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"a very funny satire of the art world that doesn't do the easy things that a typical satire might do ... it dismisses nobody. It makes a case for every point of view, including those the filmmakers don't share." - Mark LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"Jonathan Parker’s acutely witty art-world satire carries off a tricky balancing act." - Stephen Holden, New York Times
(USA, 96 min)
Weds 2/3: 7:30 PM
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 Skin
through Thursday, February 4
[watch the trailer]
"The story of Sandra Laing (her real name) played out into the 1970s, and fascinated South Africa like no other...This great film by Anthony Fabian tells this story through the eyes of a happy girl who grows into an outsider." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Enormously moving." - Ella Taylor, The Village Voice
(UK, South Africa | 107 mins)
Weds 2/3 & Thurs 2/4: 5:30 PM
all film times are subject to change
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 Rockstone and Bootheel
West Indian Film Series
Films from the West Indies, engaging discussions after. Selected Sundays, at 2 PM. All part of Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art
Next:
Float & Eleutheran Adventure
two short films directed by Kareem Mortimer
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2 PM
FLOAT: Jonny Roberts, a young painter from the crowded inner city of Nassau, travels to the beautiful island of Eleuthera to clear his mind. There, he meets the beautiful and sexually forward Romeo.
ELEUTHERAN ADVENTURE: a film by Bahamian director Kareem Mortimer, won the 2006 BIFF Audience Award for Best Documentary. The documentary film involves Mr. Mortimer and cameraman Kevin Taylor traveling from Spanish Wells to the Southernmost point on the island of Eleuthera, with only $150 in hand. Along the way they meet a several interesting characters that give them an honest and entertaining look of life on the island. The film explores Eleutheran Culture and what it means to be Bahamian.
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| VISUAL ARTS |
 Rockstone and Bootheel
Contemporary West Indian Art
exhibition through Sunday, March 14, 2010
[Download issue 1 of the e-mag]
[Download issue 2 of the e-mag]
"Rockstone & Bootheel is a brilliant mélange of sights, sounds and stories, through which the colorful culture of the West Indies springs alive." - Ben Genocchio, New York Times
Curators Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer have selected some of the most challenging work by new artists from the Anglophone Caribbean and diaspora for this unconventional exhibition. Discarding more formal, traditional ways of presenting group exhibitions, Rockstone and Bootheel is evocative of a high-energy “mash-up.”
Rockstone and Bootheel West Indian Film Series: Films from the West Indies, followed by engaging discussions. Selected Sundays. Next: Float & Eleutheran Adventure, Sunday, February 7, 2 PM
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 Artist Spotlight:
Oneika Russell
Rockstone & Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art
From the Artist Statement:
Using the language of animation and illustration I have found an effective way to explore ideas and tell engaging stories as these are essentially audience-oriented narrative mediums. I seek to understand the world through generating stories. Specific bodies of work are ways of generating meaning discreetly through combining various characters, stories and environments to invite audience participation...
...I am now working on two major bodies of work, one set in a park-like environment titled Green Park and the other is set in the Caribbean sea, titled Blue Horizon. Both spaces appeal to me as charged environments shaped by Colonialism.
About the Artist:
Born in 1980, Oneika Russell is a fine artist working in Kingston with digital media and traditional media. Her work is generally made up of drawings, objects, digital animations and video. She creates fictional characters in the manner of an animator or storyteller and then places them in environments in which they can live out their individual fates. Earlier work dwelt on the character of a faceless little girl trapped within a domestic world of feminine patterns and genteel furniture. Later work used an Aunt Jemima figurine negotiating her way through a Victorian social setting. Recent work employs characters based loosely on fashion ad campaigns, the Abu Ghraib images, political figures and the tragic literary heroines. Russell lives and works in St. Andrew, Jamaica.
.: artist's website
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.jpg) Artist Spotlight:
Marlon Griffith
Rockstone & Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art
From the Artist's statement:
The Powder Box (Schoolgirl series) takes critical look at the increasing division between private and public urban space, the work also reflects the impact of commodity culture in these public spaces and the schools they attend.
The association and application of powder amongst the working class has always been looked at as being common and ridiculed, a very common remark to hear when one is seen like this is to comment “yuh like fish ready to fry”, but the application can be used as a fertile medium for one to articulate their ideas and identity within the context of the society, debates around colour also come in to question because if you don’t have the right complexion the work won’t stand out.
About the Artist:
Marlon Griffith attended the John S. Donaldson Technical Institute and has worked as a Carnival designer for several years in Trinidad and internationally. Marlon has been an artist in residence at Bag Factory and City + Suburban Studios in Johannesburg and the Mino Paper Art Village in Japan. He also participated in workshops in Martinique and Guadeloupe and has participated in several exhibitions in London, Japan and South Africa- most recently the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, and Cape Biennale in Cape Town, South Africa. Marlon lives and works Trinidad.
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 Jamaican Dancehall Posters
from the collection of Maxine Walters
through Sunday, March 28
Real Art Ways presents a selection of dancehall street posters from Jamaican Film and TV producer Maxine Walters' extensive collection. This collection will make its American debut at Real Art Ways and coincides with Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art. The collection has been previously exhibited at the 2009 Havana Biennial.
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| DAYTIME PROGRAMMING |
 Matinée Movie: The Pirate
Monday, February 15
1 PM refreshments; 1:30 PM screening; discussion after | $5 for everyone
Gene Kelly and Judy Garland star in this swashbuckling musical directed by Vincente Minnelli.
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| COMING EVENTS |
Live Arts Dates
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Saturday, February 13, 2010: WINCE: Love Hurts
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Friday & Saturday, February 19 & 20: Allison Joseph reads
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Saturday & Sunday, February 26 & 27: Marlon James reads
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Thursday, March 18, 2010: 12 the Band at Creative Cocktail Hour
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We Are Grateful to Our Generous Benefactors and All Our Real Art Ways Members
Resplendent Benefactors
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Exalted Benefactor
Rich Charney
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Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation
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Foundation for Contemporary Arts
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