Patsy K. Walker

Home Coming chronicles the impact of Turkey’s 1980 military coup on ordinary people. The film follows the life of an apolitical factory worker who is arrested as the leader of an illegal communist group, imprisoned, and interrogated for several weeks before being released to resume—or attempt to resume—his life. (104 mins., 35mm)

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Ma...

Where: Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University

Date: 2007-12-06 19:00:00

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An intimate look at two legendary art-world figures, Black White + Gray brings to light the role that curator and collector Sam Wagstaff played not only in photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s career but in the larger artistic milieu of the 1970s and 1980s. A pioneering collector of photography and a highly influential tastemaker, Wagstaff met the then-unknown Mapplethorpe in the early 1970s when he was living with Patti Smith, befriending both of them and becoming Mapplethorpe’s lover and de facto manager. Black White + Gray tells of their mutual transformation—Wagstaff liberated from his conservative background, and Mapplethorpe morphing from struggling artist to world-celebrated image-maker, each man encouraging the other to discover different parts of themselves. Among those sharing their memories of the couple are Patti Smith, Dominick Dunne, Dick Cavett, and photo historian John Szarkowski. (72 mins., video)

The Duchess of Langeais

Where: Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University

Date: 2008-06-20 19:00:00

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Fri, Jun 20 and Sat, Jun 21, 2008 | 7:00PM "This is aesthetic bliss on a dizzyingly high level. A masterful, multi-layered, sometimes enigmatic work of dark irony."—Glenn Kenny, Premiere Jacques Rivette, the most elusive of the French New Wave filmmakers, at 80 years of age is as nimble as ever with his third—and most faithful—adaptation of Balzac, The Duchess of Langeais. The exquisite Jeanne Balibar plays the title character who frequents the most extravagant balls in 1820s’ Paris and leads on a smitten Napoleonic general (Guillaume Depardieu) in a hot and cold game of dueling seductions. The film’s French title literally translates as “Don’t Touch the Axe” and that provocative phrase gives a sense of the film’s treatment of love in the alternating throes of repression and danger. (137 mins., 35mm)

Miles Hunt

Where: Bernie's Distillery

Date: 2008-04-23 21:00:00

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Miles Hunt is the singer/guitarist and songwriter for the Stourbridge (West Midlands England), based pop band The Wonder Stuff.