Manhattan @ the Charles Theatre

This week's revival: Woody Allen's MANHATTAN.


Show Times:
Saturday, December 19 at Noon
Monday, December 21 at 7 PM
Wednesday, December 23 at 9 PM
(No Thursday Show)

1979 Dir. Woody Allen. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep. Cinematography, Gordon Willis. 96m. bw. CinemaScope. 35mm.


"Woody Allen's 1979's bittersweet mash note to the city features gorgeous widescreen black-and-white photography from Gordon Willis and a fabulous cast. TV writer Isaac (Allen) chases love and sex with teenaged Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), but it's the neurotic Mary (Diane Keaton) who comes between him and his best friend. Hopelessly romantic, unabashedly nostalgic, and comically self-reflexive, at this point Manhattan is the most quintessentially Woody Allen of his career, being explicitly about relationships--to each other, to movies--and how they shape the self. It remains an entertaining treat." (City Paper)



"Woody Allen's great leap forward into character development and dramatic integrity (1979). The story is La Ronde with a thrown cog, as Allen's Isaac Davis, a television writer with serious aspirations, turns among three women (Mariel Hemingway, Diane Keaton, and Meryl Streep), his spin impelled by best friend Michael Murphy. The script is funny and observant, full of shocks of recognition..." (Dave Kehr)

"The only truly great American movie of the 1970s. A masterpiece that has become a film for the ages by not seeking to be a film of the moment." (Andrew Sarris)


"The Woody Allen movie where it all came together. The city is gorgeously rendered by cinematographer Gordon Willis; the apartments are lovingly cluttered with cultural detritus; the mainly East Side locations have been fastidiously selected. Every line is a one-liner, but the dialogue flows擁t's not only funny but also seamless." (J. Hoberman)

"Stunningly Beautiful! Woody's supreme masterpiece!" (Time Out New York)


"ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!
The most refined distillation of Woody Allen's sensibility and his best film." (NY Magazine)

Interview with cinematographer Gordon Willis

MATSUKAZE @ the LOF/T

Matsukaze by Kan'ami

A reevisioning of a classic Japanese Noh Theatre piece through a collaborative and experimental process.
It is a story of a zen priest who discovers the souls of two deceased girls, Matsukaze and Murasame, forever waiting for their lost love on the shore.

An ancient Japanese play brought to life with a hodge-podge of
Baltimore artists including:
Ayako Kataoka,
Kaitlin Murphy,
Sam Shea,
Savannah Reich,
Conner Kizer,
Adam Endres,
Ami Dang,
Katrina Ford,
Peter Blasser,
Carson Garhart,
Dan Breen,
Paul Neidhardt.

With direction by Walker Teret, Justin Durel and Evan Moritz.
Designed by Sarah Fask.
December 17, 18 and 19th 8pm LOF/T
$uggested

Heady Mugs Opens @ Nudashank

Jessie and Annie

Robby Rackleff and Jordan Bernier

Lesser Gonzalez

Caitlin Cunningham

Benjamin Edmiston and Anne

Shaun Flynn

Lora and Michael

Cara and Victoria

Christian Herr

Virginia and Emanuel

David Ubias

Cullen

Sean

Sheena and Bethany

Ryan Browning

Lora

Alex Ebstein and D'Metrius Rice

Seth Adelsberger and Jimmy Joe Roche

John Bohl

More photos on the Bmore Art blog

TROUBLE IN PARADISE @ the Charles Theatre

A new print of Ernst Lubitsch's TROUBLE IN PARADISE is the revival for this week.


Showtimes:
Saturday, December 12 at Noon
Monday, December 14 at 7 PM
Thursday, December 17 at 9 PM


1932 Ernst Lubitsch. Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Greig, Leonid Kinskey. 86m. bw.

"...the most Lubitschian Lubitsch. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins are a pair of professional thieves who fall in love while plundering the Riviera, but when Marshall falls under the spell of the wealthy Parisienne he intends to fleece (Kay Francis), their perfect relationship falters. The bons mots fly and an elegant immorality abounds, while beneath the surface the most serious kinds of emotional transactions are being made." (Dave Kehr)

“One of the gossamer creations of Lubitsch's narrative art...it would be impossible in this brief notice to describe the innumerable touches of wit and narrative skill with which it is unfolded.” (Alexander Bakshy)

“A shimmering, engaging piece of work...in virtually every scene a lively imagination shines forth.” (NY Times)


"I have played Trouble in Paradise to three different generations over the past forty years or so, to the delight of all of them." (Alistair Cooke)

"A masterpiece of light comedy, with sparkling dialogue, innuendo, great performances and masterly cinematic narrative...the masterpiece of American sophisticated cinema." (Leslie Halliwell)

"This movie seemed to have everything: the grace and elegance of the twenties, the egalitarian conscience of the thirties, the visual wit of the silent cinema, and the verbal wit of the talkies." (Andrew Sarris)


"Trouble in Paradise has none of the single-entendre tawdriness or salacious Puritanism that gives pre-Code Hollywood its carnival flavor. Style is substance in Lubitsch's instantly recognized masterpiece: "As close to perfection as anything I have ever seen in the movies," the young Dwight Macdonald wrote in a little literary magazine. Indeed, style is morality....
Never equaled, Trouble in Paradise twinkles like the polestar in the sky above the comedies of Billy Wilder, George Cukor, and (less brightly) Otto Preminger; it anticipates the banter of Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest." (J. Hoberman)

Last Minute Stockin Stuffa Sale @ the H&H!!!

Easter Rabbit Book Release Party and More Than Words gallery exhibition @ Hexagon

The Hexagon and Publishing Genius Press present: Easter Rabbit Book Release Party and More Than Words gallery exhibition.
December 12th, 2009 to January 3, 2010.
Opening Reception and Release Party: December 12 starting at 7pm

Baltimore author Joseph Young is celebrating the release of his book of microfictions, Easter Rabbit, by bringing together a diverse team of musicians, performers, and visual artists to add their vision to the book’s stories.

Easter Rabbit, published by local small press Publishing Genius, comprises 86 extremely short stories, with some stories as short as 17 words. At the release party, a team of actors will dramatize several of the stories, while a group of painters and other artists will show work inspired by the book. Local band Sweatpants will be on hand to play music composed especially for the event.

Artists included in the exhibition are Lauren Boilini, Graham Coreil-Allen, Kathy Fahey, Luca DiPierro, Paul Jeanes, Magnolia Laurie, and Easter Rabbit cover artist Christine Sajecki. Actors are Linda Franklin and Caleb Stine, directed by Nancy Murray. Sweatpants is Adam Robinson, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, and David NeSmith.

Opening tonight @ charles theatre workers art wall

Charles Theatre Workers Art Wall
Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 10 from 7-9 pm

Aqua Wynwood 2009 (MIAMI)

Paul Wackers

Aqua 2009 was a little disappointing to those of us who loved the awesome, illustration/West Coast aesthetic of the 2008 fair. This year, Wynwood had to hold it down for the Aqua establishment, as Aqua Hotel did not take place. Leaving many of its previous participants without an affordable option for exhibiting, Aqua's quality of work fell drastically, shifting from the psychedelic to the low brow/Juxtapoz genres. Gross. Thankfully, Elenor Harwood and Michael Rosenthal galleries kept it real with some Paul Wackers paintings (@ EH's booth) and new Megan Whitmarsh pieces (@ MR). Below are pix of the good, the bad and/or the noteworthy:

Paul Wackers

Paul Wackers

Barry McGee

Dean Monogenis

Michael Bizon

Iris Schieferstein

detail

A Sidney Pink over a creepy glass sculpture

This is rad, it had no label but I liked it

Old Laylah Ali piece

Yuhi Hasegawa

grossy new goth/lowbrow work

seriously?

Paul Oberst

Nick Kuszyk

James Benjamin Franklin

Megan Whitmarsh above and three below

Cara Ober!!

Ginette LaPalme above and below

Andrew Wilson. This drawing rules.

Kyle Field. I love Kyle Field, but these are not my fav.

More gross art

A.J. Fosik

This was pretty funny

eh.

Heady Mugs Opens @ Nudashank December 11

Ryan Riss, Nice Day, Ink on Paper 20inx20in

An overwhelming show of psychedelic portraits and trippy faces featuring work by:

Henry Gunderson

Michael Skattum
Luke Ramsey
Benjamin Edmiston
Shaun Flynn
D'Metrius Rice
Lesser Gonzalez
Eric Shaw
Bill Dunlap
Robby Rackleff
Ryan De La Hoz
Matthew Feyld
Bill Fick
Lizz Hickey
Nick Mann (Doodles)
Edward Max Fendley
Ryan Riss
Christian Herr
Caitlin Cunningham
Jordan Bernier
Felipe Goncalvez
David Ubias
Marcello Velho
Mike Bull

Benjamin Edmiston

Heady Mugs

Opening Reception: Friday Dec. 11th, 7-10pm

Exhibition runs from Dec. 11th through Jan. 1st

Nudashank

H&H Arts Building

405 W. Franklin St.

3rd Floor

Baltimore, MD 21201

come one, come all.....