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At the Speed Cinema next weekend: ‘Our Last Tango’

The life and love story of Argentina’s most famous tango dancers María Nieves Rego, 80, and Juan Carlos Copes, 83, is revealed in this documentary/performance hybrid, according to the Speed’s event description. While telling their life stories to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from Buenos Aires, María and Juan’s early lives are interpreted by the dancers.

2015. Directed by German Kral. Germany/Argentina, DCP, in Spanish with English subtitles, 85 minutes.

Tickets: $7 for members; $9 for non-members. Please click on a showtime below to buy them:

Live tango after the movie

Following the screenings, members of the Louisville Argentine Tango Society will share their love of the dance with a milonga, an Argentine Tango social dance, in which audience members can watch or join in dancing in the Speed Cinema lobby.

About the cinema

Speed Art Museum logoThe 142-seat theater is part of the newly renovated museum’s expansion. It’s equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including 16-mm, 35-mm and DCI-compliant 4K digital projection systems.

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Frazier Museum holding major Julius Friedman exhibit

lballetThe Julius Friedman: Fifty Year Retrospective opening Friday will feature some of the Louisville artist’s most iconic posters, including “Toe on Egg” (left), his famous Louisville Ballet poster of a dancer’s shoe balanced on an egg. In all, the exhibit will include more than 200 works.

Friedman’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and in other institutions across North America, Asia and Europe.

The exhibition runs through Oct. 9. More about the artist.

The Frazier is at 829 W. Main St. on Museum Row at the corner of Ninth and Main streets. It’s open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Adult tickets are $12. More ticket information.

The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™

Bidding hits fever pitch for $20M Lawrence’s ‘Bad Blood’ biopic about disgraced startup techie Holmes

Boulevard reviews the latest media coverage of the Oscar-winning Louisville native in our exclusive Jennifer Lawrence Diary™. Today’s news, rated on a scale of 1-5 stars:

Five starsBidding on one of Lawrence’s newest projects — about disgraced Silicon Valley medical lab entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes — went nuts last night as nine companies offered $3 million to $4 million for director Adam McKay‘s screenplay, according to Deadline. The film, so far called “Bad Blood,” has a budget of $40 million to $50 million.

The trade site says the movie has “all the requisites for the big packages studios are responding to right now: hot-button subject matter, McKay coming off his Oscar for “Big Short” and Oscar winner Lawrence, 25, who usually finds herself in the Academy Awards mix on prestige projects, most recently ‘Joy.'”

Lawrence and Holmes
Lawrence (left) and Holmes.

Holmes, 32, launched Theranos in 2003, with claims it could test blood with only a pinprick vs. the traditional method of drawing blood by injection. That pumped up the company’s valuation to $9 billion as recently as two years ago, according to Deadline. The company has since come under investigation over claims of inaccurate testing. And Holmes’ own worth — at one point valued at $4.5 billion for her 50% stake — has fallen to a fraction of that.

Lawrence’s $52 million, and counting

She’s one of Hollywood’s box-office queens, Continue reading “Bidding hits fever pitch for $20M Lawrence’s ‘Bad Blood’ biopic about disgraced startup techie Holmes” →

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Bear with Louisville Film Society’s 8th Annual Flyover Film Festival

PrintThe five films in the July 24-29 festival include “Bear with Us, Kentucky,” an oddball comedy about a vicious bear derailing an otherwise romantic marriage proposal. Louisvillians will recognize hometown actor and Walden Theatre alumnus Collin Smith.

The festival will host events at the Kentucky Center, Speed Cinema, Baxter Avenue Theaters and Copper & Kings, according to WFPL. All-access passes are $45; details here.

Why’s it called “flyover”? Maybe because of this.

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Speed unveils van Eyck’s ‘Virgin and Child’ from the Frick
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On loan: “Virgin and Child, with Saints and Donor,” about 1441-43.

Jan van Eyck  (c. 1390 to July 9, 1441) was one of the first artists to master oil paint. His skill rendering light effects and highlights made him internationally famous, according to The Courier-Journal.

“Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor” is being show in Kentucky for the first time. It’s on loan to the Speed for what amounts to a swap with the Frick Collection of New York. The Speed recently loaned Anthony van Dyck’s “Portrait of a Woman” to the Frick for a special exhibit on the artist. In return, the Frick is sharing its van Eyck painting with the Louisville museum.

The Frick acquired the painting in 1954; here’s how the museum describes it: The Virgin, holding the Child, stands in majesty on an Oriental carpet, enframed by a sumptuous brocade canopy and hanging inscribed AVE GRA[TIA] PLE[N]A (Hail [Mary] full of grace). She is attended by St. Barbara, with her attribute of the tower in which she was imprisoned rising behind her, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who gave up her crown to become a nun, and a kneeling Carthusian monk.

About the Speed

The museum is open Continue reading “Speed unveils van Eyck’s ‘Virgin and Child’ from the Frick” →

Snapshot

Ali Center presser

10:40 a.m., the Muhammad Ali Center. CEO Donald Lassere is visible on a TV cameraman’s video monitor as he tells a press conference the UPS Foundation has donated $500,000 to the museum honoring the Louisville native.

The gift will fund the center’s education initiatives, including UCrew, Generation Ali, its Character Education Program “Creating Our Future,” and the Muhammad Ali Center Council of Students. More about the Ali Center.

The UPS Foundation is the charitable arm of the shipping giant, which has 22,000 workers in Louisville — the city’s single-biggest employer. More about UPS and about its foundation.

Mayor Greg Fischer was there, too. But one of the most important people present — maybe the most important — wasn’t publicly acknowledged at all: Brown-Forman heiress Ina Brown Bond, one of the Ali Center’s main movers.