C2 Thursday, January 1, 2015 Go! The Wenatchee World MOVIES, From Page C1 4. Winter Sleep No one delivers a three-hour-plus movie called “Winter Sleep” with any real hope of attracting an audience, making it all the more unaccountable that Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or winner turned out to be one of the year’s most richly engrossing deep-dish experiences. This wise and wrenching study of human frailty may be indebted to Chekhov, but its ability to find beauty in the craggiest landscapes — and the landscape of the human face in particular — was nothing short of Bergmanesque. 5. Foxcatcher Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carell and Channing Tatum give three of the year’s finest performances in Bennett Miller’s latest razor-sharp study of obsessive American striving. A mesmerizing, slow-motion tragedy, a darkly comic satire of power and privilege, and a tightly coiled psychological triangle where the balance of power keeps shifting from one man to the next, the movie is above all a singularly haunting experience -- one that, judging by its chilly reception so far, might just be too subtly brilliant for that trumped-up national pastime we call awards season. Above: David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King in “Selma.” Left: From left, Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and David Gyasi in “Interstellar.” 6. Bird People 8. Selma Not to be confused with the more attention-grabbing “Birdman,” Pascale Ferran’s oddball two-hander was the year’s most unheralded delight, a wholly original work that turns a nondescript airport-adjacent hotel into a veritable playground of magical possibilities. Following the sensual, earthy pleasures of “Lady Chatterley,” this contemporary Parisian pas de deux for Anais Demoustier and a post-”Good Wife” Josh Charles reveals Ferran to be an artist unbound by language, literature, or indeed anything other than her wondrously eccentric imagination. You can feel the urgency in every moment, but what’s astonishing is not just the righteous anger but the exacting control with which Ava DuVernay directs it in her furiously incisive, politically savvy and emotionally overwhelming account of a pivotal chapter of the civil rights movement. Those who would call “Selma” conventional clearly live in a more equitable world than the rest of us: Radical is the only one word for an American movie that so bracingly charges its black women and men (led by David Oyelowo’s soulful Martin Luther King Jr.) with the task of forging their own destiny. 7. Gone Girl 9. Mr. Turner The most lacerating relationship movie in a year with no shortage of first-rate examples was itself a surprisingly harmonious and indecently entertaining marriage of sensibilities, wedding Gillian Flynn’s devious booby trap of a thriller to the cold-blooded precision of David Fincher’s filmmaking. No wonder it was a massive hit: The sick beauty of “Gone Girl” is that it affords even the best of us a fleeting, nightmarish glimpse of the husbands and wives that we might, left to our own dark devices, become. Too often thought of as a grotty realist-miserablist-caricaturist of the British kitchen-sink school, Mike Leigh has somehow evolved into one of our most unobtrusively great visual stylists, as evidenced by every shimmering scene in this luminous portrait of J.M.W. Turner. Easily the most revealing of the year’s numerous British-genius biopics, it’s one great artist’s tribute to another, in which Leigh’s invaluable repertory player Timothy Spall finally gets the full-throated showcase he deserves. Paramount Pictures January art: Start the year with fresh exhibits BY KELLI SCOTT World staff writer blend together, and the excitement of a successful wash. My renditions are mostly impressionistic; and I can’t spend too much time on a painting or I lose the creative energy that motivates the painting.” There is no organized art walk effort this month, but exciting new exhibits are going up on gallery walls all around town. Here are a few of the month’s art highlights: Dave Kocher, “Hooked on Watercolors” Opening reception 5 p.m. Friday, on display through January, Two Rivers Gallery, 2rivers gallery.com 888-9504 Need your regularly-scheduled art fix this first Friday night? Two Rivers Gallery will host their January opening reception with local wines and music by jazz pianist Patrick Thompson. The artist of the month is local hobbyist Dave Kocher, whose watercolors Howard and Lorraine Barlow, “XOXO” On display Monday-Feb. 13, artists reception 5-7 p.m. Feb. 6, MAC Gallery, Wenatchee Valley College 682-6800 Ellensburg husband and wife artists Howard and Lorraine Photo provided Barlow explore death, together. For “XOXO,” Lorraine Barlow Dave Kocher’s work is on knitted a shroud that Howard display this month at Two will be buried in, and Howard Rivers Gallery. loaded shotgun shells with scraps of Lorraine’s wedding softly capture landscapes and dress, which will be fired into wildlife. Kocher writes: “I love the air after her death. From the way water and paint quickly the artists: “How we handle personal deaths has steadily become hands off, euphemistic, and uninvolved in our culture. Lawyers, churches, and funeral homes help us to be well ‘prepared’ to usher loved ones away in an often dull, distanced, and businesslike series of transactions. In ‘XOXO,’ Howard and Lorraine Barlow anticipate and acknowledge one another’s impending deaths by creating sculptural works examining oath, love, loss, ritual, and tradition in a way that is anything but dull, distanced, or businesslike.” This exhibit is interactive. Visitors are invited to write letters to loved ones who have died, which the Barlows will sink into the ocean at the edge of the continental shelf on the next blue moon. Robert Wilson’s paintings, drawings and sculpture On display Monday-Feb. 9, opening reception 5-7 p.m. Jan. 8, closing celebration 5-7:30 p.m. Feb, 6, Robert Graves Gallery, WVC campus, 682-6776 Abstract painter Robert Wilson came of age artistically in Seattle in the 1960s, and his paintings reflect that unique time and place in art history. Much of his work is straightforward and monolithic — powerful blocks of black with flashes of primary colors. His exhibit opens Monday, with a reception next Thursday. During the reception, Wilson will be on hand to give a demonstration of his technique from 6-6:30 p.m. 220@mela On display through January, Caffè Mela, 888-0374 You can catch this exhibit for one more month at Mela. Local artists Niki Stewart, Sheryl Smith, Lindsay Breidenthal, Cynthia Neely and Adele Little Caemmerer each have distinctive styles and art-making processes, but they come together every two weeks to talk about their work and encourage each other, along with exhibit curator Karen Dawn Dean. The exposed brick walls, the well-designed display lighting and the smell of coffee make this one a must-see. Stage Kids offers winter classes for young performers BY KELLI SCOTT World staff writer Is your son a bit dramatic? Does your daughter break into jazz hands at the breakfast table? You may be raising a stage kid, and a new children’s theater group in Wenatchee is here for them. Stage Kids Washington launched last summer with a theater camp program that drew 41 young participants. Last month, it staged its first production, “Annie Jr.,” at the Riverside Playhouse. And the group is just getting warmed up, according to Stage Kids founder Michelle McCormick, with musical theater classes beginning next week (for grades 1-8) and another big production coming up this spring (for grades 3-8). In 2010, McCormick started a drama organization for children in California called Stage Kids California, which continues today. When she and her family moved to Wenatchee last year for her husband’s job, she set to work creating a similar program here. “I just started making phone calls and introducing myself,” McCormick said. “There were a lot of coffee appointments.” Now with five employees (mostly “stayat-home moms with theater degrees”) and with the support of Music Theatre of Wenatchee and the Numerica PAC, Stage Kids rehearses at the PAC and holds performances at the Riverside Playhouse. The group is a nonprofit and sustains itself with ticket sales and registration fees, McCormick said. And it just received its first grant — $2,500 from the Woods Family Music and Arts Fund through FRIDAYS ~ MILL BAY CASINO SEE THE PAC AT MILL BAY CASINO FOR DETAILS. 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