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The Eastern Shore's second annual Chesapeake Film Festival kicks off at 8 tonight with Scott Teems' award-winning "That Evening Sun" (Teems, producer Laura Smith and cinematographer Rodney Taylor will all be in attendance) and ends with a 7 p.m. Sunday screening of the 1936 comedy "After the Thin Man."
Other movies set for the weekend celebration of cinema include director Kimberly Peirce's 2008 "Stop-Loss," with Ryan Phillippe as an American soldier re-upped against his will for another tour in Iraq (12:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, with an appearance by screenwriter Mark Richard); French New Wave legend Agnes Varda's 2008 "The Beaches of Agnes" (8 p.m. Saturday at the art museum); Megumi Sasaki's 2008 documentary "Herb & Dorothy," a look at visionary art collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel (3:30 p.m. Saturday at the art museum) and Nahid Persson Sarvestani's 2008 documentary "The Queen & I" (1 p.m. Sunday, Avalon Theater), in which two Iranian refugees - one the filmmaker, the other the wife of the last shah - struggle with their differing interpretations of the same historical events.
Movies will be shown in Easton at the Avalon, 40 E. Dover St.; the Academy Art Museum, 106 South St.; and the Historical Society, 17 S. Washington St. Additional screenings are set for venues in Oxford and St. Michaels. Tickets are $8 per film in advance, $10 at the door; weekend passes are $125. Special rates apply for opening and closing films. Information: chesapeakefilmfestival.org or 410-822-5089.
'Annie Hall' Woody Allen's sublime and hilarious "Annie Hall," the rare comedy to win a Best Picture Oscar, is this weekend's entry in the Charles Theatre's Saturday revival series. The 1977 movie stars Allen as comic Alvie Singer, whose messed-up life (not to mention his messed-up view of himself) meets its match in the charming and vulnerable and eager Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, who would also win an Oscar). The two become a couple, and watching them fall in and out of the relationship, with all the heartbreak and self-recrimination that involves, makes for one of the more accessibly perceptive films of Allen's career. Showtime is noon Saturday, with encore screenings at 7 p.m. Monday and 9 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $6 Saturday, $8 other times. Information: thecharles.com or 410-727-3456.
Iraqi films Filmmaker Ziad Jazzaa, a refugee from Iraq who settled in Baltimore this year, will host screenings of some of his works, including a new documentary focusing on the treatment of refugees from Iraq, Ethiopia, Nepal and Burma. The screenings, along with a food tasting, art exhibition and panel discussion, is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave. Admission is free, but reservations are suggested. Information: creativealliance.org or 410-276-1651.
HD 'Wizard' A high-definition print of Victor Fleming's 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" will be shown in theaters at 7 p.m. Wednesday in honor of the film's 70th anniversary. This marks the first time the high-def version of the movie, with its vivid colors and remastered soundtrack, will be shown in movie theaters - and no matter how many times you've traveled down the yellow brick road with Dorothy, et al. before, you need to do it in a real movie theater at least once. Participating theaters in the Baltimore area include the AMC Columbia 14 (in IMAX), AMC Owings Mills 17, Regal Bel Air Cinema 14 and UA Snowden Square 14. Information: thewizardofoz.com.
Lakefront flicks Columbia's free lakefront film festival concludes this weekend with a pair of movies released in theaters this year. Tonight's "17 Again" stars Matthew Perry as a despondent man in his 30s who, thanks to some convenient magic, gets to relive his high school years, albeit with an adult perspective (and in Zac Efron's body, no less). The animated "Monsters vs. Aliens," showing tomorrow, pits a handful of Earth-friendly mutants (including a 79-foot woman voiced by Reese Witherspoon and a gelatinous blob voiced by Seth Rogen) against a host of otherworldly beings wishing us ill. Showtime is at dusk at the lakefront, 10320 Little Patuxent Parkway. Information: lakefrontfestival.com.
Other movies set for the weekend celebration of cinema include director Kimberly Peirce's 2008 "Stop-Loss," with Ryan Phillippe as an American soldier re-upped against his will for another tour in Iraq (12:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, with an appearance by screenwriter Mark Richard); French New Wave legend Agnes Varda's 2008 "The Beaches of Agnes" (8 p.m. Saturday at the art museum); Megumi Sasaki's 2008 documentary "Herb & Dorothy," a look at visionary art collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel (3:30 p.m. Saturday at the art museum) and Nahid Persson Sarvestani's 2008 documentary "The Queen & I" (1 p.m. Sunday, Avalon Theater), in which two Iranian refugees - one the filmmaker, the other the wife of the last shah - struggle with their differing interpretations of the same historical events.
Movies will be shown in Easton at the Avalon, 40 E. Dover St.; the Academy Art Museum, 106 South St.; and the Historical Society, 17 S. Washington St. Additional screenings are set for venues in Oxford and St. Michaels. Tickets are $8 per film in advance, $10 at the door; weekend passes are $125. Special rates apply for opening and closing films. Information: chesapeakefilmfestival.org or 410-822-5089.
'Annie Hall' Woody Allen's sublime and hilarious "Annie Hall," the rare comedy to win a Best Picture Oscar, is this weekend's entry in the Charles Theatre's Saturday revival series. The 1977 movie stars Allen as comic Alvie Singer, whose messed-up life (not to mention his messed-up view of himself) meets its match in the charming and vulnerable and eager Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, who would also win an Oscar). The two become a couple, and watching them fall in and out of the relationship, with all the heartbreak and self-recrimination that involves, makes for one of the more accessibly perceptive films of Allen's career. Showtime is noon Saturday, with encore screenings at 7 p.m. Monday and 9 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $6 Saturday, $8 other times. Information: thecharles.com or 410-727-3456.
Iraqi films Filmmaker Ziad Jazzaa, a refugee from Iraq who settled in Baltimore this year, will host screenings of some of his works, including a new documentary focusing on the treatment of refugees from Iraq, Ethiopia, Nepal and Burma. The screenings, along with a food tasting, art exhibition and panel discussion, is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave. Admission is free, but reservations are suggested. Information: creativealliance.org or 410-276-1651.
HD 'Wizard' A high-definition print of Victor Fleming's 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" will be shown in theaters at 7 p.m. Wednesday in honor of the film's 70th anniversary. This marks the first time the high-def version of the movie, with its vivid colors and remastered soundtrack, will be shown in movie theaters - and no matter how many times you've traveled down the yellow brick road with Dorothy, et al. before, you need to do it in a real movie theater at least once. Participating theaters in the Baltimore area include the AMC Columbia 14 (in IMAX), AMC Owings Mills 17, Regal Bel Air Cinema 14 and UA Snowden Square 14. Information: thewizardofoz.com.
Lakefront flicks Columbia's free lakefront film festival concludes this weekend with a pair of movies released in theaters this year. Tonight's "17 Again" stars Matthew Perry as a despondent man in his 30s who, thanks to some convenient magic, gets to relive his high school years, albeit with an adult perspective (and in Zac Efron's body, no less). The animated "Monsters vs. Aliens," showing tomorrow, pits a handful of Earth-friendly mutants (including a 79-foot woman voiced by Reese Witherspoon and a gelatinous blob voiced by Seth Rogen) against a host of otherworldly beings wishing us ill. Showtime is at dusk at the lakefront, 10320 Little Patuxent Parkway. Information: lakefrontfestival.com.
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