**** Stars La La Land – A Musical Love Letter for Hollywood Dreamers Short Take: The old school, Cinemascope Hollywood musical gets a 21st century millennial makeover as an aspiring actress and a struggling jazz musician find love and dream big. REEL TAKE: La La Land is one of theContinue Reading
Short Take: A quiet janitor returns to his hometown when he is awarded guardianship of his teenage nephew. It’s a family drama like none you’ve ever seen before. REEL TAKE: Manchester By The Sea has been a hotly anticipated film by many a film critic, (myself included) since itsContinue Reading
The Center for Cultural Preservation’s award-winning film about sea turtles and human culture, Call of the Ancient Mariner, is coming to public television and the Center is having a party and a forum to celebrate. Mariner tells the story of man’s love affair with sea turtles that goes back since the dawnContinue Reading
HENDERSONVILLE FILM SOCIETY: November 2016 Movie Schedule – Our final month of movies for 2016 starts off with a Depression era fantasy about politics. Next is a movie about collecting mountain songs that was shot in Western NC. Week #3 features a film adaptation of a long running musical whileContinue Reading
OCT 2: THE FRISCO KID (1979) – Gene Wilder stars as a Polish Rabbi in 1850 America trying to go from Philadelphia to San Francisco with the aid of an inept bank robber (Harrison Ford). One of both men’s favorite films. DIR: Robert Aldrich. OCT 9: THE SIGN OF THEContinue Reading
The Golden Age of American horror films begins with Universal’s Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931 and ends in 1936 with the release of Dracula’s Daughter. While other Hollywood studios made horror films in the 1930s (like Paramount’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Warner Brothers’ Doctor X, and MGM’s Freaks), noneContinue Reading
ROBERT SHAW – MAN OF MANY VOICES premiered in April of 2016, and will be screened in Asheville, NC on Thursday, October 20, 2106 at the Fine Arts Theatre under the sponsorship of the Arts Commission of The Cathedral of All Souls, Biltmore Village. A documentary film about theContinue Reading
Friday September 2nd, from 6:30-8:30 pm There are too much Martin Scorsese to cover in one tribute — an adventurous and innovative cinema auteur; a knowledgeable film historian; a leader in film preservation; a winner of Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes and the AFI’s Life Achievement Award; a documentarian. Scorsese has produced groundbreakingContinue Reading
Rating: 4 Stars Short Take: ‘Inspired by actual events,’ Florence Foster Jenkins is an off-key delight that tells the story of a middle-aged, wealthy heiress and patron of the arts who, possessing no vocal talents, aspires to become an opera singer in 1944. Directed by: Stephen Frears Stars: MerylContinue Reading
