Film
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Eames Film Opens MFA's Architectural Series
Architecture & Design Is Focus of Four Documentaries
By: - Dec 10th, 2011A series of four films about contemporary architecture and design is now being shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Including in the program are an interesting range of design, architectural practice and national attitudes. Beginning with a film about multidimensional designers Charles and Ray Eames, the next three films focus upon more architecturally-oriented subjects, the UK's Lord Norman Foster, Atlanta-based John Portman and the story of the on/off architecture for the Cuban National School of the Arts.
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ICA Announces WINTER/SPRING 2012 Schedule
Performances, Talks And Film Programs
By: - Dec 05th, 2011For the upcoming winter and spring 2012, the ICA has developed a full and provocative series of events that include an array of performances, film programs and lectures. Be there or be square.
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Ralph Fiennes Directorial Debut As Coriolanus
Set in Belgrade, Coriolanus Hits Home
By: - Nov 05th, 2011Ralph Fiennes explains that shooting in the former Yugoslavia was cheap, but the Coriolanus setting provides more than an inexpensive backdrop. The Shakespeare tragedy set as recent wars, and street protests seem as fresh as Occupy Wall Street protesters in Oakland.
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Short Films at Williamstown Film Festival 2011
An Overview and 21 Shorts
By: - Oct 31st, 2011The 13th Season of the Williamstown Film Festival ended amidst the first Nor Easter during Fall season 2011. Call it lucky 13 ! This is the sixth and final BFA article, highlighting some of the 21 Shorts, which were screened throughout the two week long festival.
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Blizzard Disrupts Williamstown Film Festival
Jeff Kleiser and Dori Berinstein’s Carol Channing Documentary
By: - Oct 30th, 2011The sixth and final day of the 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival got clobbered by a freak October blizzard. There was a small audience for the superb Saturday program. For the annual lunch seminar Jeff Kleizer took us behind the scenes while spending two years creating special effects for a just released Bollywood action film Ra.One. The afternoon screening presented a documentary on three time Tony winner, Carol Channing created by three time Tony winner, Lori Berenstein. It was a win win for the audience.
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Never Stand Still at WFF
Film Celebrates Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
By: - Oct 29th, 2011Over a number of years there have been annual collaborations between Jacob's Pillow and Mass MoCA. As a part of the Williamstown Film Festival the New England premiere of Never Stand Still, directed by Ron Honsa, was screened in the Hunter Center of Mass MoCA. The documentary film includes a sketch of the founding of the festival by Ted Shawn in 1941 as well as a collage of its diverse programming.
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The Restaurateur Danny Meyer
Profiled in Roger Sherman Film
By: - Oct 28th, 2011The Restaurateur by Roger Sherman provided a tasty start for the second weekend of the Williamstown Film Festival. It was a nasty, stormy Thursday night but Images Cinema was packed for a film about New York entrepreneur Danny Meyer. He and Sherman were on had for a post film chat with organizer Steve Lawson. Then the audience decamped for a tasting party at Mezze.
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Williamstown Film Festival 2011
The First of Two Weekends
By: - Oct 24th, 2011After three days and nights in the dark there is much to sort through in the particularly rich, varied, fertile and provocative 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival curated by its tasteful and insightful artistic director Steve Lawson. The festival continues through October 29.
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The Lie at Williamstown Film Festival
Opening Night of 13th Annual Event
By: - Oct 22nd, 2011For the opening night of the 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival, Steve Lawson, the executive director of WFF, selected a film he first viewed at Sundance. Before a capacity audience at Images Cinema, last night, Lawson introduced the feature film, The Lie, and followed that with a talk back and Q&A with the writer/ director/ star Joshua Leonard and his co star Jess Weixler.
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Where Do We Go Now at Toronto Film Festival
By the Director and Actress Nadine Labaki
By: - Oct 11th, 2011The Toronto Cadillac People's Choice Award 2011 winner is “Where Do We Go Nowâ€. It is the second long feature by the Lebanese director and actress Nadine Labaki. The film premiered at the Cannes film festival and won the ecumenical prize section of “Un Certain Regard.†Selected by the Toronto Festival places it in good company. Last year’s winner, The Kings Speech, went on to win four Oscars for foreign film at the 83rd Academy Awards.
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Moneyball with Brad Pitt
How the Red Sox Found Their Winning Ways
By: - Sep 22nd, 2011It started in Oakland where a failed ballplayer had to find cheap means to deliver a winning team. It continued as the Red Sox won the World Series. Baseball fan or not, you will love Moneyball and particularly the gutsy, subtle performances of Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Williamstown Film Festival's Lucky 13
Returns October 21-23 and 17-29
By: - Sep 20th, 2011Over two weekends (October 21-23 and 27-29), the Williamstown Film Festival's "Lucky 13th" season will include two East Coast and four New England premieres, family and late-night slots, titles from Sundance, Tribeca, and Toronto, and films featuring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Carol Channing, Ezra Miller, Lewis Black, Kate Burton, Tony Shalhoub, Campbell Scott, and Christo. WFF will conclude with a salute to legendary director Sidney Lumet at the Clark Art Institute.
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Berkshire Film & Media Commission Filmmaking Classes
With IS183 Art School of the Berkshires.
By: - Jul 16th, 2011Free movie-making discussion series begins Tuesday, July 19, with panel of film industry professionals on "Pre-Production." This collaboration will also include a specific course on the Art of Storyboarding and an intensive Screenwriting workshop.
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Big Opera and Ballet for Little Cinema
Berkshire Museum Expands Programming
By: - Jun 23rd, 2011Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema today offers bi-weekly, high-definition digital broadcasts of world class opera and ballet performances from around the world. These broadcasts feature acclaimed performances by leading performance troupes, from some of the world’s finest theatres and concert halls.
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BIFF Two
Part Time Fabulous, On the Ice, !Woman Art Revolution
By: - Jun 06th, 2011Concluding our attendance at the sixth annual Berkshire International Film Festival yesterday we attended three films: Part Time Fabulous, On the Ice, !Woman Art Revolution. While problematic for different reasons the films were consistent with the remarkable quality of the festival organized by founder and artistic director Kelley Vickery.
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Berkshire International Film Festival 2011 Wrapup
Awards Announced
By: - Jun 06th, 2011The Berkshire International Film Festival announced the winners of the annual BIFF Juried Prize Award and the BIFF Audience Award. In the Juried documentary category, the winner was CRIME AFTER CRIME directed by Yoav Potash, the powerful documentary film on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her.
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Berkshire International Film Festival: One
Being There
By: - Jun 05th, 2011Now in its sixth year under founder Kelley Vickery, screened at multiple venues the Berkshire International Film Festival, which opened on Thursday June 2 and ran in Great Barrington and Pittsfield closed on Sunday, June 5. Cinematic treats and surprises were in store for the enthusiastic crowds who attended. A film festival may be the second best thing to do in the dark. BIFF seems to get better each year.
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Jacob's Pillow Film at BIFF June 4
Narrated by Bill T. Jones
By: - May 29th, 2011Never Stand Still, a new documentary directed by award-winning producer and director Ron Honsa and narrated by Tony Award-winner and Kennedy Center honoree Bill T. Jones will be screened during BIFF on June 4. Never Stand Still is an inspiring film about dance and the extraordinary performers who have dedicated their lives to it; filmed on location at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a National Historic Landmark and America’s longest running international dance festival.
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Pittsfield Native Kent Jones at BIFF
Scorsese Collaborator Presents A Letter to Elia
By: - May 25th, 2011On Saturday, June 4, Pittsfield native Kent Jones, one of the world’s most notable film critics and historians, will appear at the Beacon Cinema to screen and discuss his latest film collaboration with Martin Scorsese, A Letter to Elia, in a Berkshire International Film Festival special event sponsored by the Berkshire Film and Media Commission.
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Part Time Fabulous at BIFF
Alethea Root and Don Presley in U.S. Debut
By: - May 23rd, 2011Filmmakers Jules Bruff (TIXE Films), Alethea Root and Don Presley (Truth 13 Productions), in partnership with Eleonore Daily, and Cheryl Stewart (howUNoriginal Productions) will make their U.S debut at the prestigious Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) on June 3rd and June 5th with PART TIME FABULOUS. Great Barrington native and independent filmmaker, Alethea Root, returns home for her directorial debut of PART TIME FABULOUS and Berkshire’s own award-winning, folk singer Meg Hutchinson lent her poignant song Being Happy for the trailer. No U.S. distributor is attached at this time.
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Biff to Honor Douglas Trumbull June 4
Special Effects Master and Director
By: - May 12th, 2011Douglas Trumbull, will receive the annual BIFF Achievement in Film Award at the Festival’s 6th Anniversary held June 2 – 5, 2011 in Great Barrington and Pittsfield, MA. His career included the Special Photographic Effects Supervisor for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Visual Effects Supervisor for such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Blade Runner (1982), each of which earned him an Academy Award nomination.
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Berkshire International Film Festival
2011 Program June 2 through June 5
By: - Apr 29th, 2011The annual Berkshire International Film Festival will run from June 2 through 5. The film festival will feature some 70 US and international independent feature films, documentaries, and shorts.
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NY Screening of The Black Line Journey
Peoples of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM) in Colombia
By: - Apr 25th, 2011“The Black Line Journey†presents the Mamos, (Sages) of the Kogui, Arhuaco and Wiwa Indigenous peoples, who live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM) in Colombia, which they call the “The Heart of the World.†The film will be screened followed by discussion on May 1, at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
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The Salesman At MFA's Quebec Film Festival
Boston Series Showcases French Canadian Cinematic Talent
By: - Mar 12th, 2011Now an annual affair at the MFA, the Quebec Film Festival is an exceptional ambassador for the creative cinematic artistry of the Province of Quebec. The opening night film, The Salesman by a gifted young writer/director is about an older (67) perennial car salesman of the month. The salesman takes great satisfaction in the act of the sales, the ritual of persuasion. With no happy outcomes, this is a film about a particular life in a particular place to ponder for a long time.
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Williamstown Film Festival at the Oscars
Thoughts on Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals
By: - Mar 06th, 2011Last fall the short film God of Love, written, directed and starring Luke Matheny won the Reeve Award at the Williamstown Film Festival. There was an aha, flashback moment when he bounded on stage to pick up an Oscar. The most recent WFF also included stunning Indy films starring Melissa Leo, another Oscar winner, as well as Kim Cattrall who recently was seen in a Masterpiece Theatre series. We discussed these awards and accomplishment with WFF artistic director Steve Lawson.
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