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...Moroccan entrepreneur Mohamed Belghmi had a hunch that the ethereal light quality in Ouarzazate would appeal to filmmakers, so he founded the film studio in 1983. Since then, the sets and natural landscape have provided the stunning backdrop to actors Orlando Bloom, Gérard Depardieu, Russell Crowe and Halle Berry, among others. Royal Air Maroc offers round-trip flights to Ouarzazate from most Moroccan cities, so it could be a day trip, but it might be more fun to stay on location at the modest Oscar Hotel, tel: (212) 44 88 22 12, where many an A-lister...
...second of two exhibits featuring art chosen from the work done in fall semester Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) studio classes, the range of talent and interest is immense, as is the variety of media––from “ready-made” to animation––but there is an inclination to evoke and twist the mundane...
...Strokes’ Julian Casablancas for sinuous suggestiveness now comes off as tired and stripped of all attitude. Many of the songs feel rushed and sloppy, and it’s easy to get the sense that the band needed a bit more rehearsal before entering the recording studio. Nonetheless, Doherty and company managed to lay down some genuinely decent tracks. The single “Fuck Forever” is great stadium rock, although it feels more Oasis than Libertines. Standout track “A’rebours” recalls the shimmery stop...
...example, Cube plays the role of the titular shop’s owner. Throughout the movie, he assists his local police department in the capture of two petty criminals, thwarts a neighborhood loan shark, and forsakes his “childish” dream of building a home recording studio so that he can focus on keeping the barbershop solvent...
...required delicate surgery, followed by the death of his father, Canadian journalist and writer Scott Young, changed him. Or, perhaps more correctly, opened him up. With mortality grabbing him by the scruff of the neck (and his 60th birthday awaiting him in the fall), Young went into a Nashville studio last March to record Prairie Wind, which may be the most intimate of his 31 albums. Then he agreed to let director-producer Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia) film two special back-to-back shows in August at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium, the former...