Head over to the Providence Performing Arts Center tonight for the opening ceremony of the Flickers RI International Film Festival. The evening will feature six short subjects running 108 minutes. The festival features documentary, narrative, and animated films in all genres, screening in venues around the city including the Avon Cinema, the RISD Metcalf Auditorium, […]
[Update: Screenings have been cancelled.] (3.12) The website says “Gelato Ritrovato” has been cancelled, but that’s just the ice cream. A second commenter confirms this. I have contacted the organization for any updates, but readers are advised to check the Facebook event page for further news. Events are in flux.] Marcello! Each summer, the world-renowned
This is what I think is going on here: The French keep inventing irresistible breads in order to bring Americans to heel following our exit from the Paris Agreement. When we can no longer fit into our cars, that will go a long way towards mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. The Providence French Film Festival kicks
(3.17) This unique four-night film festival boasts screenings of rarely-seen movies recently restored by Italy’s Cineteca di Bologna. This year’s films include Buster Keaton’s “Sherlock Jr.,” accompanied by a live pianist; and Alessandro Blasetti’s “Lucky to Be a Woman.” The festival winds up Sunday night with Dario Argento’s “Suspiria.” (I decided against using that photo.)
(3.1) Expliquez-moi s’il vous plait. This is a French movie, about French gay porn, written and directed by a French man . . . then why the hell am I looking at a sweatshirt from Burlingame State Park?! I picked this movie at random to snag a photo and was thrilled to happen upon the
(3.17) The Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival will be screening Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘Blow-Up’ Saturday at 7pm in the Martinos Auditorium. Michelangelo Antonioni’s first English-language feature. A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, Blow-Up takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures
(3.3) It’s impossible to think of Marx and Engles as young men, handsome young men in frock coats no less! Monsieur Marx, voici mon ami Monsieur Darcy. “Le Jeune Karl Marx” (9:15pm, Monday) is one entry in the Providence French Film Festival presented by Brown University at the Cable Car Cinema. 26 year-old Karl Marx
The Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) kicks off Tuesday night with an opening night gala at PPAC. Festival runs Tuesday, August 8, through Sunday, August 13. More than 300 feature length, documentary and short films — from 64 countries, and 34 states across the U.S. — will be screened during the six-day festival at
Gina can be forgiven for looking forward to this year’s meeting of the National Governors Association with particular relish. It has been announced that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will arrive in Rhode Island on July 14th to deliver the keynote address. Just think of it — Governor Raimondo has been dealing with, and looking
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(3.11) For years Brown University Italian Studies professors have been bringing students to Bologna for Il Cinema Ritrovato — or Cinema Rediscovered — a nine-day festival dedicated to rare and historic film. This year Professor Massimo Riva decided to run a four-day version of the festival at the Granoff Center. Thursday, 7pm — Four short
Time once again for Brown University’s annual Providence French Film Festival to be held at the Cable Car Cinema. Seen here is Comme un avion, or The Sweet Escape, une comédie de Bruno Podalydès. Michel, la cinquantaine, est infographiste. Passionné par l’aéropostale, il se rêve en Jean Mermoz quand il prend son scooter. Et pourtant,
(10.25) Fire bad —that much we know. But who’s playing who in this National Theatre Live Encore Presentation? Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternated roles for this National Theatre Live production back in 2011 and it’s not altogether clear which will be showing here tonight. This from the Avon website: This thrilling production
(10.23) The RISD Center for Student Involvement (CSI) will be taking over a block of Benefit Street this Sunday with their ‘Eat the World’ celebration, described as a . . . cultural food festival that celebrates the diversity of RISD students through food. We have booths representing RISD student’s home countries and culture, and the
(1.22) Haggis. Bagpipes. Neeps. Tatties. Men in skirts. Whiskey. It’s time for the annual Robert Burns supper at International House of Rhode Island, a celebration of Scottish poet Robert Burns “The Bard of Caledonia.” …featuring Joe Scott, Master of Ceremonies, and presenter of “The Immortal Memory”; the procession of the haggis with Pipe Major Debbie
(3.29) Duuuuude. ‘Four contemplations’ will run from Thursday, March 26 thru Sunday, March 29. Community MusicWorks has commissioned Tuvan throat singer/composer Ken Ueno to create a site-specific work for the Community MusicWorks Players at the RISD Museum to coincide with the re-dedication of the ten-foot Dainichi Buddha housed there. Encompassing three live performances by Ueno
(3.3) Brown University presents screenings of French-language feature and documentary films at the Cable Car, now through March 3rd. Saturday and Sunday check out the animated feature Tante Hilda. An inventive hand-drawn comedy that pits an ecological militant against the most powerful GMO on the planet, Aunt Hilda! (Tante Hilda!) offers up plenty of raucous