Events
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Artist Talk: WANG GONGXIN
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts February 9, 2012 Artist Talk: Wang GongXin is one of China’s most respected and influential contemporary artists. His work Here? Or There? (created with Lin Tianmiao) is considered to be among the most important works in recent years. His piece The Sky of Brooklyn: Digging a Hole in Beijing was one of the first site-specific installations in China. His work on video includes The Old Bench, Baby Talk, Public Hallway, and Shepard. His work has been exhibited widely all over the world. In the UK he has...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
02/09/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Travelling Light: NT Live
Presented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 9, 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...
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Coolidge Corner Theatre |
02/09/12 |
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline |
Screening of Documentary film: Acting Together on the World Stage
Presented by Medicine Wheel Productions February 9, 2012 “Acting Together on the World Stage” documents peacebuilding performance, highlighting artists, peacebuilders, and community leaders from every continent whose rituals and theatrical works speak truth to power and support communities to mourn losses and build bridges across differences.
The film will be shown in conjunction with a new exhibition at Medicine Wheel’s Spoke Gallery, “Points of Impact” by visual artist Linda Burke. Together these...
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Medicine Wheel Productions |
02/09/12 |
Medicine Wheel Productions, Boston |
Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts (Parts I - IV)
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 10, 2012 Secret History of the Dividing Line
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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/10/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Secret History of the Dividing Line...
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 10, 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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/10/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Beats Being Dead (Etwas Besseres Als Den Tod)
Presented by ArtsEmerson February 10-February 11, 2012 Dreileben (Three Lives)
2011, Germany A convicted killer escapes from a country hospital—situated on the outskirts of a small city in the middle of the Thuringian Forest, a mythical region full of legends and superstition—at the start of Petzold’s genre-bending, wonderfully unpredictable Beats Being Dead. But the film soon comes to center on the story of two star-crossed lovers: Johannes (Matschenz), a shy young hospital orderly, and Bosnian refugee Ana (Mijovic),...
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ArtsEmerson |
02/10/12 -
02/11/12 |
Bright Family Screening Room, Boston |
Spielberg Night & Auction Kickoff (sponsored by the Brotherhood of Temple Israel, Sharon)
Presented by Brotherhood of Temple Israel February 11, 2012 Steven Spielberg and Auction Kick-off Night - Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 pm. OPEN TO ALL !!! Join us for an evening discovering the work of Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe award-winner Steven Spielberg and kickoff the annual Brotherhood Auction. We'll see clips from his many movies and the impact he's had on films. We'll explore his life and how his Jewish roots influenced his films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Schindler's List. Further, we'll see how Spielberg's work led him to...
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Brotherhood of Temple Israel |
02/11/12 |
Temple Israel, Sharon |
Dreileben: Don't Follow Me Around
Presented by ArtsEmerson February 3-February 11, 2012 This “cool, Hitchcockian romantic thriller,” set in Germany’s Thuringian Forest (a region alive with legends and myth), plays the police search for an escaped killer against a story of star-crossed lovers. Part one of the celebrated DREILEBEN trilogy. See the Complete Trilogy for $15.
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ArtsEmerson |
02/03/12 -
02/11/12 |
Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, Boston |
Explorers
Presented by ArtsEmerson February 4-February 11, 2012 Inspired by dreams three boys (including River Phoenix and Ethan Hawke in their debut feature roles) build a spaceship and embark on an incredible adventure. A children’s fantasy classic—and a cult favorite among Joe Dante (GREMLINS) followers.
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ArtsEmerson |
02/04/12 -
02/11/12 |
Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, Boston |
Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness
Presented by ArtsEmerson February 5-February 11, 2012 A dark, memorably strange fairy tale in which a police inspector tries to put himself inside the mind of a criminal while the isolated escapee flees deeper into a possibly enchanted forest. Part three of the celebrated DREILEBEN trilogy. See the Complete Trilogy for $15.
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ArtsEmerson |
02/05/12 -
02/11/12 |
Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, Boston |
Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 11, 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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/11/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Lesbian Film Festival - Two Shows
Presented by Out! For Reel LGBT Film Series February 11, 2012 Lesbian Film Festival, presented by Out! For Reel LGBT Film Series, will offer a variety of award-winning films in two separate shows. First show, 5:15 - 7:00 pm: "Kiss Me", a charming romantic comedy from Sweden. Future stepsisters, Mia and Frida, two thirty-something professionals, meet at the engagement party of Frida’s mother and Mia’s father and unexpectedly fall for each other.
Second show, 7:20 - 8:40 pm: "Best Lesbian Shorts: Love &...
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Out! For Reel LGBT Film Series |
02/11/12 |
Wright Hall, Smith College, Northampton |
Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line...
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 11, 2012 David Gatten’s Secret Histories
February 10 – February 12
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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/11/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
The Tanglewood Marionettes present The Dragon King: Kids' Shows
Presented 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...
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Coolidge Corner Theatre |
02/12/12 |
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline |
Love Me Tonight
Presented 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...
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ArtsEmerson |
02/10/12 -
02/12/12 |
Bright Family Screening Room, Boston |
Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time
Presented 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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/12/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
A Man Escaped
Presented 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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/12/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time
Presented 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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/12/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
A Man Escaped
Presented 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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/12/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
An Evening with Michael Almereyda
Presented 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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/13/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Paradise - DIRECTOR IN PERSON
Presented 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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/13/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
A Look Inside SB 1070
Presented 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...
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Northeastern University School of Law |
02/15/12 |
240 Dockser Hall, Northeastern University, Boston |
The Loving Story
Presented 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...
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MASS MoCA |
02/16/12 |
MASS MoCA, North Adams |
Travelling Light: NT Live
Presented 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...
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Coolidge Corner Theatre |
02/16/12 |
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline |
Emerson Presents - Filmmaker Rob Todd in Person
Presented 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!
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ArtsEmerson |
02/17/12 |
Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, Boston |
A Single Spark - FILMMAKER IN PERSON
Presented 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...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/17/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Tosca from the Royal Opera House, London
Presented 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.
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Coolidge Corner Theatre |
02/18/12 |
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline |
Introduction to Photoshop workshop
Presented 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.
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Hunakai Studio of Fine Arts |
02/04/12 -
02/18/12 |
Hunakai Studio of Fine Arts, Foxboro |
Scandinavian Film
Presented 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
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Scandinavian Living Center |
02/18/12 |
Scandinavian Living Center, West Newton |
Primary
Presented 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!
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ArtsEmerson |
02/18/12 |
Paramount Theatre, Boston |