M.I.A. dodges the trope of slapping mellow rap beats onto sad memories by making this cut about owning—as opposed to disavowing—her rise to success.
“A Touch of Sin” includes nearly every hot button social issue relevant in China today.
These films feature places around the world, from a film on elephants being introduced to the wild in Thailand to an explorer who climbs Mount Kenya.
After such a long wait, it’s questionable whether the film holds up to the high expectations of the novel's fans.
“12 Years a Slave” pulls no punches.
"We all have this shared understanding of what the future is going to look like because we’ve seen it in the movies."
“Bringing him here is one way of humanizing the issues that he reports on."
Collaborators painted a mural on the side of Torero's Mexican Restaurant in downtown Durham.
Yet her purity of intent, her life-affirming vulnerability and her faith in the people—in the young—are what keep us inspired.
I would sit for hours, deep into my Greek literature, conspicuously bobbing my chin to the bass of 'Sweet Jane.'
"You kind of lose the magic when you have to constantly translate your ideas with collaborations."
The members of the Arcade Fire have never been interested in simply producing records.
“The exhibit is definitely a critique of iconography, but it’s not necessarily a ‘let’s throw it all out the window.’"
"It’s just always been music."
Few music documentaries are as revelatory or emotionally warm as this one.
Sadly, this is a case where the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts.
“His work gives you permission to think about experience anew—to trouble the distinction between the sacred and profane."
yMusic boasted classical fluency and the camaraderie of a garage band.
While the plots of these movies are radically different, they are connected by their relation to various themes of existentialism.
“Just hearing that other people can do it is encouraging.”
