Except (Mostly Not) because it was live in July but not now. I think. For the first time in more than three decades, comedy legends Monty Python will perform live on stage together this year. Broadcast from London’s O2 Arena, Monty Python Live (mostly) will play in cinemas around the globe on Sunday 20 July. […]
Celebrate the 238th anniversary of our break with England by watching the 50th anniversary of our complete capitulation to their descendants. ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ had no greater fan than Roger Ebert, “I remember I walked into the theater. I had a short hair cut. I was dressed kind of ‘fraternity-boy’ style, and I came
(6.19) This week’s Movies on the Block is the 2001 French flick “Amelie.” The New York Times reports on the greenness. Mr. Jeunet soaks each frame with sepia and greens. The sepia indicates that ”Amelie” takes place in a dreamscape Paris, and the wide-open streets come out of the French films of the 1930’s, which
Meet the Macbeths — fun couple but their dinner parties gang aft agley. Unchecked greed leads to an ambitious couple’s downfall in the Bard’s tale of absolute power that corrupts absolutely. Fresh from another blood-soaked victory, the brave soldier Macbeth meets a trio of witches who prophesy that he will become king of Scotland. Bolstered
(2.28) Really interesting French guy. The Providence Athenaeum hosts Fashion Institute of Technology Museum Director Valerie Steele for “Octave Uzanne: La Mode Femme in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.” Octave Uzanne (1851-1931) was a French writer and bibliophile, who is known today (if at all) primarily as the creator of luxurious illustrated books. Yet he was a strange
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The 2014 French Film Festival, presented by Brown University at the Cable Car Cinema, starts Thursday. Seen here is Queen of Montreuil. Says The Hollywood Reporter, Quirky with a capital Q, but endearing all the same, writer-director Solveig Anspach’s deadpan dramedy Queen of Montreuil brings a weeping French widow, two Icelandic refugees and one depressive
(8.8) Let’s face it, the coolest kid in this picture is the one with the cigarette . . . in a sort of Merv Griffin-ish kind of way. The Movies on the Block movie this Thursday will be the 1988 Italian import “Cinema Paradiso.” Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, When the rich,
According to a recent report on ABC News, the College of Cardinals is a house divided. Two broad factions appear to be the Romans and the reformers. On one side are mostly Italian insiders, whom some newspapers refer to here as the “feudal lords” of the Vatican. They’re eager to protect their fiefdoms and have
(12.7) Some people are so ambitious and energetic it is positively annoying. For instance, I have been known to casually drop the occasional “Crime and Punishment” reference into a conversation so as to appear cultured and accomplished. I read a chapter book! Meanwhile, Trinity Rep artistic director Curt Columbus was translating this same book into
As several of you have noticed, the Providence Daily Dose has been plagued recently with spam . . . from Poland of all places. What did we ever do to them? We realize that this is particularly annoying for people who get us via RSS feeds. We hope to get a handle on this soon
(10.16) Straight outta Brooklyn. . . the Hard Nips. Here’s how they describe themselves: Emi, Yoko, Mariko, and The Gooch are four Japanese girls who laugh and yell at each other all the time. About two years ago they harmonized their varied subconscious musical hauntings to form Hard Nips. The riff-heavy, post-punk anthems of Hard Nips
Dennis McNett from Wolfbat Studios in Brooklyn will be the Artist in Residence for Foo Fest. McNett and the AS220 Industries will be building an elaborate Viking Vessel covered in screen/woodblock prints, laser cut embellishments, and theatrics that will be paraded throughout the streets during Foo Fest. In the days leading up to the parade
The 2012 Rhode Island International Film Festival runs from August 7 through August 12, with opening night Tuesday at The Vets. Other Providence venues will include the Providence Public Library, Bell Chapel, the Paff Theater and Metcalf Auditorium. According to the ProJo, This year’s festival is not just for viewing films either. There will be
[youtube]aY8RcFD3m_k&feature=fvst[/youtube] More Brits. I am helpless in their presence. Tickets are still available for the Band of Skulls show on Wednesday, March 28 at the Met. They rock hard mostly — Jack White would appear to be an influence — some of the slower material goes a little dreamy à la Steve Miller. Frontman Russell
(3.17) Need a break from the fiddles and tin whistles? First Works presents Punjabi superstar Sufi-rocker, folk singer, and Bollywood celeb — Arif Lohar. Singing modern interpretations of traditional Punjabi songs, Arif Lohar captures the sights and sounds of modern Pakistani culture with a unique mix of pop and folk stylings. Playing his beloved chimta,
(3.10) The Arkham Film Society invites you to a rare public screening of Kinji Fukasaku’s epic Battle Royale. Kinji Fukasaku stated that he decided to direct the film because the novel it was adapted from reminded him of his time as a 15-year-old munitions factory worker during World War II. At that time, his class