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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'Plan 9': so bad it's good
A half-century after it was made, movies still don't come any worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space, Edward D. Wood Jr.'s grade-Z sci-fi opus about aliens looking to take over the Earth by raising the dead and having them ... well, having them do something...Tags: Brad Pitt, Wall-E (movie), Tony Curtis, Iron Man (movie), American Visionary Art Museum
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Free movies next week! Food, Inc., Handmade Nation
baltimoresun.comWatch two FREE movie screenings next week!To kick off DIY@Artscape, on Tuesday, July 14, there will be a free screening of Handmade Nation, a documentary exploring do-it-yourself culture.The free Handmade Nation screening starts at 7 p.m. at the... -
Artscape 2009: Reasons to go
Special to The Baltimore SunBaltimore's famed summer arts festival is a sprawling affair. From July 17 to July 19, live music can be heard on three outdoor stages, a variety of indoor venues and along the streets and sidewalks of the Station North Arts District. Large food courts...Tags: American Visionary Art Museum, Festive Event, Artscape, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Dionne Warwick
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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: Dance, Maryland Film Festival, Festive Event, Artscape, Lyric Opera of Baltimore
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Contestants race through a weekend to turn a concept into finished film
The hipsters and geeks milling expectantly in the dim lounge reach one by one into a hat. The slip of paper they pull out holds not only the theme for their weekend but, possibly, a chance to earn some celluloid swagger.
Superhero. Fantasy. Drama....Tags: White Marsh, National Government, Genres, Government, Music Industry
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Local screenings
'Watchmen' returns Watchmen, the big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic-novel exploits of a group of outlawed superheroes, will return this weekend for a limited run at Bengies Drive-In Theatre, 3417 Eastern Blvd. Showtime through Sunday is 10:45...Tags: Watchmen (movie), India, James Woods, David Cronenberg, Danny Boyle
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Mary L. Franz, social worker
Mary L. Franz, a retired clinical social worker who had worked at the Huntington's Disease Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital and lived for many years in Federal Hill, died Wednesday of lymphoma at Roland Park Place. She was 82. Mary Louise Wise, the...Tags: Mount Washington, Death and Dying, Roland Park, Colleges and Universities, Federal Hill
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'A Chorus Line' gets more real
Michael Bennett always thought of his groundbreaking 1974 musical A Chorus Line as a documentary. Now, thanks to filmmakers James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, it is. The movie, Every Little Step, which opens Friday at the Charles Theatre, takes the idea...Tags: Dance, A Chorus Line (musical), Music Theater, Every Little Step (movie), Human Body
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'The Third Man' screens at the Senator Theatre
Classic film screenings continue at the Senator Theatre this weekend with Carol Reed's magnificent The Third Man, starring Joseph Cotten as a pulp novelist visiting postwar Vienna, where he learns that his good friend, Harry Lime ( Orson Welles), has...Tags: Joseph Cotten, Revanche (movie), Enoch Pratt Free Library, Senator Theatre, Orson Welles
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Hundreds of filmmakers hit the streets to make a movie
A record number of teams, 53 as of Friday afternoon, are out frantically making movies in and around Baltimore this weekend, part of the annual exercise in creative cinematic anarchy otherwise known as the 48-Hour Film Project. "There will be at least...Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals
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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: Charles Village, Minority Groups, Maryland Film Festival, John Waters, Gays and Lesbians
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Dining@Large: the April Fools Edition
Dining@LargeNo, no tricks here. (As far as I know.) I just got several e-mails connected to April Fools Day and thought I would bundle them into one post.First of all, Bucky (who else?) has informed me that April 1 kicks......Tags: April Fools' Day, Charity, Foods and Beverages, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Sandwiches
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