Friday, June 1, 2012

Considered at once works of art -- and working tools....

loopdiver: The Journey of a Dance explores the creation of an original performance. The half-hour documentary follows company members over a two year period as they struggle with the extreme physical and emotional demands of creating an experimental new work...Friday 9:30

ACL welcomes the cream of underground rock with The National, at they perform songs from their acclaimed record High Violet...Band of Horses highlights its latest LP Infinite Arms...Saturday 10pm 

In HELL AND BACK a soldier jumps back and forth between the fog of war and the realities of home in this stunning documentary, hailed as one of the year's best films...INDEPENDENT LENS, Saturday at 11pm

HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEKEND:
VIOLIN MASTERS: TWO GENTLEMEN OF CREMONA...this film examines the amazing confluence of time and talent that occurred in the early years of the 17th century when the two greatest violin makers in history were working within steps of each other in the small Italian town of Cremona. One -- Antonio Stradivari -- is a household name; the other -- Guarneri del Gesu -- is considered a genius equal in every way to Stradivari, yet most outside of the music community have never heard of him. Why is that? Find out...Sunday night, 9:30pm 

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