Monday, August 31, 2020
The film
Build the Wall
Where to see it
YouTube
The deal
No, this movie is not a pro-Trump statement (though you will find plenty of impassioned defenses of the border wall if you simply plug the title into a search engine). It’s a low-budget, low-key drama that was shot by prominent indie film figures in Hardwick, Vt.
Tags: Build the Wall , Joe Swanberg , Kent Osborne , Jane Adams , NoBudge , Web Only , Image
Thursday, August 27, 2020
That was 18 years ago. This year, on September 10, the sculpture is going to be moved at last. But fans of the quirky attraction needn't fret; it's not going far.
Tags: Bren Alvarez , file cabinet sculpture , public art , Flynndog , Select Design , South End Art Hop , Web Only , Image
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
"I pulled into the parking lot and asked a woman who was walking in if they were repainting it or if it always looks like that," Badolato recalled by phone, adding that she was wearing a mask. "She was like, 'No, this is what it always looks like.'
"I said, 'Wow, I really want to bring a mural or something to liven this up," Badolato continued, noting that the woman in the parking lot was not exactly as enthusiastic as she was. "She was like, 'That'd be great. Whatever.'"
At some point soon, that unknown and unimpressed woman might be in for a surprise.
In the coming weeks, Burlington artist Abby Manock is expected to begin work on a 1,614-square-foot mural at Feeding Chittenden. The mural is the inaugural project of a new organization founded by Badolato and others called Mission Murals. The volunteer-run collective aims to amplify the missions and messages of Vermont nonprofit organizations through the use of art in public spaces.
Tags: Mission Murals , Jill Badolato , Abby Manock , Feeding Chittenden , murals , Web Only , Image
Monday, August 24, 2020
This week, I’m complementing my cover story about Vermonters rediscovering the drive-in picture show in the summer of COVID-19 with a review of a 2017 documentary about some folks who were ahead of the curve.
The film
At the Drive-In
Where to see it
Kanopy, Tubi, Amazon Prime Video; rentable on other platforms
The deal
Located in rural Lehighton, Pa., the Mahoning Drive-In has been showing movies since 1949. Its single screen is one of the largest CinemaScope screens — designed for the widescreen spectaculars that flourished at midcentury — on the East Coast.
Tags: drive-in , drive-in movie , Mahoning Drive-In , Web Only , Image , Video
Sunday, August 23, 2020
The move follows the reopening this week of select locations of AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas — national chains with no Vermont presence. "We're watching what they're doing," Edelmann said in a phone conversation.
He plans to start with a week of already released movies and "work out the logistics before bringing a new release in," Edelmann said. That could be Christopher Nolan's Tenet — which, after multiple delays, is currently scheduled for a September 3 release.
Tags: movie theaters , Essex , Burlington , Essex Cinemas , Essex Experience , multiplex , reopening , coronavirus , Rec Kids Supported Learning Spaces , Web Only , Image
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
The film
Support the Girls
Where to see it
Hulu; rentable on various other platforms
The deal
Lisa (Regina Hall) is the general manager of Double Whammies, a Texas strip-mall restaurant devoted to “beer, boobs and big screens.” She cares a lot about her employees, sometimes to the point of running afoul of the owner, Cubby (James LeGros). On this particular day, a series of mishaps heats things to the boiling point.
Tags: Support the Girls , Regina Hall , Andrew Bujalski , Haley Lu Richardson , workplace comedy , Web Only , Image
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
The film:
The Goldfinch
Where to see it:
Amazon Prime Video; rentable on various platforms
The deal:
In this adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art changes everything for 13-year-old Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley). His mother is killed in the blast, setting him adrift to find a home first with the cultured matriarch (Nicole Kidman) of a Park Avenue family, then with his deadbeat dad (Luke Wilson) amid the foreclosed homes of Las Vegas, then with a sympathetic antiques dealer (Jeffrey Wright).
Tags: The Goldfinch , Donna Tartt , adaptation , Web Only , Image
Monday, August 10, 2020
This year’s Vermont Humanities fall conference — an annual series of public lectures normally held at the University of Vermont each November — will take place, you guessed it, online. The program, titled "Democracy 20/20," will consist of 15 free virtual talks and workshops, streamed weekly between August 19 and November 13 on the theme of civic engagement.
Beginning in October, the lineup may also include small in-person events as public health guidance allows.
Tags: Vermont Humanities , democracy , civic engagement , suffragists , U.S. political history , Web Only , Image
Saturday, August 8, 2020
"Hurly Burly is an experiment," Flynn artistic director Steve MacQueen wrote in a press release. "If people can't come to the arts, then we'll bring the arts to the people, and we'll do it as safely as possible."
Tags: The Flynn , Ray Vega , Matthew Evan Taylor , Ro Freeman , Vermont Symphony Orchestra , Lyric Theatre Company , KeruBo , Burlington Taiko , Mal Maiz , Dwight & Nicole , Daniel Bernard Roumain , Web Only , Image
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
The film:
The Old Guard
Where to see it:
Netflix
The deal:
Her name is Andromache of Scythia (Charlize Theron), but you can call her Andy, and nothing can kill her. Stalking around in black jeans and sporting the deadpan charisma of vintage Clint Eastwood, Andy leads a team of centuries-old warriors with miraculous regenerative abilities. Joe (Marwan Kenzari) and Nicky (Luca Marinelli) date from the Crusades; Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts) from Napoleonic France. Together they while away their seeming immortality by fighting for good causes.
Tags: The Old Guard , Gina Prince-Bythewood , Charlize Theron , superhero , Web Only , Image