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What's Showing In Art, Independent, Foreign and Documentary Film

Car companies that destroyed their electric cars in 2006 are now scrambling to be the best producer of the vehicles. A young woman coming of age as an African-American lesbian living in Brooklyn. Two single people who take a different route to parenthood from their married friends.

These are just some of the latest topics being addressed by independent, foreign and documentary films.  Friday on Up to Date, critics Cynthia Haines, Steve Walker, and Bob Butler tell us how well these films do in shedding light on their subjects.

Have you recently seen a good (or bad) art, independent, foreign, or documentary film in KC? Give us a call at 816 235 2888 or email us at uptodate@kcur.org. You can also post comments on KCUR's Facebook page or Tweet us at @KCURUpToDate.

Opening Friday:

Pariah

Friends with Kids

Already Showing:

A Separation

Women on the 6th Floor

Events:

Rendez-vous with French Cinema: March 15 - March 20 at the Tivoli

Community Cinema showing of The Revenge of the Electric Car: Saturday, March 10 at the Tivoli.  Admission is free.

Tivoli Cinema's Performing Arts Broadcasts

Japense Film Festival: Saturday, March 10, and Sunday, March 11 at Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City Art Institute, and Atkins Auditorium, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Coming Attractions:

In Darkness

Declaration of War

W./E.

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Rampart

We Need to Talk About Kevin

The Forgiveness of Blood

Coriolanus

In the Land of Blood and Honey

On DVD:

Ides of March

Hugo

My Week with Marilyn

Take Shelter

Bob Butler is a former Kansas City Star critic and now film blogger of Butlerscinemascene.wordpress.com. He is a member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.  His work has appeared in The Arizona Republic, The Contra Costa Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, The Kansas City Star, and The Sunday Mail (Australia). Cynthia Haines is a a photographer, film critic and scholar, retired as an Associate Professor of Film Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso where she taught for ten years. She has a B.A. degree from Stanford University and an M.A. from U.T. El Paso and attended the Stanford University Broadcast and Film Institute. She is the author/photographer of Literature and Landscape: Writers of the Southwest and Showtime! From Opera Houses to Picture Palaces in El Paso. Steve Walker is a contributing arts reporter at KCUR. In addition, he teaches creative writing classes at the Kansas City Art Institute, and is a consultant and trainer in peer counseling and HIV prevention programs for area high schools. His writing has appeared in The Sondheim Review, The Advocate and Theater Week, The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Business Journal, Ingram's, The Pitch and Review.

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