The Hive Archive will host the LUNAFEST film festival and fundraiser on Friday, December 11, from 5-8PM at The Spot, 286 Thayer Street in Providence. Nine international short films by women filmmakers will be screened at the event. The Hive Archive will also present Hive Distinguished Women in the Arts awards to two local recipients […]
From ECRI: “Tapped” is a 2009 documentary about the effects of the bottled water industry on America’s economy, environment, and public health. A coalition of Brown University student groups and the Environment Council of Rhode Island are sponsoring a free, public screening of “Tapped”, November 10 at 8pm in the Salomon Center on the Main
UPDATE: In case of rain, film will be at the Black Rep. So, perfect downtown night. The rain will be come and gone by early evening, returning after midnight. What better night to catch a movie outdoors? Arrive early enough and you can make the seats at Tazza your own cafe cinema. But this isn’t
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Sunday night will be the first showing of a documentary about Rhode Island’s notorious sex industry. “Happy Endings?” follows the life of “Heather” over three years as she works in a massage parlor, while the Rhode Island legislators debate over the “loophole” in a law that allows prostitution behind closed doors. Happy Endings? will also
Yay for another cool RIC event! The college’s film studies program has organized a big ol’ Festival of Contemporary Animation, which is co-curated by Maya Allison, director of Five Traverse Gallery, and Jo Dery, curator of the Magic Lantern cinema project, to showcase animated films by contemporary artists both near and far. Tonight, catch some
This has been going on for three days already, but I only just found out about it. There’s a festival of Israeli movies showing at Brown this week. Tonight’s Homeland and Children of the Sun, descriptions of which are, oddly, only presented in jpeg postcard form at the festival’s blog. And on the 18th they’ll
Want to know what’s coming out at your favorite cineplex this weekend, without the hassle of visiting another site? Well friends, look no further! Here’s a preview of all of this week’s new releases. Milk Director: Gus Van Sant Starring: Sean Penn, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna, Victor Garber, Denis O’Hare, Stephen
Want to know what’s coming out at your favorite cineplex this weekend, without the hassle of visiting another site? Well friends, look no further! Here’s a preview of all of this week’s new releases. The Day the Earth Stood Still Director: Scott Derrickson Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, Jon Hamm General
(I’m just going to bump this back up. RIFC Party Tonight!) In November 1966, Truman Capote threw his famous Black & White Ball, hailed at the time as the ‘Party of the Century’. Yeah… I guess… if watching McGeorge Bundy do the frug was your idea of a good time. The A-list glamour couple of
Head over to Smitty-B and join director John Cameron Mitchell (the “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” guy) for a screening of his 2006 film “Shortbus” — Q & A to follow. This is what The New York Times had to say. As utopian visions go, it doesn’t get much better than “Shortbus,” a film in
Magic Lantern Cinema presents THE AFTERMATH SHOW Post-Election Politics, Economics, and Violence Curated by Paige Sarlin Wednesday November 19, 2008 9:30 p.m. Cable Car Cinema 204 S. Main St. Providence, RI Admission $5 There’s going to be quite a reckoning over the next months and even years as the fall-out from Neoliberalism, the War on
This evening Brown’s Department of Africana Studies continues its post-election week run of free public events with contemporary Black intellectuals and artists. Shola Lynch, a young filmmaker who in 2004 completed a documentary on the legendary Shirley Chisholm, will be joined by Ray Watson of the Mt. Hope Neighborhood Association and renowned professor of Africana
A documentary backed by Warren Buffett and Pete Peterson warns of the impending collapse of the federal finance system, weighed down by a staggering $53 trillion of debt, exacerbated by enormous and growing trade deficits and shrinking industrial capacity, and undercut by ballooning taxpayer credit failure. I.O.U.S.A. débuts tonight in 358 cinemas nationwide, including Showcase
This is from the Projo, about Michael Corrente’s attempt to find 10 scripts for 10 movies to be filmed in Rhode Island: “I’ll make the movie, I promise you. If you send me a script and it’s good and it’s done, I will make that movie for a million dollars. Rhode Island’s a great place
If you’ve been looking for a movie that doesn’t have Morgan Freeman, I think I found one. Persepolis is still at the Avon Cinema. It is up for an Oscar in the ‘Animated Feature’ category, but that should read ‘Best Picture’. It’s the wrenching, but frequently funny, tale of life in Iran since the Shah
Cool. Don’t think I’ve seen any local press on this: PROVIDENCE, R.I.—A local animation studio is teaming with students from the Rhode Island School of Design to create a first-of-its-kind computer-animated horror movie. The Providence-based studio, The Story Hat, is planning to begin preproduction this week on the movie called Bloodline, according to the Providence