On December 6th, Thursday evening at 6pm,
Northamptonist will be
hosting a free screening of the film, Contested
Streets
[http://www.contestedstreets.com/home.html at the
Media Education
Foundation's screening room on 60 Masonic Street.
Anyone is free to
attend.

The film explores the history and culture of New York
City
streets from pre-automobile times to the
present...Central to the
story is a comparison of New York to what is
experienced in London,
Paris and Copenhagen. Interviews and footage shot in
these cities
showcase how limiting automobile use in recent years
has improved air
quality, minimized noise pollution and enriched
commercial,
recreational and community interaction. London's
congestion pricing
scheme, Paris' BRT (bus rapid transit) and
Copenhagen's bicycle and
pedestrian infrastructure are all examined in depth.
You can view
trailers for the film here:
http://www.contestedstreets.com/trailer.html




      
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http://www.umass.edu/fac/calendar/asian/events/Film25.html

I'm intrigued. Not sure if I'll go, as it conflicts
with dance lessons, but I'd love to hear about it
after, if anyone on the list goes and would care to
share an opinion.

Greg


      
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I have an offer from a group member to do PR (send out press releases
to the Gazette, Advocate etc.) if someone wants to set up meetings.

Begin forwarded message:

>      I do the press release for the gallery and would be happy to be
> your 'pr'
> person, for a while, anyhow, (since I have all the contacts,
> including the
> Advocate),  and it would be a pleasure for me, as a film lover, to
> help out.
>      Lorna

the pr thing sounds great but what i am looking for
is to get my first big movie deal, i been putting
myself out there but i have gotten replys  that
because of the writers strike not many people/ company
and the like are looking, any suggestions about that.
also i would like to get myself to new york to pick up
an agent, i live in east stroudsburg, pa it would take
me about an hour and a half to get there, any
suggestions on who i can meet with, i am looking for
agents who will find me work and get paid when i get
work, i am looking to do something along the lines of
action and comedy though i dont mind romantic or drama
movies, i had offers to work for small theatre
companies but i dont want to do theatre work, also, i
dont wanna pay for an agent if i am unsure if i get
any work....i tried that in allentown, pa.  i paid an
agency in allentown to find me work they didnt put the
effort in and when they did it was jobs that i could
have found in the paper. sorry for my grievance


thanks



lou



      
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-------Original Message-------

From: Silas Kopf
Date: 12/18/07 07:30:36
Subject: FW: Pleasant st.


Friends,

We have been astounded by the response we've had to our earlier email
about the Pleasant Street Theater.  In less than a week, we have
received pledges ranging from $10 to $10,000 totaling over $45,000.
Responses have come from as far away as Maine, London, Puerto Rico,
and California (we even had an e-mail from Tasmania). The theater
clearly occupies a special place in the minds of many people.

We have asked the Amherst Cinema to undertake operation of the
theater and they are willing – provided the financial support is
there.  With their tax-exempt status already in place, they will be
able to step in and run the movie house almost seamlessly. Our two
screens will increase their influence with distributors and their
operating expertise will help provide a secure future for the theater
in our community.

Amherst Cinema wants to be able to provide the same experience as
patrons have in Amherst. To accomplish this would mean new seats,
online ticketing, and other amenities, while preserving the character
of the original theater.  They have assured us that Pleasant Street
would be treated as an equal partner, and they would need people from
our side of the river on the organization's board of directors. Much
to our surprise, this alliance would require a commitment now of only
$100,000 from Northampton supporters, to secure a lease and reopen
the theater.   The amount needed to reopen our beloved landmark is a
fraction of the cost of building and equipping another theater!

We need the remaining $55,000 as soon as possible. We ask that those
of you who have already pledged to send your check, made out to
Amherst Cinema Arts Center, Inc. with a note in the memo
line "Pleasant Street Reopening." All contributions are tax
deductible and will be held in reserve until there are enough funds
raised for the reopening to go forward.   If, for any reason Amherst
Cinema does not reopen the theater, your money will be returned.
Those who are interested but have not yet pledged should do the same,
but also send an email to silas@... noting the amount so we
can keep a tally. The address is: Amherst Cinema Arts Center, 28
Amity St., Amherst, MA 01002.

We are almost half way to the goal and we hope you will forward this
letter and reach out to your friends who might be sympathetic to this
effort.

Many thanks for your support.


Bruce and Rita Bleiman             Silas and Linda Kopf

-------Original Message-------

From: Silas Kopf
Date: 12/18/07 07:30:36
Subject: FW: Pleasant st.


Friends,

We have been astounded by the response we've had to our earlier email
about the Pleasant Street Theater.  In less than a week, we have
received pledges ranging from $10 to $10,000 totaling over $45,000.
Responses have come from as far away as Maine, London, Puerto Rico,
and California (we even had an e-mail from Tasmania). The theater
clearly occupies a special place in the minds of many people.

We have asked the Amherst Cinema to undertake operation of the
theater and they are willing – provided the financial support is
there.  With their tax-exempt status already in place, they will be
able to step in and run the movie house almost seamlessly. Our two
screens will increase their influence with distributors and their
operating expertise will help provide a secure future for the theater
in our community.

Amherst Cinema wants to be able to provide the same experience as
patrons have in Amherst. To accomplish this would mean new seats,
online ticketing, and other amenities, while preserving the character
of the original theater.  They have assured us that Pleasant Street
would be treated as an equal partner, and they would need people from
our side of the river on the organization's board of directors. Much
to our surprise, this alliance would require a commitment now of only
$100,000 from Northampton supporters, to secure a lease and reopen
the theater.   The amount needed to reopen our beloved landmark is a
fraction of the cost of building and equipping another theater!

We need the remaining $55,000 as soon as possible. We ask that those
of you who have already pledged to send your check, made out to
Amherst Cinema Arts Center, Inc. with a note in the memo
line "Pleasant Street Reopening." All contributions are tax
deductible and will be held in reserve until there are enough funds
raised for the reopening to go forward.   If, for any reason Amherst
Cinema does not reopen the theater, your money will be returned.
Those who are interested but have not yet pledged should do the same,
but also send an email to silas@... noting the amount so we
can keep a tally. The address is: Amherst Cinema Arts Center, 28
Amity St., Amherst, MA 01002.

We are almost half way to the goal and we hope you will forward this
letter and reach out to your friends who might be sympathetic to this
effort.

Many thanks for your support.


Bruce and Rita Bleiman             Silas and Linda Kopf

There will be an amazing movie.  Check out some previews of the new
Daniel Day Lewis picture.

Also, if you interested and I know you are.  Check out the trailer for
Dark Knight (New Batman movie) and Hellboy II looks out of this world.

You can go to apple.com/trailers

to view them.

good luck.

Let me know of any great trailers

thanks

Have you seen the new Marquette Williams film starring Elimu Nelson
entitled UNSPEKABLE, I saw it in L.A.  and it was chilling!  If you
have not seen this film you're missing out on the birth of a new young
director.  Unspeakable will be screening in the Cleveland International
Film Festival March 6-16th. It's a dark thriller about a man that takes
a family hostage.  Composer Adrian Bailey creates a haunting score.  It
is produced by Dennis Knowles, Moni Boyce and Desi Green.  I found some
of the footage on youtube here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=yrCBziXs3S4  this is a must see http://www.myspace.com/cinema216.

My latest short film titled

"24 frames per day"

will be screening at the

SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Treasure Mountain Inn
255 Main Street
Park City, Utah

on January 20th, 2008 at 2:30pm
and
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:30pm

24 frames per day was conceived by combining 24 photographs captured each day
over a
period of 9 months. Yes, that's what makes this baby! And it's the same
photograph each
day, or rather the same frame each day. A daily meditation by the filmmaker
photographing the front door of her "home" makes this a very personal and
political film
that raises important questions around immigration, cultural stereotypes, and
diasporic
identity.

http://www.sonalifilm.com/24fpd.html

http://slamdance.bside.com/?_view=_filmdetails&filmId=43552147

Hi,

Wanted to share a independent Short Film I made on a shoe string budget.

The link is http://www.ifilm.com/profile/akkiboy/video/2930792

The story is about a guy called James McAllister who has a perfect life
and a perfect wife but only he realises that its all pretentious.
Destiny gives him a chance to redeem himself and the film is about how
he reacts when he gets the chance. The movie begins with James playing
a board game with his friend Jay and he get to a point in the game
where he has to take a huge gamble. The entire film plays in flashback
after that.

The living room scene is slightly awkward but the rest is just fine.

Hope you like it

-Akshay

Who watched it and what did you think?

Elephants Dream, world's first animated open movie (directed by yours
truly) is now part of the MoMA's "Design and the Elastic Mind" Exhibit,
you can view it on their website on this link:
http://moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/#/2

I'm not sure whether it's part of the physical exhibit or just the
online/catalog version, but I'm chuffed regardless.

Cheers (and watch it!)

a little background:
Elephants Dream was premiered in Amsterdam (where it was made) in 2006-
it's an "open" movie project- in that:
we released the movie under a creative commons (CC BY) license
we released all the production files under the same license
we released (well, it already existed) the software used to make the
movie under the same license

So if you got the movie, you also got the right/ability to make your own
versions of it, remix, re-use, mashup, etc.

Our project was called "project orange", there is a new one called
"project peach" ( http://peach.blender.org ) and an open game project
( http://apricot.blender.org ) going on right now.

I'm also working on another short, as yet, unannounced online (But will
be soon)

Elephants Dream, world's first animated open movie (directed by yours
truly) is now part of the MoMA's "Design and the Elastic Mind" catalog.
         You can view it on their website on this link:
         http://moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/#/2


Some background info:

Elephants Dream was premiered in Amsterdam (where it was made) in 2006-
it's an "open" movie project- in that:

we released the movie under a creative commons (CC BY) license
we released all the production files under the same license
we released (well, it already existed) the software used to make the
movie under the same license

	 So if you got the movie, you also got the right/ability to make your
own versions of it, remix, re-use, mashup, etc.

Our project was called "project orange", there are follow up projects:
"project peach" ( http://peach.blender.org ) and an open game project
( http://apricot.blender.org ).

I'm also working on another short, as yet unannounced (But will
be soon)

cheers, Bassam

I was going to answer but ran out of time to finish my reply.  Please
fill in the spots I couldn't finish.  Thanks

> Did you anyone see the Academy Awards?


I did!  It was so            !  My fave moment was
when                      won Best                 in
a                   !


		  was hilarious!   But I was a little bummed that       didn't win
		     	 .

----- Original Message -----

From: roughton

To: movietalk@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:05 AM

Subject: Re: [movietalk] re: Academy Awards

I'll bite.

My favorite moment was when John Stewart had Marketa Irglova come back out to give her acceptance speech after she had been shut down by the music.

I know they're just trying to stick to a schedule, but it's still rude when people aren't allowed to finish (or in some cases even start) their speeches -- especially so when it's not a 'star.'  Good for John Stewart (or whoever made that call).

I haven't seen Once, and wasn't  particularly even interested in it, but I'll probably check it out now.

On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Jonathon Podolsky wrote:

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Did you anyone see the Academy Awards?

I did! It was so __________ ! My fave moment was  when __________  won Best __________in a ___________!

____________was hilarious! But I was a little bummed that _____________didn't win.

 

On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Jonathon Podolsky wrote:

I was going to answer but ran out of time to finish my reply. Please 
fill in the spots I couldn't finish. Thanks

> Did you anyone see the Academy Awards?

I did! It was so ! My fave moment was 
when won Best in 
a !

was hilarious! But I was a little bummed that didn't win 
.

My Beef:::::::::

Hal Holbrook was absolutely superb---I was really hoping that he would
win-----but then again I was hoping Hillary would would win---

On 2/27/08, Ruth C <rac96@...> wrote:
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> I was going to say exactly the same thing. My favorite happening was that
> the song from Once beat out all of that Disney stuff. And I liked the thank
> you's by both of the winners. Oh, and I liked when Cameron Diaz made fun of
> herself for mispronouncing cinematography.
>
> The scripted nonsense by the presenters was less noticeable than in previous
> years, but why do they keep writing in such unfunny stuff?
>
> I didn't see many of the winning movies/performances. Did people who saw
> them agree with the winner choices?
>
> - Ruth
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: roughton
> To: movietalk@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [movietalk] re: Academy Awards
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> I'll bite.
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> My favorite moment was when John Stewart had Marketa Irglova come back out
> to give her acceptance speech after she had been shut down by the music.
> I know they're just trying to stick to a schedule, but it's still rude when
> people aren't allowed to finish (or in some cases even start) their speeches
> -- especially so when it's not a 'star.'  Good for John Stewart (or whoever
> made that call).
>
>
> I haven't seen Once, and wasn't  particularly even interested in it, but
> I'll probably check it out now.
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> On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Jonathon Podolsky wrote:
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> Did you anyone see the Academy Awards?
>
> I did! It was so __________ ! My fave moment was  when __________  won Best
> __________in a ___________!
>
> ____________was hilarious! But I was a little bummed that
> _____________didn't win.
>
>
>
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> On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Jonathon Podolsky wrote:
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> I was going to answer but ran out of time to finish my reply. Please
> fill in the spots I couldn't finish. Thanks
>
> > Did you anyone see the Academy Awards?
>
> I did! It was so ! My fave moment was
> when won Best in
> a !
>
> was hilarious! But I was a little bummed that didn't win
> .
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--
Greg
Gregory Reynolds Morell
Box 1084, Northampton, MA 01061
Director: Antic Arts Center www.gregmorell.com
Writer, Producer
Morell.Gregory@...
207-251-8724 or  800-321-6463

Film Screening of the Winter Soldier Investigation '71
Wednesday 3/5 8:00pm
UMass Campus Center Room 165
Come join members of the Campus Antiwar Network and Iraq Veterans Against the War in a film screening of Winter Soldier '71. The Winter Soldier Investigation was an event held in Detroit in 1971 where members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War came together to testify on the crimes they had seen committed in Vietnam. Along with the film, will be a panel with author and professor Christian Appy, a member of the Western Massachusetts chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War, the Campus Antiwar Network and GI Rights Hotline.

This film screening is in preparation for Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan which will be held in Washington D.C. from March 13th-16th. Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War from Western Massachusetts will be going down to D.C. to participate in the testimonies and will return to UMass to give a report back on the event. For more information visit http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier.


SPONSORED BY:
Western Mass. American Friends Service Committee, Western Mass. CodePink, Western Mass. GI Rights Hotline, International Socialist Organization, Northampton Committee to Stop the War, Traprock Peace Center and Western Mass. Vets for Peace.

For more information visit www.campusantiwar.net or www.ivaw.org
or e-mail Tristan.Brosnan@... or call (802)922-5961

ANNOUNCING VALLEYWOOD II –
A Celebration of the Digital Arts in the Pioneer Valley


DATE: Saturday, March 8

TIME: 2 – 3:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Jones Library, Amity Street, Amherst

COST: $10 for the public; $8 Chamber members



The Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce and Reader
to Reader Inc., with support from A – Z
International Associates, is announcing
VALLEYWOOD II – A Celebration of the Digital Arts in the Pioneer Valley.

The opening program features John Katzenbach,
Amherst resident and the acclaimed author of
numerous books that have been turned into film,
including Just Cause and Hart’s War.

Katzenbach’s talk, entitled “THE GOOD, THE BAD
AND THE UGLY – Why I Love Hollywood and Why I
Hate Hollywood,” is scheduled from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 8.

VALLEYWOOD II is planned as an ongoing series of
afternoon weekend lectures by regional writers,
screenwriters, film-makers, animators, special
effects, sound and others who are developing
content for Hollywood, television and a wide
range of mobile devices – all of whom fit into
what is commonly called the “digital economy” or “new media.”

The aim is to schedule one, mid-afternoon lecture
per month during the school year on either a
Saturday or Sunday in the lower level large
meeting room of the Jones Library, or other
locations in Amherst to be announced.

Other speakers this spring include Dan Giat of
Pelham (Saturday, April 12), author of Path to
War, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in
2002 after airing on HBO. David Shepherd
(Saturday, May 10), is an improv theater and
video master, founder of Compass (the granddaddy
of “Saturday Night Live”) and Group Creativity,
as well as the author of That Movie in Your Head.

Katzenbach, who was once a criminal court
reporter for The Miami Herald and Miami News has
been published in a wide number of newspapers.
Previous novels include In the Heat of the
Summer, adapted for the screen as The Mean
Season, and The Shadow Man. He is also author of
the New York Times bestseller The Traveler, as
well as Day of Reckoning. Filming of the script
he wrote based on The Madman's Tale is schedule to start filming this spring.

“Having one’s work adapted for film is a
bittersweet affair. There are many positives and
many negatives, and I’ll talk about both. The one
thing you learn is why you love Hollywood and why
you hate it. But from the novelist’s point of
view it’s a terrific adventure,” Katzenbach said.

Admission at the door is $10 for the general
public; $8 for Chamber members. Seating is first
come, first serve. No food will be served, but
the audience is welcome to bring snacks.

For more information contact Amy Zuckerman,
Principal, A – Z International Associates. Phone:
253-4124; Email:
<mailto:az@...>az@..., and Fax: 413-303-9487.