| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | The Tanglewood Marionettes present The Dragon King: Kids' ShowsPresented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 12, 2012 A terrible drought has overtaken the land, and all the world has turned brown and lifeless. The Dragon King is ruler over all things water, and the people are beginning to wonder why he has not brought the life-giving rains in such a very long time.
An underwater fantasy based on Chinese folklore, Tanglewood Marionettes’ latest production tells the tale of an intrepid Grandmother who journeys to the bottom of the sea to seek the Dragon King, and the answers to why he has... | Coolidge Corner Theatre | 02/12/12 | Brookline |
Love Me TonightPresented by ArtsEmerson February 10-February 12, 2012 Gotta Dance: The American Movie Musical 1929-1953
1932, U.S. In Mamoulian’s magical masterpiece, amorous tailor Chevalier harnesses all of his ingenious pluck to woo lovelorn princess MacDonald in an enchanted Paris, a city where music literally radiates from every stoop, sidewalk, and boudoir. Building on Rodgers and Hart’s witty, spirited lyrics, Mamoulian concocts a stylish tour de force of infectious melody, cheeky pre-Code double entendres, and ceaselessly exuberant... | ArtsEmerson | 02/10/12- 02/12/12 | Boston |
Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of TimePresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten (b.1971) has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/12/12 | Cambridge |
A Man EscapedPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 A Man Escaped tells the true story of a Frenchman’s escape from a German prison camp during World War II. Although the title reveals the film’s denouement, the taut filmmaking keeps viewers on the edge of their seats throughout, suspense deriving from process and ritual rather than narrative surprise. Bresson restricts himself to the point of view of the imprisoned Fontaine whose limited visual environment and precise focus on minute details introduces the subtractive practice... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/12/12 | Cambridge |
Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of TimePresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. The films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography and poetry... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/12/12 | Cambridge |
A Man EscapedPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 A Man Escaped tells the true story of a Frenchman’s escape from a German prison camp during World War II. Although the title reveals the film’s denouement, the taut filmmaking keeps viewers on the edge of their seats throughout, suspense deriving from process and ritual rather than narrative surprise. Bresson restricts himself to the point of view of the imprisoned Fontaine whose limited visual environment and precise focus on minute details introduces the subtractive practice... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/12/12 | Cambridge |
An Evening with Michael AlmereydaPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 13, 2012 Michael Almereyda first emerged as a prominent name with his very contemporary vampire film Nadja (1994), which found a counterpart with his updating of Hamlet (2000). After that, Almereyda spent several years making non-fiction films – though his most recent work marks a return to fictional narrative – on a fascinating array of topics: Sam Shepherd, New Orleans, William Eggleston. The culmination of this spate of documentaries is the celebrated Paradise (2009), his most recent... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/13/12 | Cambridge |
Paradise - DIRECTOR IN PERSONPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 13, 2012 Paradise has been compared to a notebook, a diary and a sketchbook. It is a collection of discrete moments, unscripted and unstaged, shot digitally over several years, none lasting longer than four minutes. There is no voiceover or onscreen text to link or explain the fragments. These moments have little in common other than that they are all instants of beauty or happiness. While there is footage from nine different countries, the final section is centered on the US. There is little direct... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/13/12 | Cambridge |
A Look Inside SB 1070Presented by Northeastern University School of Law February 15, 2012 The Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA) will sponsor a viewing of the documentary "A Look Inside SB 1070" and host speakers from the Center for New Community, the film's producer. The film follows a national student delegation as it toured Arizona in August of 2010 amidst the passage of the controversial state immigration law known as SB 1070. Nine students from Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, and Colorado comprised the delegation which set out to gain a... | Northeastern University School of Law | 02/15/12 | Boston |
The Loving StoryPresented by MASS MoCA at MASS MoCA February 16, 2012 The dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1960s, and their landmark Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that changed history. At the time of their wedding, interracial marriage was illegal in 16 states, including their homestate of Virginia. They were driven out of Virginia, forbidden to return as a couple in the future. Mildred, frustrated by discrimination, wrote to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who motivated her to take... | MASS MoCA | 02/16/12 | North Adams |
Travelling Light: NT LivePresented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 16, 2012 In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his... | Coolidge Corner Theatre | 02/16/12 | Brookline |
Emerson Presents - Filmmaker Rob Todd in PersonPresented by ArtsEmerson February 17, 2012 An evening with Robert Todd, whose films beautifully “draw together documentary and experimental elements … [to] explore the difficult-to-define emotions engendered by the stresses of civilization” (Cinémathèque Ontario). FILMMAKER IN PERSON! | ArtsEmerson | 02/17/12 | Boston |
A Single Spark - FILMMAKER IN PERSONPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 17, 2012 A Single Spark tells the story behind a crucial event in modern South Korean history: the self-immolation of factory worker Jeon Tae-il in 1971 to draw attention to the appalling workplace conditions faced by many Koreans. Jeon’s suicide is widely credited as key to the unionization of South Korean workers. Rather than a straightforward biopic, the film elaborates on Jeon’s life by supplying a parallel story: a young activist five years later is researching a biography of Jeon... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/17/12 | Cambridge |
Tosca from the Royal Opera House, LondonPresented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 18, 2012 Powerful music, a gripping story and a tragic end: Puccini's ever-popular Tosca performed at London's Royal Opera House with a fabulous cast. Among the star singers in this revival are Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel. Jonathan Kent's detailed production draws to the full on the historical backdrop of Rome in 1800, a political world of control and suspicion, beautifully evoked in Paul Brown's lavish designs. | Coolidge Corner Theatre | 02/18/12 | Brookline |
Introduction to Photoshop workshopPresented by Hunakai Studio of Fine Arts February 4-February 18, 2012 This class will be like a buffet; we will touch on many things to give you a taste of what the program can do. Class will begin with an introduction to the tools pallet and drop down menus. We will explore through various exercises, techniques such as layers, retouching, photo montage, and special effects. Class is for teens and adults. | Hunakai Studio of Fine Arts | 02/04/12- 02/18/12 | Foxboro |
Scandinavian FilmPresented by Scandinavian Living Center February 18, 2012 Swedish movie: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest which is the third in the Stieg Larsson trilogy. Lisabeth needs help from journalist Blomkvist to clear her name. In doing so, they also place themselves in danger. Swedish with English subtitles | Scandinavian Living Center | 02/18/12 | West Newton |
PrimaryPresented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre February 18, 2012 THE PRIMARY CINEMA OF ROBERT DREW presents two of the pioneering documentarian’s most celebrated films: a dramatic record of President John F Kennedy’s campaign and his 1963 showdown over the integration of the University of Alabama. PRESERVATION PRINTS! | ArtsEmerson | 02/18/12 | Boston |
Chilsu and Mansu - FILMMAKER IN PERSONPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 18, 2012 Park’s debut film offered a startling realist intervention by focusing its story on the difficult lives of two struggling artists – billboard sign painters whose dangerous occupation clearly emblematizes the struggles of the working class in post-boom Korea. Made during a time of still heavily imposed censorship and adapted (uncredited) from a story by Taiwanese writer Huang Chunming, whose work was banned at the time in Korea, Chilsu and Mansu is an underappreciated example of... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/18/12 | Cambridge |
The Cat's Pajamas: Kids' ShowsPresented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 19, 2012 The Cat’s Pajamas makes very cool music for kids, bringing a musical comedy twist to high-octane kid-rock.
The Cats put on more than a concert—they plunge the audience into a wild, wonderful world of stories, puppets and props, backed by a band making great music that just happens to be for kids.
“The Cat’s Pajamas makes great music for everyone in the family!” — Bill Harley, children’s musician, storyteller and NPR... | Coolidge Corner Theatre | 02/19/12 | Brookline |
Sing-A-Long Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatPresented by Regent Theatre at Regent Theatre February 17-February 19, 2012 Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is one of the world’s most successful musicals. Now this classic musical becomes Sing-a-long-a- JOSEPH with lyrics, fancy dress, fun bags, dancing and a whole lot more!!
Brought to you from the people who brought you the hit show Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music, this is quite simply ‘irresistible fun’.
For the first time ever the multi-million pound film of the original stage version,...
Buy ½ price tickets at BosTix.org | Regent Theatre | 02/17/12- 02/19/12 | Arlington |
The Merry WidowPresented by ArtsEmerson February 17-February 19, 2012 Maurice Chevalier’s roguish Captain Danilo is commissioned by his king to win the heart of wealthy widow Jeanette MacDonald, whose plans to remarry threaten her kingdom. Hailed as “the sexiest musical of the thirties—perhaps the sexiest musical ever.” | ArtsEmerson | 02/17/12- 02/19/12 | Boston |
If Not Us, WhoPresented by Goethe-Institut Boston at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 19, 2012 Germany in the early 60s: a time of departure. Bernward Vesper, son of the Nazi-writer Will Vesper, is rebellious. During the night, he slams angry words into his typewriter, throwing them in the face of the establishment. When he meets Gudrun Ensslin, it’s the beginning of an extreme affair: unconditional, excessive, beyond all thresholds of pain. Together they set off to conquer the world. But less than 10 years later, Bernward is caught up in the madness of drugs and Gudrun throws... | Goethe-Institut Boston | 02/19/12 | Brookline |
The Devil ProbablyPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 19, 2012 Once banned in France as an incitement to teenage suicide, Le diable probablement offers a haunting portrait of a truly lost generation. Within a group of young environmentalists looking to address the crisis of world hunger, one strangely charismatic member leaves, rejecting political activism as insufficient to cope with the sickness of contemporary society and resolving to kill himself as the ultimate gesture of refusal. Describing the film as “voluptuous,” Truffaut explains:... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/19/12 | Cambridge |
The Uprising - FILMMAKER IN PERSONPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 19, 2012 After two acclaimed films exploring the relationship between the recent past and the present, Park goes back to 1901 to tell the true story of a revolt against local Catholics, French missionaries and a corrupt government. When peasants balk at increased taxation by a local government that includes a number of Christian converts, the insurrection quickly becomes a religious war. Yi Chae-su is an uneducated young man who finds himself at the head of the insurrection. The film presents an... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/19/12 | Cambridge |
Black RepublicPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 20, 2012 Park followed up Chilsu and Mansu with a sweeping drama about a student protester whose life takes a dramatic turn when he hides out in a remote mining town in order to hide from the police. An intensification of Chilsu and Mansu‘s working-class theme, Black Republic boldly pushed the censorship limits with its depiction of exploited labor, mine strikes and police brutality. Co-written by Park, the film subtly uses melodrama to give human dimensions to its vision of a South Korea torn... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/20/12 | Cambridge |
Science on Screen: Crimes and MisdemeanorsPresented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 20, 2012 Woody Allen intertwines two storylines in this penetrating, acidly funny tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosms they represent. Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) is a prominent ophthalmologist and family man who resorts to desperate measures when his mistress threatens to ruin his life. Meanwhile, married documentary filmmaker Cliff Stern (Woody Allen) woos an attractive production assistant (Mia Farrow) while directing a profile of his brother-in-law (a priceless... | Coolidge Corner Theatre | 02/20/12 | Brookline |
Celluloid Cities: A Long JourneyPresented by The Arts at Wellesley at Collins Cinema, Wellesley College February 23, 2012 Celluloid Cities: Symphonies and Solos - A CAMS film series. The Cinema and Media Studies wishes to contribute to the campus wide interest in the theme of the city by showing five films. Ranging from ultra-famous films (Chunking Express, exceptionally shown in its 35 mm. splendor) to rare and hard-to-find little gems (Largo Viaje and Singapore Gaga); from Ruttmann's mythical city symphony that initiated a whole genre to Linklater's just as mythical tribute to Austin (and generation X), this... | The Arts at Wellesley | 02/23/12 | Wellesley |
First Annual Boston Student Film Fest Submissions!Presented by Boston Student Arts Network January 31-February 24, 2012 The Boston Student Arts Network (BSAN) is excited to announce the launch of their First Annual Boston Student Film Fest. The month long online film festival will feature works of all genres and subjects completed within the past year by undergraduate and graduate students attending schools all over New England. The new venture fills a void in the local film industry, recognizing film students in a public space in front of people all over the country. Films will be chosen by the Directors of... | Boston Student Arts Network | 01/31/12- 02/24/12 | |
Top HatPresented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre March 23-February 24, 2012 The quintessential Astaire/Rogers film! Mistaken identity—and Code-era circumstances of forbidden desire—spin the screwball couple’s quarrelling antics into love, near-consummated in the TOP HAT’S iconic musical number, “Cheek to Cheek.” | ArtsEmerson | 03/23/12- 02/24/12 | Boston |
Metropolitan - FILMMAKER IN PERSONPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 24, 2012 In a time “not so long ago,” the discreet charms of the self-described “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie” imbue the debutante after-party scene of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Beguiled by the clique of collegiate preppies known as the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, Socialist-turned-socialite Tom Townsend finds their unpredictable banter and adherence to an old-fashioned sense of civility curiously admirable. With adult role models ineffectual or absent, this “doomed”... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/24/12 | Cambridge |
Gustafer Yellowgold Presented by MASS MoCA at MASS MoCA February 25, 2012 The New York Times described this extraordinary combination of music and animation as "A cross between ‘Yellow Submarine’ and Dr. Seuss." New York Magazine named Gustafer’s creator Morgan Taylor Best Kids’ Performer, and his song "Mint Green Bee" was a Grand Prize Winner in the Children’s Category of the John Lennon Songwriting contest. This might be the best kids' show you ever see. | MASS MoCA | 02/25/12 | North Adams |
AMERICAN MATCHMAKERPresented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre March 24-February 25, 2012 Leo Fuchs, “the Yiddish Fred Astaire,” plays a debonair bachelor who decides to open a matchmaking business in the Bronx after his 8th planned marriage fails on the way to the altar, in Edgar G. Ulmer’s last and most modern Yiddish movie. RESTORED PRINT! | ArtsEmerson | 03/24/12- 02/25/12 | Boston |
Stand By MePresented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre February 18-February 25, 2012 Four boys in search of a missing teenager’s body in a small Oregon town set out on an unforgettable two-day trek that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery. An iconic, heartfelt rites-of-passage drama. RE-RELEASED—NEW PRINT! | ArtsEmerson | 02/18/12- 02/25/12 | Boston |
Torch SingerPresented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre February 24-February 25, 2012 Hailed upon its 1980s revival as "one of Claudette Colbert's best films of the 1930s.” A "stark, Warner Brothers type of sex and confession melodrama, but done with the glossier, ladies' magazine approach prevalent at Paramount" (William K. Everson). | ArtsEmerson | 02/24/12- 02/25/12 | Boston |
Damsels in Distress - FILMMAKER IN PERSONPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 25, 2012 A sneak preview pre-theatrical release screening of Whit Stillman's long-awaited new feature!
An off-beat, giddy and Laura Ashley colored send-up of smug liberal college Americana, Stillman’s latest filmworks within a bolder mode of satiric caricature than his earlier trilogy. Starring mumblecore icon Greta Gerwig as the overzealous leader of an all-girl suicide prevention club, Damsels in Distress gleefully skewers dominant college stereotypes, from jock machismo and... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/25/12 | Cambridge |
Billy Kelly & the Blah Blah Blahs: Kids' ShowsPresented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 26, 2012 A fun, clever and silly morning of music not to be missed.
Songs about milk, pine cones, springtime, 18-wheelers, the moon, and just about anything else you can think of, in a style described as "Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld (writing) lyrics for all-ages music played by an acoustic Weezer."
Recommended for ages 3+. | Coolidge Corner Theatre | 02/26/12 | Brookline |
Academy Awards PartyPresented by The Boston Jewish Film Festival February 26, 2012 Who will win Best Picture? Actor? Actress? Foreign film? Have a night of fun and see who will take home the Oscars at our first Academy Awards party | The Boston Jewish Film Festival | 02/26/12 | Boston |
Moonlight and PretzelsPresented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre February 24-February 26, 2012 Universal’s charming 42ND STREET-inspired musical, in which a washed-up singer-songwriter and a small-town girl create a Broadway sensation. Shot on a shoestring in Astoria, Queens and helmed by canonical cinematographer Karl Freund. NOT ON DVD! | ArtsEmerson | 02/24/12- 02/26/12 | Boston |
BarcelonaPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 26, 2012 Two actors from Metropolitan reprise similar roles as Americans abroad fumbling through the languages of love and politics during the “last decade of the Cold War.” Running his company’s foreign sales office, Ted agrees to host his cousin Fred, a young officer in the Navy who quickly confronts Leftist Spain with an ardent, ostentatious patriotism. Between Ted’s pragmatic intellectualism and Fred’s lies and obfuscation, they both appear anxious and insecure... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/26/12 | Cambridge |
The Last Days of DiscoPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 26, 2012 Directed by Whit Stillman, Appearing in Person. With Chloë Sevigny,
Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman
US 1997, 35mm, color, 114 min
With his characteristically wry dispassion and clever attention to detail, Stillman introduces characters and actors from his established clique into the ultra-exclusive Manhattan disco club scene. As they struggle to maintain their inherited social status, the recent Ivy League grads pursue careers and relationships amid the remains... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/26/12 | Cambridge |
To the Starry IslandPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 27, 2012 Directed by Park Kwang-su. With Ahn Soo-young, Ahn Sung-kee,
Choi Hyung-in
South Korea 1993, 35mm, color, 102 min. Korean with English subtitles
Many of the most celebrated films from the beginnings of the Korean New Wave explore the toll the war of the 1950s continued to take upon the psyches of contemporary South Koreans. A prominent example, To the Starry Island opens in the present with the efforts of Moon Jae-go to carry out his father’s dying wish to be... | Harvard Film Archive | 02/27/12 | Cambridge |
Monday Night Film Series: Black and Beautiful: Celebrating African American ActressesPresented by Boston Public Library at Boston Public Library February 6-February 27, 2012 Monday, February 13, 2012, 6pm
What’s Love Got To Do With It (1993, 118 minutes) Please note room change to Boston Room for this date only.
Directed by Brian Gibson.
A film about the singer Tina Turner, how she rose to stardom and broke free from her abusive husband. Starring Angela Bassett. This film series is part of the Boston Public Library celebration of Black History Month.
Monday, February 27, 2012, 6pm
Lackawanna Blues (2005, 95... | Boston Public Library | 02/06/12- 02/27/12 | Boston |
Writers & Readers Series: Jodi Picoult "Lone Wolf"Presented by Brookline Booksmith at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 29, 2012 The best-selling author of eighteen novels, including Sing You Home, Nineteen Minutes and My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult returns to the Coolidge for her newest tale. When prodigal son Edward Warren gets a call telling him that his father is comatose after an accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara, he returns home. But while Edward wants to terminate life-support, Cara holds out hope, and the two engage in a vicious battle over what it means to love and protect... | Brookline Booksmith | 02/29/12 | Brookline |
Boston Jewish Film Festival - The Fifth HeavenPresented by The Boston Jewish Film Festival at West Newton Cinemas February 29, 2012 Palestine under the British mandate. Maya, 13, is dropped off by her father at an orphanage. Only she’s not an orphan, just part of a dysfunctional family. Complicating her search for self are her fellow orphans, the head of the orphanage, who knows her parents from a previous life and a young Israeli soldier. Hebrew with English subtitles. Based on a novel by Rachel Eytan. Director Dina Zvi-Riklis will be present. | The Boston Jewish Film Festival | 02/29/12 | Newton |
Sing Your SongPresented by MASS MoCA at MASS MoCA March 1, 2012 An up close look at a great and inspiring American, Harry Belafonte. A patriot to the last and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past 60 years. Maintaining an international presence since the 1950s, Belafonte’s impact goes beyond entertainment, as he actively collaborated with Martin Luther King, fought against apartheid in South Africa, and challenged gang violence, among many other causes. Sing Your Song... | MASS MoCA | 03/01/12 | North Adams |
The Comedy of Errors: NT LivePresented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre March 1, 2012 Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time.
Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their... | Coolidge Corner Theatre | 03/01/12 | Brookline |
National Theatre in HD -- The Comedy of ErrorsPresented by Rockport Music at Shalin Liu Performance Center March 1, 2012 In its new home, the Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport Music presents performances from the National Theatre in London.
Featuring high-definition projection and state-of-the-art surround sound, you will be transported to the theatre.
Dominic Cooke, director of the celebrated Royal Court Theatre in London, comes to the National Theatre for the first time to direct Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Lenny Henry, famed comedian and star of the British situation... | Rockport Music | 03/01/12 | Rockport |
Always for PleasurePresented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre March 2, 2012 Among American portraitist Les Blank’s masterworks, this glorious, soul-satisfying film is an intense insider's portrait of New Orleans. Followed by THE FLORESTINE COLLECTION, inspired by the handmade dresses of a New Orleans African-American seamstress. | ArtsEmerson | 03/02/12 | Boston |
Smugglers' Songs - FILMMAKER IN PERSONPresented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 2, 2012 Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Appearing in Person.
With Jacques Nolot, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Christian Milia-Darmezin
France 2011, digital video, color, 97 min. French with English subtitles
Ameur-Zaïmeche takes an unexpected turn into period-film territory in his latest work, a film in praise of banditry. Louis Mandrin was a notorious mid-18th century France smuggler who became a folk hero for setting up thieves’ markets where stolen goods... | Harvard Film Archive | 03/02/12 | Cambridge |
Tootsie's Last SuitPresented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre March 2-March 3, 2012 The story of “Tootie” Montana—former Chief of the Yellow Pocahontas Hunters and celebrated throughout New Orleans for the beauty of his Mardi Gras costumes—and an exploration of the complex history of New Orleans’ vibrant Indian culture. BOSTON PREMIERE! | ArtsEmerson | 03/02/12- 03/03/12 | Boston |