Film
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Michel Van Der Aa at the Park Avenue Armory
Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams
By: - Mar 28th, 2022Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works. This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work.
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Michel Van Der Aa at Park Avenue Armory
Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams
By: - Apr 01st, 2022Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works. This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work
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Basil Twist Alights in Versailles
Les Arts Florissants Returns An Opera to its Origins
By: - Jun 07th, 2022Jean-Joseph de Mondonville’s Titon et l'Aurore returns to Versaille. It is a pastorale heroique opera in three acts with a prologue. Inspired by Madame De Pompadour, it was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris in January 1753.
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Phantom by F.W. Murnau at Elbphilharmonie
Wolfgang Mitterer Offers Original Score
By: - Aug 15th, 2022Phantom by F. W Murnau was presented at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. This version of the film was accompanied by an original score by Wolfgang Mitterer.
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Daisy Press Sings Hildegard Von Bingen
Angel's Share and Green-Wood Present
By: - Sep 12th, 2022Death of Classical keeps classical music alive in unusual and inviting locations and attracts the curious who often are unfamiliar with this form of music. Collaborating with the Green-Wood Cemetery in the Angel’s Share series, the audience walked through the beautiful Brooklyn graveyard to its Catacombs for a mesmerizing presentation of songs by a twelfth century composer, herbalist and politician, Hildegard Von Bingen.
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Cate Blanchett Becomes an Orchestra Conductor
Todd Field's Film Opens New York Film Festival
By: - Oct 03rd, 2022Cate Blanchett is an orchestra conductor Lydia Tár in Todd Field’s new film Tár, which premiered at the New York Film Festival. Anyone who has been exposed to Blanchett's performance will be eager to see her latest, mind-blowing work. This is also an opportunity for the unexposed to be introduced. Blanchett is an actress who will always take a dare and push herself beyond perceived limits.
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Experiments in Opera Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Everything for Dawn TV Series Format
By: - Oct 06th, 2022Experiments in Opera is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The statistics for artistic involvement are impressive. EiO has commissioned 85 new works from 55 composers collaborating with over three hundred performers, designers, and directors from the New York City artists community. Now they present opera in TV series format on All Arts.
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Joshua Bell and Larisa Martinez at the 92nd Street Y
New York Hosts the Violinist and Singer Duo
By: - Oct 21st, 2022Joshua Bell and his wife, the soprano Larisa Martinez, performed together at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Paul Dugan accompanied on the piano with his own special touch
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All Quiet on the Western Front
German Director Edward Berger Remakes 1930 Double Oscar Winner.
By: - Oct 30th, 2022In 1929 Erich Maria Remarque published the controversial anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front. It follows the tale of Paul and his classmates who enlisted to fight for the Fatherland. One by one they died until Paul, the last, is killed by a sniper in the final minutes before Armistice. Just a year later Hollywood released the classic film which won two Oscars. Now available on Netflix is an epic, cinematic, gruesome remake by the German director Edward Berger. The spectacular retelling is disrespectful in selecting some and discarding many of the plot points and metaphors of a literary masterpiece.
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Stephen R. Lawson, 73 of Williamstown
Founded Williamstown Film Festival
By: - Feb 15th, 2023Stephen R. Lawson, 73, a longtime resident of Williamstown died on February 7, 2023, of natural causes. In varying capacities he was an associate of the Williamstown Theatre Festival for some five decades. For 13 years he curated the Williamstown Film Festival which was produced at Images Cinema and MASS MoCA.
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Bubbles for Oscars
FLEUR de MIRAVAL Will Flow for Celebrants
By: - Feb 20th, 2023Oscar night will prove to be absolutely Mirvalous. The Champagne poured at the 95th Oscars®, taking place on Sunday, March 12th will be fabulous FLEUR de MIRAVAL.
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73rd Berlinale
Februray 16 to 26, 2023
By: - Mar 01st, 2023Too bad and not long enough! The 73rd Berlinale is now film history. After the limited screenings during the Covid years, the festival became an obvious success.
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Visionary Architecture on Film
Free Movies at the Clark
By: - Mar 02nd, 2023A five-part Visionary Architecture on Film series debuts at the Clark Art Institute on select Thursdays this spring. Presented in connection with the Clark’s exhibition Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch, this film series explores themes related to Goesch’s life and work in early twentieth-century Germany.
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Fresh Fest
A Farming and Food Film Fest at Images Cinema
By: - Mar 30th, 2023Images Cinema presents its 14th annual farming and food film festival: Fresh Fest. Fresh Fest seeks to connect local farmers and food producers with the community around important conversations that impact all of us.
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What she learned from plants at Gloucester Writers Center
By Peter Littlefield Directed by Roy Rallo
By: - May 31st, 2023Lately I've been writing little metaphysical screenplays for dolls, dogs and humans. My friend Roy Rallo - with whom I work in opera - has been shooting them with my help.
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Curtis Stewart Erupts at Merkin Hall
Kaufman Music Center Produces Ecstatic Music
By: - Jun 04th, 2023Curtis Stewart is a man for all seasons. He took over Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Center this week. When you hear him, you know that Nietzsche was right: without music, life would be a mistake.
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Oppenheimer, the Film
No Answers for Creative Impulses of Great Scientists
By: - Sep 04th, 2023Oppenheimer, the film. Prepare your rotten tomatoes. The movie is loud, gray and one-dimensional.
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The City Without Jews Screened in New York
An Important Silent Film With Wonderful New Music
By: - Oct 04th, 2023What a silent film can teach us – about history and the relationship between the visual and the auditory. The City Without Jews is a famous 1924 silent film directed by H. K. Breslauer who would go on to become a Nazi, probably out of convenience. In this film, he actually seems to like Jews, to find them charming, bright and funny. Presented at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York.
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Wim Wenders at Lincoln Center
Film Festival Premieres The Tokyo Toilet
By: - Oct 13th, 2023Wim Wenders new film, "The Tokyo Toilet," had its New York premiere at the New York Film Festival in Lincoln Center in New York. A Tokyo toilet cleaner, Hirayama, is played brilliantly and subtly by Yakusho Koji. Hirayama steps out of his small Tokyo home and looks up at the sky. Another perfect day begins. Now. Not Next. These phrases pepper the film often.
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Rhiannon Giidens Broadends the Silk Road
In San Diego The Trancontinental Railroad arrive
By: - Nov 28th, 2023The Transcontinental Railroad connected the Eastern and Western United States the same way that the Silk Road of Asia connected the Orient to Europe. Upon completion of the railroad, goods that would take six months to travel by boat around the Horn from the West to East Coast now were transported across the country in days. Most importantly, ideas and culture were transported. This crisscrossing changed the United States and made it the superpower it is today.
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The Clark Has a Hunch
Free Screening of Silent Film
By: - Dec 18th, 2023Directed by Wallace Worsley, Universal’s largest-scale silent film played a large part in making Lon Chaney a legend. It paved the way for the rest of their enduring legacy of gothic horror from the golden age of film. In The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923; 2 hours, 13 minutes), Quasimodo (an inarticulate, deformed human being, who is the bellringer of the Cathedral of Notre Dame) sacrifices his life to save Esmeralda (a Gypsy girl who once befriended him) from Jehan, the hunchback's evil master and brother to Dom Claude, chief priest of the cathedral.
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Maestro Misses its Mark
Bradley Cooper Needed a Director
By: - Jan 02nd, 2024The film Maestro reminds us that classical music can be accessible to a wide audience. This is not because the film makes the music accessible. In fact, Bradley Cooper conducting is a bad joke. You wonder what Yannick Nezet-Seguin, credited with teaching the actor to conduct, was doing.
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The 74th Berlinale
The International Flm Festival in Berlin
By: - Feb 26th, 2024The 74th Berlinale is Europe's first international film festival of the year. Always a glamorous happening with stars galore, this year's events from February 15-25th, 2024 have drawn to a close.
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Korean Films at the MFA
Complements Hallyu! The Korean Wave
By: - Apr 19th, 2024In conjunction with the exhibition Hallyu! The Korean Wave, which explores the worldwide impact of South Korean pop culture, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents films by some of the country's greatest auteurs.
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Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative
Economic Impact of Making Films in the Berkshires
By: - Jun 05th, 2015The Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative (BFMC) has released an economic impact study to examine the effects of a film shoot on the economy of rural communities. The study, “When Movie Making Comes to Town: An Economic Impact Analysis and Strategies for Development†was authored by Rick Feldman of InCommN, LLC, who was one of the developers of IMPLAN, a widely used economic impact analysis software program.
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