GREEN FOREST
Tucked into an office plaza on Rodi Road is Green Forest, a churrascari, or Brazilian all-you-can-eat restaurant, the highlight of which is a rotisserie charcoal grill that dispenses seemingly endless quantities of meat. After seating you, the hostess will point out a small wooden totem at the table — half painted red, half painted green.…
DIVINE INTERVENTION
I haven’t seen many films made from a Palestinian point of view and frankly, neither have you. So if nothing else, Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention is a timely cinematic dispatch from a culture that’s always in the news but seldom gets more than a sound bite to say its piece. But Divine Intervention is more…
BIGGIE & TUPAC
The 108-minute documentary Biggie & Tupac is either one giant joke played on Brit filmmaker Nick Broomfield or a collection of the most compelling evidence to date to unravel the unsolved assassinations of Tupac Shakur and Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace. It’s difficult to determine which because some of the people Broomfield interviews don’t appear…
PITTSBURGH JEWISH ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL
Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film FestivalThe 10th annual Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival runs through March 16. Tickets are $7.50, $6.50 for seniors and students; group rates and multi-film discounts are available. Films screen at the Loews Waterfront, in Homestead, and the Regent Square Theater, in Edgewood. Call 412-992-5203 for ticket info, or see www.pjiff.net. Following…
FILM KITCHEN PREVIEW
FILM KITCHENMonkey Forest Tourist (2002), by T. FoleyBreezewood, Pennsylvania (2002), by Jason Hutt8 p.m. Tue., March 11. Melwood Screening Room, Oakland. $4.7 p.m. reception. Artist Q&A. 412-316-3342, x178. Everybody’s been there, or at least driven past. But aside from the occasional newspaper article about Thanksgiving traffic jams, who stops to think about Breezewood, the self-proclaimed…
