Film
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Spanish Masters of Cinema at the Clark
Film Series June 18 to August 27
By: - Jun 07th, 2010In a summer when the Clark is featuring the work of two great Spanish artists, its “Spanish Masters of Cinema†film series, June 18 through August 27, will look at the work of six acclaimed Spanish directors. In the long history of Spanish filmmaking, the great director Luis Buñuel was the first to achieve universal recognition, followed by Pedro Almodóvar in the 1980s. More recently Spanish cinema has achieved high marks from critics and filmgoers alike as a result of its creative and technical excellence, notably Guillermo del Toro’s Academy-Award-winning 2006 masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, the final film in the six-part series
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Berkshire International Film Festival
Jason Lehel’s GAIA Won for Best Feature
By: - Jun 06th, 2010The Jury for Berkshire International Film Festival had 8 films in competition; 4 films in the feature documentary category and 4 in the narrative feature category. In the documentary category were AHEAD OF TIME, CLIMATE REFUGEES, FAMILY AFFAIR, and THE OATH. ATLETU, GAIA, MAD SAD & BAD, and MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX were in competition for best feature.
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Little Cinema at Pittsfield Museum
Hosts Berkshire International Film Festival June 5 & 6
By: - May 26th, 2010Pittsfield Museum’s Little Cinema celebrates 60 years of cinematic excellence . One of the longest-running film festivals in New England, Little Cinema presents first-run foreign and independent films. Little Cinema presents films nightly at 8 p.m. plus a weekly Monday matinee at 2 p.m. Kicking off this historic season is an appropriately historic film, Vincere, (128 minutes, rated R), running from Sunday, May 30 to Thursday, June 3.
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Jidl Mitn Fidl (Yiddle With His Fiddle) at Mahaiwe
Berkshie International Film Festival Event June 6
By: - May 26th, 2010Based on the classic 1936 Yiddish film musical comedy Yidl Mitn Fidl starring the irrepressible Molly Picon, this new English-language adaptation was written by screenwriter and author Stephen Glantz and will be directed by Susan Merson.
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Exit Through The Gift Shop Reels Art
World's First Street Art Disaster Movie
By: - Apr 23rd, 2010Mysterious Banksy is a street artist with a global reputation whose clever and often poignant work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to a Palestinian segregation wall on the West Bank. Guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be identified. Exit Through the Gift Shop is the story of how an eccentric French vintage clothes shop owner and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist eventually turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. This film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Space Invader, Ron English and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work. But is it real or just a reel?
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Berkshire International Film Festival
In Great Barrington and Pittsfield June 3 to 6
By: - Apr 16th, 2010A documentary on comic Joan Rivers launches the Berkshire International Film Festival on June 6 preceded by a short documentary on Marge Champion celebratng her 90th birthday. This year the festival is expanding from Great Barrington to Pittsfield with a schedule of more than 75 features, documentaries and shorts. Actress Patricia Clarkson will be honored.
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Ray Kurzweil's Impressions of Avatar
Responses from a Reader
By: - Apr 14th, 2010I have never had the good fortune to meet nor communicate with Ray Kurzweil. I have been aware of him and an admirer of his work for forty years. If you do not know of him, you certainly know or have benefited from and/or probably have used at least one or more of his creations.
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The Art of the Steal At the Coolidge
Heist of Barnes Foundation Art Documentary
By: - Mar 28th, 2010Dr. Barnes hired the best Philadelphia Lawyers he could to protect his collection in Merion, PA from the Philadelphia Main Line toffs and phonies. Yet, somehow the estimated $25 billion collection of Modern and Post-Impressionist masterpieces has been appropriated through politics, power, wealth and subterfuge. This well-crafted documentary by Don Argott shows what, how and where it happened.
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Polanski's Ghost Writer at Images
Updates from Williamstown Theatre
By: - Mar 23rd, 2010Rainy Mondays are perfect for taking in a movie. The non profit Images in Williamstown will screen controversial director Roman's Polanski's latest The Ghost Writer starting on Friday, March 26. There will be a one night screening of Who Does She Think She Is and panel with women artists on Monday, April 5.
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It's Not Me, I Swear Is Wonderful Cinema
Museum of Fine Arts Hosts Quebec Film Series
By: - Mar 07th, 2010Our neighbors to the North, the Province of Quebec, have a tradition of culture and regional cultural awareness. Their filmmakers are a strong and vibrant creative voice internationally. Currently, being presented at the Boston Museum of fine Arts is a series of fascinating and provocative films from Quebec. The festival began with "It's not me, I swear." This is a brilliantly made and acted film about a young boy seemingly from Hell.But is he really? It is an unexpected treat.
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Jonathan Demme Honored At Coolidge
Films and Colleagues Celebrate Coolidge Award
By: - Mar 02nd, 2010The Coolidge Award presented yearly to a distinguished filmmaker or actor is celebrated by film series, special screenings, This year's recipient, Academy Award winning Director Jonathan Demme, is one of the truly great film directors. His work has embraced not only commercial and independent films, but documentaries and music videos. Accessible, urbane and well-spoken, Demme is a man of his times. The Coolidge Corner Theatre is one of those special institutions, and Demme is a special cinematic artist. The 2010 Coolidge Award celebration was just right.
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Williamstown Film Festival: Images to March 8
Faith, Hope, Identity: Religious and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary French Film
By: - Feb 03rd, 2010Over five consecutive Mondays at 7PM, from February 8 to March 8, 2010, the Williams College Department of Romance Languages will screen five recent films from France at Images Cinema on Spring Street in Williamstown, Mass. The screenings are free and open to the public.
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Jonathan Demme Wins Coolidge Award
Annual Film Award To Be Presented March 1&2
By: - Jan 28th, 2010The Coolidge Award is an annual celebration honoring a film artist whose body of work is recognized as consistently original and challenging. The category from which the recipient is chosen each year rotates, to reflect the broad range of film arts championed by The Coolidge Corner Theatre throughout its history. This year's recipient is Director, Producer and Screenwriter Jonathan Demme. His films include Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia and Rachel Getting Married to name a few.
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Lie! Cheat! Steal! Fake It! At Mass MoCA
Film Series Opened with American Casino
By: - Jan 26th, 2010Mass MoCA has organized a provocative documentary film series Lie!Cheat! Steal! Fake It! We recently attended the first in the series "American Casino" that explored the sub prime mess that decimated banks and brought down Wall Street. The films are screened on Thursdays once a month through April 29.
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James Ivory at Williamstown Film Festival
Dialogue with Artistic Director Steve Lawson
By: - Nov 02nd, 2009Producer Ismail Merchant, who passed away in 2005, and director, James Ivory, created their first film "The Householder" in 1963. They are mostly noted for literary costume dramas like "Room with a View" "Howards End" and "Remains of the Day." Ivory was frank and amusing in discussing the occasional clunkers like "Slaves of New York." His appearance was a highlight of the Eleventh Williamstown Film Festival.
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A Winning First Week for Williamstown Film Festival
New Films, New Insights, New Stars as Week Two Begins
By: - Oct 29th, 2009So far, more than two dozen features and shorts have received their debuts at the Williamstown Film Festival and there wasn't a dud among them. And Week Two is at hand.
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Live Music by ETHEL to Accompany Ship of Monsters Film
Williamstown Film Festival and Mass MoCA Join Forces
By: - Oct 27th, 2009e-Harmony couldn't come up with a stranger match than the one on tap Friday night, October 30. Hear string quartet ETHEL playing original music while you watch the Mexican sci-fi film La Nave De Los Monstruos (Ship of Monsters). We talk to violist Ralph Farris about this perplexing pairing.
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Preview of Williamstown Film Festival's Eleventh Season
October 23 - November 1 Screenings, Panels, Special Events
By: - Sep 23rd, 2009For 2009's Williamstown Film Festival the emphasis is on movies and film making, not what the starlets are wearing on the red carpet. Film makers and film lovers love the Berkshire's version of a film festival since the emphasis is on craft and content, not gossip and glamour.
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2009 Toronto International Film Festival
A Little Something For Everyone at TIFF
By: - Sep 14th, 2009The annual Toronto International Film Festival has become the largest and most diverse film festival in the world. It allows filmlovers to taste, savor, reject and enjoy films from around the globe including general Hollywood big budget movies, independently produced smaller films, documentaries, family entertainments and midnight madness blood and guts horror films.
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Noel Coward's Easy Virtue
Stephen Elliot's Adaption of 1925 Play
By: - Jun 27th, 2009"Easy Virtue",a delicious update on Noel Coward, opened in limited release at the end of May...tuned to our times. Alfred Hitchcock made a silent film based on the play. Why would Hitchcock have been attracted when Coward is first and foremost a wordsmith and sound was not available for the 1927 production?
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Great Night at Boston Independent Film Festival
Bobcat Goldwait Directs Robin Williams
By: - Apr 30th, 2009The Boston Independent Film Festival has developed into a serious film celebration. Closing night of the seventh year of the Boston Independent Film Festival took place at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. The film was World's Greatest Dad directed by Bobcat Goldwait and starring Robin Williams. Yes, that Bobcat Goldwait of intellectually unmemorable films like Police Academy and quirky standup routines. The crowd loved it at the Coolidge with Robin Williams on the screen and Goldwait in person.
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State of Play Delivers
Political Thriller Stars Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Helen Mirren
By: - Apr 21st, 2009The ripped from the headlines plot of the political thriller "State of Play" involves a philandering Congressman whose mistress/ aide gets thrown under a train in the midst of investigating a black ops paramilitary security firm bilking the goverment for billions. Sounds familiar? Add to that an editor presiding over a shrinking news room investigating the scandal. The film with a terrific cast proves to be predictable but thoroughly entertaining.
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Brothers Quay to Receive '09 Coolidge Award
6th Annual Award to Edgy Animation Twins
By: - Mar 26th, 2009Adding to the list of the most distinguished filmmakers and performers in the world, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is awarding this year's prestigeous Coolidge Award to two esteemed animators. Recognized as among the world's most original contemporary animators, the Brothers Quay are American twin collaborators living and working in England. With a passion for meticulous detail, color and texture, the duo's films and shorts are unique and instantly recognizable. Their work also includes outstanding set design and collaboration with other artists and filmmakers.
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Valkyrie: Cruise Control
A Plot to Kill Hitler
By: - Dec 31st, 2008For a film star of a certain age there was Risky Business for Tom Cruise riding on his role as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg a key conspirator in "Valkyrie" the last of some 20 attempts to assasinate Adolph Hitler.
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The Wrestler is A Mickey Rourke Pin
Rourke's Acting Career Resurrected
By: - Dec 27th, 2008Mickey Rourke has been a Hollywood badboy for over three decades. His anti-establishment attitude has hurt him professionally. His decisions and judgments have been self-destructive. However, now in his 50's, his acting career seems to be resurrected with this outstanding and powerful performance in The Wrestler.
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