Salina Art Center

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Films

Good Hair

Chris Rock has been called the funniest man in America by Time magazine, and his biting, brutally honest, sometimes angry, but empathetic style of comedy has invited comparisons to Richard Pryor and George Carlin, comedians who often used stand-up to deliver some bitter or politically incorrect truths about race, class, youth, and popular culture. Rock’s profane, perplexed persona—he seems honestly baffled by the foolishness and hypocrisy he uncovers—has been popularized on a series of…

The Road

Director John Hillcoat takes a brutal, nightmarish vision of Hell created in Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and fashions a dark parable for the post-9/11 bunker mentality, where every stranger is an enemy and existence has been distilled to the essence of “fight or flight.”  The post-apocalyptic world faithfully recreated by Hillcoat and screenwriter Joe Penhall is utterly realistic and mesmerizing in its desolation. It’s never explained exactly what happened to this…