(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – This summer Norman Rockwell Museum pays tribute to Walt Disney, another American icon of the 20th century, with a special exhibition celebrating the 75th anniversary of the acclaimed visual storyteller’s first feature-length animated film. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic will be on view at the museum…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Noah Baumbach’s new movie, “Frances Ha,” is among the over 75 films that will be screened at the eighth annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF), taking place from May 30 to June 2, 2013, in Great Barrington and May 31 to June 2 in Pittsfield. Baumbach, as well as co-writer and…
(GREAT BARRINGTON and PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The award-winning documentary film Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, which chronicles the longtime Berkshire-based art photographer’s creative process and evolution, following him as he drives around Berkshire side streets and avenues and creates film-like sets and scenarios in Lee and Pittsfield, will be screened on Saturday, February 9, 2013, at…
(SOUTH EGREMONT, Mass.) – Cynthia Wade’s 39-minute documentary film Mondays at Racine, chronicling a salon in Long Island that opens its doors every month to women diagnosed with cancer, is nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Form category. This is the second nomination for director Cynthia Wade, who previously won the Oscar…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will present a festive array of offerings this holiday season, ranging from the Metropolitan Opera “Live in HD” production of Aida to classic Looney Tunes cartoons to a free screening of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic, It’s A Wonderful Life. The Mahaiwe will present the Metropolitan Opera “Live…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema will screen The Story of Film: An Odyssey, every Thursday at 7 p.m., beginning October 18, 2012, and running through December 13 (there will be no showing on November 22 in observance of Thanksgiving). The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an unprecedented cinematic event, an epic journey…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The 14th annual Williamstown Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, with a medley of old and new short films. Also on tap at this year’s festival, which runs through Sunday, October 21, 2012, and includes 37 films, a half-dozen parties, and events at MASS MoCA, The Clark, Mezze Bistro…
Review by Seth Rogovoy Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood (2007) is probably one of the best films of the past quarter-century – probably one of the 100 best films of all time. So anything he does subsequently will have a hard time measuring up to what may be seen as his masterpiece. The…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Filmmakers David Chase, Alex Gibney, and James Schamus plan to attend screenings of their most recent works at the 13th annual FilmColumbia film festival, to be held Wednesday, October 17, 2012, through Sunday, October 21, 2012. The festival includes screenings of Dustin Hoffman’s first credited role as director (Quartet); Bill Murray portraying…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Filmmaker Patrick Wang will attend a screening of his recent, critically acclaimed film, In the Family, about a six-year-old boy who has been raised by two fathers, and take part in a post-screening discussion, at TSL in Hudson on Saturday, September 15, 2012, at 8 p.m. The film will also be shown…
