The Last Black Man in San Francisco Fri Sep 27, 6:30pm & 9pm Carbon Arc, 1747 Summer Street $8.75 When watching The Last Black Man in San Francisco, the most striking aspect of the film is how beautiful it looks. Sublime lighting and shots of the city’s vast landscape make the flick feel, at first, […]
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Film review: Outside In
Outside In Carbon Arc Cinema, 1747 Summer Street Friday April 6, 7pm $8 carbonarc.ca Lynn Shelton makes small movies with high concepts, such as 2009’s Humpday, about two straight best friends who agree to have sex for an amateur porn competition; and Your Sister’s Sister, a single-location three-hander involving sperm-stealing. Both of those starred Mark […]
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Film review: Faces, Places
Faces, Places Friday, February 16, 7pm & 9pm Carbon Arc Cinema, 1737 Summer Street $8.75 carbonarc.ca The great French filmmaker Agnès Varda combines forces with the street artist J.R. in Faces, Places, a unique and fascinating documentary that follows the pair around the countryside talking to people and creating building-sized portraits of them on giant […]
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Review: Dina
There’s an uneasiness to the set-up of Dina, the documentary from Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year. It’s presenting Dina, a late-40s Philadelphia woman with Asperger’s Syndrome, in the months leading up to her wedding with Scott, a similarly aged, autistic man who has never moved […]
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Animate for life
Animation with Love Festival December 2-4, 7pm Carbon Arc Cinema 1747 Summer Street The Animation with Love Festival is expanding this year, showcasing three times as many animated films as previous years. Now in its sixth year, the weekend-long event brings together animators, artists and film-lovers at Carbon Arc Cinema, located inside the Museum of Natural […]
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Into the rainforest
In Embrace of the Serpent, the first Colombian feature ever to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at next week’s Academy Awards, a man helps two scientists through the Amazon jungle, 40 years apart. Each is looking for the same thing: yakruna, a sacred plant with incredible healing powers. The man, Karamakate, is an […]
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The Wolfpack’s cinematic shut-ins
Five years ago on a regular day in Manhattan, filmmaker Crystal Moselle noticed an unusual-looking group walking along First Avenue. The six Ray Ban-wearing, long-haired brothers, then aged 11 to 18, looked like the Reservoir Dogs. Moselle was compelled to strike up a conversation, and soon discovered that their chance encounter was one of the […]
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Paradise Sisters lost
Thirteen years after it formed and promised to bring independent cinema back to Halifax, Paradise Sisters Film Society is finally, officially giving up the ghost. But not before it passes on its torch (not to mention $20,000 and a long members list) to Halifax’s current hope for honest-to-goodness rep cinema: Carbon Arc Cinema Co-op. While […]
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Carbon Arc turns two
After two years on the Khyber building’s lofty third floor, Carbon Arc Cinema is looking to make a move. Their Saturday, July 14 event takes place at the Museum of Natural History (1747 Summer Street), a wheelchair accessible venue. There will be a reception at 6pm to say thanks to the loyal cinema buffs who […]
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Carbon Arc’s film footprint
Memories of Wormwoods How often have you had the conversation about how great it would be to have an independent rep cinema in Halifax? Well, filmmaker Siloën Daley has decided to do something about one of the city’s biggest shortcomings: “I really want Halifax to have an independent cinema space, it’s been too long talking […]