Film Festivals

Recap: Maryland Film Festival 2012 draws strong reactions

2012-05-06 14:29:15

Station North was abuzz with thousands of cinema addicts and more casual moviegoers this past weekend, for the 14th annual Maryland Film Festival. The Festival brought some 100 films and an even higher number of filmmakers to the neighborhood. As always,...

Maryland Film Festival kicks off with pleasure and pain

2012-05-05 14:32:00

John Waters opened his audience's eyes to a kind of film experience they'd probably never had before. Another writer-director raised in Maryland scared a late-night crowd silly. A movie about a sexual assault left some viewers heading for the exits early....

A movie date can last all weekend at Maryland Film Festival

2012-05-03 00:00:00

If you love movies, you'll feel like a kid set loose in a candy store when the 14th annual Maryland Film Festival screens 40 feature films and 50 short films May 3-6 on all five screens at the Charles Theatre and also on the single screen at the...

2012 Maryland Film Fest off to a short, sweet start

2012-05-04 05:57:00

Five short narrative films, on themes ranging from a modern-day urban cowboy to a scamming extraterrestrial, kicked off the 14th annual Maryland Film Festival at MICA's Brown Center Thursday night. Maryland's festival remains the only one of its kind...

Maryland filmmaker Eduardo Sanchez brings 'Lovely Molly' home

2012-05-03 00:00:00

"Lovely Molly," the horrific tale of a woman either demonically possessed or tragically insane, may be the film that makes Eduardo Sanchez someone other than one of the guys responsible for 1999's "The Blair Witch Project." Which would be fine with the...

Developers vie to restore Parkway Theatre in Charles North

2012-04-10 16:33:49

The Maryland Film Festival would transform the historic and long-shuttered Parkway Theatre into a venue for small independent films and concerts under one of three proposals to enliven a key intersection in Baltimore's Charles North neighborhood. Two...

Monday Meltdown: A 'Journey' to 'Silent Hill,' copycat games and the disc-less new Xbox

2012-03-12 10:47:00

News Roundup •••• Developers "borrowing" concepts from other mobile games (i.e. straight-up copying) is becoming all too common a practice. On an unrelated note, you should all hit the App Store and check out my new game, "Plants vs....

'Diner' cast members join Barry Levinson at anniversary celebration

2011-12-11 10:33:00

Sherry Korsover waited 51 years for her Forest Park High classmate, Barry Levinson, to sign her yearbook. "I was so in love with you," she told a smiling Levinson Saturday night, as about 800 "Diner" fans came to Johns Hopkins University to celebrate the...

Local actor, stunt man hits the big time

2012-01-02 00:00:00

On a recent afternoon, Rick Kain stood on a homemade wooden platform 30 feet above a leafy hill in the woods behind his Woodbine home, grinning as he strapped himself into rappelling gear. Then he turned his back to the platform's edge, skipped off...

Looking back at 'Diner,' 30 years later

2011-12-03 12:35:00

Few films in movie history — and maybe no other film by a first-time writer-director — proved to be the breakthrough moment for as many talents as a made-in-Baltimore comedy-drama called "Diner." Viewers still respond to all the people in it,...

Town of Bel Air Film Festival coming in a few weeks

2011-10-06 12:37:00

In a few weeks, films shown at Sundance, Tribeca and several other major film festivals will be coming to Bel Air, too. The third annual Town of Bel Air Film Festival is Oct. 21 through 23 in the Bel Air Reckord Armory on Main Street and, according to...

Hollywood in Bel Air

2011-10-13 11:01:00

Harford County is hardly Tinsel Town. The closest places to Bel Air named Hollywood are in St. Mary's County on Maryland's very lower Western Shore and in Carbon County, Pa., not too far from Scranton, backdrop for the hit TV series "The Office." Yet Bel...

Now 32 years old and the biggest film festival in Hawaii, this event (Oct. 11-21) at theaters throughout Oahu showcases more than 250 films annually. More than 80,000 people show up to watch the biggest gathering of Asian-Pacific Rim films anywhere. httpwww.hiff.org

2012-04-04 00:00:00

"Excision" director Richard Bates Jr. poses with the film's actors Traci Lords, AnnaLynne McCord and Matthew Gray Gubler.

2012-01-23 00:00:00

New York City is known for filmmaking, and great festivals like The New York Film Festival and Tribeca are constantly at the forefront when it comes to showcasing the talent of filmmakers from around the world.

2012-01-18 10:44:21