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Life Is a Musical: An Evening in Idlewild
Outkast’s 2006 musical film, Idlewild, received mixed critical reviews in the press. For this reason, colourschool’s presentation of the film will be supplemented by an ample supply of free cocktails.
Michael Atkinson from the Village Voice had this to say about the film in August 2006:
Ever since Liza Minnelli ceased being a movie star, making musicals has required the steely self-absorption of a penitent, and never less than when a heartsick (André 3000) Benjamin rises in the morning below several dozen synchronized, chorus-singing cuckoo clocks, and warbles about destiny and loneliness. Most of the numbers flow from the nightclub stage, armed with video-rehearsed dance routines and Barber’s frantic editing, which always cuts on the upbeat movement but could give you a tic as well. (When Paula Patton’s nervous diva belts out a few notes in a single shot that lasts six or more seconds, it feels like a cold cocktail in a sandstorm.) Barber, the director, even bullet-time-slo-mos the hoofin’ acrobatics, reminding me of Winter Olympics replays. Offstage, the songs are outrageously wrong but have a stubborn absurdity, especially when (Antwan Big Boi) Patton’s Rooster raps out a duet with his (animated) drinking flask while driving in a dusky, tommy-gun-peppered car chase
- host:
- Julia Marshburn
- date & time:
- July 16th, 2007 at 7 pm
- location:
- 6363 Stores Road Studio 2A University of British Columbia
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Julia Marshburn is an artist currently living in Vancouver and has not hung up her childhood ambition to one day make it on Broadway. She grew up listening to classic musicals and can recite every single word of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. She is ecstatic that André and Big Boi are making musicals cool again.