(10.29) See the movie that inspired a 7-year-old Guillermo del Toro. Head over to the mall this Saturday afternoon for a good old-fashioned creature double feature: “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” from 1954, followed by the Claude Rains version of “Phantom of the Opera.” Total running time: 3 hours, 2 minutes. Del Toro spoke …
The Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), the largest public film festival in New England, kicks off Tuesday night at the Providence Showcase with a mix of shorts — live action, documentary, animation, color, drama, musical, comedy, Canada — and barrels along through Sunday, August 14, when a variety of films will be screened at …
(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 Cable Car Cinema will be screening the 2017 Oscar nominated shorts through February 16th. For the 12th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films . . . With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary. Most animated shorts run from 5-9 minutes. The live action from …
(8.11) This week’s Movies on the Block is the 1978 Christopher Reeve vehicle, “Superman.” Vincent Canby of the New York Times provides some odd historical context for 21st century viewers; The movie does nothing lightly or quickly. After opening credits that are so portentous they could be announcing the discovery of a new mouthwash, the …
(7.23) And there’s a local connection. This week’s installment of Movies on the Block is Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror The Shining with music by Rhode Island native Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, of “Switched-On Bach” fame) among other artists. From Wiki, In 1953 (aged 14), Carlos won a Westinghouse Science Fair scholarship for a home-built …
(8.21) Tonight at Movies on the Block, the 1994 crime thriller “The Professional” directed by Luc Besson. The NYT reviewer describes the hero thusly, He lives a quiet life, drinking milk and dusting his plant’s leaves. (“It’s my best friend,” he says about the plant, thus helping more obtuse members of the audience. “Always happy. …
(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, …
(7.5) Heads up — Movies on the Block is scheduled for Friday night this weekend. This week’s installment is the heart-warming, coming-of-age film “Kick-Ass.” The New York Times review describes it thusly. A story about a teenager who yearns to be a superhero, and a little girl who’s the star of her own splatter-happy head …
(4.2) One night only, “In Your Dreams,” a look inside the creative process. From New York Magazine, In 2010 Nicks embarked on the recording of a new solo album, In Your Dreams, produced by former Eurythmics mastermind Dave Stewart. With cameras in tow, documentarian Stewart and diva Nicks set up shop in her home studio …
(12.23) Santa lives in a Moorish powder-room that may or may not be heaven (so, he’s . . . dead?) where third world moppets manufacture toys of dubious value. But there is a snake in the garden, Pitch, a demon who swans about annoying anxious, hollow-eyed children. Head downtown Sunday night for a screening of …
Need to get away from your loved ones for roughly 115 minutes? Try “Holy Motors” at the Cable Car Cinema; it looks quite strange. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wants you to see it. . . . a man reunited with a former amour (Aussie pop star Kylie Minogue) in a deserted department store that …
(10.14) Join host Carlos Gonzalez in the concert hall at AS220 for an evening of MACABRE, FR3AK, H0RR0R, and W3IRD0 short films. Filmmakers include: Alee Peoples, AT, Caitlin Doughty, Cordey Lopez, Cybele Collins, Jaime Mohr, Matt Underwood, Mike Stoltz, Xander Morro, and more. (Poster by Emily Salvatierra) Free, 9pm to 11:45pm, movies start 9:30pm, Sunday, …
(9.13) Most people have seen “The Dark Knight” at least once by now, which makes this a perfect choice for outdoor viewing with food and drinks; you won’t get shushed by people trying to follow the story line. But kind of shut up anyway. According to the New York Times, director Christopher Nolan, . . …
(9.6) This week’s installment of ‘Movies on the Block’ is the 1975 Jack Nicholson vehicle One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest directed by Milos Forman (Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Valmont). From Roger Ebert’s review; We meet a classic outsider — R.P. McMurphy, a quintessentially sane convict sent to the institution as a punishment …
(8.30) A back-to-school special of sorts. This week’s installment of Movies on the Block features the 2003 Will Farrell vehicle “Old School.” Elvis Mitchell had this to say in the New York Times, This sloppy, dumb, though occasionally funny comedy is so derivative of ”Animal House” (and, more specifically, its children) that it’s like one …