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Aug 15 It’s a Fact!...and it could be truePosted by nrhodes | 08/15/08
Sometimes, years later, you still wonder how you wound up in certain unlikely conversations. This couple hailed from Baltimore; I knew her first because we were graduate students together. Since their daughter was simultaneously doing pre-med at Cornell, my friend's husband was in Syracuse a lot during those several years. He is a big man, tall and broad-shouldered, with a deep-voiced, easy-going confidence, immensely gracious.
One day we were discussing what he had observed about the behavior of white men in public rest rooms. My friend's husband said, "I just don't understand it. You know, they're in such a hurry that most of them don't wash their hands." I think then he used the expression that it "skived" him... CATEGORY: Music
TAGS: takia thompson,african american,jake powell,Cjack, charles jackson Jul 25 The Man who Laughs’Posted by nrhodes | 07/25/08  CATEGORY: Movies
TAGS: DVD, Syracuse, Man who laughs,snappy Jun 06 Every Woman Here: Remnants of Seneca 1982-2006Posted by nrhodes | 06/06/08
“It’s so peace camp!” laughed Hershe Michele Kramer. “When we say something is ‘so peace camp,’ what we mean is, if you don’t know how to do something, that’s not a reason not to do it. You learn how. That’s what we learned there too. When we started recording these interviews in 2005, we used audio cassette tapes for the first three. Then we met Sarah Shulman from ACT-Up’s Video Project, who said, ‘You have to shoot this on video!’ We didn’t know how to shoot video. Actually, we’re still using the same borrowed video camera. It’s my brother’s.”
Estelle Coleman added, “That means we have to return it for birthdays and Christmas.” Kramer and Coleman had stopped for lunch early Sunday afternoon at the Women’s Information Center on Allen Street... CATEGORY: General Society
May 29 Oscar-nominated ShortsPosted by nrhodes | 05/29/08
Once I had a roommate enthusiastically preoccupied with the study of karate and getting ready to test for the black belt. Late-night shopping at Wegman’s during this period often involved sudden high kicks and startling whirls in the course of delivering bags of frozen peas or heads of lettuce to the shopping cart. I thought fondly of those moments while watching “Tanghi Argentini,” one of the five live-action short films nominated for the 80th Oscars that were awarded in February...
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May 27 Millers CrossingPosted by nrhodes | 05/27/08 This year’s Oscar-winner, the Coen Brothers’ “No Country for Old Men,” is a film some see as a parable of how little we know who we are as a nation since the rogue violence of some of our soldiers in the war in Iraq. Actually “No Country” is set earlier, in 1980, and Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a Vietnam vet, the little distance of that conflict allowing enough breathing room so that echoes of My Lai stand in for Abu Ghraib and Haditha. When the decent old-school Texas sheriff played by Tommy Lee Jones speaks of a “new” kind of criminal loose in the land, it’s dialogue lifted almost verbatim from Cormac McCarthy’s novel... CATEGORY: General Society
May 02 Puerto Rican comedy hit worth staying up forPosted by nrhodes | 05/02/08
Tere Paniagua, who manages Point of Contact Gallery and many of the details that make the Syracuse International Film Festival hum, said she and her sister, Rita, who directs the West Side’s La Liga, were “rolling on the floor.”
This was just a week ago, right after Puerto Rico’s official 2008 Oscar entry for best foreign language film, “Maldeamores,” skidded into town. The ensemble comedy, executive-produced by Benicio del Torres and featuring the great character actor Luis Guzman, wasn’t even on SIFF’s screening schedule... CATEGORY: General Society
Apr 25 ‘Moolaadé’Posted by nrhodes | 04/25/08
Many thundering, indignant tirades have rained upon another’s head already by the time Ciré Bathily’s first wife Kharjatou (Maimouna Hélène Diarra) finally loses her temper with his middle wife Collé (Fatoumata Coulibaly), whom she cherishes, lies for sometimes and secretly agrees with. Stopping the second wife dead in her tracks with an icy glare and pointed finger, Kharjatou commands Collé never to raise her voice again and banishes the younger woman to her quarters. And Collé meekly goes.
When this startling exchange occurs, Collé has the entire contemporary West African village of Djerisso in an uproar... CATEGORY: Culture
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Make it SnappyNancy Keefe Rhodes has written "Make it Snappy" since December 2006, a weekly column reviewing DVDs of recent movies that did not open theatrically in CNY and older films of enduring worth. She is a member of the national Women Film Critics Circle and covers film, photo and visual arts.SubscribeEmail Archives |
