Movie Intelligence
Following are the films currently showing in our region, listed in order of their Metacritic score.* For a synopsis of the film and excerpts from the reviews that led to the score, click on the Metascore next to the film title. For show times, click on the theater name in the Movie Theaters directory at right.
Metascore/film title/(theaters)
83 Monsieur Lazhar (Little Cinema, Triplex)
82 Footnote (Chatham Film Club)
82 Marley (Spectrum, TSL)
82 The Deep Blue Sea (Spectrum)
80 The Secret World of Arrietty (Images)
75 Bernie (Bantam)
74 Bully (Spectrum)
73 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Hudson Movieplex, Regal Berkshire)
69 The Avengers (Bank Street, Beacon, Cinerom, Crandell, Hudson Movieplex, Lyceum, Moviehouse, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt, Triplex)
67 Damsels in Distress (Images)
67 The Hunger Games (Hudson Movieplex, Regal Berkshire)
62 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Spectrum, Upstate)
61 The Five Year Engagement (Hudson Movieplex, Spectrum)
59 The Dictator (Bank St., Beacon, Cinerom, Fairview, Lyceum, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt, Spectrum, Triplex)
58 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Fairview, Spectrum)
55 Dark Shadows (Bank St., Beacon, Cinerom, Hudson Movieplex, Lyceum, Moviehouse, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt, Spectrum, Triplex)
46 Mirror, Mirror (Gilson)
44 The Raven (Regal Berkshire, Spectrum)
43 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (Beacon, Cinerom, Hudson Movieplex, Lyceum, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt)
41 Battleship (Bank St., Beacon, Cinerom, Hudson Movieplex, Lyceum, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt)
40 Darling Companion (Bantam, Moviehouse)
39 The Lucky One (Fairview, Gilson)
*Metacritic is a site that weighs film reviews from dozens of sources, averaging the results to achieve a score—the closer to 100, the more positive the reviews.
Unscored
International Documentary Film Festival (Upstate)
Wagner’s Dream (TSL)
Metropolitan Opera On HD: Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Clark, TSL)
The Beatles: Yellow Submarine (Spectrum)
Camille Claudel (Clark)
La Fille Mal Gardee (Little Cinema)
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (Little Cinema)
With My Own Two Wheels (Images)
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 05/18/12 at 08:02 AM • Permalink
Movie Intelligence
Following are the films currently showing in our region, listed in order of their Metacritic score.* For a synopsis of the film and excerpts from the reviews that led to the score, click on the Metascore next to the film title. For show times, click on the theater name in the Movie Theaters directory at right.
Metascore/film title/(theaters)
89 The Artist (Gilson, Regal Berkshire)
87 The Kid with a Bike (Images, Triplex)
83 Monsieur Lazhar (Triplex, Upstate)
82 Footnote (Bantam, Spectrum, Triplex)
82 Marley (Spectrum, TSL)
82 The Deep Blue Sea (Spectrum, Triplex)
81 Marwencol (Clark)
74 Bully (Fairview, Spectrum)
73 The Pirates! Band of Misfits(Beacon, Cinerom, Hudson Movieplex, Lyceum, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt)
72 The Cabin in the Woods (Hudson Movieplex)
69 The Avengers (Bank Street, Beacon, Cinerom, Crandell, Hudson Movieplex, Lyceum, Moviehouse, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt, Triplex)
67 Damsels in Distress (Spectrum, Triplex)
67 The Hunger Games (Beacon, Hudson Movieplex, Regal Berkshire)
64 We Have a Pope (Bantam)
62 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Upstate)
61 The Five Year Engagement (Bank Street, Hudson Movieplex, Lyceum, Spectrum)
60 Jeff Who Lives at Home (Spectrum)
58 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Gilson, Spectrum, Triplex)
56 Dark Shadows (Bank St., Beacon, Cinerom, Hudson Movieplex, Lyceum, Moviehouse, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt, Spectrum, Triplex)
56 The Three Stooges (Fairview, Regal Berkshire)
55 Safe (Regal Berkshire)
51 Think Like a Man (Hudson Movieplex)
47 Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (Regal Berkshire)
44 The Raven (Hudson Movieplex, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt, Spectrum)
40 The Beat Hotel (TSL)
40 Small, Beautifully Moving Parts (Little Cinema)
39 The Lucky One (Beacon, Cinerom, Fairview, Lyceum, Regal Berkshire, Roosevelt)
*Metacritic is a site that weighs film reviews from dozens of sources, averaging the results to achieve a score—the closer to 100, the more positive the reviews.
Unscored
International Documentary Film Festival (Upstate)
Wagner’s Dream (Mahaiwe, TSL)
Metropolitan Opera On HD: Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Clark, Mahaiwe, TSL)
The Dictator (Cinerom, Spectrum, Triplex)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Mahaiwe)
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 05/04/12 at 07:30 AM • Permalink
Shorts: A Filmmaking Roundtable and A Juried Contest for Young Filmmakers
The Columbia Land Conservancy and The Chatham Film Club are seeking entries for a juried competition. Filmmakers 16 to 25 are invited to submit original shorts (max. 30 minutes) about land conservation, agriculture, land-use planning, environmental education, or outdoor recreation, all aspect of the Conservancy’s work. A jury of filmmakers, conservationists, and arts professionals will select the winning film, which will be shown in October at the FilmColumbia Festival. The winning filmmaker will receive a cash prize. All entries must be submitted in DVD format to the Chatham Film Club before August 1.
IS183 Art School, in collaboration with the Berkshire Film and Media Commission, is hosting a series of discussions about the process of filmmaking with industry professionals on Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., July 26 and August 2. Admission/free/. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 07/06/11 at 08:46 AM • Permalink
Crandell Celebrates Anniversary with Special Screenings
This weekend, the Chatham Film Club, which bought Chatham’s historic Crandell Theatre last year, is celebrating its one-year anniversary as owners with a weekend of special movie events, including two rarely seen Buster Keaton silent films, with live musical accompaniment, and the local premiere of Project Nim, a documentary by the makers of the 2009 Oscar-winner, Man on Wire. Their new film was inspired by a book, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human by Spencertown author Elizabeth Hess.
On Saturday night, the Crandell will show Buster Keaton’s 1926 classic silent film, The General, which premiered the same year the Crandell opened, along with a second short silent film from 1927 called Dog Shy. Both films will have live piano accompaniment by Bernie Anderson, one of a handful of pianists trained to accompany showings of silent movies.
On Sunday afternoon, the Film Club will host another special event, the local premiere of Project Nim, a documentary directed by James Marsh, whose last film, the riveting Man on Wire won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2009. Marsh’s new film explores the life of a chimpanzee called Nim Chimpsky, who was raised in a New York City townhouse during the 1970s by the LaFarge family, who taught him American Sign Language as part of an experiment to prove that language is not exclusive to human beings.
Director Marsh interviewed with a daughter of that family, Stephanie LaFarge, as well as many others whose lives crossed paths with Nim in his remaining years.
Elizabeth Hess, author of the book that inspired the documentary, served as a consultant on the film. Following the screening, she will chair a panel discussion. Other panelists include Joyce Butler of Great Barrington, MA, a key figure in his life during Nim’s New York years; Bill Tynan, also now living in Great Barrington, who, as a psychology student at Columbia University, participated in the 1970s language study; and Bob Ingersoll, who met and worked with Nim after the chimp retired to Oklahoma.
Project Nim opened the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews, one of which dubbed it “the first great documentary of the year.”
Buster Keaton Double Feature
Crandell Theatre, Chatham
Saturday July 9th, 7 p.m.
Admission/flexible (generosity encouraged, as proceeds go toward on-going restoration)
Project Nim
Sunday, June 10, 2 p.m.
Admission/$10
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 06/29/11 at 06:06 PM • Permalink
BIFF and Pittsfield Honor Native Kent Jones
This weekend, June 2 through June 5, the Sixth Annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF), will host screenings in theaters in Great Barrington and Pittsfield. In addition to some 70 independent feature films, documentaries and shorts from 15 countries, the festival includes Q&A sessions and panel discussions with filmmakers. Awards for the Next Great Filmmaker will be presented, and there will be Juried Prizes for narrative and documentary films.
This year, BIFF also honors area resident and Special F/X wizard Douglas Trumbull, a tribute that will include an exclusive screening of Tree of Life, Terrence Malick’s latest film, which recently won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Trumbull, a board member of the Berkshire Film and Media Commission, served as Visual Effects Advisor on the 2011 film, which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain.
On Saturday, June 4, at 1:30 p.m., Pittsfield native Kent Jones (right), a renowned film critic and preservationist, will screen and discuss his latest film collaboration with Martin Scorsese, A Letter to Elia. Past editor of Film Comment and former programmer of Manhattan’s Lincoln Center Film Society and the Walter Reade Theater, Jones is Executive Director of the World Cinema Foundation, as well as the author of several collections of film criticism, including Physical Evidence.
A Letter to Elia explores Scorsese’s relationship to the work of controversial director Elia Kazan, who made such seminal films as On the Waterfront, East of Eden, and A Streetcar Named Desire, and who became notorious for naming names during the McCarthy era’s House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings. Jones will screen the hour-long documentary on June 4 at 1:30 p.m. at the Beacon Cinema. It will be followed by a Q&A and a screening of Kazan’s 1960 film, Wild River.
Kent Jones spoke to RI correspondent Robyn Perry by phone this Memorial Day weekend, just after learning that Pittsfield Mayor James M. Ruberto will present him with the key to the city in a ceremony on June 3, at the Beacon Theatre.
R.P.: In the introduction to your book, Physical Evidence, you mention that you began your career at five cinemas in Pittsfield.
K.J.: People went to movies more than they do now. There were no multiplexes; there were five theaters up and down North Street. My mom was interested in newer movies—Midnight Cowboy, Five Easy Pieces.
When I got to be twelve, thirteen, there was a window that opened, between 1967 and about 1983, when a lot of very adventurous work was possible. To me the movie that was the death knell for that period was Ghostbusters. Everyone talks about Star Wars and Rocky, but when Ghostbusters came along…it’s a really funny movie, but it was a formula that people stuck to, and they’ve been milking it dry for the last thirty years. Movies became disposable, so now it doesn’t really matter what people think of The Hangover, Part II. It doesn’t matter what anybody writes about it.
Cabaret was a movie that made a huge impression on me. I remember seeing A Woman Under the Influence by Cassavetes on North Street. Truffaut, Casanova by Fellini, Marty [Scorsese]’s movies – I saw Mean Streets at the Paris Cinema. Hangover Part II was as unthinkable then as Chinatown is now.
RP: Was there a lot of discourse around the movies? Was everybody talking about them, or were you alone among your peers?
K.J.: There certainly weren’t a lot of people who were interested in Bogart movies; a few had fathers who were young when Bogart was new. Bogart was very important in those days for two different reasons. First, there was the nostalgia factor, as in the Woody Allen movie Play It Again, Sam, and second, Bogart was a counter-culture hero on college campuses. The scene in Casablanca when Ingrid Bergman walks back in, when his face seems to crumble—that kind of privately-held pain—it was something that was true of my father. That’s why cinema’s important, because in cinema you read peoples’ body language; you read what they’re not speaking.
RP Do you think you were looking for your father in movies? [The late Dana Jones, was WBRK radio’s “Voice of the Berkshires.”]
KJ: Oh yeah. I mean, I saw them with him, but yes, I was. Early thirties movies, to me, it’s like getting a glimpse of my grandparents.
RP How did you meet Scorsese?
KJ: A friend of mine’s girlfriend’s roommate—that’s how tentative it was—was working in his office, and they needed help with the video archive. Back in those days, Scorsese would tape everything on TV, buy everything that was available commercially on tape, and turn it into DVDs. When I went through the TV Guide, I knew exactly what he would and wouldn’t want, so I was able to cut through a lot. I knew film history; we had the same references.
RP How is your work in film restoration related to Letter to Elia, which you co-directed with Scorsese?
KJ: They’re not really related except for a powerful connection to the idea of film history. This is not a movie for film scholars, but for 16 year-olds living in Akron, Ohio, who have extremely limited access to movies, but an inkling of interest. Both of us would be really pleased if people saw it and thought, Gee, I’d like to see East of Eden and Wild River.
R.P. It’s surprising to see the list of Kazan’s accomplishments.
K.J. People get sidetracked by the milestones, and the HUAC testimony, and somehow lose track of “Oh, yeah, he’s the guy who changed American acting and invented The Actor’s Studio.” Staggering, when you think about it.
Our film is basically a back-and-forth between Scorsese and Kazan, through the way it’s edited; it’s Scorsese’s way of telling Kazan, after he’s gone, how much he and his films meant to him. Over a clip of Wild River, Scorsese says that there’s work you see that becomes your standard, and it’s not even conscious. I was interviewing Woody Allen the other day, and for him it was Ingmar Bergman. It depends on what you see and when. I’m sure Allen saw The Seventh Seal when it came out, in 1955.
R.P.: You believe artistic influence is about timing?
K.J.: I think it’s very much about timing, and that’s why it’s sad to think…although, anybody who gets a glimmer of interest in cinema is not going to content themselves with watching Hangover Part II, they’ll seek out stuff. It’s great that Netflix exists…it’s great that there’s a film festival in the Berkshires now, because that’s what’s needed to keep cinema alive: a film festival allows you to have a sense of community.
RP: What are plans for Letter to Elia beyond the Berkshire International Film Festival?
KJ: The film premiered at The Venice International Film Festival and at Telluride, where I was with it. It was on American Masters, and it actually won a Peabody. I was at the ceremony last week. Marty couldn’t go because he was getting a degree at Yale! And it’s part of a big box set of Kazan’s work that Fox put out. We didn’t make the film for American Masters or for the Fox set, we just made it, and we made it just the running time we wanted it to be, an hour, almost on the dot. —Robyn Perry
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 05/25/11 at 11:16 AM • Permalink
Project Native Film Festival
Project Native, the only native plant nursery and native landscape restoration specialists in our region, are also becoming environmental health activists. This weekend, to celebrate their 10th anniversary, they will be hosting a film festival in Great Barrington that kicks off at 10 a.m. on Sunday at the Triplex theater with a screening of Flow, Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary about the burgeoning cartel that is staking claim to the world’s most precious natural resource, water. Three restaurants, Allium, Rubi’s, and The Well are hosting panel discussions. For a complete schedule of events, click below.
Project Native Film Festival
Sunday, March 27, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Great Barrington
Admission/free
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 03/16/11 at 07:36 AM • Permalink
Twenty Minutes with Actress Karen Allen
White Irish Drinkers at the Mahaiwe on February 5
The most famous person you are likely to run into on any given day in Great Barrington is also one of the nicest: Karen Allen, the actress who first became famous for her roles in Animal House and Raiders of The Lost Ark and who’s worked steadily in film and on stage for three decades. Now the owner of Karen Allen Fiber Arts on Railroad Street, which sells the one-of-a-kind cashmere sweaters she designs at her studio around the corner, she continues to act and support the the local arts community through her work at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, the Berkshire Theatre Festival and the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF.)
On Saturday, February 5, at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, BIFF will hold a benefit screening of White Irish Drinkers, which will be followed by a Q&A with writer/director John Gray, Allen and her co-star Peter Riegert. “We thought that we would bring White Irish Drinkers to the festival in June, but it got distribution and now it is opening in theaters in March, so we decided to do a special fundraising event this weekend,” says Allen who is a BIFF board member. “I think it is a wonderful film so I am quite happy to share it with the community at large.”
Do you like watching other people watch your movies?
It’s always a mixed bag. The first time you see a film it is very difficult to see it with an audience because your experience is more internal and you see it for the first time from the outside. It is always a bit disconcerting in a sense to see a film that has been edited, especially if you have not been part of the process, which actors rarely are. Once I’m familiar with a film, it is easier to see it with an audience but the first few times are always tricky. This is such a different kind of role for me. It’s the antithesis of a Hollywood-type of film. It’s a bit . . . I don’t know exactly how to put it, but it’s a bit shocking when I see myself in the film. There’s no process of trying to glamorize the character at all—it’s a pretty stark way in which I was photographed. It’s the most unglamorous character I have ever played in my life, and when I look at the film I am like whoa—oh my god!
Were you hesitant about taking this part?
My main concern when I said “yes” was that I had to find someone to work on the dialect. And quickly. I only had ten days to prepare. A Brooklyn dialect is not one that I really have in my pocket. There are some accents that I can do very easily, so I immediately had to dive into that because the last thing you want when you begin to shoot is to not be completely at home with the voice of the character. One of the most important aspects of building a character is finding the voice.
How did you prepare?
I immediately called the best dialect coach I know, a man named Tim Monich, and he was in the middle of working on Wall Street 2, which was shooting downtown, but he has a home in Connecticut and I went to work with him there on the basic structure of the dialect. Once I came into New York to start my real preparation for the role, he would come to my hotel after working on Wall Street and we would work on it. I locked myself in my hotel room for a week before shooting and did nothing but prepare for the role, really delve into it.
Tell me about your character Margaret Leary.
It’s the 70s. It’s Brooklyn. She’s a second or third genration Irish American who is married to a dock worker, and they have a very troubled marriage. He’s an alcoholic. He’s quite an abusive man who aims most of his physical abuse at our elder son who is about 20. When the film begins, our 18 and 20 year old sons are still living at home, but one has begun to go down the wrong path, getting mixed up with criminal types. And the other one is a very sensitive, artistically-gifted boy who kind of hides from the world down in the basement below a delicatessen, and he’s become quite an extraordinary artist unbeknownst to anyone, including my character. And she discovers this in the course of the film. She works as a waitress, navigating a fine line trying to keep her family together and safe, and she has the weight of all this on her shoulders. She’s of the old school—it’s a Catholic family—she’s made her bed and she’s got to lie in it. She’s going to stick with this marriage for better or for worse, through thick and thin, and she’s going to stick with this man she truly loves despite all the ways he’s certainly not living up to anyone’s expectations of what a father should be. He basically works the docks all day and then goes and ties one on and comes home drunk every night. That’s the milieu of this film, which sounds all dark and troubling, but the film is very funny in many ways and it has a lot of lightness and beauty.
Did you shoot on location?
Yes, in Bay Ridge in an old brownstone apartment that had been completely abandoned. It was the shell of an apartment.
How is that different than shooting on a soundstage?
They both have their positive aspects. We were shooting in November, and I don’t recall that we had any heat. We had little electric heaters we plugged in. I am always in the kitchen cooking in the film and whenever we turned on the stove it smelled like cat piss; obviously the previous occupants had cats, so we tried to not use the stove. When you work on an actual location, you are working in very tight quarters. For actors, it’s fantastic. For the crew, it’s challenging.You don’t have walls you can fly out so it really limits the way you can shoot, which often works in your favor. We shot the entire film in 17 days. A normal feature film can take three months. I have never shot a film this quickly.
Have you made other films since?
I did November Christmas for Hallmark Hall of Fame with Sam Elliott , and I did a cameo in film called I Am Number Four which is coming out this month.
Do you have any local projects coming up?
I am directing Moonchildren at Berkshire Theatre Festival. [She directed a well-received student production at Bard College at Simon’s Rock two years ago.] I am very excited. It will open the summer season at the Unicorn Theatre in June.
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 02/02/11 at 02:14 PM • Permalink
Hot Tickets: Special Film Events Region-Wide
Film festivals show movies few people outside the industry have heard much about. We go because experience has taught us to trust the taste of the festivals’ organizers. Which is why reciting the roster of films at the upcoming FilmColumbia festival (Partir, with Kristin Scott Thomas, The Debt, by the director of Shakespeare in Love, Stone with Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton, to name just a couple) may pale in comparison to recalling some of last year’s highlights—Up in the Air, An Education, A Serious Man, Precious—all Oscar Best Picture nominees; The White Ribbon, nominated for Best Foreign Film. A complete schedule and tickets for FilmColumbia 2010 (October 20 - 24) are available now.
The Williamstown Film Festival (October 15-17 and 21-24) kicks off this weekend with a special program on Saturday night about films with familiar and exciting titles—Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard,, The Apartment. On Saturday, October 16, Emmy-award winning actor Alec Baldwin and Turner Movie Classics’ emcee Robert Osborne take their film-arcania-schmooze-athon on the road to MASS MoCA with a special program, “Revisiting Billy Wilder.” For tickets, click here.
On Friday, October 15, the Berkshire International Film Festival (which will be held June 2 - 5 2011), gets in on the autumn action with a special presentation at the opening of the film Howl, at the Triplex, in Great Barrington, sponsored by BIFF’s Reel Friends Film Society. Directors Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein will hold a Q &A after the 7 p.m. screening and will still be on hand prior to the one at 9 p.m. The film, starring James Franco as the beat poet Alan Ginsberg, is named for his most famous and prophetic work and presents a portrait of the renegade artist as he battles obscenity charges and threats of censorship. This historically accurate dramatization is coupled with an imaginative ride through Ginsberg’s masterpiece. Normal Triplex ticket prices apply.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 10/05/10 at 05:48 PM • Permalink
Crandell Theatre Set to Re-open July 9; Chatham Film Club Prevails
Photographs by Peter Blandori
It was assumed. For years The Chatham Film Club had been raising funds so that one day they would be able to buy the Crandell Theatre, whenever second-generation owner Tony Quirino decided to retire. Then last January, with his retirement date fast approaching, Quirino died suddenly, leaving no will. His widow, Sandy, who had wanted to honor Tony’s wishes and sell the theater to the film club for a price they could afford, was obliged, as executor of the estate, to get the best price possible. Several other potential buyers emerged, and the talk on Main Street turned grim. Then suddenly, the attorney for Judy Grunberg, a Chatham entrepreneur (the Blue Plate Restaurant, the Chatham Coop, PS/21, among other ventures) was in a Main Street law office signing closing papers on his client’s behalf. Within hours, Grunberg had turned over title to the film club, which expects to reopen the Crandell on July 9th. Rural Intelligence talked to Film Club treasurer Mary Gail Biebel, co-chair of the capital campaign, about how it all transpired.
RI: How fitting that the acquisition of the Crandell Theatre by the Chatham Film Club should turn out to be an action adventure weepy/dramedy with a surprise feel-good ending. I’m still not absolutely clear how you became the owners.
MGB: Judy Grunberg made an offer that was accepted, which made her the official buyer, but it was always understood that the film club would end up the owners. Like Judy, Lael Locke, a village trustee, threw in some money at the end. None of us could have done it on our own, but we got together and got it done.
RI: Was it fun, entering the theater for the first time as owners?
SK: I went in the other day with 60 keys and a flashlight and finally did figure out how to turn on most of the lights. Tony knew every key. We found all these boxes of letters that go up on the marquee, so Sandi [Knackel, the Chatham Film Club president] and I got up on the extension ladder to put up a message. We couldn’t reach the top, so we could only put up a short message, “Opening July 2010” and “Thank You.” Everyone stopped to wish us well. People offered to volunteer, to make contributions. It was lovely.
RI: Why do you think this theater means so much to the people of Chatham?
MGB: This is a pretty bifurcated community. Some of us go to the Tannery Pond (chamber music) Concerts, and some of us go to the firehouse supper. But everyone goes to the Crandell. Tony’s father is still alive. His first job when the theater first opened in 1926, when he was just 9 years old, was carrying film cans up to the projectionist. Then much later he ended up owning the place. There have only been four owners in the entire history of the theater. We’re the fifth. The Quirinos had been associated with it (first as employees, then as owners) that entire time. I got a check for $20 from a woman in Ohio who wrote, “I grew up going to the Crandell, and I remember when Mrs. Quirino told my parents that I had misbehaved. I was told I couldn’t come back for a month.”
RI: The theater has been locked up for five months, which must have taken a toll. Any unexpected damage?
MGB: No, actually, it was in remarkably stable condition—just a little bit musty. Last night I met with Dennis Gawron who had worked for Tony for twenty years as a part-time projectionist and ticket taker. He’s going to come back to work with us. He comes in an hour before the movie starts, and it’s second nature to him what has to be done, but some of the operating systems take a little bit of explaining. He’s teaching us. And Shari Tessitori, who ran the concession stand for Tony, is also coming back.
RI: Are you planning to raise the prices (previously $5 for adults and $4 for kids)?
MGB: Not now. We’re also going to keep the concession prices the same. We’re keeping the soda machine even though it makes an incredible racket during quiet times in the films.
RI: Is there a business plan?
MGB: Yes, we have a detailed business plan. But single screen independent film theaters don’t make money. The few that are left are all run by groups like ours as non profits.
RI: So what’s the next step?
MGB: We’re starting a new campaign, Help Us Raze the Roof, because, as anyone who goes to the Crandell knows, it leaks.
RI: The renovation of the Mahaiwe Theatre in Great Barrington is said to have cost $9 million. Presumably, the renovation of the Crandell would be somewhere in that same ballpark, or am I wrong?
MGB: The Mahaiwe is absolutely beautiful. But we’re not planning a $9 million renovation. We will need a million. The roof alone is probably somewhere between $100,000 and $150,000. It has a 1926 state-of-the-art ventilation system that leaks like crazy. The exterior and interior stucco needs to be repaired. The marquee needs work. The bathrooms need to be renovated. The seats need to be replaced. We need a digital projection system. And that’s just the stuff we need to use it as a movie theater. There’s also a stage, an orchestra pit, dressing rooms—it was originally a vaudeville house. That’s why Tony wanted to sell it; he knew .
RI: What’s the most important thing you’ve learned so far about running a movie theater?
MGB: Dennis Gawron told us that at the end of the movie every night, before you lock up, you have to walk through the theater to make sure nobody fell asleep.
To make a donation to Help Us Raze the Roof, visit The Chatham Film Club website.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 06/02/10 at 02:07 PM • Permalink
Kicking and Screening: Soccer Film Festival
This weekend, MASS MoCA hosts a two-day festival of film and activities celebrating the passion, athleticism, and wildly fervent nationalism of soccer.
The festival kicks off on Friday, at 1 p.m. with screening of the family-friendly film Sixty Six, followed by a performance by a troupe of soccer jugglers at 3 p.m. That evening at 8 p.m. Les Yeux Dans Les Bleus, a documentary about the 1988 World Cup victorious French team, will be screened.
Saturday’s program features a matinee presentation at 1 p.m. of a series of short films: In the Blood, Mauro Shampoo - Soccer Player, Hairdresser and Macho and Beyond Soccer (Loucos de Futebol).
The Saturday afternoon films will be followed by a 4 p.m. panel discussion moderated by Adam Spangler, former Vanity Fair staff editor and founder of the This Is American Soccer blog. Panelists include Grant Wahl, senior writer at Sports Illustrated and author of the best-selling, The Beckham Experiment; Greg Lalas, editor in chief of MLSsoccer.com (official website of Major League Soccer); and former MLS player Zohair Ghenania, now staff coach at French club FC Lorient. Another feature film will screen on Saturday night.
Friday & Saturday, April 23 & 24
MASS MoCA
North Adams, MA
Festival passes: $25/ adults; $15/students
Individual tickets: $8/adults; $5/students.
Members receive a 10% discount.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 04/15/10 at 02:20 PM • Permalink
The Annual Kent Film Festival April 22 - 25
The Kent Film Festival doesn’t start officially until Thursday, April 22, so the screening on April 21 of Company Retreat, written and directed by Campbell Scott (left), is being called a “private screening” which is a fundraiser for the five-year-old, not-for-profit festival. “Campbell’s on our advisory board and he will be here to talk about the movie,” says festival co-founder Patrice Galterio. “Nobody’s seen this movie yet. He’s just finished editing it.” A “mockumentary” about the development of a fictional game show called Company Retreat that pits white-collar workers against blue-collar workers, the film stars Hart Bochner. After the movie, Scott will host a Q&A (along with a few members of his cast.)
Mow Crew Preview - The Weatherman from Taylor Toole on Vimeo.
One of the films that Galterio has high hopes for is Mow Crew, which details the lives of some full-time residents of Martha’s Vineyard who mow the summer people’s lawns and long to escape their rural island ghetto. “We’re hoping it’s our Little Miss Sunshine,” says Galterio, who notes that Litchfield County residents may see parallels between the Mow Crew world and their own backyards. “There a similarity between our locals and the rich people—except we’re by a river instead of an ocean.” Another feature she’s high on is Blue Bus, which has been described as a buddy flick/coming-of-age story for two middle-aged guys, who drive cross country in a VW bus. And local filmmaker and actor Giancarlo Esposito (who is currently featured in AMC’s Breaking Bad) will hold a Q&A after a screening of his film, Gospel Hill, which stars Angela Bassett and Danny Glover. “It’s been doing the film festival circuit, and we just love it.”
Galterio thinks the short films are just as important as the features. “We have 61 this year from all over the world—England, Iran, Germany,” she says. “And we have documentaries, too, such as Baghdad Diary by Sandra and Joseph Consentino” The Consentinos will conduct a workshop on Saturday called “The Documentary Process” with a demonstration of the Sony EX Camcorder. Cinematographer Adrian Correia will lead a workshop on the Red One Digital Cinema Camera. The focus on the technical aspects of filmmaking reflects the improved equipment Kent has this year with $90,000 worth of equipment lent by Sony for screenings in the Community House. “It’s amazing that we pull off a film festival every year without the town having a proper movie theater,” says Galterio.
Kent Film Festival
3 Kent Green Blvd, Kent, CT; 860.592.0059
Box office is open daily through April 20: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Box office open April 21 - 23:
10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
April 24 & 25: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m
Individual tickets: $8
Packages available
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 04/14/10 at 05:21 PM • Permalink
A Farm Film Feast: Film, Food and Discussion
From the film "Sweetgrass"
The crusade to eat locally hits the big screen with such enticingly titled films as, Dirt! The Movie, Mad City Chickens, and What’s On Your Plate? This week and through the weekend, more than a dozen films about food will be screening at Images Theater in Williamstown, MA, followed by panel discussions. Among the topics: King Corn Rules!, Berkshire Stories, Fresh! An Overview, Eating Locally and Globally, and Farming in the Future. On Saturday evening, there will be a dinner break—an opportunity to sample some of locally-sourced restaurants, such as Mezze and Hobson’s Choice, that are within walking distance of the theater.
Farm Film Feast
Images Cinema, Williamstown
Film admission: all film pass/$35; individual films/$5
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 03/01/10 at 04:52 PM • Permalink
RI Selects: Beautiful Film, Ugly Predicament
Friday, February 26 @ 7 p.m
“We have a 10-15 year window to make some noise,” says Columbia County resident Sven Huseby. “I would love to see the term ‘ocean acidification’ become part of the political discourse.”
According to the documentary Huseby appears in and co-produced and that his wife Barbara Ettinger directed, A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish, the familiar global warming horror story is actually even more horrific than we’ve been led to believe. For all we hear about melting icecaps and rising sea levels, until now, few of us have known of the disastrous consequences that carbon emissions have on ocean water’s chemistry and the impact that will ultimately have on marine life.
When this film debuted to an unprecedented SRO audience at the Smithsonian Institution, The Washington Post said that it, “looks terrific, with lots of breathtaking footage of the natural world, from the tiniest pteropod (the fluttery, planktonic sea snail that is most threatened by acidification) to the most majestic Norwegian scenery.” It also returns again and again to Huseby’s relationship with his grandson—a leitmotif that lends both a sense of scale and urgency to the filmmakers’ message.
A Sea Change follows the quest of Huseby, a retired history teacher, to discover what is happening to the world’s oceans. After reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Darkening Sea,” he travels to Alaska, California, Washington, and Norway to find out about the rising acidity of the oceans and what this “sea change” bodes for the world. He speaks with oceanographers, marine biologists, climatologists, and artists and discovers that excess carbon dioxide is dissolving in our oceans, changing sea water chemistry and making it difficult for tiny creatures at the bottom of the food web to form their shells. The effects could work their way up to the fish a billion people depend upon for their source of protein.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Huseby and Ettinger.
A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish Screening
Chatham Real Food Market Co-op
15 Church Street, Chatham, NY; 518.392.3353
Admission free; reservations essential.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 02/10/10 at 07:04 PM • Permalink
RI Selects: Nothing Silent About It
February 12 @ 7 p.m.
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Experience silent film as it was intended to be. A free screening of the 1922 comedy, Grandma’s Boy, starring Harold Lloyd, will be accompanied by live piano, vocal and percussion by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton.
Harold Lloyd was the most successful silent comedian of the 20’s, eclipsing Chaplin’s and Keaton’s box office receipts. The film, a coming-of-age story with hapless Harold outwitting bullies and winning the girl of his dreams, is filled with gags courtesy of writer Hal Roach (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy).
Donald Sosin was the resident pianist at MoMA for five years and currently plays for the Film Society of Lincoln Center and BAM, the Whitney Museum and at film seminars at Harvard, Yale and other campuses here and abroad. Joanna Seaton has sung with jazz great Dick Hyman at the 92nd St. YM-YWHA, and appeared in many Off-Broadway and regional theater productions. Learn more about their work at oldmoviemusic.com.
Geer Village
Hollenbeck Room
99 South Canaan Road (Route 7)
Canaan, CT
Admission: Free, no reservations required.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 02/01/10 at 03:42 PM • Permalink
“Keep Farming” Film Fest Deadline for Submisssions 2/15
The Chatham Agricultural Partnership, the Chatham Film Club, and the Columbia Land Conservancy once again present Farm Film Fest III, an afternoon of farming films to be presented on Sunday, March 7, from 1 - 4 p.m. at the Crandell Theatre in Chatham, NY. The organizers are now seeking short films about local farms or farm-related issues to screen. Films should be 5-20 minutes long and submitted in DVD format by February 15. For more information, go to the Keep Farming website.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 01/21/10 at 02:11 PM • Permalink
RI Selects: Meet “Secretariat”
Saturday, December 5 @ 1 p.m.
Of course, the real Secretariat died in 1989, but Harbor Mist, one of the horses that will portray the record-holding Triple Crown winner in a forthcoming Disney bio-pic, will be visiting the region this weekend on his way back to California. Harbor Mist will perform tricks, and Rex Peterson, one of Hollywood’s foremost horse trainers,will fill us in on some of the behind-the-scenes drama of making a film with horses.
In 1973, Secretariat, owned by Penny Chenery Tweedy (played by Diane Lane in the film, which is set for release next fall), was the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in twenty-five years. He set records in two of the events—the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes, that still stand today.
Windrock Farm
Amenia, NY
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 11/09/09 at 12:55 PM • Permalink
Williamstown Film Festival Tickets on Sale
Suitably enough, the highlight of the first weekend of the 11th Annual Williamstown Film Festival (October 23 - 25; second weekend, October 29 - November 1), will be dinner and a movie on Saturday night. The annual benefit dinner is being held this year at Mezze’s new catering facility in Williamstown. The film that follows, Against the Current,was written and directed by Peter Callahan who, in 2004, read an earlier version of the screenplay at the Williamtown Festival. His feature film screens at 8 p.m. at MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center in nearby North Adams.
Callahan, who grew up in the Hudson Valley and currently lives in Westchester County, has made a film that is likely to resonate with local audiences. The principal action takes place in a familiar setting seen from a curious point of view. During much of the film, the protagonist swims in the Hudson River, covering 150 miles between Troy and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. His reasons are only gradually revealed to both the audience and his companions in the escort boat. The swimmer, Paul Thompson (Joseph Fiennes), a financial writer, is struggling with a tragic loss. He decides to distinguish himself by doing something unique. What ensues is a physical journey and an emotional one that explores the psychological devastation that grief can wreak.
Among the other highlights in this year’s roster:
Beyond Greenaway: The Legacy, a sequel to Sarah Gilbert’s 1982 documentary, Greenaway, which examined her parents values and unusual lifestyle. One of six children, Gilbert grew up amidst great wealth on a private island in Long Island Sound near Greenwich, CT. Today she is approaching the age of her parents when the first film was made. In the sequal Gilbert and her siblings look back with sympathy and affection at their foibles, eccentricities, and paranoia (they firmly believed that a Communist takeover of the U.S. was imminent, and that they were in grave personal danger; back then, at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution!). Gilbert will be at the breakfast seminar preceding the film, as will Callahan and David Brind, who wrote the screenplay for Dare, another film being screened. Their topic: “Life into Art.”
Mart Crowley’s play The Boys in the Band opened the year before Stonewall and is believed to be the first theater piece to focus exclusively on the everyday lives of gay men. In his film Making the Boys, through interviews with Edward Albee, Robert Wagner, Larry Kramer, Dominick Dunne, Dan Savage, Michael Musto, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, Paul Rudnick, Carson Kressley, Michael Cunningham, and Marc Shainman, documentarian Crayton Robey explores the hostility gay people endured and their euphoria in the 60s and 70s as they emerged from the closet en masse. This screening will be preceded by a lunch seminar with the film director and part-time Columbia County resident James Ivory.
In an era when political news is entertainment 24/7, when “Joe the Plumber” can, in a matter of weeks, become a political commentator with a global reach, when a little-known Alaskan governor can be transformed overnight into a “world leader,” the media that enable all of this deserve closer scrutiny. In his documentary Poliwood, the esteemed feature film director Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog) explores the fusion of politics, celebrity, entertainment, and the people who decide what’s news.
When director Richard Shepard was a boy, his dad took him to see The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II. He was particularly taken by the character Fredo. “There was something about the sadness and loneliness and oddness of the guy.” Years later, Shepard decided to learn everything he could about John Cazale, the actor who played Fredo, but there was little information, except that he had appeared in just five movies—The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter—before dying of cancer at 42. “...five great movies that were nominated for Best Picture,” Shepard says. “If he were a baseball player, he’d be in the Hall of Fame. He was five for five.” So he set out to make a documentary. In the end, I Knew It Was You may be less about Cazale than about the colleagues he influenced—Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, and Meryl Streep, to whom he was engaged at the time of his death.
One of the most popular components of the Williamstown Festival is the emphasis placed on short films, which are scattered throughout the schedule. A feature film in this year’s line-up, Dare, started as a well-received short.
Williamstown Film Festival Tickets
Weekend passes: $85 (weekend 1) & $120 (weekend 2)
All festival pass: $205
Benefit dinner and film: $100 (not covered by passes)
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 10/06/09 at 02:10 PM • Permalink
FilmColumbia Celebrates its 10th Year
"The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus", starring the late Heath Ledger
The four-day movie marathon known as FilmColumbia, which was founded in 1999, comes to the village of Chatham from October 22 - 25. A star-studded lineup of more than 30 international screenings, plus panel discussions, script readings, parties, and more, the festival “has something for everyone,” according to Peter Biskind, executive director and co-programmer with Larry Kardish, of FilmColumbia. This year, he adds, “We have more comedies than before—our sneak preview for Saturday night has created a lot of buzz in the industry.” With their career connections to the film industry, Columbia County residents Biskind, a Vanity Fair writer and author of many books on film, and Kardish, a filmmaker, curate the selection of new works each year from filmmakers around the world, making FilmColumbia one of the most diverse, intimate, and respected cinematic events on the east coast.
Highlights of the 2009 schedule include such noteworthy releases as director Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, the last movie to star actor Heath Ledger, who died in the midst of production. The film would’ve died too, Biskind explains, were it not for the unique script. “The characters plunge through a mirror confronting their true selves and changing their physical selves. That premise allowed three other actors—Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law, all friends of Ledger—to be incorporated into the story without revisions.”
Other movies showing this year at FilmColumbia spotlight historical characters (Mussolini in Vincere; Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria; Barack Obama in By the People); political drama (The White Ribbon, Axis of Good, The Men Who Stare At Goats); documentary work (Living In Emergency, I.O.U.S.A); comedy (The Maid, the Coen Brothers, A Serious Man, and the Saturday night sneak); and melodrama (That Evening Sun, Against the Current, Fish Tank), plus numerous special interest films and cutting-edge adult animation. Many of the screenings are followed by Q&A sessions in which the director, producer, and/or actors discuss the making of the movie and field questions from the audience.
Produced and organized by Chatham Film Club members, under the direction of Calliope Nicholas, FilmColumbia uses three Chatham village venues—the Crandell Theatre, The Morris Memorial, and the Tracy Memorial—for screenings and special events.
FilmColumbia Festival
October 22 - 25
Individual tickets $5 - $8/members; $2 - $8/students; $7 - $10/non-members
All-Film Pass, $80/members, $110/non-members
Gold Pass to all events, $125/members, $175/non-members.
Chatham Film Club members may use this order form now.
The general public may buy tickets on-line or at the Chatham Bookstore, starting Friday, October 9
Advance purchase highly recommended as most films sell out.
During the festival, some tickets may be available at the Tracy Memorial.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 09/30/09 at 09:08 AM • Permalink
Still Some Tickets Left for Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock” Chatham Premiere
There was a time when lots of small towns across America had an old movie palace like the Crandell, a theater in Chatham that was built in 1926 as a venue for vaudeville and the silent picture show. Since 1960, the year Psycho was the big hit, the Crandell has been owned by the Quirino family. These days, it is undeniably frayed around the edges, but to understand what a loss it would be to a town like Chatham were the Crandell to close, one has only to observe the people arriving at the theater on any given Friday night. Teens on what used to be called “dates,” a mother and her pre-adolescent son, three generations of one family, they all come to see whatever is being offered on the one big screen, despite outmoded projection and (until recently) sound equipment. They come because the Crandell is still the heartbeat of Main Street on the weekend evening, one small town movie theater whose role has not been usurped by some Vegas-style multi-plex in a strip mall outside of town. For that alone, it deserves to be treasured.
And it is. Even though its owner Tony Quirino is ready to pack it in, the Crandell is not going to close. At least not if the members of the Chatham Film Club have any say in the matter, which, apparently, they do. Their Save the Crandell campaign is a big deal and about to become much bigger. One film-club member, the Academy-award nominated screenwriter and producer James Shamus, a Ghent resident, pulled strings to have his most recent film, Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, which was shot in Columbia County (New Lebanon, Hillsdale), premiere at a benefit screening at the Crandell on July 30. The first show, at 6 p.m., is already sold out. Tickets are still available for the 8:30 show and for the gala that will be held in a tent near the theater from 7 - midnight.
It promises to be quite a night. James Shamus will be there, of course, and so will the Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee, as well as the film’s young star, Demetri Martin (Yale, NYU Law School, stand-up comedy—his poor parents— and now this). True to the smalltown spirit of the event, there will be a buffet of picnic fare—pulled pork sliders, hot dogs, potato salad, good tomatoes, pesto pasta salad—as well as wine, beer (Chatham Breweries, naturally), and soft drinks. And, of course, there will be brownies. As Sandi Knakal of the Film Club board points out, “What’s a Woodstock party without brownies?”
Chatham Film Club
Taking Woodstock premiere, 8:30 p.m.
The Crandell Theatre
Main Street, Chatham
Tickets: $25/8:30 show
Premiere Party 7 p.m. - midnight
Tickets: $50/general admission, $150/reserved seating
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 07/09/09 at 08:55 AM • Permalink
Outdoor Movies: Smiles of a Summer Night
They say the best things in life are free, which around here includes many of the movies shown en pleine air at night in the summertime. The wonderful sponsors of these programs seem to consider it their civic duty to provide families with every opportunity to be outdoors on our all-too-infrequent (especially this year) hot summer nights.
The first of the two Handy Boys Enterprises Free Outdoor Movies, Kung Fu Panda, will screen Saturday, July 18, and the second Madagascar 2 on August 15.
Eddie Collins Ball Field
Route 22, across from Agway
Millerton, NY
Saturday , July 18 at about 8:30 p.m.
Admission: Free
The Images Cinema in Williamstown dubs its outdoor movie series Family Flicks Under the Stars, and screens them on Sundays (in case of rain, the party moves indoors to the theater). The 4-week series begins this Sunday with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the Gene Wilder version, not to be confused with the more recent one with Johnny Depp in the title role).
Images Cinema
50 Spring Street
Williamstown, MA; 413.458.5612
Sunday July 12, at about 8:30 p.m.
Admission: Free
Performance Space for the 21st Century in Chatham screens its films in an airy tent—perhaps not quite as glamorous as under-the-stars, but at least it’s waterproof. Another difference: their programming (all about singing and dancing, this year) is for grown-ups. Back again this year, Adjunct Professor of Communications at FIT Frank Farnham introduces the first film, The Turning Point, with Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, and Mikhail Baryshnikov on Tuesday, July 14. Old Chatham resident Farnham will also be on hand with illuminating commentary for subsequent screening of such films as Tales of Hoffmann, Guys & Dolls, and A Hard Day’s Night.
PS 21
2980 Route 66 (north of the village); Chatham; 518.392.6121
Tuesday, July 14, at about 8:30 p.m.
Admission: Free
Throughout the summer The City of Pittsfield periodically offers free Outdoor Movies on the Common. The first of the season, on Friday, July 17, is Dreamworks’ Animation’s Over the Hedge (PG).
The City of Pittsfield
The Common, on First Street
Pittsfield, MA
Friday, July 17, after dusk; canceled in the event of rain.
Admission: Free
Time & Space Limited, the PARC Foundation, and the City of Hudson are co-sponsoring free outdoor movies on Friday nights from now till the end of summer. Their programming is, as usual for TSL, unpredictable and amusing. This Friday, they’ll kick off the series with the cartoon, Sita Sings the Blues, an animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana, billed as “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.” Subsequent weeks will feature Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, the documentary Man on Wire, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. For a complete schedule, visit the TSL website.
Pocket Park
330 Warren Street
Hudson, NY
Friday, July 10, after dusk; rain date, Saturday
Admission: Free
The Clark in Williamstown is presenting a summer film series, An Artist in Her Own Right: Barbara Stanwyck and the Modern American Woman, starting next Saturday afternoon. While it is not outdoors, it is free, so we’re including it. How could we not with a line-up like this: Baby Face, Stella Dallas, Ball of Fire, The Lady Eve, and, of course, Double Indemnity.
The Clark
225 South Street
Williamstown, MA
Saturday, July 18, 2 p.m.
Admission: Free
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 07/06/09 at 01:49 AM • Permalink
