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Now showing on the big screen at the Fargo Theatre the winner of five Swedish academy awards, a film by 76 year old director Jan Troel. The movie is another of many "literature on the screen" that so many indies seem to be these days.  It is  period piece, set in Sweden, beginning in 1907 and continuing through World War One and a little after.  An interesting period of history, one tht I've always wondered about.  Specifically, if World War I was really ... Read More

First, about the movie.  Sugar is a nineteen year old pitcher from the Dominican Republic, one of the poorest countries even in Latin America, whose real name is Miguel Santos, played charmingly by Atteni Perez Santos(don't hold me to strict accuracy on that first name).  Sugar attends an academy in the Dominican Republic put on by the fictitious Kansas City Knights.  Naturally, he is offered a minor league contract by the Knights, to pitch for the Bridgeport Swing, a Class A farm ... Read More

The Red River Zoo is still recovering from the winter and spring we had, so much of it is not as attractive as it might normally be. In the main building, there have been several changes, and I'm sure there'll be more.  The Taiwanese beauty snakes are gone, but the impressive skink exhibit has been enlarged to include two different exhibits,  The nightmarishly big toad is still there together with the tropical fish, including some clownfish(Nemo, to the kids) Turtles, chameleons, a Gila ... Read More

Now showing at the Fargo, a French offering, "The Class." This is an interesting movie about a French high school, and one class in particular as it navigates through the school year.  The story, if it is one as opposed to real life drama, which it may well be, as far as I'm concerned, focuses on a French class.  The high school is apparently not one with many upper middle class students.  If we think our educational system has a diverse bunch of ... Read More

The Fargo Theatre, as it often does after an awards ceremony, recently had a limited showing of the latest Batman installment, "Dark Knight."  The recent awards ceremony was, of course the Golden Globes. In this installment Ethan Hawke plays The Batman(how he's referred to in this movie) and Michael Caine plays his ever present butler.  There is no Robin.  And, as everyone except those that skip anything to do with movies, the Joker is played by the late Heath Ledger. I found the movie ... Read More

The last two showings on Thursday, March 5th, of the Fargo Film Festival were Native American Voices entries. This segment was hosted by Prairie Rose, the Director of the Native American Voices competition. Prairie pointed out that while the Fargo Film Festival is 9 years old, the Native American Voices competition has been around for the last eight of them. She then opened the proceedings by singing a Native American blessing after pointing out that story telling in Native American culture is considered ... Read More

One remarkable thing about this movie is that when it was released  It received an X rating.  I'm not sure what it's rated now.   The movie rating system we use now was new in the early 70's.  The nudity and sexual violence in the movie I don't think is even approached in current movies. I must confess that I saw the film when it first came out.  In fact, I saw it at the Fargo, ... Read More

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