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Film North in conjunction with the Beverly Public Library presents:
An Afternoon of Classic Films
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 1:30 PM in the Sohier room
At the Beverly Public Library (Free Admission)
Presented by Jim Jalbert
Jim Jalbert is an avid collector of vintage and classic 16mm films and is a member of Film North, Inc. He started his collection at age 9 when his dad salvaged a group of films destined to be burned in the local dump. For over 35 years, Jim has continued to add to his film collection and will screen a few of his favorites this afternoon. The titles listed below are each approximately 10-30 minutes in length.
Abbott & Costello: “Gobs in a Mess”
(double 10 minute shorts): “Oysters & Mussels”
Jimmy Dorsey: “Musical Variety”
50’s Newsreel: “The News Magazine of the Screen”
The Three Stooges: “Three Sappy People”
INTERMISSION
Fred Waring musical: “Pleasure Time”
Laurel and Hardy: “Toad in a Hole”
Serial film (ch. 9): “Invisible Monster”
Local Student Filmmakers Honored at Special Screening
The best student filmmakers on the North Shore will be honored at the first annual Five-Minute Student Film Fest at CinemaSalem on Thursday, May 15, at 7 pm.
Selected from entries submitted by high school students throughout the region, ten finalists will be screened at the event. The films represent a variety of filmmaking genres, including dramatic and comedy shorts, music videos, animation, and documentaries.
The filmmaker awarded the top prize will win a $100 CinemaSalem gift card and automatic selection in the 2009 Salem Film Fest.
Co-sponored by Film North, Inc., and the Salem Film Fest, the Five-Minute Film Fest solicited submissions in the fall of 2007 through local high schools, arts organizations, and filmmaking websites. Paul VanNess wrote, ” I’ve seen all of them, and they’re awesome. “
Tickets are already available on the CinemaSalem website.
Local events
CinemaSalem:
IRONMAN (PG-13 - 126 minutes) opening show tomorrow (Thursday) night at 8 PM and then will play Friday and Saturday at (11:00 AM), (1:35), (4:15), 7:00 and 9:45; Sunday at (11:00 AM), (1:35), (4:15) and 7:00; and Monday-Thursday at 4:20 and 7:00. Monday’s 1:00 pm Mom and Baby Show will also feature this great flick.
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (R - 112 minutes) will play Friday and Saturday at (11:25 AM), (2:00), (4:45), 7:30 and 10:00; Sunday at (11:25 AM), (2:00), (4:45) and 7:30; and Monday through Thursday at (4:30) and 7:10.
BABY MAMA (PG-13 - 99 minutes) will screen Friday-Saturday at (11:15 AM), (1:50), (4:30), 7:15 and 9:35; Sunday at (11:15 AM), (1:50), (4:30) and 7:15; and Monday through Thursday at (4:40) and 7:20.
THURSDAY, MAY 1 @ 7:30PM
FRAULEIN
Gloucester Stage Company * 267 East Main Street * Gloucester, MA 01930
Tickets: FREE! (part of our “Free First Films” series)
A story of the friendship among three women from Yugoslavia. Reza left Belgrade more than 30 years ago to seek a new life in Zurich. Now in her fifties, she has completely detached herself from the past. She owns a cafeteria and maintains an orderly, joyless existence. Mila, a waitress there, is a good-humored Croatian woman who also emigrated decades ago. But unlike Reza, Mila dreams of returning to a house on the Croatian coast. Both of them receive a jolt when Ana, a young, itinerant woman who has fled Sarajevo, breezes into the cafeteria looking for work. Reza hires her but is annoyed by Ana’s impulsive and spirited efforts to inject life into the cafeteria. But the acrimony dissipates as Ana begins to thaw Reza’s chill.
Written and directed by Andrea Staka; Starring Mirjana Karanovic, Marija Škarièiæ and Ljubica Joviæ
[Drama, 2007, Switzerland, 81 minutes]
REVIEWS:
“A remarkably affecting work that doesn’t go for easy sentiment.” –Variety
THURSDAY, MAY 8 @ 7:30PM
A WALK INTO THE SEA
Gloucester Stage Company * 267 East Main Street * Gloucester, MA 01930
Tickets: $8.00 / $6.00 students & seniors (60+)
A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory is director Esther Robinson’s personal inquiry into the truth behind her uncle Danny Williams’s mysterious 1966 disappearance after a family dinner in Rockport, Massachusetts. Virtually unknown today, Danny was Andy Warhol’s lover, and a promising young filmmaker.
The discovery of 20 never-before-seen films Williams made during his time at the Factory - and whose many subjects include Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and what may be the earliest known footage of The Velvet Underground - reveals a luminous talent and a stark gap in the historical record. Combined with Robinson’s intimate interviews of surviving Factory members, the film gets beyond the icons and quietly dismantles the Warhol myth-making machine, allowing a deeper examination of the human fragility on which Andy Warhol’s empire was built.
DIRECTOR ESTHER ROBINSON WILL PRESENT THE FILM PERSONALLY, AND WILL CONDUCT A Q&A AFTER THE SHOW!
Directed by Esther Robinson; Written by Shannon Kennedy; Produced by Doug Block, Tamra Raven, Luliette Richey and Esther Robinson; Featuring Callie Angell, Brigid Berlin, John Cale, Nat Finkelstein, Gerard Malanga, Albert Maysles, Paul Morrissey, Billy Name, Julia Robinson and Nadia Williams
[Documentary, 2007, USA, 75 minutes]
REVIEWS:
“A lovely, dreamlike concoction.” –Salon.com
“The toothiest exposé yet into the soul-sucking modus operandi of Warhol’s Factory.” –Village Voice
“Riveting… Woven throughout the narrative is remarkable footage from 20 of Williams’ recently discovered films, revealing a luminous and visionary talent whose life ended far too young.” – New York Blade
FRIDAY, MAY 9 @ 7:30PM
VIRGINIA LEE BURTON: A SENSE OF PLACE
Gloucester Stage Company * 267 East Main Street * Gloucester, MA 01930
Tickets: $10.00 [fundraiser pricing; to benefit The Gloucester Education Fund]
Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place is a documentary film that explores the life and art off Cape Ann’s own Virginia Lee Burton. Considered to be a “Renaissance woman,” Burton was an innovative children’s book author/illustrator, a visionary textile designer who also painted, and sculpted in granite, marble and wood. Her art and literature remain an enduring part of America’s cultural heritage.
The film project provides viewers access to a treasure-trove of archival materials, never-before seen photographs, personal documents, sketchbooks and original manuscripts, which were used in telling the story of the life and art of Virginia Lee Burton. This finely wrought film includes intimate interviews with family and friends and takes the viewer to places on Cape Ann that inspired Jinnee, including her home and studio, Folly Cove, Gloucester Harbor and the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Narrated by Gloucester Stage Company favorite Lindsay Crouse.
PRODUCER CHRISTINE LUNDBERG WILL PRESENT THE FILM PERSONALLY, AND WILL CONDUCT A Q&A AFTER THE SHOW!
Directed by Rawn Fulton; Produced by Christine Lundberg; Narrated by Lindsay Crouse
[Documentary, 2007, USA, 60 minutes]
