Bust out the genie pants and-- oh, OK, this post has nothing to do with MC Hammer, so the cinetrix is not even gonna apologize for getting his hit song stuck in your head. [You're welcome.]
Wily West Coast correspondent johnnyhongkong draws our attention to a very special event celebrating Dr. King's legacy this holiday weekend. Yes, it's truly a day on, not a day off at the UCLA Hammer Museum this Sunday, January 14 at 6 p.m., when ManohlaDargisoftheNewYorkTimes and her colleague, "architectural critic" Nicolai Ouroussoff [really? not "architecture critic"? Now I'm picturing a guy built along the Brutalist lines of Boston's Government Center. I still remember Mark Olsen's disappointment when I showed him the place. Anyway... where were we? Oh, right]
engage in a conversation about perceptions of Los Angeles as portrayed in the media, film, and architecture. Dargis is presently a chief film critic for The New York Times and has written for LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and Sight and Sound. Ouroussoff is chief architecture critic at The New York Times and has written about architecture and urban design in cities from New Orleans to Berlin. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006.
Best part? It's free, the cinetrix's favorite price. We expect a full report from our LA operatives.
Can't make it to LA? Well, to continue dancing about architecture, Bela Tarr's 450-minute epic Sátántangó plays this Saturday and Sunday at the Harvard Film Archive. HFA is housed in Harvard's Carpenter Center, Le Corbusier's only bit of architecture in the United States, which I think Tom Lehrer waggishly described as resembling two grand pianos fucking.
Have a great weekend, folks.
