When the Charles Theatre's John Standiford left Baltimore for a year in Rome last September (his wife, visual artist/filmmaker Karen Yasinsky, won the prestigious Rome Prize), the Charles’ revival series–weekly screenings of canonical cinema classics and choice obscurities–went on hiatus. Well, the year in Rome is almost up, Standiford is returning to Baltimore, and...
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We’ve been buzzing about Baltimore filmmaker Matt Porterfield’s second feature Putty Hill for a while now, but the reviews and other press coverage from the first week or so of its bonafide theatrical run have started appearing. And so far it’s been a general lovefest: The New York Times, Modern Painters, The L, and...
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Tonight’s installment of La Cinematheque at the Charles Theatre–the monthly series of French movies sponsored by the embassy of France and the Charles Theatre–features a Claude Chabrol film that originally played Baltimore briefly in 2008. Since the launch of the redesigned City Paper web site yesterday, though, our online archives are currently a bit...
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The Baltimore Business Journal is reporting that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is officially backing the proposal put forth by Charles Theatre owner Buzz Cusack to take over the Senator Theatre, which is in city hands after it fell into foreclosure last year. It isn’t a done deal yet, but it’s looking more and more like...
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