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Alamo Drafthouse Anti-Texting PSA After two warnings to stop texting during a film, a patron was ejected from the theatre and later called the Drafthouse to vent. Management decided to use the caller's voicemail as part of it's anti-texting PSA, and the rest as they say, is history — 2.5 million views on YouTube so far. Equally impressive was the caller's apparent sense of entitlement regarding the "right" to text during a film, consistent with the recent surge of texting in movie theatres everywhere. WARNING — the video contains extensive profanity, definitely NSFW. Check it out here, at the Alamo Drafthouse YouTube page.
COMMUNITY FILM EVENTS MAY & JUNE May 11 – 20... FILM FESTIVAL. The Silk Screen Asian Film Festival in Pittsburgh offers some great films – 25 spanning 10 days. Regular screenings are $9 with 4- and 8-film packages at $7.50 and $6 per film. Opening and closing films cost more and look to be sold out. Worth the drive! Info here... Ths May 17... Peter Pan, at the Carnegie Arts Center. A rare treat — this is NOT Disney animation, but the restored 1924 silent film — the very first screen adaptation of JM Barrie's novel. The film offers a variety of famous figures in the early film industry: directed by Herbert Brenon, screenplay by Willis Goldbeck and presented by Adolph Zukor / Paramount Pictures. Behind the camera was James Wong Howe, one of history's most influential cinematographers, pioneering creative use of shadow and deep-focus techniques over his five-decade career. The cast starred Betty Bronson as Peter Pan, Mary Brian as Wendy, Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook, Virginia Browne Faire as Tinker Bell and Edward Kipling as Smee. Also featured was 19-year-old Anna May Wong – the first Chinese-American movie star, as Princess Tiger Lily. Making the evening extra special is the appearance by Leslie McMichael, performing her three-harp (electric, concert and Celtic) film score that is "filled with razzle-dazzle and sly mischief in the perfect compliment to Peter Pan's onscreen antics." Reserved-seat tickets are $19 for the 7:30 pm screening/performance. More info: call 859 957 1940, or visit the website... Ths May 31... Growing Up Female. Area filmmakers Julia Reichart and Jim Klein introduce their seminal depiction of the women's movement, following the lives of women and girls in SW Ohio, first feature documentary film to emerge from the modern women's movement of the early 1970s. Also on the bill, the shorts Make Out and Up Against the Wall Miss America. Screening at 7:00 pm at the Wexner in Columbus, tix are $7. Info: Wexner Center for the Arts. Fri-Sat Jun 8-9... The Turin Horse. The latest and perhaps final work from the iconic Hungarian director Bela Tarr, a champion of remodernism (calling for greater emotional and spiritual meaning in cinema). Screening two days only at 7:00 pm at the Wexner in Columbus, tix are $7. For cinephiles and those who study film history, definitely worth the drive! Info: Wexner Center for the Arts. From A.O. Smith at the NYT: "The Turin Horse is an example — an exceedingly rare one in contemporary cinema — of how a work that seems built on the denial of pleasure can, through formal discipline, passionate integrity and terrifying seriousness, produce an experience of exaltation." Sat Jun 16... Hal Roach's 1930s Talking Film Comedy Series, some great "talkie" short comedies featuring Our Gang, The Taxi Boys, Charley Chase, The Boy Friends, Zasu Pitts & Thelma Todd, and of course, Laurel & Hardy. 6:45 pm, The Seasons Retirement Village, Kenwood. Tix $5, kids <12 free. Call 513 559 0112 or Read more... Sunday Jun 24... CWC: LE HAVRE Two screenings at the Carnegie, at 4:00 and 7:00 pm, single tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Details coming soon Ongoing Film Programs U.C. Main Street Cinema uc.edu/mainstreet/mainstreet_cinema Miami University 2012 Spring Film Series Tue 5:30 series: French Cinema; Tue 7:30 series: Italian American Culture; Ths 5:30 series: Holocaust and Visual Culture; Ths 7:30 series: European Jewish Cinema. muohio.edu Indiana University Cinema Offers approximately 300 film titles each year in its state-of-the-art venue on campus in Bloomington — classics, arthouse, docs, international, children's and shorts, plus discussions with visiting filmmakers. cinema.indiana.edu Cincinnati Public Library event calendar www.cincinnatilibrary.org Cincinnati Museum Center Omnimax Theater www.cincymuseum.org. The Erlanger Branch of the Kenton County Public Library www.kentonlibrary.org. |
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