Thursday, May 16, 2013
Celebrate the summer movie release with some of these local tie-ins.
The Great Gatsby is showing in theaters, and it's inspiring people to delve deeper into the story’s history, culture, music, food and drink. Starting with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s grave at St. Mary’s Church in Rockville, there are a number of local places to help you get your Gatsby on, according to The Washington Post. If you venture to Fitzgerald’s gravesite, take note of the epitaph, which reads, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” This quote is the final line in The Great Gatsby. View costumes, set designs, paintings and films from the Gatsby era at the National Gallery of Art’s “Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes” exhibit, which opens May 12. Check out some Art Deco architecture in Silver …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald had deep ties in Maryland, some of which you can see for yourself.
Don't expect a glittering movie opening of the The Great Gatsby, and its mega stars Leonardio DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan, anywhere near The Free State. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the novel (published in 1925) that provided the inspiration for the three-dimensional film, however, was deeply entrenched in the region during his lifetime, with landmarks to his family and his literary works sprinkled from Rockville to Towson. Even if you're not lining up for the premiere Friday, find a little of Gatbsy's Roaring '20s vibe nearby: 1. The Fitzgerald family—F. Scott, his wife Zelda and their daughter Scottie—spent more time in Baltimore than any other place, according to University of Maryland professor emeritus Jackson Bryer…
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Sequels, reboots and aliens to dominate theaters.
Big, loud blockbusters tend to draw the summer crowds, it's been said, and 2013 may have the biggest and loudest yet. Patch has put together this guide to help you plan your summer movie watching schedule. Check out Moviefone to find the theaters and times in your area that are showing your selected movie. May Movies While summer may not technically begin until Friday, June 21, 2013, Hollywood is getting a jump on things, with some big openings in May. Iron Man 3 - Friday, May 3 (PG-13) The third installment of the franchise that has already brought in more than a billion dollars finds Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) battling an enemy out to eliminate Stark’s friends and family. Star Trek: Into Darkness - Friday, May 17 (PG-13) The reboot …
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The remodeled theater will have a full-service bar, luxury seating and an expanded concession menu.
The newly remodeled Bethesda Row Cinema is set to open May 3 with new amenities such as a full-service bar, luxury reserved seating in each auditorium, three-dimensional projection theaters and an expanded concession menu, according to theater spokeswoman Stephanie Kagan. "Each of the eight auditoriums has been outfitted with new screens, sound systems and special leather chairs designed to provide maximum comfort to patrons. Plus, the theatre has installed a new digital system that will provide a satellite feed for live domestic and international performances," according to a statement from the theater, which has been owned and operated by Landmark Theatres since 2002. "From the minute you approach the theatre and see our stunning new …
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Oscar nominee Julian Assange biopic and more will air during the 11-day festival.
Since its first event in 1987, Filmfest DC has shown more than 1,000 feature-length and short films from more than 55 countries, with celebrity guests including Morgan Freeman, Charlize Theron, Sydney Pollack, Salman Rushdie and Amitabh Bachchan. The 27th installment of the annual event runs from April 11 to 21, and will kick off with a screening of Underground, a film portraying the young life of Julian Assange, the infamous founder of WikiLeaks. The film will air at 7 p.m. at Regal Cinemas Gallery Place and will feature a live telephone interview with Assange himself immediately following the screening. The festival features more than 80 films from around the globe, including a number of espionage/thrillers, comedies and social justice-…
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Chevy Chase residents Sean and Andrea Nix Fine will introduce their documentary short—"Inocente"—at two Avalon Theatre screenings on April 11. Proceeds from the screenings will benefit an arts program for youth facing adversity.
Chevy Chase residents Sean and Andrea Nix Fine received national attention recently when they won the Oscar award for "Best Documentary Short" last month at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Now, Chevy Chase residents may see their film, Inocente, on April 11 at the historic Avalon Theatre (5612 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC). There will be two screenings: 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Fines will introduce the film and will host a question-and-answer session after each showing. Highly regarded filmmakers, the Fines "won the hearts of millions with Inocente, an intensely personal coming-of-age documentary film about a teenage immigrant named Inocente Izucar. The young woman refused to give up on her dream of being an artist in…
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
David Clark's 3D film "Titans of the Ice Age" screens at the National Museum of Natural History on Thursday evening, March 21. It will be shown nationwide soon.
The 21st Environmental Film Festival takes place this month in Washington, DC, with 190 "diverse and arresting films" from 50 countries, according to the festival's website. One of those films—which screens at the National Museum of Natural History at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 21—was directed by filmmaker David Clark of Chevy Chase. Clark's film—Titans of the Ice Age—is a 3D film "set at the end of the last ice age (about 20,000 years ago) and realistically depicts creatures that lived during this time, including woolly mammoths, columbian mammoths, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and giant ground sloths," Clark told Patch. "The film also explores why about 70 percent of the world's largest mammals ... went extinct at the end of this ice …
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Nation's Capital features prominently in three Best Picture nominees.
Three Academy Award nominees for Best Picture prominently feature Washington, DC: Argo, Zero Dark Thirty and, of course, Lincoln. While serving as a location for major films is nothing new to Washington, DC, I can't think of another year in which so many DC-centric movies have been nominated. The Washington Post described each movie as "an engrossing, superbly crafted story that plunges viewers into otherwise opaque and unknowable worlds made distant by time, secrecy or both" and believe film attendees will be pleased that the films "enthusiastically celebrate institutions more often mired in dysfunction and public malodor." Argo, the Ben Affleck-directed tale of a CIA mission to rescue Americans caught up in the 1979 Iranian hostage …
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
The Washington Jewish Film Festival—one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish film festivals—runs from Jan. 3 to 13, with 55 films from 15 countries screened at 14 venues.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Don't miss this annual showcase of short films at various locations in Washington, DC.
Most movie-goers are accustomed to spending at least an hour and a half in theaters. And then there are the movies like The Lord of the Rings trilogy, whose shortest installment clocks in at 178 minutes. Instead of watching one long movie, try watching a bunch of short ones together at the DC Shorts Film Festival, Sept. 6 to Sept. 16. Choose from 16 showcases or wait until the end and watch the "Best Of DC Shorts" showcases after audience members have voted on their favorite films. Anyone interested in listening to the bare bones of a film that hasn't yet been made can get tickets to the screenplay competition on Sept. 14. Judges have selected six scripts: Actors will read them aloud, and the audience will choose the best one. Films will …
Chris
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