Film
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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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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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