“The theatre’s high hit rate is no coincidence. Artists start there — and come back — because, uniquely, BAC champions experiment, development and play. It has established itself over 25 years as an incubator of new theatre forms. BAC has changed the whiskery face of British theatre, made the arts more colourful and multifarious and fun.”
Tag: 01.29.07
Oscar’s New Stars
Nope, it wasn’t Dreamgirls, which picked up the most nominations except for the Big One That Matters. “Even as some of ‘Dreamgirls’ hopes were fading, a trio of new stars emerged: the ‘three amigos’ – Mexican filmmakers and buddies Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel), Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) and Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth).What about those three pals from Mexico?”
The Big Dance (Why It’s Sundance)
“This year, the festival presented 125 features (from 3,287 submissions) for an estimated audience of 52,000, including some 1,000 accredited journalists from around the world and 900 registered film industry types. Although this year’s edition, which ended yesterday, was widely perceived as a critical disappointment, good and great work is still shown at Sundance, even if these days it’s often the festival itself that makes bigger news than the films.”
Is Feminism Finally Getting Inside The Museum?
“Everyone knows that our big museums are our most conservative cultural institutions. And feminism, routinely mocked by the public media for 35 years as indissolubly linked with radicalism and bad art, has been a hard sell. But curators and critics have increasingly come to see that feminism has generated the most influential art impulses of the late 20th and early 21st century.”