D2 | Wednesday, March 11,2020 | ExpressNews.com |San Antonio Express-News MYSA Emily Spicer, Features Editor: [email protected], 210-250-3231 Scaled-back Luminaria to take place Nov. 14 By Deborah Martin decided to move the start time. Because of the condensed STAFF WRITER Plans call for interactive and space, fewer artists will take experimental installations along part. Up to 30 proposals, down Luminaria has put out a call East Nueva Street; visual art in from around 50 last year, will be for artists and announced some the Hilton Pavilion; performanc- selected. details for this year’s event, es on an outdoor stage and in Luminaria will be seeking including a smaller footprint the theaters of the Mexican proposals from regional, nation- and a scaled-back experience. Cultural Institute and UNAM; al and international artists. The 13th annual arts festival installations in the UNAM gal- The call for artists opened will take place from 6 to 11 p.m. lery; and visual light installa- Tuesday. Proposals can be sub- Nov. 14. Hemisfair, which has tions throughout. The historic mitted through April 20 at been its home since 2017, is still structures that have been used anyartist.org. There is a $10 in the mix, but the event won’t in the past will be part of the application fee, which may be venture quite as deep into the event again. waived, based on need. park this year. The footprint In addition, the open gallery Artists will not have to in- goes from Alamo Street to about and open stage, popular with clude a budget with their pro- halfway into the park. artists and audiences, will be posals. Instead, those who are The Sunday offerings of the offered again. chosen will be given a flat fee of past few years, including artist The Sunday experiences $750 for individual artists, or brunches and demonstrations, never really caught on, Arm- $1,500 for a group. Headlining are gone. strong said. artists could receive up to The changes are in response “As much as it pains me to $2,500. partly to audience feedback and shorten that weekend experi- Information sessions for art- to the way audiences have taken Josie Norris /Staff file photo ence to one night, the most ists will be noon Sunday and part in the event. Christina “Flow Artist Tina” Gonzalez dances with a hula hoop popular part is the festival it- 5:30 p.m. March 24 in the “We’re responding to com- during the 11th annual Luminaria in 2018. self,” she said. “And we also Schultze House at Hemisfair. ments of people not being able found our educational events do For more information, visit to see everything and having too able. You’ll be able to schedule The event will start a earlier really well at the art festival, but luminariasa.org. much to navigate,” said exec- your time and give more atten- this year. Armstrong and her the following day, even though utive director Kathy Armstrong. tion to the artists that we fea- staff had noticed that a lot of they’ve been beautiful events, [email protected] | “This will make it more manage- ture.” people show up early, so they it’s been hard to draw a crowd.” Twitter: @DeborahMartinEN WATCH AT HOME by Jim Kiest Whether you stream, buy “1917” plunges or rent, here’s a look at viewers into what’s new or notable in the horror of war. home video. Movies are available on streaming sites such as iTunes, Amazon and Vudu unless otherwise noted. Buy it now “1917”: Two young British soldiers take on a dangerous mission to save lives amid the trench warfare of World War I. The plot could be almost any war movie. The execution — the movie engulfs breathless viewers in what seems like an unbroken, two-hour slog through the hor- rors of combat — made Sam Mendes’ movie a standout. Universal Pictures “1917” will lose some impact on smaller screens. On the plus side, home viewers can rewatch those “how did they do that?” moments over and over. Also: “The Grudge,” “Little Women” In theaters Original “The Jesus Rolls”: John Tur- “Spenser Confidential”: There are murders turro directs and stars in a stand- to solve and a conspiracy to unravel as there must alone film about his “Big Lebow- be. But the new Netflix movie based on Robert ski” character Jesus Quintana, a Parker’s Spenser character is all about letting flamboyant bowler and regis- Mark Wahlberg be Mark Wahlberg from the mo- tered sex offender whose brief ment Boston’s “Foreplay” soundtracks an early screen time made an indelible scene. His Spenser is a righteous ex-cop and ex- impression. “The Jesus Rolls” con who packs a wicked punch. That’s perfectly also is, somehow, a remake of a fine, especially since he’s surrounded by interest- Screen Media notorious 1970s French film Netflix ing folks like Alan Arkin, “Black Panther” star John Turturro brings his “Big called “Going Places.” “Never Mark Wahlberg, right, and Winston Winston Duke and comedian Iliza Shlesinger. Lebowski” character back to life in boring,” says the New York Duke prepare to take out some trash “The Jesus Rolls.” Times. in “Spenser Confidential.” [email protected] Finding an escape in feels-so-now outbreak flicks By Michael Phillips happen with a novel pandemic see the setting of “Panic” the way CHICAGO TRIBUNE threat,” McNamara said. “I wish the Widmark character sees it: a people had paid closer attention vulnerable American community Some pandemics have all the to it when the film came out, like any city anywhere in the bad luck: Everything’s going their because it really was a warning to world, connected to every other way, and then a clear-thinking the federal government that this city in the world. This was a American hero comes along to could happen and you need to positively progressive outlook at save the human race. prepare.” the time. Kazan complicated the In Elia Kazan’s superb 1950 In one scene, Kate Winslet’s scapegoating, at least. He didn’t thriller, “Panic in the Streets,” the “Contagion” character, a CDC give his studio a hit; shooting U.S. Public Health Service doctor Epidemic Intelligence Service “Panic” in New Orleans was played by Richard Widmark faces expert, barks out four words expensive. But he gave us a mov- a48-hour deadline to stop the we’ve heard a lot lately. In a ie that holds up and makes us spread of pneumonic plague, politically divisive time, with the twitch at every hand-to-shoulder bubonic’s even more serious White House under fire for what contact. relation. He’s up against a skepti- many scientists and medical In “Contagion,” global connec- cal police chief; a phalanx of experts characterize as a sluggish tivity doesn’t need a speech to fearful citizens and craven poli- Warner Bros. and factually shaky response to explain it. The origin point of the ticians; and a killer, played by Gwyneth Paltrow played patient zero in the 2011 thriller the COVID-19 outbreak, those fictional pandemic that kills mil- Jack Palance in his film debut. “Contagion,” now on iTunes Top 10 Movie Downloads. four words may be the only four lions may be a mystery until the If the plague spreads, Wid- words everyone can agree on: epilogue, but it isn’t really the mark’s character warns early on, life for others, but no less aston- prepare, while others tell us to “Don’t touch your face.” point of Soderbergh’s chilling “the result will be more horrible ishingly, in Ehle’s hands she says stay calm in notably agitated In contrast to the faces in depiction of a fast-moving crisis — than any of you can imagine.” He things like, “I can see some struc- tones. In the wait-and-see-how- “Contagion,” which are often cast acure hunt, as opposed to a also says the thing a lot of people tures on the surface that look like bad phase of the COVID-19 out- in a sickly digital glow, the faces manhunt. My favorite close-up in are thinking right now, as we glycoproteins, but there’s nothing break, millions continue to go in “Panic in the Streets” go nose “Contagion” is utterly still: Ehle’s watch, wash our hands again and morphologically pathognomon- about their business — and con- to nose in tight, threatening Dr. Hextall staring, smiling, at a wait to see how rough the world- ic,” as if anyone could. tinue to go to the movies for black-and-white compositions. lab monkeythat may hold the wide coronavirus gets with us: So many movies, old and new, escapism, not yet giving in to the “Foreigner, huh?” one detec- key to the population’s survival. “Whoever’s carrying it is still feed our collective nightmares of social distancing concept. tive asks another at the start of It’s a weirdly prescient image of wandering around.” pandemics and paranoia. The But if escapism’s what we the movie, when the body of the social distancing: two creatures The public health medic in walking dead of “Night of the crave, how do you explain the first plague victim is discovered. in isolationbut connected. And, Kazan’s film noir is a spiritual Living Dead,” George A. Romero’s shelf life of a cold-creeps offering Yeah, comes the reply. “Some- perhaps, more germane to our grandfather to the unsung hero- seminal 1968 war-at-home allego- such as “Contagion”? The 9-year- thing like that.” From one angle, near-future lives than we realize.