Saturday, Mar. 2: It’s an imaginative notion for an interview show dreamed up by actress Sarah Thyre and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean. Sometimes the hosts as well as the guests end up weeping on-air – even when the tear-inducing event shared is something as silly as a TV commercial.
Saturday, Mar. 2: When Joni Mitchell turned 75, her literal hordes of indebted admirers and peers, famous in their own right, showed up to pay tribute to her astounding musical and cultural achievements. The whole affair was captured on film.
The original Lego Movie didn’t merely milk consumer interest in the parent product; it brazenly mocked its own brand and passive consumerism as an approach to living. Alas, much of the charm of the original has been lost in its sequel.
The popular on-demand film streaming service Kanopy is now available for free through the 21 public libraries in Ulster County.
Sunday, Mar. 3 and Tuesday, Mar. 5: Then Came You screens in Rhinebeck and Rosendale with director talkbacks.
The film is a true passion project, and it shows. Peter Jackson, director of Lord of the Rings and Hobbit, has been a lifelong World War I buff, the grandson of a veteran of the Great War. He hired lipreading experts to figure out what the Great War soldiers must have been saying. Jackson has also invested much of his hit-moviemaking wealth into collecting memorabilia, including more than 40 fighter planes that still really fly, which he keeps in an aerodrome in his native New Zealand.
Sunday, Feb. 24: Fellow arts impresarios Chris Silva and Mark Morganstern will face off in “word-to-word and arm-to-arm combat” at the Rosendale Cafe to benefit UlsterUnited4Vets.
For the next two weekends: When Mark Haddon wrote this novel in 2003, he was careful to avoid using the words “autism” or “Asperger’s syndrome” in describing his protagonist. Yet the novel, along with Simon Stephens’ 2012 stage adaptation, went on to garner high praise from the spectrum community for their sensitive depiction of the world as seen by a young man who is neurologically atypical.
Saturday, Feb. 23: Does appearing as an extra in a movie or TV show sound appealing? If you’re willing to hang out at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center for most of the day this Saturday, your wish might come true.
Friday-Sunday, February 15-17: This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in North America, at Jamestown.