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Real Art Ways News - January 18, 2023
Arts and Entertainment
January 19, 2023
From: Real Art Ways
Creative Cocktail Hour
Thursday, 1/19 6pm
A night where people come together and find joy in each other.
Everyone is welcome at Creative Cocktail Hour.
Mediterranean Surf Guitar!
Habbina Habbina
A trio that channels the rare repertoire of Mediterranean guitar with music by giants such as Aris San and Omar Khorshid. Retro-Mediterranean-hits are brought to life with renditions to songs by Umm Kulthum, Ahuva Ozeri, Farid Al-Atrache, Tzlilay Ha’Oud, TLC, Daklon, Britney Spears, Margol, Blondie, and many more.
Led by guitarist Amit Peled
Kate Bae: Opening Night!
Kate Bae will be at the exhibition opening to celebrate
and to answer any questions about her work!
Kate is a recipient of a 2021 Real Art Award,
selected from hundreds of applicants!
The Fabelmans
A semi-autobiographical coming of age drama based on the life of the film's director, Steven Spielberg, 2023 Golden Globe Award winner for Best Director of a Motion Picture.
Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.
Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Motion Picture - Drama
92% on Rotten Tomatoes
Starring Academy Award Nominee Michelle Williams
and Seth Rogen
“Spielberg’s marvel coming-of-age story and one of his most personal.” – Chicago Reader
“One of the most impressive, enlightening, vital things [Spielberg’s] ever done.” – Rolling Stone
"If this film isn't the one to beat for Best Picture this year, I don't know what is..." LA Magazine
EO
EO, a grey donkey, endures the wheel of fortune randomly and turns his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
In Polish with English subtitles.
New York Times' pick for 2022 Best Movie of the Year!
96% on Rotten Tomatoes
"One of the greatest movies ever made about the spirit of animals." - TIME Magazine
"EO compels us to see the world differently, and therefore helps us see it from a perspective outside our own." - Globe and Mail
"EO is a thrillingly imaginative piece of filmmaking: a strange, haunting epic about a donkey that couldn't feel more of our moment." - NPR
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Acclaimed artist Nan Goldin has played a vital role in holding the Sackler family accountable for their role in the overdose crisis. Poitras' film draws from Goldin's groundbreaking photographic artwork, intimate interviews with her collaborators, and rare footage of her grassroots campaign for accountability.
Directed by Academy Award winner Laura Poitras,
director of CitizenFour.
One of New York Times' 10 Best Movies of the Year.
93% on Rotten Tomatoes
“Ferociously powerful. A reminder of what can be achieved by those who take pain and turn it into truth.” – Financial Times
“Profound and incendiary. Goldin is an inspiring artist of activism.” – Variety
Real Art Ways has shown Nan Goldin's work over the years, including The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, and she was included in 15 Years of RAW in 1990. We have also shown Poitras' films, including Citizen Four and The Oath.
No Bears
Jafar Panahi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly identified with the Iranian New Wave film movement. His films are known for their humanistic perspective on life in Iran, focusing on the hardships of children, the impoverished, and women.
After several years of conflict with the Iranian government over the content of his films, Panahi was arrested in March 2010 and later charged with propaganda against the Iranian government. He served a six year jail sentence and a 20-year ban on making films. His most recent films were smuggled out of Iran and were shown internationally, including at Real Art Ways.
He was again arrested and sentenced to six years in prison in July of 2022 amid an intensifying government crackdown of the film industry. He was among three directors arrested. Panahi is in jail now in Iran
This film bears witness to Panahi's incisive filmmaking, while urging viewers to examine the complex layers of a deceptively simple story: a man oppressed and suppressed by his country.
In Persian with English subtitles.
One of New York Times' 10 Best Movies of the Year.
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
"A fierce critique of small-town traditionalism and religious dogma. But while this is an angry and ultimately devastating movie, it's also a surprisingly playful and inventive one." - NPR
"A complex work of novelistic density, this is among the boldest and most accomplished statements from one of the world’s exemplary filmmakers..." - Screen International
"...Its very existence is an act of defiance, a metafictional portrait of a dissident artist still at work." - Financial Times
Rashmi Talpade
Every Little Thing
Intricate photo collages exploring environmental change and challenges.
Photo by: John Groo