The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the novel of the same title by Mark Haddon and adapted by Simon Stephens, will be telecast live in HD from London’s National Theatre on film screens around the region, including The Clark in Williamstown, Mass.; the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington,…
By Seth Rogovoy How is it possible that the 1976 movie The Missouri Breaks was such a critical and commercial failure that most people have never seen or heard of it? After all, rarely has more talent been assembled on a single project than for this movie; the film stars Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Albert Maysles, the pioneering documentary filmmaker whose work, in collaboration with his younger brother, the late David Maysles, includes such groundbreaking documentary films as Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens, will help inaugurate the fall film series, Basilica Screenings, at Basilica Hudson, on Friday, September 7, 2012 at 8 p.m. Maysles will be…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The long-form dance music video Girl Walk // All Day kicks off a dance party on Saturday, August 4, 2012, at 9 p.m. at MASS MoCA. Directed by Jacob Krupnick, Girl Walk // All Day is set to Greg Gillis’s (a.k.a. Girl Talk) album All Day, in which three dancers move…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – On Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at 6:45 pm, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes will be present for a pre-show discussion about his film Far From Heaven — on which the musical by the same title currently running in a preview production at Williamstown Theatre Festival is based — outside on the lawn…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – As of Friday, March 16, 2012, the Triplex Cinema will be a fully digital theater with 3-D capability. To accommodate the installation of the new, state of the art digital projectors and screens, the Triplex will go “dark” on Monday, March 12 through Thursday, March 15. On Friday, March 16, the…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The critically acclaimed documentary film, PINA, about the legendary choreographer Pina Bausch, by Oscar-nominated director Wim Wenders, screens on Thursday, February 2, 2012, at the Beacon Cinema, in an event presented by the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF)’s REEL FRIENDS Film Society. Ella Baff, executive and artistic director of Jacob’s Pillow, will…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – MASS MoCA’s Thursday night documentary film series kicks off with Crime After Crime, an Official Selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, on January 26, 2012, at 8 p.m., as part of the Cinema Lounge series in Club B-10. The film follows the case of Deborah Peagle, incarcerated for over 26…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will screen The Polar Express on Wednesday, December 28, 2011, at 6 p.m. ($6 general admission). Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on children’s author Chris Van Allsburg’s modern holiday classic of the same name, The Polar Express (2004) revolves around Billy (Hayden McFarland), who longs…
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE Written and directed by Sean Durkin Starring Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, and Sarah Paulson Reviewed by Seth Rogovoy Writer-director Sean Durkin, who deservedly won the Best Director award last January at Sundance for Martha Marcy May Marlene, wisely allows his actors’ faces to do the heavy lifting in this captivating psychological…
