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We thought all the great vintage music documentaries were accounted for, but Murray Lerner’s look at the Newport Folk Festival in the mid-‘sixties is a terrific time machine to a kindler, gentler musical era. The mix of talent is broad and deep, and we get to see excellent vintage coverage of some real legends, before the hype & marketing plague arrived.

Festival: Folk Music at Newport, 1963-1966

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The Criterion Collection 892

1967 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 12, 2017 / 39.95

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There are men and then there are myths. Jerry Lee Lewis is the latter. The rock pioneer first set the charts ablaze in 1957 with twin dynamos “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On,” and 60 years on he’s still pounding the keys before packed houses across the country. With the death of Chuck Berry in March—and Little Richard and Fats Domino largely retired—Lewis is the last of the great rock ‘n’ rollers still conjuring the sounds of long nights in long gone Delta juke joints. His colleagues at the seminal Memphis label Sun Records, including Elvis Presley,...

Shia Labeouf has locked himself in an elevator - for art, that is. That's right, Labeouf, 29, is back with his latest performance art project and believe it or not, this one outdoes the last. This time around, for his new stunt entitled #Elevate, the actor has committed himself to spending 24 hours inside an elevator in Oxford, England, with two other performance artists. And of course, he's live-streaming the entire thing (though you can only see him when the doors open). During Labeouf's time inside the cramped quarters, fans can visit him to ride along, take selfies and ask him basically anything they want.

Shia Labeouf has locked himself in an elevator - for art, that is. That's right, Labeouf, 29, is back with his latest performance art project and believe it or not, this one outdoes the last. This time around, for his new stunt entitled #Elevate, the actor has committed himself to spending 24 hours inside an elevator in Oxford, England, with two other performance artists. And of course, he's live-streaming the entire thing (though you can only see him when the doors open). During Labeouf's time inside the cramped quarters, fans can visit him to ride along, take selfies and ask him basically anything they want.

A day after commemorating their previous project — a cold-call experiment called #TouchMySoul — Shia Labeouf and the other members of his artistic collective (Luke Turner and Nastja Säde Rökkö) have launched #Elevate, in which the trio livestream a 24-hour elevator ride. Early Friday morning, the actor announced through his Twitter feed that they would be occupying a lift in Oxford starting at 9am on February 19th, briefly pausing at 8pm to give a talk at Oxford Union.

The elevator remains stationary, so while there isn't much to see (most of the...

Actor and two collaborators will be in the elevator for 24 hours to 9am on Saturday and will also address Oxford Union

The actor Shia Labeouf is occupying a lift in Oxford with two other performance artists for 24 hours as part of his latest project.

Labeouf and his art collaborators Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner will also address the Oxford Union on Friday evening.

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