The Avon Cinema reopens with The Personal History of David Copperfield, starring Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, and Tilda Swinton. Peter Travers writes at Rolling Stone: The trick to crafting a don’t-miss film out of Charles Dickens’ 1850 novel David Copperfield is to get someone who isn’t afraid to be irreverent in the director’s …
(8.22) Greetings and salutations. Grab a chair, grab a blanket, and head over to The Plant on Valley Street this Thursday when the ‘Flicks on Bricks’ movie will be the 1988 dark dark comedy ‘Heathers’ starring Winona Rider (“Stranger Things”) and Christian Slater (“Mr. Robot”). Brought to you by Troop and it’s free. Winona Rider, …
You had me at mammoth ivory. “Genesis 2.0” is just one of the films being screened at the Fourth Art and Design Film Festival running from April 5 through April 14 at venues around the state. This film runs this Sunday at 1:15pm at the Columbus Theatre. (More on this topic at the Smithsonian Channel.) …
The Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Film Festival starts Saturday in venues across the state. The week includes films, shorts, H.P. Lovecraft walking tours and Lovecraft-inspired film screenings, and a few “Conversation with” events as well. A phantasmagoric symphony of international films blasts its way across the big screen as the Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film …
(8.12) Flickers presents the 22nd annual Rhode Island International Film Festival — 295 films in 6 days. Screenings will be held in venues around the state, including PPAC, Metcalf Auditorium at RISD, the Woodman Center at Moses Brown, the AS220 Black Box, and the Vets, here in town. Ranked as one of the top 10 …
The 10th annual SENE Film Festival starts Tuesday with five days of independent films from across the country and around the world. Meet filmmakers, artists, and musicians all in one dynamic festival. Live music, art exhibits, parties, and movies! Friday @Rhodywood Studio, Douglas Avenue: documentary feature and LGBT shorts Friday @Columbus Theatre, Broadway: shorts Saturday …
The 2018 Providence Children’s Film Festival starts today and runs through Sunday, February 25. The films will be screened in multiple venues including the Avon Cinema, the RISD Auditorium and Metcalf at RISD, the Athenaeum, the Everett Company, AS220, and more. The annual Providence Children’s Film Festival takes place in February at multiple venues within …
(11.4) Rachel Blumberg is one of those annoying people who is both a talented musician and a gifted visual artist . . . and a really nice person. (I’ve had to get by just being a really nice person.) As a drummer Blumberg has performed with Death Vessel, the Decembrists, Bright Eyes, and other notable …
The 2017 Providence Art & Design Film Festival (PADFF) opens Thursday night with a screening of Ruben Ostlund’s “The Square” starring Claes Bang and Elisabeth Moss. (Facebook event page.) From the New York Times review. Mr. Ostlund, whose film before this one was the squirmy, incisive “Force Majeure,” takes aim at some pretty fat satirical …
(8.24) This week’s Movies on the Block is the 1980 comedy “Stir Crazy,” directed by Sidney Poitier and starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. (Facebook event page.) Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn’t commit, however, no prison cell can keep them locked in. …
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 …
(8.6) The 7pm evening movie is “Paint it Black,” directed by Amber Tamblyn whose acting C.V. includes Portlandia and Metalocalypse, and that’s all I need to know. (But also she is married to David Cross. I wonder if they need a nanny.) The movie features Janet McTeer and the always interesting Alia Shawkat of Arrested …
(8.3) Thursday’s Movies on the Block will feature last year’s sleeper hit “Moonlight” — three Oscars including, who could forget, Best Picture — directed by Barry Jenkins, and starring Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, and Duan Sanderson. Hilton Als, writing for The New Yorker Did I ever imagine, during my anxious, closeted childhood, that I’d live …
(6.29) In 1964 Stanley Kubrick wrote and directed one of the best movies ever, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” It’s about Cold War brinksmanship and nuclear annihilation and it’s hilarious. Find out for yourself this week at Movies on the Block downtown. Roger Ebert wrote following his …
(4.2) The new Columbus Film Club kicks off this Sunday with the “The Love Witch,” she loved men . . . to death! Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. . . With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the ‘60s, THE LOVE WITCH …
(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 …