Cinema Sundays at the Charles

Pollock SHOW DATE: 03/04
SPEAKER(S): Jonathan Palevsky

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Pollock, dir. Ed Harris, U.S., 122 min. starring Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor, Bud Cort, John Heard, Val Kilmer
On Sunday, March 4, 2001, at 10:30 am, Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues the 2001 Winter Series #20 with a screening of Pollock, featuring Academy Award nominated performances by Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden.
A look into the life and art of the controversial abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his relationship with painter Lee Krasner, Pollock is Ed Harris' directorial debut. Harris became interested in this project in the early 1990s and began practicing painting in Pollock's stylein the film, he is shown painting many of the simulated Pollock canvasses. Harris says of his subject: "One thing I learned about Mr. Pollock's art, which any art student knows I'm sure, but was indeed a revelation to me, is that Jackson fully believed and lived by 'I don't use the accident, because I deny the accident.' One cannot even approximate Pollock's work unless every stroke, every pour, every slap, every fling, every shake, every splash, every splatter and every flick has a specific intention."
Our speaker will be Jonathan Palevsky, a cultural expert in artistic existentialism. He currently works at WBJC as Program Director and has spoken at Cinema Sundays in the past. (For a list of other films he's spoken at, check out the History page.)

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport SHOW DATE: 02/25
SPEAKER(S): Charlotte Stoudt

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On Sunday, February 25, 2001, Cinema Sundays & Center Stage present:
The Academy Award Nominated Documentary
Into the Arms of Strangers:
Stories of the Kindertransport
A powerful new documentary about the heroes who helped at-risk children escape from danger during the Holocaust.

On Sunday, February 25, 2001, at 10:30 am, Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues the 2001 Winter Series #20 with a screening of the Academy Award nominated film Into the Arms of Strangers, which recounts the remarkable and unprecedented mercy mission that Britain conducted in the nine months prior to World War II, in which its doors were opened to over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. These children were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be returned to their parents. The majority of them never saw their families again.

Told by the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents, Into the Arms of Strangers documents this rescue operation and its dramatic impact on the lives of everyone involved. Judi Dench narrates the film, which is written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, whose previous film The Long Way Home won the Academy Award in 1998.

Charlotte Stoudt, Center Stage's resident dramaturg, will be the guest speaker. (Center Stage is the presenting sponsor of this week's screening of Into the Arms of Strangers.) Through March 18, Center Stage is presenting The Investigation, a Holocaust drama by Peter Weiss. Center Stage is located at 700 N. Calvert St. (Center Stage Box Office Phone: 410-332-0033)

Misc. Film Info: Into the Arms of Strangers, dir. Mark Jonathan Harris, U.S., 122 min. Narrated by Judi Dench. George Washington SHOW DATE: 02/11
SPEAKER(S): Thomas Cripps

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On Sunday, February 11, 2001, at 10:30 am, Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues the 2001 Winter Series #20 with a screening of the George Washington, the highly acclaimed debut film by David Gordon Green. Set in the rusty ruins of a dilapidated rural Southern town, George Washington uses children--mostly black--to tell its story about an odd kid with an "unclosed skull" who wears a football helmet and aspires to be a hero. What that heroism means, and the comic-tragic means by which the strange, young George attains his dreams, is the stuff of soul-searching resonance. George Washington is a stunning portrait of a group of kids--most of whom are non-professional actors discovered at churches, teen centers, barbecues, and on the streets of the rural South--who must come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences.

With influences as disparate as Terrance Malick (Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven), William Faulkner, Spike Lee, and Bill Forsythe (Local Hero, Gregory's Girl), George Washington announces the presence of a major new cinematic talent in its writer/director David Gordon Green. Says Green of his film, "Our approach to making George Washington was to develop organic landscapes, atmospheres, and characters each as a consequence of the other. It was an opportunity to integrate into a community, discover the common gestures, mannerisms, and imperfections and develop them into a curious narrative ... The effort was to approach the universal through the particular."
Thomas Cripps, author of Making Movies Black: The
Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil
Right s Era and Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in
American Film, 1900-1942, will be the guest speaker

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