Events
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The Fog of War
Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre February 12, 2012 Winner of the 2004 Best Documentary Oscar. “Errol Morris may have been put on earth to make The Fog of War, a stunning portrait of Robert S. McNamara that closes a year of outstanding nonfiction movies on a high note. Morris, after all, is a filmmaker whose tolerance of moral inconsistency — indeed, his empathy with flawed men — is a strength quite apart from his talent as a craftsman of meticulously collaged documentaries like The Thin Blue Line and Fast,... |
The Colonial Theatre |
02/12/12 |
The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville |
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival FilmConnects: Louder Than A Bomb & Live Poetry Slam
Presented by Gershman Y at Prince Music Theater February 12, 2012 Designed to deepen your experience of film-going, PJFF’s newest program connects the world of film to other art forms and modes of expression. For the inaugural FilmConnects event, you'll be introduced to the wild world of poetry slams — and brought to the power and enormity that is Louder Than a Bomb!
This energizing documentary tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world's largest youth slam. By turns... |
Gershman Y |
02/12/12 |
Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia |
Mrs. Miniver
Presented by The Colonial Theatre February 12, 2012 This winner of six Academy Awards (including Best Film, Best Director and – of course – Best Actress) played a major role in rousing the American public to an awareness of what “our British cousins” had been enduring, prior to our entry into World War II. It beautifully and powerfully conveys the British people’s will and dignity, as they tried to maintain an air of normalcy on the home front while facing daily bombing raids and other threats.
Greer... |
The Colonial Theatre |
02/12/12 |
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Economic Self Sufficiency in the African-American Community Film & Panel Discussion Program Series
Presented by ICPIC New Africa Center February 12, 2012 Black Wall Street with panelists Dr. Weldon McWilliam and Fareed Shakir.
This documentary chronicles one of the nation's worst acts of racial violence, the Tulsa Race Riot, which occurred on June 1st, 1921, when 35 square blocks of African American homes and businesses were torched and destroyed by mobs of angry whites. |
ICPIC New Africa Center |
02/12/12 |
ICPIC New Africa Center, Philadelphia |
W.A. Mozart: Così Fan Tutte
Presented by Delaware County Community College February 12, 2012 North American Premiere HD Broadcast from Staatsoper, Berlin.
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Staatskapelle Berlin
Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin
In Italian with English, French, Italian, and Spanish subtitles.
Running time: approx. 203 minutes, including 15 minute intermission
"The music says it all. Mozart is cool." So said the self-confessed "opera ignoramus" Doris Dörrie before she grabbed hold of one of... |
Delaware County Community College |
02/12/12 |
Marple Campus | STEM Auditorium | Room 1403, Media |
Opera Lecture Series: The Abduction from the Seraglio
Presented by Penn State Abington at Penn State - Abington Campus February 12, 2012 Relax and enjoy the film of Mozart's tale of a nobleman seeking to rescue his lover from imprisonment by a royal villian.
Dr. Moylan C. Mills, professor emeritus of integrative arts, moderates the lively discussion in Penn State Abington's high-tech auditorium.
Light refreshments will be served during intermission. |
Penn State Abington |
02/12/12 |
Penn State - Abington Campus, Abington |
Valentine's Day at The Piazza
Presented by The Piazza at Schmidt's at The Piazza at Schmidts February 12, 2012 The Piazza at Schmidt’s is hosting a Valentine’s Day event that will feature a vendor market, restaurant dessert specials and romantic movies played on the Jumbotron. Since Valentine’s Day is on a Tuesday, The Piazza is the perfect place to do a little last minute Valentine’s Day shopping and enjoy the holiday. Sweetbox Truck will also be on site, serving up delicious sweets and treats for everyone to enjoy!
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The Piazza at Schmidt's |
02/12/12 |
The Piazza at Schmidts, Philadelphia |
2012 Documentary History Project for Youth
Presented by Scribe Video Center at Scribe Video Center February 13, 2012 Scribe Video Center is seeking student workers for its 2012 Documentary History Project for Youth Program. The program will begin in late March and be completed in late September/early October. The application deadline is Feb 27 and there will be an orientation at Scribe on Mon 2/13, 6-7 pm.
The Documentary History Project for Youth is an after-school, weekend and summertime production workshop for middle and high school students. Up to 12 young people explore an aspect of the... |
Scribe Video Center |
02/13/12 |
Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia |
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Presented by Bryn Mawr Film Institute at Bryn Mawr Film Institute February 14, 2012 In a lonely place this Valentine’s Day? Find solace in this classic noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a screenwriter whose tendency towards violence and macabre sense of humor might add up to murder. This film is shown in conjunction with Bryn Mawr Film Institute’s Film Course "Nicholas Ray: Cinema with a Cause" and will be introduced by its instructor, Marc Lapadula, M.F.A.
This film, which is directed by Nicholas Ray & stars Humphrey Bogart, Gloria... |
Bryn Mawr Film Institute |
02/14/12 |
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Bryn Mawr |
The Spiders Go Forward!
Presented by Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia February 15, 2012 The Spiders Go Forward! (1967)
Late '60s rock group The Spiders star in this Beatles-esque musical comedy from director Ko Nakahira (Crazed Fruit).
An Unknown Japan film series presentation. |
Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia |
02/15/12 |
The Bellevue, Philadelphia |
Oscar Nominated Short Films
Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre February 10-February 16, 2012 Come see all of the Oscar nominated short films – animated, live action, and documentary.
ANIMATED
Sunday/Dimanche
10 min – English – Patrick Doyon
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
15 min – No Dialogue – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
La Luna
7 min – English – Enrico Casaroasa
A Morning Stroll
7 min – No Dialogue – Grant Orchard and Sue... |
The Colonial Theatre |
02/10/12 -
02/16/12 |
The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville |
House (1977)
Presented by Bryn Mawr Film Institute at Bryn Mawr Film Institute February 17, 2012 Only recently unearthed, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s trippy 1977 film about a group of schoolgirls who are menaced by evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat at a creepy country house has to be seen to be believed. Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years.
This film, directed by Nobuhiko Ohbayahi, is rated R. |
Bryn Mawr Film Institute |
02/17/12 |
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Bryn Mawr |
MST3K: Time Chasers
Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre February 17, 2012 If you studied the greatest time travel tales in history, Time Chasers would surely be the weakest. It’s got a guy and some other guy in it. They use a biplane to fly back in time and do stuff. If it all sounds like so much enchantment – it isn’t. It does, however, setup up our intrepid movie riffing trio (Mike, Crow and Servo) with a veritable feast on which to heap scorn! Join us once again for a Mystery Science Theater 3000 crowd experience unlike most... |
The Colonial Theatre |
02/17/12 |
The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville |
Radical Form and Content: Screening I
Presented by Shooting Wall February 17, 2012 Viewing of "In Deep Distress"
Shooting Wall is putting on a month of free screenings that will culminate in a discussion. to embolden the local film community and start making revolutionary cinema in our small city. All the films will have radical examples of film-form and narrative. They have been chosen due to their obscurity, dynamism, humor, and revolutionary qualities. Shooting Wall member short films will be shown before each screening. Screenings will be... |
Shooting Wall |
02/17/12 |
503 Greenwich Street, Philadelphia |
The Secret of Moonacre
Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre February 18, 2012 Based on the book The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (JK Rowling’s favorite childhood book!).
When 13 year old Maria Merryweather’s father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn’t know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor. Soon Maria finds herself in a crumbling moonlit world torn apart by the hatred of an ancient feud with the dark and... |
The Colonial Theatre |
02/18/12 |
The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville |
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Semlor and a Movie
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American Swedish Historical Museum |
02/18/12 |
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia |
Saturday Kids Matinees - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Presented by County Theater at County Theater February 18, 2012 Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top secret candy factory.
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County Theater |
02/18/12 |
County Theater, Doylestown |
Symposium on The Contemporary Performance of Sex, Gender and Embodiment
Presented by Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series at Bryn Mawr College - Goodhart Hall February 18, 2012 In connection with the world premiere performances of Fort Blossom Revisited 2000/2012 by John Jasperse Company, Bryn Mawr College will host a Symposium on The Contemporary Performance of Sex, Gender and Embodiment.
Fort Blossom (2000), choreographed and designed by Jasperse, is a 40-minute work in which the audience is invited to examine contemporary notions of how we experience the body as both owners and spectators. Simultaneously shocking and beautiful, it is... |
Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series |
02/18/12 |
Bryn Mawr College - Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr |
Travelling Light - Live from National Theatre in London
Presented by County Theater at County Theater February 19, 2012 A new play by Nicholas Wright, directed by Nicholas Hytner, featuring Antony Sher. In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images of his father’s cinematograph. A fascinating and funny tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. |
County Theater |
02/19/12 |
County Theater, Doylestown |
Tabloid
Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre February 19, 2012 “Timed serendipitously with the sudden collapse of Britain’s 168-year-old gossip rag News Of The World, Errol Morris’ Tabloid reveals, among many other things, the fierce, unscrupulous reporting that goes on at competing publications—in this case, Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Express. In spite of its title, this gossip war isn’t Tabloid’s subject, but it does underline a long-running theme in Morris’ work about the elusive,... |
The Colonial Theatre |
02/19/12 |
The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville |
Nick Cave: Let's C - Exhibition
Presented by Fabric Workshop and Museum at Fabric Workshop and Museum December 16, 2011-February 19, 2012 Nick Cave: Let's C.
The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) premieres a special, live performance and multi-floor exhibition opening for Chicago-based artist Nick Cave. Nick Cave: Let’s C—an exhibit of his iconic “Soundsuits,” new installation created at FWM, and video. As a current FWM artist-in-residence, Cave worked in collaboration with FWM studio staff and apprentices to debut Architectural Forest (2011), an ambitious,... |
Fabric Workshop and Museum |
12/16/11 -
02/19/12 |
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia |
Auntie Mame
Presented by The Colonial Theatre February 19, 2012 Oscar-nominated Rosalind Russell turns in a rollicking performance as the title character, whose philosophy is simply summed up as “life is a banquet, and most suckers are starving to death,” in this award-winning adaptation of the novel and stage play by Patrick Dennis. Her role as young Dennis’ eccentric and free-wheeling aunt, who takes the boy under her wing and helps him to fly, is one of the best of her long career.
As reviewer Steven H. Scheuer has stated,... |
The Colonial Theatre |
02/19/12 |
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WestPhest 2012
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Drexel University - Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design |
02/19/12 |
Drexel University - Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Philadelphia |
Economic Self Sufficiency in the African-American Community Film & Panel Discussion Program Series
Presented by ICPIC New Africa Center February 19, 2012 Marcus Garvey and the Back-to-Africa Movement
2 to 5:30pm with panelist
Dr. Runoko Rashidi and Dr. Mahdi Ibn Ziyad
This documentary chronicles the life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., (August 17, 1887 – June 10, 1940). He was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and... |
ICPIC New Africa Center |
02/19/12 |
ICPIC New Africa Center, Philadelphia |
Open Book, Open Film – The Way of All Flesh
Presented by Elizabethtown College at Elizabethtown College February 20, 2012 The Way of All Flesh” a 1997 documentary film made for BBC by filmmaker Adam Curtis, tells the story of Henrietta Lacks and the birth of the immortal HeLa cancer cell line.
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Elizabethtown College |
02/20/12 |
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown |
Radical Content And Form: Scenic Route
Presented by Shooting Wall February 21, 2012 Mark Rappaport is like the New York Dolls of filmmaking: Rappaport came a little too late to be included in the film movements of the 1960s and was too early to be a part of either No Wave or the American Independent scene, yet is influential to American independent cinema and highly praised by the likes of J. Hoberman, Roger Ebert, Ray Carney, and Jonathan Rosenbaum. The Scenic Route (1978) is pure Rappaport: absurd, kitschy, funny, referential, campy, melodramatic, and... |
Shooting Wall |
02/21/12 |
Girard Hall , Philadelphia |
Topo Gigio and the Missile War
Presented by Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia February 22, 2012 Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967)
Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) directs the world famous Italian puppet Topo Gigio in this live action anti-war tragicomedy. Endlessly inventive and ultra hip. With bonus screening of Ichikawa’s all-marionette film debut A Girl at Dojo Temple (1946).
An Unknown Japan film series presentation. |
Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia |
02/22/12 |
The Bellevue, Philadelphia |
Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Presented by Chester County Historical Society at Chester County Historical Society February 22-February 23, 2012 The nationally acclaimed Wild & Scenic Film Festival will be hosted by Trail Creek Outfitters on Wednesday, February 22nd and Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at the Chester County Historical Society. This is the fifth year for the film festival, which is designed to educate, entertain, and inspire through award-winning animations, documentaries, and independent films. The event benefits Stroud Water Research Center and The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County.
The... |
Chester County Historical Society |
02/22/12 -
02/23/12 |
Chester County Historical Society, West Chester |
The Artist
Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre February 17-February 23, 2012 “We rarely think of as great movies as breezy ones: Breeziness is supposedly only for disposable entertainment, though achieving filmmaking greatness in the way we normally think of it — with impressive sets, heavy-duty acting and ultra-polished cinematography — is probably easier than brushing a movie with just the right amount of gold dust. Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist is a gold dust movie, a picture whose very boldness lies in its perceived... |
The Colonial Theatre |
02/17/12 -
02/23/12 |
The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville |
The Green Wave
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House February 24, 2012 By providing an animated backdrop for the urgent blog posts and tweets that became a lifeline to Iranian pro-democracy activists, The Green Wave recounts the dramatic events of the most severe domestic crisis in the history of Iran. From the widespread hope of political change in Iran through the 2009 elections to the violent suppression of the mass protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi brings us into the world of Iranian... |
International House Philadelphia |
02/24/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
