HENDERSONVILLE FILM SOCIETY: November 2016 Movie Schedule – Our final month of movies for 2016 starts off with a Depression era fantasy about politics. Next is a movie about collecting mountain songs that was shot in Western NC. Week #3 features a film adaptation of a long running musical whileContinue Reading
Culture Vulture Film Festival Offers New Mountain Films, Dinner, Music The Center for Cultural Preservation, WNC’s mountain heritage cultural organization, presents a film festival featuring sumptuous local barbecue, great music and three mountain films including a preview of the Center’s new film on the roots of mountain music. The Culture VultureContinue Reading
Genius (2016) Short Take: The story of the friendship between renowned editor Max Perkins and the larger than life literary giant – and Asheville’s native son – Thomas Wolfe. REEL TAKE: Local readers may recall actor Jude Law’s visit to Asheville a while back to research Asheville’s native son ThomasContinue Reading
OCT 2: THE FRISCO KID (1979) – Gene Wilder stars as a Polish Rabbi in 1850 America trying to go from Philadelphia to San Francisco with the aid of an inept bank robber (Harrison Ford). One of both men’s favorite films. DIR: Robert Aldrich. OCT 9: THE SIGN OF THEContinue Reading
In conjunction with my feature article this month on Universal’s Silent Horrors, it’s only fitting that the DVD selection be a film from that genre. Plenty has been written about the original The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the original Phantom of the Opera so my choice isContinue Reading
The Golden Age of American horror films begins with Universal’s Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931 and ends in 1936 with the release of Dracula’s Daughter. While other Hollywood studios made horror films in the 1930s (like Paramount’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Warner Brothers’ Doctor X, and MGM’s Freaks), noneContinue Reading
ROBERT SHAW – MAN OF MANY VOICES premiered in April of 2016, and will be screened in Asheville, NC on Thursday, October 20, 2106 at the Fine Arts Theatre under the sponsorship of the Arts Commission of The Cathedral of All Souls, Biltmore Village. A documentary film about theContinue Reading
Friday September 2nd, from 6:30-8:30 pm There are too much Martin Scorsese to cover in one tribute — an adventurous and innovative cinema auteur; a knowledgeable film historian; a leader in film preservation; a winner of Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes and the AFI’s Life Achievement Award; a documentarian. Scorsese has produced groundbreakingContinue Reading
This past week I realized we were in the waning days of the summer, and I found myself lamenting its quick passing. In my world, it’s been a strange season filled with life slapping challenges, change and metamorphosis. In May an illness in the family yanked the rug out ofContinue Reading
