‘My Life Without Me’
Keywords: High Falls Film Festival ‘My Life Without Me’ Isabel Coixet, Spain/Canada, 106 minutes Little Theatre 2-5, 4 p.m., Saturday, November 8 Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet’s My Life Without Me, which she adapted from Nanci Kincaid’s short story Pretending the Bed is a Raft, is a lot like I Am Sam in that both films…
Film shorts
Wednesday, November 5 Tupperware! Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, USA, 62 minutes Little Theatre 2-5, 7:15 p.m. Covering a lot of the same ground as 2001 ImageOut entry Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic, this Kathy Bates-narrated documentary focuses much less on the Jewish lesbian folksinger angle as it shows the liberating effect Tupperware had on women in…
The films
Wednesday, November 5 In America and Opening Night Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony with Candice Bergen, 7 p.m., Dryden Theatre Tupperware!, 7:15 p.m., Little Theatre (back) Anything But Love, 7:30 p.m., Little Theatre (front) Inch’Allah Sunday, 9:15 p.m., Little Theatre (back) Shorts Program #1, 11:15 p.m., Little Theatre (back) Thursday, November 6 Blind Shaft, 6:50 p.m., Little Theatre…
An epic of love and suffering
Apparently unable to figure out their own motion picture, the writer and director of Beyond Borders, intentionally or not, have produced a reasonably rare specimen, an almost perfectly ambiguous work. The movie constantly alternates subject and style, atmosphere and tone, emotion and theme, in an uncomfortable and generally unsatisfactory rhythm, first attempting one story, one…
Cut sucks but Dracula doesn’t bite
There’s good news and bad news about In the Cut (opens Friday, October 31), both on and off the screen. Good news: The swelling in Meg Ryan’s lips looks like it has subsided a bit in the film. Bad news: In real life, they’ve been re-inflated and are as big as monster truck tires. More…
A Danish physic
In his prize-winning play, Copenhagen, England’s popular comic playwright Michael Frayn (author of Noises Off) turned to physics to examine more literally earth-shaking matter and perhaps provide a cathartic examination of the most horrific human conflict. In fact, Frayn turned to history, and his “science-play” struggles mightily to arrive at a humanistic conclusion. Wordier than…
Alice Cooper’s Favorite Rock Star
When you invoke the name of Alice Cooper, you’re gonna get a reaction. The rock fan nods in knowing reverence, John Q. Uptight cringes. With a 35-year reign of challenge, instigation, and gender-bending theatrical horror, Cooper is truly a pop culture icon. The music on Cooper’s new record, The Eyes Of Alice Cooper, is…
Are you mad yet?
It’s hard to analyze Jack Doyle’s 2004 budget proposal thoroughly. But having spent a good bit of last week reading it, I’ve reached some conclusions, having nothing to do with whether we ought to up the sales tax to pull ourselves out of the hole we’re in. One conclusion is that at the end…
News briefs 10.29.03
Now, what? A ground-breaking for the $22 million PaeTec Park could be right around the corner. Attorneys are working out final agreements for the state’s $15 million share and an archeological study is under way. The study has turned up foundations of structures from the canal-era, according to Rochester Deputy Mayor Mitch Rowe, and the…
Reader Feedback 10.29.03
Panning the transit center, praising the mayor
To our readers
It is City Newspaper’s practice to refrain from campaign commentary the week prior to an election, to help insure that candidates have the opportunity to respond to our views. We are breaking from that practice, reluctantly, this week, to analyze and comment on the proposed 2004 county budget. The county’s fiscal condition is the…
Goodbye, to that old black magic
We hold these truths to be self-evident: 1) You can’t cut taxes and maintain the same level of services; and 2) Even acknowledging the truth of the first, people will punish the candidate who says tax increases are a possibility. But Bill Johnson’s not the only person who says Monroe County might have to raise…
Follies 2004: hard sell for the sales tax
With his 2004 budget announcement, County Executive Jack Doyle showed even a lame duck can spin like a top. Consider his proposal to increase the sales tax in Monroe County by 0.6 percent, making the full rate rise from 8.25 percent to 8.85 percent. Doyle characterized this increase, designed to erase almost $42 million…
A view to a thrill
Here’s a pretty staggering fact: The Audience Award winner from the first two runs of the High Falls Film Festival went on to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film five months later. Croatia’s No Man’s Land (2001) and Germany’s Nowhere in Africa (2002), which toppled favorites like perceived sure-thing Amélie and Zhang Yimou’s Hero,…
Short cinema
Shorts — they’re fun to wear in the summer, and they’re even more fun to see at a film festival. Especially when packaged together in eclectic groups like they are at HF3. In addition to an evening of mini-pictures from RIT students (Saturday, November 8, 5:15 p.m., Little Theatre) and a gaggle of international filmmakers…
‘In America’
<iJim Sheridan, USA, 114 minutes</i <iDryden Theatre, 7 p.m., Wednesday, November 5</i Jim Sheridan’s In America debuted over a year ago at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, where it screened late enough in the 10-day fête to make me wonder whether the picture was really as good as it seemed, or if I was…
