Here’s some non-muppets Jim Henson’s for you to enjoy: [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HrAVgYTTMbQ] Screened for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in May of 1965, Time Piece enjoyed an eighteen-month run at one Manhattan movie theater and was nominated for an Academy Award for outstanding short subject. It’s kind of like Dziga Vertov on acid.
Plan USA is a great NGO with a significant international presence, but a relatively low local profile — even though it’s based here in Rhody. Their monthly film series at the Cable Car continues tonight at 7, with a showing of MOVEMENT [R]EVOLUTION AFRICA: In an astonishing exposition of choreographic fomentation, nine African choreographers tell
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This Weds @ 8 the Steelyard folks are hosting a showing of Third Ward, TX, at Firehouse 13. Third Ward TX is a one-hour documentary about a group of artists finding inspiration in the remnants of a besieged black neighborhood’s storied past. House by house, they worked alongside residents and local volunteers to craft a
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Thursday 8 November to Sunday 18 November Melancholy Play and Discussion with Playwright Sarah Ruhl Brown Theatre presents Melancholy Play, a comedy by MacArthur-winning playwright (and Brown alumna) Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Ken Prestininzi, shows run Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Leeds Theatre, 77 Waterman St. Tickets are
United Nurses and Allied Professionals is hosting a free screening of SICKO tomorrow night, at Save the Bay: To: UNAP members and friends You are cordially invited to join UNAP convention delegates this Wednesday, November 7 at 8:00 PM for a free screening of “SiCKO.” Michael Moore’s latest documentary film exposes the failings of
A film by local artists and activists John Mahone and Ghislaine Jean-Mahone, starring In House Freestyle, New England’s only all-black comedy group. 6:30 tomorrow (Friday), in Atlantic Mills (122 Manton Ave). Enter the tower on the right, and head for the Olneyville Neighborhood Association offices. If you haven’t seen IHF’s film yet, NOW’s your chance!
Ian wants us to know about the screening of Traces of the Trade: A story from the Deep North, at 5:30 tonight, hosted by Rhode Islanders for Community and Justice: Given the myth that the South is solely responsible for slavery, viewers will be surprised to learn that Browne’s ancestors were Northerners. The film follows
Matt reminds us to head down to the Biltmore for the DVD release party for Buddy, the movie. Tickets here. Doors at 6:30, showtime at 7. The last showing of this award-winning movie on the big screen, with a post-film party Every ticket holder gets a special pre-release copy of the BUDDY DVD Director, Cherry
This Friday Oct. 26, the Providence Zombie Film Festival commences with a lecture by Max Brooks, New York Times best-sellling author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and The Zombie Survival Guide. The festival runs through Halloween. They’ve got some real gems on the line up and tickets are free.
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: The Monster Show! October 24th, this Wednesday 9:30 PM, $5 Cable Car Cinema 204 N. Main St. You are invited to wear monster costumes! Join us for a fun night of movies!! Maybe you will be a scaredy pants, or wear some scary pants? With films by locals: Pete Woods (IN
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Should’ve posted earlier — the Africana Film Festival, at the Cable Car, wraps up this weekend. Here’s what’s left: Saturday, October 20th 10:45 AM – A Series Of Short African Films 1:00 PM – A Series Of Short Films by Kevin Everson with an introduction by filmmaker Kevin Everson and post screening Q & A
You just can’t fuck with a title like Gay Zombie. I have to give it up for the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Their predilection for screening avant-queer-foreign and classic cinema is a b-movie lover’s dream. Hell yeah I’ll be there for the premiere of a ghost story about an apartment haunted by a drunk
Take heed, as we keep hearing that Providence is the new Lower East Side of the 1980s, plus 20 years and minus some increment of heroin. After the Geeks, and off of Fort Thunder: Cool French documentary with screenings in Seattle, Berlin DE, Lausanne CH, Sidney AU, Strasbourg FR, San Francisco… … and Providence AS220,
There’s a lot going on at Brown this week. Check out the calendar for everything, but in there early part of the week, there’s this: Monday, 8:30-10PM Blood Diamond Macmillan 117 Come watch the movie Blood Diamond and engage in a follow up discussion about current issues involving child soldiers in Africa. Sponsored by Uganda
Hotel Chevalier, Wes Anderson’s micro-online-prologue to The Darjeeling Limited is now up and free on Itunes. The short film takes place two weeks before the movie’s story and features a graphic sex scene between Natalie Portman (Yes!) and Jason Schwartzman (Check please…). The nude scene is apparently a first for Ms. Portman although she gets
Local 121 and Scotty Duhamel are kicking off their new film series this week, with a showing of Kiss Me Deadly. October 10th Kiss Me Deadly (1955). Director Robert Aldrich kicks this 1950’s noir classic into total vroom-vroom overdrive in this brutally streamlined version of a Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer book, with deadpan hunk-of-beef Ralph