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Six Great Reasons to take in a show or two at Railroad Square through May 10th: Damsels in Distress, The Secret World of Arrietty, Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”, Marley, The Kid with a Bike, Salmon Fishing in the Yeman
These are the great movies upcoming at Railroad Square this week: Being Flynn, Salmon Fishing in the Yeman, Coriolanus, The Secret World of Arrietty, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, We Can’t Go Home Again and The Farmer’s Market
Fred Jones, a fisheries expert and academic who works for the British government, is approached by Harriet Chetwode-Talbot with a plan to introduce salmon into the waterways of Yemen for the purpose of sport fishing,
The public is invited to the Harlow Gallery at 160 Water Street in downtown Hallowell on Thursday, April 26th at 7 pm for a FREE screening of Lubec Arts Alive !. The film by the award winning television and film producer Jon Wing Lum, documents a week of community-inspired art organized by the Union of Maine Visual Artists in Lubec, Maine in 2009.
The Island President OVERVIEW (Jon Shenk, 101 mins). Both a political thriller and a compelling character portrait, The Island President chronicles the high-stakes crusade of Mohamed Nasheed, the recently deposed president of the Maldives, to fight global warming. As the leader of the lowest country on earth, Nasheed warns that if sea levels continue to rise, “We will die.” The film boasts astonishing access to the charismatic leader as he travels around the world, going head to head with major polluters like India, China, and the U.S. Winner of the Toronto International Film Festival’s People Choice Award, this inspiring documentary “balances run-and-gun insider footage with stunning shots of a beautiful tourist retreat whose residents could soon become environmental refugees” (Variety).
The second annual Lewiston Auburn Film Festival (LAFF) is going to be a three-day extravaganza, April 13 – 15, complete with opening night festivities, a full day of films in downtown L/A, top-notch awards show, brunch, and filmmaker panels! Based on the success of last year’s event, where more than 1,000 festival goers attended screenings of 100+ films from all over the world, the staff at LAFF has been working hard to make LAFF 2012 bigger, better and on par with festivals found in larger, more well-known cities. We’re happy to report that LAFF 2012 is going to do just that.
Film festivals that honor Iranian films are held annually around the globe. Along with China, Iran has been lauded as one of the best exporters of cinema in the 1990s. Some critics now rank Iran as the world’s most important national cinema, artistically, with a significance that invites comparison to Italian neo-realism and similar movements in past decades.
Thin Ice, Salmon Fishing in the Yeman, Friends with Kids, In the Darkness, The Merry Widow, Titicut Follies
Come and join your neighbors for Theater Thursdays at the library next Thursday, April 5th beginning at 2:30PM in our Hazzard Reading Room. Our current movie theme is “little known musicals” and this week the staff will be screening the movie Calamity Jane (1953) starring Doris Day and Howard Keel. Deadwood, Dakota Territory, is the backdrop for this story loosely based on Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok. The movie is free and staff will also have popcorn on hand for your viewing pleasure!
Director Paul Weitz has charted an interesting if not schizophrenic, course with his career. His short output includes what is perhaps the quintessential teen gross-out comedy(when someone has sex with an apple pie, I define that as either a “gross-out” comedy or a Hostess executive reacting to an extraordinarily healthy annual report) American Pie, He has also done the final (God please help us) installment in the Meet the Parents “franchise” Little Fockers, and, oddly enough in comparison to these concoctions, the absolutely wonderful understated, poignant and altogether ADULT Nick Hornsby-adaptation of About a Boy. Go figure.
The line-up at The Strand includes A Seperation, She Stoops to Conquer, Ellis Paul Family Show, and Shame
The Line-up at Railroad Square Cinema Includes: The Redemption of General Butt Naked, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, Thin Ice, In Darkness, Welcome to Lee Maine, Downeast (work in progress) through April 3rd. You won’t want to miss these films.
Eveningstar Cinema to Screen “A Dangerous Method” Through March 29, 2012
CineGrand: The Rum Diary – Adapted from the classic novel by Hunter S. Thompson, this film concerns American journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean, amidst a group of expatriate lost souls all bent on self-destruction. With Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Giovanni Ribisi and Richard Jenkins.
Musician and Music Venue Events for May, and Beyond – Keep Checking Back
Theater, Social and Public Events for May 2012 and Beyond – Updated Regularly!
REMINDER: “Always Patsy Cline” with Sally Struthers at Ogunquit Playhouse May 23rd to June 16th
Festival Franco Fun 2012 Celebration Scheduled for June 2nd
A Sure Bet is The Line-up at The Strand Theatre through May 2012
Electricity Maine to be Featured at June Meeting of Winthrop Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce on June 7, 2012
Maine Forest Service: Forest Ranger Discovers Bomber Crash Ejection Seat
10th Annual Meals on Wheels Golf Tournament to be Held June 11, 2012
Developing an Edge in Overseas Markets: Maine Businesses Talk Strategy May 24, 2012
Maine Historical Society Newsletter for the Week of May 21, 2012