French Film Festival
The 11th Annual Providence French Film Festival is just around the corner: February 21 through March 2 at the Cable Car. The list of films is already up (including trailers!), although the schedule is not yet set.
Film
Tomorrow night: ‘Venus, Priests and Superwomen’
Over at RIFuture, Kim gives us a heads-up on the film screening: Tomorrow night (Sunday, 1/27), is the Premier of Venus, Priests, and Superwomen, a documentary about censorship and the banning of the Vagina Monologues at Providence College. The film examines the varied and conflictive perspectives concerning the play’s censorship at Providence College and also
Oliver Stone’s Bush Biopic May Be Out By Inauguration
On his own opinion of the President: “I can’t give you that, because the filmmaker has to hide in the work,” Stone said. “Here, I’m the referee, and I want a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? It’s like
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Richard Gere at State House at 2pm
To be welcomed for the inexplicable RI filming of the movie Hachiko: A Dog’s Story. It’ll star and be produced by Gere, and is based on the story of Hachiko, a renowned canine owned by a Japanese professor. Hachiko used to meet his owner at the train station every evening. When the owner died, the
Jim Henson’s Time Piece
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.