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The Maryland Film Festival has been celebrating filmmaking since 1999. Every spring, venues in downtown Baltimore -- including the Charles Theatre and nearby universities -- screen up to 100 full-length features, shorts and documentaries over four days. It is more intimate and relaxed than other major film festivals, as it lacks a formalized competition. Local filmmakers participate in the festivities, and several local films that have screened at the festival have gotten wider exposure. The festival committee invites guests such as John Waters and Henry Rollins to host screenings of films that are important to them. Another program is Advocating for Movies, which allows critics to advocate...
The Maryland Film Festival has been celebrating filmmaking since 1999. Every spring, venues in downtown Baltimore -- including the Charles Theatre and nearby universities -- screen up to 100 full-length features, shorts and documentaries over four days. It is more intimate and relaxed than other major film festivals, as it lacks a formalized competition. Local filmmakers participate in the festivities, and several local films that have screened at the festival have gotten wider exposure. The festival committee invites guests such as John Waters and Henry Rollins to host screenings of films that are important to them. Another program is Advocating for Movies, which allows critics to advocate for movies they believed were missed in the marketplace. A recent addition to the festival is the Tent Village, which is home to free workshops, panel discussions and Q&A sessions. In addition to the annual event, the Maryland Film Festival holds screenings and other activities throughout the year.
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Artscape 2009: What's new?
Special to The Baltimore SunBaltimore's annual showcase of the visual and performing arts keeps piling on new features. If it expands much more, it'll be poised to swallow the entire city and we'll have to move it to somewhere more spacious, like Montana. Here are some of the...Tags: John Dowland, Dance, Maria Callas, Film Festivals, Music Theater
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Baltimore filmmaker shines light on those living on the edge
Steve Yeager appears caught off-guard when asked if he set out to earn a reputation as a filmmaker focusing on Baltimore's marginalized. The thought, it seems, has never really occurred to him.
And yet, it's an obvious question. His first narrative film,...Tags: Kathleen Turner, Gays and Lesbians, Minority Groups, Clubs and Associations, Charles Village
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Maryland Film Festival
Barry Levinson's look at the intersection of celebrity and politics headlines this year's event. you & your weekend div.talkforum #creditfooter { display: none; } div.talkforum .feedItemAuthor { display: none; } div.talkforum div.feedburnerFeedBlock...Tags: Film Festivals, Barry Levinson
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Barry Levinson to debut film at Maryland Film Festival
Barry Levinson's Poliwood will have its local premiere at the Maryland Film Festival next month. The movie, shot during 2008's Democratic and Republican conventions and the inauguration, is a "film essay" on the confluence of media, celebrities - such as...Tags: Matthew Modine, Film Festivals, Anne Hathaway, Democratic National Conventions, Ellen Burstyn
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Bobcat Goldthwait to open Maryland Film Festival
Director Bobcat Goldthwait will host the opening-night shorts program of the 11th annual Maryland Film Festival and will even bring along one of his short films. Goldthwait Home Movies, spotlighting a fictional 40th-anniversary reunion of the cast of the...Tags: Film Festivals, Festive Event, Barry Levinson, Charles Theatre, Cinema Industry
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Senator Theatre holds unique appeal in Baltimore
What makes the Senator Theatre so special? Why all the fuss when it sounded like it might be shuttered? Why is cash-strapped Baltimore proposing to buy it? Why are people flipping through the memorabilia for sale in the building's lobby and walking away...Tags: Baltimore Colts, Barry Levinson, Transportation, World War II (1939-1945), Edward Norton
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Kathryn Bigelow's explosive look at bomb experts
From her breakthrough with Near Dark, a contemporary vampire movie featuring undead who roam the West in a van, Kathryn Bigelow has broken new ground for female movie directors. Simply following her instincts for atmosphere and suspense, she's become a...Tags: Kathryn Bigelow, Barry Levinson, Explosions, Military Equipment, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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New on DVD: 'Benjamin Button'
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Directed by David Fincher. Released by Criterion. $34.95 (Blu-ray $39.95) *** 1/2
Cutting-edge film technology has rarely been put to better use than in The Curious Case of...Tags: Charles Dickens, David Fincher, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gillian Anderson, Cate Blanchett
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Film criticism: old media vs. digital age
Sun Movie CriticFilm Criticism in the Digital World is the name of the panel at 1:15 p.m. Sunday at the Maryland Film Festival (at the tent village across from the Charles Theatre). As a member of the panel, along with City Paper's Brett McCabe, Salon's Andrew O'Heir and...Tags: Billy Wilder, Netflix Inc., James Agee, James Cagney, Sam Peckinpah
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Maryland Film Festival puts movies-to-be on the screen
Matthew Porterfield, whose Hamilton was one of the breakout hits of the 2006 Maryland Film Festival, hasn't finished his next film yet - in fact, all he has is some test and audition footage. But he's bringing what he has to this weekend's 11th annual...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Classic Rock, John Waters, Road Accidents, Censorship
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Barry Levinson's 'PoliWood' headlines Maryland film festival
By a Baltimore Sun staff writerComing off a rousing screening of his "film essay" PoliWood at New York's TriBeCa Film Festival, Barry Levinson is psyched to bring it to the Maryland Film Festival on Sunday. Levinson considers this multifaceted look at politics and Hollywood an ideal...Tags: Celebrity, Democratic National Conventions, TriBeCa Film Festival, Barry Levinson, Ellen Burstyn
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