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Arts & Culture
5:08 pm
Fri September 28, 2012

Beauty is Embarassing for Wayne White

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"Beauty is Embarrassing": Artist Wayne White's career has recently touched on contemporary painting.
"You're Just Listening to Me So I'll Shut Up" : White's paintings are often found objects redesigned with surreal and humorous phrases.
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A new documentary is being screened at the Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center called Beauty is Embarrassing. The movie is about artist Wayne White, an artist who's recently found success as a contemporary painter. White recently spoke about his journey from his rural homeland to the fine art galleries of Los Angeles.

Movies
2:38 am
Mon September 17, 2012

Toronto Looks East With Asian Film Summit

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Luminaries including Mira Nair, Guneet Monga, Shailja Gupta, Nina Lath Gupta and Dibakar Banerjee attended TIFF's Asian Film Summit Banquet to discuss the growth of a new, realist South Asian cinema.
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Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai is part of a gritty new wave of Indian film.
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Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist was filmed in five countries, with editing and post-production done entirely in India.
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 8:52 am

On Sunday, the annual Toronto International Film Festival came to a close after 11 days of screenings, meetings and, of course, parties. It's become an important place to kick off the fall film season. But this year, the festival wasn't only looking west to Hollywood — it was also sharpening its focus on the East, and the rise of new cinema from India, in particular.

One of the films at this year's Toronto festival was called Shanghai; it comes from Mumbai, and was directed by Dibakar Banerjee.

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Movie Interviews
5:06 am
Sat September 15, 2012

Amy Adams: A Steely Wife Stands Behind 'The Master'

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In Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Amy Adams plays Peggy Dodd, the spouse of a charismatic spiritual leader, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Adams says her character is smart and educated but feels "more powerful behind a man than in front of a man."
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Originally published on Wed February 20, 2013 11:57 am

Amy Adams has played a Disney princess, a puckish Amelia Earhart, an innocent young nun and a blogging Brooklynite who wants to follow the recipe for being Julia Child.

But she takes a more steely turn in her latest role in The Master, which has just opened in New York and Los Angeles. The film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, also stars Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Movie Interviews
3:42 pm
Fri September 14, 2012

Richard Gere On Playing A Jerk You Want To Root For

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Originally published on Fri September 14, 2012 4:50 pm

In the new movie Arbitrage, actor Richard Gere plays a Wall Street tycoon who is intent on making money, no matter the fallout. Audie Cornish talks to Gere about the film.

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