‘Arts’ Archives
Sing Your Song
Sing Your Song ***** (2011) Documentary /S2BN Films Cast: Harry Belafonte (himself), Leadbelly (himself), Sidney Poitier (himself), Fran Scott Attaway (himself), Marge Champion (herself). Running time:105 minutes. Director: Susan Rostock. “Sing Your Song” is produced by Harry Belafonte”'s youngest daughter, Gina, a stupendous documentary on the living African American legend, Harry Belafonte at age 84. “Sing Your Song” is one of those overdue documentaries for which one can breathe a sigh of relief that the subject of the documentary is still living. The handsome, yellow-toned Mr.Belafonte as the years of the civil rights movement rolls on would meet such giants as the actor-orator-activist -singer Paul Robeson, actor Sidney Poitier, singer-actor Sammy Davis Jr., actress Shelly Winters and singer-Afro-centric woman Nina Simone. (more…)
Creating MAYDAY Welcome to April at the AVALON
On May 6th the 38th Annual MayDay Parade”'s Puppets, Bands, Floats, Stiltwalkers, & More will appear 5 Blocks north of Lake Street travel along Bloomington Avenue across Lake Street and 5 Blocks south of Lake Street turning toward and around Powderhorn Lake to the cheering admiration of thousands of people. That spectacle will be the “frosting on the cake.” The MIRACLE of MayDay in Minneapolis Right on Lake Street at 1500 East Lake Is the gathering of hundreds of people of all ages and levels of expertise during April to design and shape this remarkable Celebration of Spring and new life. In the Heart of the Beast Theatre”'s Avalon in April transforms into a giant studio where staff artists and volunteers create the MayDay Parade and Festival. Help build the puppets for the Mayday Parade! Workshops are free and open to the public. Workshop Times: April 7- May 3, 2012 Saturdays, 9-11am and 1-3 pm Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7-9 [...]
We Need To Talk about Kevin
We Need To Talk about Kevin ***** Drama/Suspense/Mystery  Oscilloscope Pictures Cast: Tilda Swinton (Eva), John C. Reilly (Franklin), Ezra Miller ((Teenage Kevin), Jasper Newell (Kevin at ages 6-8), Rock Duel (Kevin as a Toddler), Ashley Gerasimovich (Celia), Kenneth Franklin (Soweto), Ursula Parker (Lucy). (R) Running time: 112 minutes. Written by Lynne Ramsey, Rory Kinnaer, Lionel Shriver. Director: Lynne Ramsey. Tilda Swinton”'s character Eva”'s face is fraught with agony and dismay rarely letting a smile break the dark psychological remora with her taunting, sadist, warped son Kevin Ezra Miller), who it seems from birth to be an albatross on the proverbial back of Eva. From the time Kevin is born he doesn”'t develop like a “normal” child. He seems unresponsive to Eva when she tries to teach him to talk or rolls a ball towards him and doesn”'t reciprocate. At a tender age, Kevin spurts out expletives (on [...]
