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Unlike other cake-eater film festivals, the Nantucket Film Festival, now in its 12th year, follows the year-round conventions of the people who live here: It gets caught up in the housing shuffle, and off-island people assume it has money to toss into the harbor. More ... NANTUCKET GALLERY 23 Federal St. Marshall DuBock's watercolors capture Nantucket's inimitable personality. MERIDIAN GALLERIES 25B Washington St. Meridian Galleries presents a a contemporary marine artistry exhibit, with classic and contemporary "marines," including tall ships, America's Cup yachts, motor cruisers and dingies. More ... Having been to a number of the larger festivals in my time, I can account for the sense of excitement, electricity and frenzy that comes the minute one steps off a plane or train for a sexy week in Cannes, 10 tantalizing days in Sundance or a star-studded weekend in Toronto. More ... The majority of moviegoers attend a film festival for the fulllengths. That's just a fact - there's no reason to put on the white gloves and dust around it. But as anyone who has been watching Fox's "On the Lot" can tell you, good short films are the cinematic shorthand for passion, creativity and talent. More ... It's the story about young emotionally abandoned latch key girl who meets, by chance, this young man who is cleaning out the apartment of the girls neighbor, and they develop a report. He befriends her and helps her get through problems, and their relationship becomes more of an emotional attachment to her. More ... 1997 "The Full Monty" Nominee Best Picture Nominee Best Director: Peter Cattaneo Nominee Best Screenplay (written directly for the screen): Simon Beaufoy Winner Best Original Music or Comedy Score: More ... Jessica Hicks calls herself a "PR nightmare." A mother to one small child with one on the way, she lives on an island 30 miles off the mainland and likes to do everything on her own. More ... "If only life were as easy as pie." That's the tagline for "Waitress," a new feature film starring Kerri Russell as a smalltown, pregnant waitress who combines otherwise ordinary ingredients of her life and creates a recipe for hope that is as sweet and unexpected More ... "Filthy, Dirty, Twisted Lust" by Steven Weber Stripped of locations, costumes, effects and music - and of the restraints we place on our sexual appetites - Steven Weber's "Filthy, Dirty Twisted Lust" will be featured during the Nantucket Film Festival's Staged Reading, which allows local actors to read with festival luminaries in a surprise cast. More ... That moment when you wake from a dream where you are loved perfectly by a person who doesn't exist is the place where Gary, a former pop star in a dull marriage, lives in Jake Paltrow's directorial debut, "The Good Night. More ... It's amazing how luxury items - things that aren't necessities for sustaining human life - come at the cost of human lives: crab from the Bering Sea, diamonds from Africa and sugar from the Dominican Republic, whose backcountries form the setting for "The Price of Sugar," directed by Boston native Bill Haney, More ... Nantucket Screenwriters Colony board member and alumnus Mitchell Lichtenstein has created something of a comically distorted animus to Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" with "Teeth," featuring a proactive private with chops. More ... "Elise wanted to talk, and she never wanted to stop." So begins Karen Gehres description of the nine years she spent documenting her friend, Elise - an artistically gifted woman who turned her first trick as a teen runaway before bumping like a pinball against the bright lights and bells and whistles of New York's sex industry, More ... Thurs., 2 p.m., Bennett Hall, $12 Sat., 7 p.m., Bennett Hall, $12 Plays in "Trapped but Traveling" Aradio station decided to bury a radio DJ underground for 46 days to break a record, and there always have to be two men on duty to guard the air pipe, which is just a PVC pipe sticking out of the ground. More ... Wed., 1:30 p.m., Starlight, $12 Fri.., 10 a.m., Starlight, $21 Plays in "Lovers, Friends and Family" It's the story of a lonely girl with a vivid imagination who struggles to plant seeds of love when a narcissistic sweetheart breaks her heart. It's a short film about heartbreak. More ... Thurs., 5 p.m., Bennett Hall, $25 Sat., 9:30 a.m., Bennett Hall, $25 Precedes "Autism Everyday" Imade it as my thesis film for my master's degree in broadcast design at Savannah College of Art and Design where I took an interest in editing and finished in May of 2006. More ... Thurs., 9:30 p.m., Starlight Cafe, $12 Fri.., 9 p.m., Starlight Cafe, $12 Precedes "The Ten" Atrio of hapless flies witnesses the curious activities of travelers on the interstate. … I wanted to make a comedy and also wanted to make a narrative film, since I've been making documentaries for 20 years. More ... "Knocked Up" (Rated R for sexual content, drug use and language, 104 min.) Achubby slacker (played by Seth Rogen, who's taken all the "chubby" descriptions with class) gets way lucky and sleeps up with Katherine Heigl's character. (Score!) But he also gets her pregnant in the process. (Ooh, Tough one. More ... Pick one from each category to create the next festival favorite. i.e. Zach Braff stars as a recently sober shot glass manufacturer who quits work to complete an impossible list of "Things to Do Before I Die" Actors + Zooey Deschanel More ... BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "I'll Steal You Away" by Niccolo Ammaniti "Haunted by the ghost of Federico Fellini...Amarcod with attitude... More ... Zack Godshall and Barlow Jacobs were two film students - kicking around ideas for telling fictional stories in real world settings - when Katrina drowned their home state of Louisiana. More ... In a scene of Joe Greco's full-length drama, "Canvas," Mary Marino (Marcia Gay Harden) lies down next to her son, Chris, and asks, "Do you remember me before? … When a big wave came, you would come running to me." Writing professors sometimes say that every good story has one sentence that contains the essence, the genetic material, of the entire narrative. More ... In "Autism Everyday," former CNN anchor and mother to a 9-year-old autistic boy, Lauren Thierry, undertook the challenge of bringing a realistic account of the developmental disability many people see only as Dustin Hoffman in a gray suit, reminding the world that he is an excellent driver. More ... Lone Star Grace Directed by Giovanna Sardelli, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket's season opener, "Lone Star Grace," stars Susan McGinnis as Barbie Ann, a lingerie saleswoman who begins the New Year - and a new life - in a diner off Texas Highway 59. More ... |
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