Daily Hampshire Gazette from Northampton, Massachusetts • 19

I I 4 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1 1995 DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE Uvlnq PAGE 19 Business NORTHAMPTON The for tha Northampton jFflm Festival Nor 3-B Is ai Opening reception I Words Flcturee Mu guest Frederick follows: NOV IVItlUl Marx Frederick i rV'v stqr around as long as they used to The best at the Academy used to ho held over for weeks Robinson said But last summer for the first time in a decade films came and went came and went with no major holdovers Hj Life as a With a these films were held over far up to 14 Robinson said "But audience tastes are changing towards the styles of Steven Spielberg and George Like the chicken and the egg film and its audience beg a question Which went first the foreign film or its audience? Hu the popularity of American films overxeu stifled new Truffauts and Bergmans? Or are audlencea just too action-hungry to read subtitle? Critics debate the question but fiy Becker knows just what audience are miss- foreign film offer you a pieeerof the culture" Becker said many people get to go to France or to Sweden with Ingmar Berg-' man? But audiences would rather see Continued from Page IT taste for "serious cinema" But these days with upscale audiences moving into the suburbs mall theaters now show films which never used to play in Peoria "Just as Americans have taken to a wider range of foods been a broadening of aesthetic perspective on films" said Richard Plni own-er of the Pleasant Street Theater "A film like Dangerous: Liaisons? based on a 19th-century French novel would never have played to a maas audience 30 years ago But when it came out with Mg name actors it played at the mall then later down the street at the Calvin Theater Than when I knew things were changing" Corporate concerns are also changing the film market local theater owners say In 1994 Disney Studios bought Miramax distributors of VThe Crying and other widely respected films Bince then said Academy of Music manager Duane Robinson been harder to book first-rate films distributed about half the films we showed" video examining the sexiness of i uiiiiM the mt the potential destructiveness of Ma mimi the Mwrt icon "Three Places In New Eng' by Richard Morse 0994) Fiction and documentary inter sect as three places and three stories are filtered through the own New England childhood recollections Web" by Bevelry Peterson 0995) A filmmaker steps from behind the camera ana becomes intimately involved with a young mother dying of AIDS PROGRAM 1 pjiL Wright Hall Smith College "Listing to Children: A Moral Journey with Robert Coles by Buddy Squires 0994) Acclaimed social psychiatrist Coles explores the tamer lives of children and the process by which they do (or grow Into well-formed adults "Eating by Beqjamin Goldman- 0995) A young girl unexpectedly finds herself the future rediscovers her old present and the inhabitants of her imagined land of antiquity Animated Load art houses have hosted Hollywood premieres of movies based mi the work of load artists screens in East Showcase Cinemas ready nins 14 screens in its West Springfield complex has annouced plans to build a multi-screen complex near the Entertainment Cinemas complex Meanwhile' back at the Academy attendance is down Robinson said and films Springfield which al- Volunteer lawyers give filmmakers advice Robinson said "Now trying to get their films malls to get a trigger audience We play as many first-run films because we afford to bid against the And there are more malls to bid against each year Earlier this year Entertainment (Enemas opened Springfield 14 14 makers on legal 'and business lasues in film production and distribution at Srady Hall on the Smith College Campus from 10 ajn to l3 noon Veteran entertainment attorneys Frederick Fierst and Myron Hyman will address what film and vldeomak-ers should know about contracts copyright and the distribution of them work The program will be moderated fay attorney David Wilensky and there will be an opportunity to ask questions Admission is free Call Carolyn Rosenthal Director of the VLA at 900-864-0476 or 617-533-1764 for more NORTHAMPTON Independent filmmakers are often confronted with complex busbreu issues and unique legal problems such copyright matters spe- dal contracts uul other unexpected technicalities The Volunteer Lawyers fra the Arts of Massachusetts Inc (VLA) has designed a program to help film makers recognize and prated the rights which are so crucial to the development of their csrwrs On Saturday Nov 4 the VLA Northampton Film Associates Inc and Northampton Center fra the Arts will be co-sponsoring a seminar for independent film- Runs for days on creativity alone A tap hoc A turn there A quick tightening or two l-fo- -magic your child has created abnmd pew toy It's MHZ Rugged realistic construction toyi powend by little kids andbig ideal 20 OFF aU PROGRAM 4 pm Stoddard Hall Smith College by Abraham Ravett 0995) Inspired by a unique collection of Japanese regional folk tales Horse KappaHouse records the landscapes in small villages where the legends arose Plague: Tuber culosis in America" fay Diane Garay and Lany Hott 0995) Chronicles the social and medical history of TB that has shaped much of modern public health policy (The first hour only will be nreientedJ -raOGRiUf 4pjnWright Hall Smith College "The Manicure" by Allison Lane 0995) A tribute to the silent film era in which images and music tell most of the stray and a manicure becomes a metaphor for a relationship fuT by Iynn A fascinating ins! Side Of The Estomin (1993) account of and a com-of one fondamen- taliit "Hub Cap WraldN by LX Noller (1994) A Mtteraweet tale of friendship loss and redem tion among blue-collar kids New Jersay "The House Sitter" by Lizzie Donahue 0995) A utirical romp down the slippery slope of the itis right fra edit Operation "Doing whafs Presents: The Dreams MO oflfusic about the MaUngJof 'POL The Roderick lion making of his recent aim Phi a screening of Ms Emmy nominat- ed film Goals NOV 4 PROGRAM A 10 Seelye Hail Smith College "Legal and Business Issues in Film and Video Production and Distribution" Presented by The Massachusetts Volunteer Law yen for the Arts Features en- tertainment attorneys Frederick 't Fierst Myron Hyman David Wlanahw raOGRAM 1 rul Academy of Music "Out of by David Suth eriand 0993) An uncompromia- ing look at a Mind cowpri who braaks hones hearts and step- eotypes PROGRAM 1 pm Stoddard Hall Smith CdHe "Big Concrete Place by Luke Jaeger 0993) An animated adventure befalls an unsuspecting man after an unusual visit "Statuary" by Laura Colella 0993) Alienation isolation and the search for meaning as seen the eyes of a statue and a disillusioned eol-i graduate ''Cut" by Vladan Nikolic 0995) Samuel Beckett meets Moidy Python in this dark come dy about the travails of fiimmak-ing with a cast that may be as 'dangerous as it is unconvention- aL v-- "Harry Devlin: An by Cabot Harrison Philbrick 0994) An insightfiil i and complex look at Harry Dev-fUn a contemporary pioneer in commercial and fine art whose career qums over 50 years 1 PROGRAM 4 pjiL Academy 1 of Music "My Favorite Things That I Lover by Janet Perlman 0994) An animated visual and musical celebration of all that is beauts 7 fill sweet sad noble adorable glamorous and abomidaMe Motion" by Karen Aqua 0993) An animated Him that reminds us that time and life may be bigger than the frsgments over which people "The Ballad of Archie Foley he played it by fay Candy Kugel and Vincent Cafarelli (1995) As a sound effects editor lies dying in a hospital his whole laved inhis ea life is rqdayed I "Mr by Terrance Grace Q994)i A sinqrie yet poignant drama of a solitary and emotionally repressed Indian im-i migrant re-inventing his life in a small Pennsylvania town' PROGRAM 4 PJIL Stoddard Hall Smith College' "Souls of Plwk Folk" by I Tymua Wallace and Carlos Picot (1994) Told from a point of 1 view this film shows bow words and ideas can free minds and lives by Wolf Krakowsld (199U A music video showing the richness and diversity of a vibrant Jewish community later destroyed by Naxia fay Kimi Takesue (1994) The lyrical story of a young Chinese-British woman on a symbolic Journey of self-discov-ery "Diamonds in the by Mira Reym Binfrad (1994) The nipping and true tale of bow thrae Jewish girls escaped the Nazis with the help of strangers "The gearing tar Douglas Morse 0994) Spirituality sexuality and survival intersect in this stunningly silent film when a snowstorm overwhelms an old Non lst-14fh EV5Zn7(SIPI51XiniXIDil5nDEl5WSS Poweredbyimaginationon Full Day Rental of Leaf Blower hr 'Mil tempon -Bp 114N6J RENTAL TDVSANO NORTHAMPTON 5864027 I AYLOR THORNES MARKETPLACE I illfl'it 'M! i 4 1 't i J- -f -S Ilk ll)' jin' 1 1 4 I-' I-- Visit Haidley Village Bairn during Homes for the Holidays for i SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE v' MOVIES: A special double fea-ture 8 prn Academy of Music Vlncent Fago pkmeer antana- tor talks about the wild early days of (1930s and I 40a) Indudea a screening of one I of the first (pre-Diraey) feature- length wfawtaA films "Mr Bug I Goes to town" Plus Don new documentary on Beach Boy Brian Wffmn Just Made For These NOV 6 Festhral brunch 10 ajnM Spole-to Italian breakfast with filmmaker Ken Burns in ft A creative decorating ideas from Department 56 and lend support to the Springfield Ronald McDonald House Homes for the Holidays visitors can view a decorating video seminar featuring figure skater Dorothy Hamill and Debbie Stapley Department 5 holiday home decorator Dorothy Hamill the national hostess of Homes for the Holidays has signed the "Village Animated sinking Pond" to be raffled at Hadley Village Barn on Sunday November 6th with all ticket proceeds to benefit Springfield Ronald McDonald House Purchase tickets anytime between 1028 and 116 During foe Homes for foe Holidays event Hadley Village Barn has a special offer on Department new "Start a Dndition Set' The set includes two lighted buildings accessories trees roads and "snow" andis priced at $65 hAdlev village barn Rt 9 Hadley MA 12 Mile from 1-91 (Exit 19N 20 S) 9 Open 7 Days PROGRAM I pjiL Stoddard Hati Smith College rMagle by Ronen De-spired von (1994) Inepiri music of Mi by the unique mui nei0ibor a street magician finds a way to transform radinary tricksintomaglc In Me" fay Erie Leder 0994) A performance Theraa Atorintploc 150 Main Si Northampton MA 41 3-584-3840 7l Opan Doit IMO an to 6 pm TSure Fri and Sal until 9 pm Sun 12 la 6 pJcj Holiday Houn: Nov 2S Due 23 uvarynita til 9 Sun til6 tuntil4 i Sr'' n- t-W nteui A -a 'a.