Events include classic family friendly films, special screenings of cult films and television series on the big screen, horror movies, and critically acclaimed classic films.
Havana, Jan 2 (Prensa Latina) With an attractive program, the National Ballet of Cuba is preparing today its first performances of the year to take place, from January 6 to 9, in the Avellaneda room of the National Theater.
Despite the difficulties the recent economic recession presented for voluntary bodies, not least those involved in promoting the arts, Con Brio have managed to bring world class classical music to Sligo each year for the past sixteen years. On Friday, October 16 they will launch their seventeenth Sligo Music Series which again will comprise a […]
How to describe “To the Ends of the Earth”? I could tell you that it’s an extraordinary character study: Yoko (Atsuko Maeda), a young Japanese TV journalist, travels to Uzbekistan on assignment, and gradually spirals into an emotional crisis after a series of touch-and-go misunderstandings remind her that she’s a single woman abroad, working a job that requires her enthusiasm, but doesn’t
really value her input.
I could also tell you that “To the Ends of the Earth” is a movie where gorgeously lit and framed exterior photography, as well as consummately precise body-language-centric performances, often convey more than most dialogue could. This is the sort of arthouse drama that’s complimented in its press notes with praise for director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “mise en scene,” or the arrangement of objects within the camera’s frame. Trying to explain how this movie works as well as it does, without using excessive jargon or some kind of audiovisual aide, is trick