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The Rhythm Natives deliver a refreshing take on Hip-Hop music with this self-titled album. The band’s live backdrops are tight and well-produced, while the vocals of lead emcees - Jon Narboneta and Glen Techio - manage to stand their own while blending in simultaneously. Definitely looking forward to the future of this outfit. ALBUM OUT NOW. click to purchase.
Carlos: Special Roadshow Edition
Part of the BAMcinématek series Post-Punk Auteur: Olivier Assayas
Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 6:30pm / Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3pm
Directed by Olivier Assayas
With Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo
(2010) 330min
“How good is Olivier Assayas' Carlos? Think of The Bourne Identity with more substance, or Munich with more of a pulse, and you begin to have a sense of what the French filmmaker accomplished with this globetrotting and epic look at one man's rise to the station of international guerrilla leader and terrorist celebrity.” —Los Angeles Times
"Though commissioned for the small screen, Carlos' widescreen visuals demand a theater, and its aesthetic dexterity is a continual marvel." —Slant Magazine
Conceived as a three part miniseries for French television, Assayas’ latest (which screened at Cannes earlier this year) is a gripping, 5 1/2 hour political thriller that chronicles the rise and fall of the notorious Venezuelan revolutionary and terrorist Carlos the Jackal (Ramírez in a star-making performance), who became internationally infamous for his 1975 attack on the OPEC headquarters in Vienna.
Assayas’ propulsive style gives the riveting action set pieces a pulse-quickening immediacy that explode any stale notions about the traditional biopic or historical epic; a crackling live-wire, Carlos is filmmaking of the highest order. This is the complete, uncut version of the film that screened at the New York Film Festival. In French, German, English, Spanish, and Arabic with English titles. Courtesy of IFC Films.
Please note that there will be a 10 minute intermission between the second and third parts of the film. click to purchase tickets.
"Rebuilding Local Economies: A Shift in Priorities" by Anna White
From the burgeoning popularity of farmers’ markets and co-operatives to the revitalisation of community banking, people are organising to reclaim the economy from large profit-driven corporations and ‘too big to fail’ financial institutions. The small-scale and diversity of these local initiatives masks the immense potential they hold for addressing fundamental flaws in the current model of economic development. Rather than treat the swing towards the local as a fad or misplaced radicalism, the policy community should work to support this alternative vision for sustainable, human-scale development. Read More.
Haiti: ‘We’ve been forgotten’ by Sokari Ekine
Haiti is now approaching 11 months into the post-earthquake period, yet the country is still in ruins with some 1.5 million internally displaced people (IDPs) being forced to live in crowded unsanitary conditions. Recently the country’s prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive said that the ‘aid pledged by foreign governments and institutions’ would not be enough for the reconstruction of the country, especially when previous debts and monies already spent were included these pledges. Read more.
MIGRITUDE @shailjapatel
MIGRITUDE is the US debut of internationally acclaimed poet, playwright and activist Shailja Patel. Part memoir, part political history, part performance tour-de-force. MIGRITUDE weaves together family history, reportage, and monologues of violence, colonization, and love, to create an achingly beautiful portrait of women’s lives and migrant journeys undertaken in the boot print of Empire. Click to Purchase.
