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Saturday, June 23, 2012
Film / Arts Hold the Lifeboat
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM
The Main Library film series Ships Ahoy!! 8 Classic Seafaring Films continues with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat. There are many reasons to watch this minor WWII classic, but chief among them is the opportunity to catch a rare film appearance by Tallulah Bankhead. A legendary stage star whose movie career never took off, she was handed her meatiest screen role by Hitchcock and didn't let him down. She plays a self-centered writer who finds herself stranded on the title vessel after the ship on which she's traveling gets torpedoed by a German sub.
Among the other passengers are seamen of varying dispositions, a millionaire industrialist, and, most troublesome, the duplicitous captain of the U-Boat that shelled their ship in the first place. Working from a story concocted by no less than John Steinbeck, Hitchcock and his crew insure that the movie never feels constrictive, even though it was all filmed on a single set (a feat he would repeat four years later with Rope). Incidentally, if you're wondering how Hitchcock managed to include his customary cameo when all the action takes place on the ocean, check out the "before" and "after" weight loss ad in a newspaper floating by in the water! Free admission. June 23, 2 p.m. ImaginOn's Wells Fargo Playhouse, 300 E. 7th St. 704-416-4600.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Brave; Seeking a Friend for the End of the World; Rock of Ages; That's My Boy
Posted By Matt Brunson on Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:45 PM
- Disney & Pixar
- Brave
Click on the title to be taken directly to the review.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:00 AM
- Focus Features
- Patton Oswalt and Steve Carell in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Benjamin Walker, Anthony Mackie
Brave - Animated; voices of Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly
Lola Versus - Greta Gerwig, Debra Winger
Moonrise Kingdom - Bill Murray, Bruce Willis
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World - Steve Carell, Keira Knightley
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Film / Arts Ships Ahoy!
Posted By Anita Overcash on Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's time again for the Main Library's annual Summer Film Series, and perhaps mindful that many families may not be able to afford a beach vacation that would allow them to see the ocean for themselves - or maybe because 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic - the venue has elected to showcase a nautical theme: Ships Ahoy!! 8 Classic Seafaring Films.
The series, which will take place for eight consecutive Saturdays throughout the summer, begins with 1958's A Night to Remember, an adaptation of Walter Lord's novel about the Titanic's fateful encounter with that iceberg. Largely considered by film critics and scholars to be the best movie ever made about the disaster (sorry, James Cameron fans), it's certainly the most factual, offering only brief vignettes concerning the passengers while spending most of its time with the officers, and approaching the tragedy from a stance that almost qualifies as docudrama. Free admission. June 16, 2 p.m. ImaginOn's Wells Fargo Playhouse, 300 E. 7th St. - Matt Brunson
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM
- Magnolia Pictures
- Headhunters
Headhunters - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Askel Hennie
Hysteria - Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy
Rock of Ages - Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap - Documentary; Ice-T, Ice Cube
That's My Boy - Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg
Friday, June 8, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Prometheus; The Intouchables
Posted By Matt Brunson on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Film / Arts Free screening of thought-provoking Gift
Posted By Anita Overcash on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:03 PM
After the murder of her brother, Steve Leone, on Feb. 12, 2003, local Charlottean Therese Bartholomew struggled with the grief of having lost a loved one. The intensity of that experience was penned in Coffee Shop God, an emotional memoir about her sibling's untimely death and restorative justice.
But that still wasn't enough to bring Bartholomew to closure. In her continued efforts to reach that point, she met with her brother's killer, Karl Staton, at the Kershaw Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Her purpose was to learn more about what happened at the scene of the crime (a strip club in Greenville), who Staton really was, why he shot her brother, and if she could forgive him of the life-altering damage he had inflicted on her and her family.
Bartholomew, now a member of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation (MVFR), took things a step further by filming the encounter for what resulted in a documentary titled The Final Gift.
The Final Gift screens at 7 p.m. tonight, June 8, at Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte. The event will be facilitated by Melissa Mummert with a special guest appearance by Bartholomew, who served as both director and executive producer on the film . Admission is free. Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, 234 N. Sharon Amity Road. 704-366-8623. www.uuccharlotte.org.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- Music Box Films
- The Deep Blue Sea
The Deep Blue Sea - Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston
The Intouchables - Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - Animated; voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock
Prometheus - Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender
Friday, June 1, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Snow White and the Huntsman; Darling Companion
Posted By Matt Brunson on Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:44 PM
- Rhythm & Hues / Universal Pictures
- Snow White and the Huntsman
Click on the title to be taken directly to the review.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:00 AM
- Arc Entertainment
- For Greater Glory
Darling Companion - Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline
For Greater Glory - Andy Garcia, Peter O'Toole
Snow White and the Huntsman - Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth
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