Joey Eppard launches new DVD at Bearsville
The first time I saw Joey Eppard play, he was a kid packing the local music clubs with an early incarnation of his band 3 and playing what struck me then as a…
How marketing savvy helped topple a dictator
The tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq seems like as good an excuse as any to remind ourselves of another historic low point in American intervention in foreign affairs, whose 40th…
Screening of healthcare doc Escape Fire in Woodstock to benefit O+ Festival
Necessity being the mother of invention, the gangbusters success of Kingston’s O+ Festival, which has already spawned national interest and copycat events in its first three years of existence, should come as no…
Local premiere of The Brass Teapot, a film shot in Newburgh and Beacon
Whether it’s Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp, a magic fish who’ll grant all your wishes if you’ll just toss him back into the sea or the winning Powerball ticket, the notion of a MacGuffin that…
If it only had a heart
Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful may be raking in a whole lot more cash than Jack the Giant Slayer – at least in its first week of release, before word-of-mouth starts…
Marta Waterman and the sound of silents
When Marta Waterman was a toddler, she didn’t bang on the piano like other children, but, according to her mother, “listened and tried to make it sound pretty.” When she later learned to…
Barbara illuminates the dark side of Cold War East Germany
Times change, and with them the political profile of our world. But here in America, the practice of pigeonholing people with whom one disagrees as the Other – as opposed to making a…
Catskill Film & Video Festival & Glow Show
What defines one film festival from the next? Often it’s focus, or connections. The biggies, like Cannes and Venice and Toronto and Sundance, pull top directors or studios interested in gaining buzz for…
Taking Stock: documentary of Magnum co-founder this Sunday
When dealing with the “iconic” photographs of Magnum’s Dennis Stock, it is best to remember – quoting Stock from Hanna Sawka’s no-nonsense, straight-ahead film portrait of the artist – that “Every picture should…
Some cinematic remedies for cabin fever
Hollywood’s annual feeding frenzy peaks with the Academy Awards broadcast this Sunday night, but the cinema season has already entered its post-Oscar doldrums, with not many appealing choices out there once you’ve seen…
