Boston Cultural Picks of the Week 8/27 - 9/2, 2012
Paramount Centennial Closing at Harvard Film Archives
By: Nelida Nassar - 08/27/2012
The Picks of the Week:
The Boston Waterfront Festival and
The Harvard Film Archives All-Night Film Extravaganza
The Boston Waterfront Festival
The City of Boston and the French Consulate teams up for the firth time to present an open-air screening of a Classic French Film: The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur). The screening will be accompanied at 6.00 p.m. by Annie Royer French cabaret singer live performance followed by the film projection at 7.30 p.m.
The Wages of Fear is one of the greatest thrillers by France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot. Starring Yves Montand and Charles Vanel, it is the story of four desperate men who sign up for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil field, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship and their nerves.
Winner of Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953, the 147 minutes film is in black & white with English subtitles.
Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, Boston, MA, free
Harvard Film Archives All-Night Extravaganza
To celebrate the final weekend of the Paramount centennial program, the Harvard Film Archive presents an all-night orgy of six– count them, six – pre-Code movies, featuring girls about town, “cute brutes,” co-eds at wild parties, Joel McCrea in a swimsuit, Claudette Colbert as Queen of the Nile, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott in a ménage à trois, and more. Plus shorts and surprises to last until dawn!
Program
Girls About Town
Directed by George Cukor. With Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman
US 1931, 35 mm, b/w, 80 min
She Done Him Wrong
Directed by Lowell Sherman. With Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
US 1933, 35 mm, b/w, 66 min
White Woman
Directed by Stuart Walker. With Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, Charles Bickford
US 1933, 35 mm, b/w, 73 min
Cleopatra
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Claudette Colbert, Warren William,
Henry Wilcoxon
US 1934, 35 mm, b/w, 102 min
The Wild Party
Directed by Dorothy Arzner. With Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day
US 1929, 35 mm, b/w, 77 min
Hot Saturday
Directed by Willilam Seiter. With Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott
US 1932, 35 mm, b/w, 73 min
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CINEMA – FILM
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Harvard Film Archives
: Saturday All-Night Projection with The Paramount Pre-Code Marathon
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 to Sunday, September 2, 2012
Museum of Fine Arts
: Side by Side, Oslo, The Global Catch, Better than Something
http://www.mfa.org/programs/film
Monday, August 27, 2012 to September 2, 2012
Kendall Square Cinema
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/boston/kendallsquarecinema.htm
Monday, August 27, 2012 to Sunday, September 2, 2012
Coolidge Corner Theatre
http://www.coolidge.org
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Goethe Institute at Coolidge Corner Theatre
http://www.coolidge.org
Monday, August 6, 2012 to September 2, 2012
Fenway Regal Theatre
http://www.movies?hl=en&near=fenway
Friday, August 10, 2012
MIT Films
http://www.lsc.mit.edu/
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MUSIC – CONCERTS
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Tanglewood: Train Rock Group
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Tanglewood: Evanescence
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Tanglewood: Boston Pops Orchestra - The Great American Songbook
http://www.bso.org/
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Museum of Fine Arts: Red Baraat
http://www.mfa.org/programs/music/red-baraat
Monday, August 27, 2012
to Sunday, September 2, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012 and Sunday August 12, 2012
Berklee College of Music: Summer Festival in the City: Paul Rishell and Annie Raines
http://www.berklee.edu/
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Longy School of Music of Bard College
: Lingene Yang, piano
Emily Touchet, cello
Mendelssohn: Agitation
Debussy: Clair de lune
Beethoven: Sonate Pathetique no. 8, Op. 13
Wang: Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon
Tchaikovsky: June
Crain: Moon Rise
Sibelius: Romance no. 9, Op. 24
http://www.longy.edu/concerts/concerts_calendar.htm
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Institute of Contemporary Art: Harborwalk Sounds: The Yesberger Band
http://www.icaboston.org/programs/performances
Friday, August 31, 2012
Institute of Contemporary Art: DJ’s on the Harbor – DJ Rupture
http://www.icaboston.org/programs/performances
No shows this week
New England Conservatory
http://necmusic.edu/jordan-hall
Saturday, September 1, 2012
2012 Hamel Summer Series
Charles Mosesin Theatre: Debussy 150
Arsenal Center for the Arts.
http://info@bostonchambermusic.org
No shows this week
Music/CRASHarts
http://www.CRASHarts.org/
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Boston Landmark Orchestra
http://www.landmarkorchestra.org/
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DANCE
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Flamenco Boston: Flamenco and Tapas
Bar Lola
http://www.barlola.com/
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OPERA
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THEATRE – PLAYS
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
American Repertory Theatre – OBERON: Roller Disco The Musical
http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/roller-disco
Friday, August 31, 2012
American Repertory Theatre – OBERON: Bye Bye Liver: The Boston Drinking Play
http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/boston-drinking-play
American Repertory Theatre – OBERON: AcousticElectronica: Presented by Touch Performance Art
http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/boston-acousticelectronica
Saturday, September 1, 2012
American Repertory Theatre – Loeb Drama Center: Marie Antoinette
http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/marie-antoinette
America Repertory Theatre – OBERON: The Donkey Show
http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/the-donkey-show
Sunday, September 2, 2012
American Repertory Theatre – Loeb Drama Center: Marie Antoinette
http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/marie-antoinette
Thursday, August 30, 2012
to Sunday, September 2, 2012
Boston Art Center, Calderwood Pavilion: Gross Indecency: The Three
Trials of Oscar Wilde by Bad Habit Productions
http://www.bostontheatrescene.com
Plays resume September 7, 2012
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
http://www.lyricstage.com
Plays resume September 14, 2012
Huntington Theatre Company
http://www.huntingtontheatre.org/
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
to Sunday, September 2, 2012
Charles Playhouse: Blue Man Group
http://www.boston-theatre.com
No shows this week
BCA Plaza Theatre
https://www.baonline.org/
No shows this week
Fort Point Theatre Channel
http://www.fortpointtheatrechannel.org/productions/
No shows this week
Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston
https://www.reagleplayers.com/current.html/