Top 10 for Portland store July 4-10: 1. Tedeschi Trucks Band, “Revelator” 2. Gillian Welch, “The Harrow & The Harvest” 3. Bon Iver, “Bon Iver” 4. “Hobo With a Shotgun” (DVD) 5. Adele, “21” 6. “Battle: Los Angeles” (DVD) 7. Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues” 8. “13 Assassins” (DVD) 9. Mumford & Sons, “Sigh No More” […]
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DVD Releases
NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY “ARTHUR,” starring Russell Brand and Helen Mirren. Genial if relatively needless remake of the 1981 comedy favorite with the suddenly omnipresent Brand filling in for the sorely missed Dudley Moore as the “Arthur” in question, a perennially soused millionaire whose vast inheritance hangs in the balance when he falls for […]
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Face the Music: Here’s your big chance to name that jazz band
Name that jazz band, free country and $2 rock are what I’ve got for you this week. We start at the newly opened Gingko Blue in Portland tonight, and from there it’s a drive to Brownfield on Sunday and then back to Congress Street in Portland on Tuesday. Rob Schreiber is a jazz drummer, and […]
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At the Drive-Ins
ALL THREE local drive-ins will feature midnight screenings of the final installment in the Harry Potter series, with two playing Part 1 and Part 2 back-to-back. Both Saco and Bridgton Twin will show “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” at 9 p.m. tonight, followed by “Part 2” at 12:01 a.m. Pride’s Corner will […]
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See filmmakers and let their movies surprise you
Organizers of the 14th annual Maine International Film Festival are delighted that the 10-day, audience-oriented event affords face-to-face interaction with filmmakers and actors. “The movie stars are accessible,” said Ken Eisen, programmer of the festival that runs this Friday to July 24 at Railroad Square Cinema and Colby College in Waterville. “You’re not going to […]
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Maine International Film Festival Schedule
Times subject to change. OPENING NIGHT “The Athlete” — An extraordinary feature that blends epic, biography, drama and documentary tells the true-life tale of Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, a quiet man who is ceaseless in his journey to greatness. 6:30 p.m. Friday, Given Auditorium, Colby College; 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Railroad Square Cinema CENTERPIECE GALA […]
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Movies at the Museum
“LE QUATTRO VOLTE” — Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino. In Italian with English subtitles. Inspired by Pythagoras’ belief in four-fold transmigration — by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral — this wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region […]
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American Music festival runs through Saturday
“The Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions” runs through Saturday at the Shaker Meeting House at Sabbathday Lake
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Bull Moose Top 10
Top 10 for Portland store June 27-July 3: 1. Bon Iver, “Bon Iver” 2. “Sucker Punch” (DVD) 3. Gillian Welch, “Harrow and the Harvest” 4. Tedeschi Trucks Band, “Revelator” 5. Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues” 6. “Season of the Witch” (DVD) 7. Adele, “21” 8. “Battle: Los Angeles” (DVD) 9. Various artists, “Rave on Body Holly” […]