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Williamstown Film Fest Kicks Off with NE Premiere of "Against the Current"

North Adams, MA - For the third year, the Williamstown Film Festival will hold a benefit during its inaugural weekend. On Saturday, October 24 festivities begin with 5:30 pm dinner in Mezze's new catering space at 777 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown, followed by the New England premiere of Peter Callahan's film Against the Current at 8 pm in the MASS MoCA Hunter Center. Tickets include the dinner plus reserved seating at the movie. Call 413.662.2111.

"Invisible Children" to Screen at MCLA September 17

North Adams, MA -
Film: Invisible Children
MCLA
Murdock Hall, Room 218
375 Church Street
September 17 at 7:00pm
FREE and open to the public

The "Invisible Children: Rough Cut" film exposes the effects of a 20-year-long war on the children of Northern Uganda. Children who live in fear of abduction by rebel soldiers, and are being forced to fight as part of a violent army.  Come hear about the incredible story of these children and what college students are doing to raise awareness on this and other issues of social justice.  Screening sponsored by MCLA's Center for Service and Citizenship.

Guy Ben-Ner Videos at MASS MoCA

North Adams, MA - The public is invited to enjoy contemporary art at MASS MoCA at 87 Marshall Street. One of the featured artists is Guy Ben-Ner, who  has become known for a series of playful videos which often star the artist and his young children. MoCA galleries are open from 11-5 each day, closed Tuesdays. Call 413.662.2111 for information.

Join the Clark's Free Film Club

Williamstown, MA - Film aficionados and those who just simply like a good flick are invited to join the Cinema Salon Film Club at the Clark. Enjoy films on the Clark's big screen with commentary and discussion led by Steve Satullo, film programmer for the Clark. The introductory meeting will take place on Friday, September 25 at 4 pm. Subsequent meetings will be held on October 9, October 23, November 6, November 20, at 4 pm. There is no charge to join the club and film screenings are free.

The initial screenings will survey "The Tragedies and Triumphs of Italian Neorealism," and start with Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto (The Sound of Trumpets) (1961, 93 min., in Italian with subtitles), a film in which
the tragedies are tiny and the triumphs endearing, as a teenage boy leaves his village for "the job" in a Milan factory. Il Posto won the Italian Film Critics Award at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, the Sutherland Trophy at the 1961 British Film Institute Awards, and a David at the 1962 David di Donatello Awards.

Rich Remsberg Films at Bascom Lodge September 9

Rich Remsberg presents!
Yes, Rich Remsberg brings a selection of his celluloid curiosities to Bascom Lodge!

- A 1950s home movie of Mt. Greylock and North Adams
- Man of the Forest (without a doubt the worst movie he owns - in a good way)
- Bears (1970s National Geographic special on the Craigheads' bear research at Yellowstone)
AND MORE!

It all happens on Wednesday, September 9 at 7pm.
Free and open to the public.
With a fixed price dinner to follow.

MoCA Hosts Labyrinth Sing-a-Long August 27

North Adams, MA - On Thursday, August 27 at 8:30 pm in the courtyard or Club B-10, depending on the weather, MASS MoCA hosts a Labyrinth Sing-a-long. The 1986 fantasy stars David Bowie. Call 413.662.2111.

Found Footage Festival August 20 at MASS MoCA

North Adams, MA - Join MASS MoCA on Thursday August 20 for a festival showcasing footage from videos found in thrift stores, garage sales, warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country. In a playful celebration of all things found, hosts/curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher provide commentary. 8:30 pm, Courtyard C or Club B-10. Call 662.2111.

Filming Georgia O'Keeffe: Conversation and Critique August 16 at The Clark

Williamstown, MA - In addition to being one of America's best-known artists, Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most photographed artists of her time. Barbara Buhler Lynes will explore the filmed representations of O'Keeffe with a screening and discussion of Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life in Art, a 2002 short film directed by documentary filmmaker Perry Miller Adato. Lynes, curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and expert on this iconic twentieth-century artist, will present "Filming Georgia O'Keeffe: Conversation and Critique" on Sunday, August 16, at 3 pm, at the Clark. Admission to this event is free.

From early portraits by her agent and spouse, Alfred Stieglitz, to
Adato's 1977 made-for-television feature, photographs and films of O'Keeffe have established and ultimately re-created the artist's public image and place within the public imagination. In Lynes's commentary preceding and following the film, for which she was an associate director, she discusses O'Keeffe's active role in crafting an artistic identity through photography and film. Due to emerging scholarship and a deeper understanding of O'Keeffe's life and work, the artist's representation has changed over time.

MoCA Hosts Best of Iron Mule Film Fest August 6

North Adams, MA - MASS MoCA hosts the Best of Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival on Thursday, August 6 at 8:30 pm. Call 413.662.2111 for details.

Barbara Stanwyck & the Modern American Woman Film Series at the Clark

Williamstown, MA - The "An Artist in Her Own Right: Barbara Stanwyck and the Modern American Woman" film series at the Clark surveys the best of Stanwyck's groundbreaking work, which according to film scholar David Thomson, reveals the most "credible portrait in cinema of a worldly, attractive,
and independent woman in a man's world." Films, held on Saturdays starting July 18 at 2 pm, are free and open to the public.

On July 18, catch Alfred E. Green's Baby Face (1933, 70 min.), named an all-TIME Best Film by TIME magazine. Starring Stanwyck and George Brent, the film tells the story of a barmaid who marshals her assets and climbs man by man from the basement to the penthouse. Originally banned in some
U.S. cities due to its sexual innuendo, Baby Face won the National Film Registry award in 2005.

In Stella Dallas (1937, 106 min.), shown on July 25, a millworker (Stanwyck) marries a rich man (John Boles), and after a divorce, poignantly gives up her daughter to a better life. Directed by King
Vidor, this film was nominated for two Oscars, including Best Actress in a Leading Role (Stanwyck) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Anne Shirley). Stella Dallas inspired an American radio soap opera of the same name that ran from 1937 to 1955.

Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire (1941, 111 min.), shown on August 1, is a screwball twist on the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. The comedy follows a gang moll that takes refuge with a group of seven professors and helps them compile an encyclopedia of slang. Starring Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, and Oskar Homolka, Ball of Fire garnered four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress in a Leading Role (Barbara Stanwyck) and Best Writing, Original Story (Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder).

Lady Eve (1941, 97 min.), shown on August 8, is one of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies and was selected to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress in 1994. Stanwyck stars as a con-woman supreme who wraps a bumbling herpetologist beer heir (Henry Fonda) around her little finger-twice! Roger Ebert heralded director Preston Sturges for his seemingly effortless ability to perform a "breathless balancing act...involving romance, deception and physical comedy."

Finally, Stanwyck plays the ultimate femme fatale in Double Indemnity (1944, 107 min.), shown in August 15. Co-starring Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson, the film follows a seductive housewife who lures an insurance agent into a plot to kill her husband. Double Indemnity garnered seven Oscar nominations. Roger Ebert applauded director Billy Wilder's rare ability to craft a film "so taut, savvy, cynical and, in many different ways and tones, funny." In 2007, the American Film
Institute ranked the film number twenty-nine in the Greatest Movies of All-Time.

Like Stanwyck's, Georgia O'Keeffe's career spanned most of the twentieth century. On view at the Clark is the exhibition Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence. Georgia O'Keeffe burst onto the New York art scene in 1916 and captured the imagination of people around the world, not only with incredible artistic talent, but through her bohemian spirit as well. Experience this distinctly American artist's early works with those of modernist Arthur Dove, whom she credited as having the most significant
role in the formation of her abstract works.