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The New York Times On Hair's Bright Future

14 April 2009 2:50 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Hair began preview performances on Friday, March 6th, and had its Opening Night on Tuesday, March 31, 2009. After a smash-hit run at Central Park?s Delacorte Theater last summer, Hair returns to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years. The show has been met with critical acclaim and audience passion since it celebrated opening night. The New York Times reports on the production and its at one time uncertain but finally joyful journey to Broadway success. »

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Tokyo Sonata review

12 March 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »

Tokyo Sonata is a horror film of sorts, but one without the ghosts and serial killers that have populated Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s earlier work. There aren’t even any killer trees, as in Charisma,  or poisonous jellyfish, as in Bright Future. Kurosawa’s films have always offered social commentary, but on their own eccentric terms. Cure responded obliquely to the Aum Shrinyiko subway gas attacks, while Pulse confronted a generation of lonely, Internet-obsessed otaku. Even Kurosawa films with no genre elements, like Bright Future and <a href="http://www.spout ... »

- Steve Erickson

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DVD Review: ‘Fountains of Wayne: No Better Place - Live in Chicago’ Captures Windy City Show

3 March 2009 11:47 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0 Chicago – Fountains of Wayne have always put together light, breezy pop tunes, so a set in the Windy City seems the perfect location for their first ever concert DVD, “Fountains of Wayne: No Better Place - Live in Chicago”. The 16-song performance runs less than an hour and amplifies the band’s most notable weakness as the songs all kind of start to sound the same, but fans should be thrilled to finally own a piece of Wayne’s world.

The case for “No Better Place” describes FoW as “champions of power pop” and this October 2005 show certainly stresses the poppy hooks that made the band one of the more popular live acts of the mid’-00s. Personally, every time they played in Chicago in the mid-section of this decade, I feel like I heard about it. They have a loyal fan base here, making the location »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Sfiaaff 2009: Kiyoshi Kurosawa—Serpent’s Path & Eyes of the Spider

19 February 2009 12:03 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Brian Darr’s and Michael Hawley’s recent previews of the 27th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (“Sfiaaff”) posted, respectively, at Hell on Frisco Bay and film-415, enumerate many reasons to be pleased with this year’s line-up; not the least of which is the seven-film tribute to Kiyoshi Kurosawa.  It will be no surprise to readers of The Evening Class to know how excited I am by this tribute, recalling the Kiyoshi Kurosawa Blogathon of last Summer, wherein I included my write-ups on Cure and Bright Future along with hosting essays from welcome contributors.  Likewise—anticipating the opportunity to interview Kurosawa at Tokyo Sonata‘s TIFF08 North American premiere—I provided an overview of interviews conducted with Kurosawa.  My dream to conduct my own interview with Kurosawa came true at the Toronto International and it now appears I will have a chance to follow-up »

- Michael Guillen

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2009 | 2008

4 articles from 2009

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