Highlights
Baltimore's Charles Theatre is located in the burgeoning Charles North arts district. Architect Jackson C. Gott designed the Beaux-Arts buildings that house the theater in the late 1890s. The structures were originally designed to be a cable car barn and powerhouse but were remodeled into a movie theater - the Times Theater, which was the city's first to show only newsreels - in 1939. It was renamed the Charles Theatre about 20 years later and became a single-screen revival house in 1979. A remodeling project in 1999 expanded The Charles into a five-screen theater with a new lobby. The four additional screening rooms have stadium seating, while the original 485-seat room has a distinctively...
Baltimore's Charles Theatre is located in the burgeoning Charles North arts district. Architect Jackson C. Gott designed the Beaux-Arts buildings that house the theater in the late 1890s. The structures were originally designed to be a cable car barn and powerhouse but were remodeled into a movie theater - the Times Theater, which was the city's first to show only newsreels - in 1939. It was renamed the Charles Theatre about 20 years later and became a single-screen revival house in 1979. A remodeling project in 1999 expanded The Charles into a five-screen theater with a new lobby. The four additional screening rooms have stadium seating, while the original 485-seat room has a distinctively retro feel. The Charles offers first-run specialty films in addition to foreign films, new Hollywood releases and older classics. It also has a weekly series called Cinema Sundays at The Charles with breakfast and post-screening discussion usually led by filmmakers, critics or experts on topics covered in the films.
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Last call: 'Man on Wire'
Baltimore Sun reporterGeorge Mansour, who books films for the Charles Theatre, believes strongly in the art and entertainment value of Man on Wire, the documentary about tightrope walker Philippe Petit and his quest to cross a high wire between the twin towers of the World...Tags: Man on Wire, Tell No One
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Coming soon
Openings Brick Lane ( Sony Pictures Classics) A Bangladeshi woman forced into an arranged marriage in London awakens to the possibilities of life when she begins an affair. With Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik and Christopher Simpson. Burn After...Tags: John Malkovich, Sony Corp., Righteous Kill, Brick Lane, Tyler Perry
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Film schedule
SEPTEMBER THROUGH SEPT. 30 A Glimpse of de Kooning, National THROUGH OCT. 2 Movies, Motion and Media: Altered Perspectives, A Film Series, Stevenson SEPT. 16-30 MICA Maryland Film Festival Film Series, MICA SEPT. 6 Afghanistan on Film, National SEPT. 6-...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Film Festivals, Towson University, Colleges and Universities, Culture
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Sturges revival
Preston Sturges, Hollywood's first great writer-director, was an inspired ringmaster of the American circus. Watching The Palm Beach Story or The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, you get the idea that everyone carries on his or her shoulders a midway filled...Tags: Preston Sturges, Henry Fonda, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Barbara Stanwyck
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Arts calendar
Fine art Museums Baltimore Museum of Art Art Museum Drive at North Charles and 31st streets. 443-573-1700. Free admission. Hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays. Permanent exhibit:Cone Collection, African Art,...Tags: Barnes & Noble Incorporated, Eubie Blake, IMAX, Colleges and Universities, Pikesville
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Swift picks: 10 things not to miss this week
Comedy Jerry Seinfeld He'll finally be on TV again. Unfortunately, he'll be shilling for Microsoft. But - in Baltimore - fans can get Jerry without the Bill Gates baggage in a series of stand-up shows next weekend at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Now a family...Tags: Game Playing, Video Games, Roman Polanski, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Popular Music
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Critics' picks
Theater Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted A humorous, thoughtful look at how famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo took on Hollywood, Congress and the Red Scare after he was blacklisted in 1947 and won. Through Sept. 28 at Howard Community College,...Tags: Jordin Sparks, Colleges and Universities, Gaming and Lotteries, Popular Music, Chris Brown
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Film
Film Charles Theatre1711 N. Charles St. / 410-727-3456 / Revival Film Series / Admission fee. •9 p.m. today:Dr. No. •Noon Saturday and 7 p.m. Monday:From Russia with Love. Eubie Blake Center847 N. Howard St. / 410-225-3130 / Free Family...Tags: Patapsco, Dundalk, Cinderella, Eubie Blake, IMAX
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Bond, James Bond at the Charles
Sun reporterThe Charles Theatre's three-film James Bond retrospective ends this weekend with 1963's From Russia With Love, in which the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. seeks revenge on Bond (the great Sean Connery) for killing their star agent, Dr. No. With Daniela Bianchi as...Tags: Russell Crowe, Owen Wilson, Cinderella, Colesville, Fells Point
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My excellent Artscape adventure
Dining@LargeI was sent to Artscape today to come back, quickly, with a good food story for tomorrow's paper. And not to be too long writing it because my editors wanted to go home at a reasonable hour. So what was......Tags: Vehicles, Artscape, Arable Farming
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Correction
An item in Laura Vozzella's column in yesterday's editions of The Sun incorrectly described the relationship between Mayor Sheila Dixon and Mildred Boyer. Boyer employed Dixon's sister at her company. A photo caption in yesterday's Movies Today section...Tags: Sheila Dixon
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A 'Shining' thriller at the Charles
Sun reporterThe Shining, director Stanley Kubrick's visually stunning 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror tale of a snowbound author (Jack Nicholson) with a demonic case of writer's block, is this weekend's entry in the Charles Theatre's Saturday revival series....Tags: Patapsco, Hal Ashby, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Bud Cort
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