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Basilica Screenings to Showcase Avant-Garde Filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Works by seminal avant-garde filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos will be screened and discussed as part of the September edition of Basilica Screenings at Basilica Hudson on Sunday, September 28, 2014, at 8pm. Filmmaker Robert Beavers and film curator Mark Webber will be in attendance for a discussion of Markopoulos and his work.…

‘Repo Man’ Director Alex Cox to Be Feted at Two-Day Film Festival at Basilica Hudson

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Cult movie director Alex Cox will be present for BasilicaScope, a weekend-long film festival dedicated to the British director’s works, including cult classics “Repo Man,” “Straight to Hell Returns,” and “Walker,” at Basilica Hudson on Friday, September 19 and Saturday, September 20, 2014. In the 1980s, visionary filmmaker Cox masterfully used pinpoint…

New Tom Rush Doc Premieres at NH Film Festival

(PORTSMOUTH, N.H.) – Tom Rush: No Regrets, a new documentary exploring folk legend Tom Rush’s rich musical legacy, will premiere at the New Hampshire Film Festival on October 17 and 20, 2013. The 83-minute documentary about the influential folk legend, who also helped propel Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Jackson Browne into the spotlight, Tom…

John Irving, Treat Williams to Attend 15th Annual Williamstown Film Festival

  (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Academy Award-winner John Irving and actor Treat Williams will participate in the 15th annual Williamstown Film Festival, screening thirty films and hosting events in Williamstown and North Adams from Wednesday, October 30 through Sunday, November 3, 2013.  Festival venues include MASS MoCA, the Clark, Images Cinema, and the ’62 Center for…

Films by Stephen Frears, Coen Brothers, Alexander Payne and Claude Lanzmann Top FilmColumbia 2013 Lineup

(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – New movies by Stephen Frears, the Coen Brothers, Alexander Payne and Holocaust documentarian Claude Lanzmann top the lineup at FilmColumbia, taking place Tuesday, October 22, through Sunday, October 27, 2013. Many of the films being screened are prize-winning films and audience favorites from prestigious international film festivals such as Cannes, Toronto, Berlin…

MASS MoCA to Screen ‘Airplane!’ at Airport

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – MASS MoCA screens Airplane!, one of the most iconic comedies in American movie history, at Harriman-West Airport in North Adams on Saturday, August 24, 2013, at 8pm. Already boasting the largest movie screen in New England at the center of its renovated 19th-century factory campus, the museum takes over an old…

Bollywood Superhero Sci-Fi Film with Berkshire Roots at MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Williamstown resident Jeff Kleiser supervised 800 artists for over two years to create the visual effects for science-fiction superhero Bollywood film, Ra.One, which will be shown at MASS MoCA on the largest movie screen in New England on Thursday, August 22, 2013, at 8pm. Over 125 of the most complex shots…