Film
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Cast and Crew Call for Berkshire Film Shoot
Producers Seek Local Talent April 30 through May
By: - Apr 20th, 2012Various crew members are needed to work on a two-week film shoot in Berkshire County. Production on this low-budget, psychological thriller is scheduled to begin on April 30; interviews to be held immediately. The producers are seeking to fill the following positions locally.
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ArtsEmerson Film Program May 4 to 26
Gotta Dance: The American Movie Musical 1929-1953
By: - Apr 02nd, 2012ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage closes its second season of adventurous, independent and repertory films with the final entry in Gotta Dance, an ambitious five-month survey of the American film musical; late-period Renoir and the second annual Festival Focus showcase. Films are screened at Emerson College’s Paramount Center (559 Washington St., Boston), in the Bright Family Screening Room.
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The Hunger Games: Futuristic Teen Gladiators
Leaves Audiences Starving for Sequels
By: - Mar 28th, 2012During the opening weekend of The Hunger Games there was a record setting feeding freny resulting in a box office of $155 million and another half of that abroad. The sci fi adventure film conflates the adolescent tribalism of Lord of the Flies with a spate of gladiator themes films that started back with the silent version of Ben Hur in 1925. So there is nothing new or different here other than the stunningly beautiful Jennifer Lawrence in another Oscar potential performance as the gritty survivor Katniss Everdeen.
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ICA: The International Experimental Cinema Exposition
Sunday, April 1 at 4 p.m.
By: - Mar 13th, 2012The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE), with an introduction by curator and TIE founder Christopher May, on Sunday, April 1 at 4 p.m. in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater. Tickets for the screenings are $10 general admission or $8 for members, students, and seniors.
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Goethe-Institut Boston Film Series
Cutting Edge German Language Films At Coolidge
By: - Mar 12th, 2012Adding to the world class film banquet of greater Boston, the Goethe-Institut Boston and the Coolidge Corner Theatre have partnered to present provocative new films from Germany highlighting young directors who, with their first or second features, demonstrate that there is more to New German Cinema than just the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others. Monthly Sunday Matinees showcase a sampling of new and award-winning German films rarely shown outside Europe.
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Viggo Mortensen Receives Coolidge Award
Independent/Mainstream Film Star Honored for Acting
By: - Mar 06th, 2012For the past nine years, the Coolidge Corner Theatre has honored outstanding artists for contributions to the film industry. This year's recipient, Viggo Mortensen, is the consummate actor's actor who women are attracted to and men admire, playing killers to kings, hippies to Freud. Wonderful actor, wonderful man and a wonderful event.
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Oscars on Crystal
An Album of Memories
By: - Feb 27th, 2012The Oscars were back on track with the return of comic Billy Crystal as host for the ninth time. While providing some stability after the fiasco of recent years the evening proved to be mostly geriatric and enervating. That ennui reflected a mostly lackluster year of competent but forgettable films. Arguably the finest performance of the past year was the dog in The Artist. The best actor award went to the dog's master the stunningly silent hoofer Jean Dujardin.
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Harry Belafonte Film at Mass MoCA
Sing Your Song Screened March 1
By: - Feb 20th, 2012Sing Your Song screens as part of MASS MoCA's Cinema Lounge documentary series on Thursday, March 1, at 7:30 PM. Revealing how Belafonte gained so much prominence the film leads us through all stages of his life.
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BIFF and Beacon 10x 10 Feb 16-26
Free Smartphone Film Festival
By: - Feb 10th, 2012The Berkshire International Film Festival and the Beacon Cinema join together for the Berkshires’ first-ever Smartphone Film Festival – a new take on the film festival scene, as part of the 10x10 On North Festival taking place February 16-26 in downtown Pittsfield. Films were shot using the iPhone, iPad and various alternative cinematic "apps" to create a desired look or effect.
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Pina a BIFF Benefit at Beacon Cinema
Stunning 3D Film by Wim Wenders
By: - Feb 03rd, 2012Wim Wenders started filming Pina in 2009 just a short time after the sudden death of the innovative German choreographer Pina Bausch. Accordingly the film which was shot in 3D includes only a brief archival sequence of her performing. There is little or no information provided about her as an individual in this documentary. But the magnificent film provides almost two hours of total immersion in her unique work. It sets a new paradigm for the genre of films about dance.
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Barrington Stage Salutes That's Entertainment
Series of Classic Film Musicals Starts January 28
By: - Jan 05th, 2012That’s Entertainment! Barrington Stage Company salutes the American movie musical with a special film series on the big screen at the Mainstage (30 Union Street) beginning January 28. Free for kids under 13.
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Movie Mania
Major Films In Seasonal Abundance
By: - Dec 27th, 2011Starting around Thanksgiving, filmmakers and studios start showing there wares for consideration of major recognition and box office rewards. Some years there are just a few notable movies. For some reason, this 2011 holiday season there are many. Looking at some of the major cinema presentations, there is something for everyone and probably a lot more than was expected. These few holiday weeks collectively have been like a film festival of good movies.
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WBCN Documentary in the Works
Bill Lichtenstein an Award-winning Film Maker
By: - Dec 14th, 2011WBCN was the pioneering Boston radio station which brought rock to the FM dial in 1968, and reflected the social ferment of the times. It went off the air in 2009, but now an honored documentary film maker, Bill Lichtenstein, who once worked at BCN is doing a documentary about the station’s early days, and crowdsourcing content and funding for the project.
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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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