Film
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Secrecy and Scandal in New French Film
Images Cinema Feb. 7 to March 7
By: - Feb 04th, 2011Images Cinema in Williamstown will host the Secrecy and Scandal in New French Film series on Mondays, February 7 – March 7 at 7pm. Admission is free; all films will be in French with English subtitles.
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Sundance: It's a Wrap
Regrets He Has a Few
By: - Feb 02nd, 2011By the time Jon Goldman and his friends staggered to Salt Lake City the Sundance Film Festival was a blur of intoxicating impressions and exhilarating ideas. Some of the initial plans and ambitions were unfulfilled. There were logistics and schedules to juggle. Much of what occurs at festivals proves to be serendipitous. Filmmakers like Goldman, who is three years into Oil in the Family, hope to connect and advance their projects. Those fortunate enough to be exhibited seek to find distribution deals. Ten days at Sundance can be like a week of shooting craps in Vegas.
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Sundance Three
Watch Till You Drop
By: - Feb 01st, 2011By this third installment Goldman and his companions are a bit fried having taken in so many films. This comes with the territory of covering Sundance and other major film festivals. Among the films discussed are Lost Kisses, Terri, Buck, and The Last Mountain. There is also valuable networking for Goldman's film in progress Oil in the Family.
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Sundance Film Festival Two
Recruiting Isabella Rossellini
By: - Jan 31st, 2011In his second year at Sundance director/ producer, Jon Goldman, was networking for a work in progress Oil in the Family. He was also there to select films for the 20th annual Woods Hole Film Festival. He is excited that Isabella Rossellini may attend and screen her new film. By this report Goldman and his companions had seen eleven films of which he provides highlights.
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Sundance Film Festival: One
Being There
By: - Jan 30th, 2011For the second year documentary film producer/ director, Jon Goldman, visited the Sundance Film Festival. In this first installment of his journal he describes getting there, travel companions, and the challenges of securing tickets to screenings and events. He reports on Sing Your Song featuring Harry Belafonte. And Pariah a film relating the family conflict of a lesbian coming of age.
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Karen Allen's White Irish Drinkers
Film Event at Mahaiwe Feb. 5
By: - Jan 18th, 2011The Berkshire International Film Festival and the Mahaiwe present a screening event of Karen Allen’s new critically acclaimed film, WHITE IRISH DRINKERS on Saturday, February 5 at 7 pm with Karen Allen, Peter Reigert, writer and director John Gray and other cast members in attendance.
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Marwencol at Images Cinema
Brutal Beating Evokes Gabrielle Giffords
By: - Jan 11th, 2011The feature length, award winning, documentary film Marwencol was screened for one night at Images Cinema. It tells the story of a severely beaten, cross dressing, former alcoholic, Mark Hogancamp, who has created a World War II model village in Belgium. Using Barbie and GI dolls, jeeps and tanks he exorcises his demons by creating and photographing elaborate narratives. The Q&A that followed evoked comparisons of his brain damage to that of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
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ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage
January Films
By: - Dec 29th, 2010ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage continues its inaugural season of adventurous films with programming that includes János Szász, Victor Fleming, Miklós Jancsó, Charles Laughton, Jean-Luc Godard, and J. Lee Thompson. Films are screened in the Bright Family Screening Room at Emerson College’s Paramount Center (559 Washington St., Boston).
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Alexis Ann Rosasco Wrote and Stars in Antigonish
Berkshire Actress Shooting Film with Christopher D. Grace
By: - Dec 03rd, 2010Alexis Ann Rosacso was born in North Adams and grew up in Williamstown. After a BFA from Tufts University and the Museum School she is back in the Berkshires shooting a film she wrote and stars in. With director/ producer, Christopher D. Grace, co star, Kaio Wilker, and musician CJ Fields they met with artists of the Eclipse Mill to discuss the project.
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BIFF Bugged
Screening Nov. 21 in Great Barrinton
By: - Nov 09th, 2010The BIFF’s REEL FRIENDS Film Society, will present, in collaboration with the Berkshire Botanical Garden and The Nature Conservancy, two short films and a discussion with leading experts, about the dangerously invasive Asian Longhorned beetle that has been found in Worcester and more recently Boston, and is threatening to encroach on the Berkshires.
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Conviction On All Levels
A True Story About Sibling Devotion
By: - Oct 31st, 2010Struggle and resolution are formulaic for theatre and film story lines. But the recently opened film, Conviction, applies this formula in a true but narratively unreasonable but provocative way. Here a wrongly convicted brother is finally exonerated by the efforts of his determined sister, a former high school dropout and single mom who wills her way through college and law school to properly defend her brother. Rather than unbelievable, corny or maudlin, this a film about class, family and uneven American justice. New BFA contributor George Abbott White has known Betty Anne Waters for years, not as a legal hero, but as a pubkeeper in Bristol, R.I.
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November at ArtsEmerson
The World on Stage
By: - Oct 27th, 2010ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage continues its inaugural season of adventurous film program with a month that celebrates Godard, Orson Welles, Jerry Lewis, Stravinsky (in deference to Petrushka) and more, and includes Saturday afternoon family screenings and a very special discussion with screenwriter Jay Cocks.
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Ed Burns Nice Guy Johnny
Williamstown Film Festival: It’s a Wrap
By: - Oct 26th, 2010In addition to a superb schedule of seminars, an evening with Alec Baldwin and Robert Osborne, features and short films the Williamstown Film Festival explored new approaches to independent films. A case in point was the final film Nice Guy Johnny. It was written and directed by Edward Burns on a minuscule budget of $25,000 in twelve days.
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Cropsey Screened as BIFF Special
Great Barrington Triplex Oct.29
By: - Oct 26th, 2010In honor of the Halloween weekend, the BIFF’s REEL FRIENDS Film Society will present the special screening of the documentary film, CROPSEY directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio. The film will be screened only once at the Triplex on Friday, October 29th at 9 p.m. with a Q&A with the filmmaker immediately following.
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Marge Champion Keep Dancing
Screened at Williamstown Film Festival
By: - Oct 23rd, 2010Now 91, Marge Champion drove over from Stockbridge to attend a matinee screening of the documentary film, Keep Dancing, that features her with Donald Saddler. She was an original board member of Williamstown Theatre Festival as well as Jacob's Pillow. It was delightful. Which was not the case that evening at Mass MoCA when the Vincent Price cult classic was accompanied by a live rock score by Marco Benevento. The music obliterated rather than enhanced the film.
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The Perfect Host at WFF
Williamstown Film Festival Resumes
By: - Oct 22nd, 2010First time director, Nick Tomnay, was on hand to discuss The Perfect Host after a screening of the thriller during the Williamstown Film Festival. He lucked out in convincing the veteran actor David Hyde Pierce to appear more or less pro bono. He delivers a total gonzo performance in a low budget film shot for just $1 million in a remarkably brief 17 days.
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Williamstown Film Festival Part Two
Three Films Featuring Women: Cattrall, Hunt and Leo
By: - Oct 19th, 2010The first weekend of the two part Williamstown Film Festival offered three features with compelling performances by mid career women: Kim Cattrall, Melissa Leo and Helen Hunt. All three films also include juvenile actors. Significantly, these superb independent films are looking for distribution deals. Right now they are making their way around the festival circuit, connecting with enthusiastic audiences. Veteran character actor, Brian Dennehy, appeared in two of the three films.
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Williamstown Film Festival: Week One
Baldwin and Osborne on Wilder Pack MoCA
By: - Oct 18th, 2010Steve Lawson, the artistic director of the Williamstown Film Festival has created a remarkable program for its 12th season. In addition to a program of shorts and three feature films the highlight of the first of two weekends was a packed house at Mass MoCA for a tribute to Billy Wilder with a dialogue between actor Alec Baldwin and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
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Inside Job
Real Greed, Theft and Villainy On Wall Street
By: - Oct 17th, 2010"Inside Job" is the first film to expose the shocking truths behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. It is all appalling and scary. And the story isn't over yet.
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A Backstory on Hereafter
Clint Eastwood's New Film a Tossup
By: - Oct 14th, 2010Hereafter, Clint Eastwood's new film, opens in limited release on October 15 and in general release on the 22nd. Damon talked more about going begging to Ben Affleck for jobs in his appearance on Letterman, but Letterman, not one to show deep emotion often, was clearly moved by the film.
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BIFF Howls October 15
Special Screening About Allen Ginsberg Poem
By: - Oct 08th, 2010Howl by Allen Ginsberg is the most enduring poem of the Beat Generation. There will be a special screening of a new film about the controversial poem on October 15 at the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington. It is being presented by the Berkshire International Film Festival.
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Affleck’s The Town
Cops and Robbahs
By: - Oct 01st, 2010Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is the master mind of a gang of bank robbers from Charlestown. While The Town is better than most of the dogs Affleck has starred in, since his 1997 Oscar he shared with boyhood friend Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting, it's more good than great. It was fun to see all those shots of Boston but other than nostalgia and scenery this was pretty run of the mill.
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The Social Network
Facing Up to Facebook
By: - Sep 28th, 2010Advance reports on "The Social Network," which opens this weekend, report an entertaining and provocative film with a really evil man at its center. This simply isn't so. Yes, the film is terrific, but no, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is not the sinister character his detractors portray. Neither the film nor his life suggests this.
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Rick Harlow's The Black Line Journey
Screened Oct. 2 at Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Sep 22nd, 2010For a number of years the North Adams based artist, Rick Harlow, has spent extended periods of time living and working with the indigenous peoples of Colombia. He has created a film which documents The Elders Project which entailed visiting more than fifty sacred sites in January, 2010. The film The Black Line Journey will be screened at the Eclipse Mill Gallery on Saturday, October 2, at 7 PM, followed by a discussion with the artist. The film will premiere during a documentary festival in Bogata, Colombia later in the month.
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Toronto International Film Festival 2010
Ten Days of Cinematic Immersion and Revelation
By: - Sep 17th, 2010Ten days in September marks the Toronto International Film Festival. It is the largest film festival in the world in terms of films shown and the most highly attended in terms of audience. It is an escape into the world of cinema that is enjoyed annually by the film community and film lovers. As any year, this year there were the good, the bad and the ugly. This year the buzz was about a very British film that could get a lot of Oscars. TIFF is a wonderful way to get lost and found in the dark.
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