“Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” (1983), directed by Nagisa Oshima, is a war movie that’s all about relationships. Known as the Japanese Jean-Luc Godard, Oshima plumbs the identities of four interconnected men, two British and two Japanese, whose lives collide in a POW camp in World War II Japan. The film screens at Riverdale 10 Cinema on Dec. 20.
Daniel Grear
Daniel Grear is the culture editor at the Arkansas Times. Send artsy tips to danielgrear@arktimes.com
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Bri Peterson, Ricky Sikes and more at Third Friday Argenta Art Walk
How is it already the third week of December? If it wasn’t for Third Friday Argenta Art Walk this Friday, Dec. 16, you might crawl into bed and never leave, eh? Now you’ve got a three-hour reason from 5-8 p.m. to get out of the house.
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UPDATE: POSTPONED Joshua Ray Walker to play solo at White Water Tavern on Thursday
Joshua Ray Walker works against the musical, lyrical and aesthetic cliches that stud the belt of mainstream Nashville pop country in exchange for something simultaneously more in line with traditional, character-driven singer-songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and contemporary stars who challenge how male performers should dress and emote. UPDATE: The show has been postponed to Friday, Feb. 10.
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New mural in downtown Little Rock to be installed next week
The mural entitled “ENTRA” will lend a fresh look to the squat brown structure.
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Community art installation will shower MacArthur Park with origami lotuses
In anticipation of the April 22, 2023 opening of the new Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, think about contributing to “Art Garden,” a community-built art installation that will shower the AMFA grounds at MacArthur Park with thousands of origami lotuses.
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New unpublished work by Arkansas-born poet C.D. Wright
The 79th issue of Conjunctions, a literary magazine associated with Bard College, features three previously unpublished poems by late Arkansas-born poet C.D. Wright.
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CALS’ Food for Fines lets library patrons zero out their tabs
For every non-perishable food item donated to any CALS library during Dec. 11-17, they will forgive a dollar’s worth of late fines from your account.
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UPDATE: CANCELED Douglas Brinkley, New York Times best-selling historian, to speak at Clinton Presidential Center on Tuesday
Douglas Brinkley’s latest book, “Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening,” takes an 856-page look at the 1960s and ’70s leaders responsible for nudging the national and political consciousness away from protecting aesthetic beauty and toward a critique of corporate excess and a stoic reverence for the existential threat of climate change. See him speak at the Clinton Presidential Center on Dec. 13.
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Humorist David Sedaris returns to Little Rock in April
David Sedaris is uncommonly funny and insightful on the page, but something really transcendent happens when you hear him read his essays aloud. He returns to Little Rock on April 24.
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Sunny and wistful new single from Turquoise Tiger
North Little Rock indie pop duo Turquoise Tiger (Kyle R. Goff and Tristan Bethea) has a new song out today called “The Sun Burns The Horizon.” The tune is slow and wistful, but still blithe with open hi-hats that stay rattling much of the time, as if to simulate an open window.