What I'm Watching: Great Expectations

by Ethan de Seife Posted on July 19, 2014 at 8:00AM

Next Stage Arts in Putney Wins $370,000 Grant

by Xian Chiang-Waren Posted on July 18, 2014 at 8:35PM

Movies You Missed & More: Dogtooth

by Margot Harrison Posted on July 18, 2014 at 1:29PM

1-4 points: Does the movie give us a reason to care about anything happening on screen? 3/4.

Ho! Hey! Maxwell Hughes (ex-Lumineers) to Play Skinny Pancake

by Dan Bolles Posted on July 18, 2014 at 12:40PM

Sculptor Kate Pond Leads a Bus Tour Retrospective

by Xian Chiang-Waren Posted on July 18, 2014 at 11:07AM

'H.M.S. Pinafore' at Vermont Summer Music Festival

by Amy Lilly Posted on July 16, 2014 at 10:38PM

Metcalfe and Kaplan have been friends for four decades and have been collaborating on annual Gilbert and Sullivan productions for about as long. Perhaps that accounted for the atmosphere of familiarity between the audience and the singers, with regulars in both groups.

Getting Out: Jericho Hosts 4th Annual Plein Air Festival

by Xian Chiang-Waren Posted on July 15, 2014 at 8:19PM

“In the last five to 10 years, a huge number of artists — especially in the West and the Southwest, because, I think, the weather is better out there — really started moving outdoors to paint," Greene says. "That’s really developed into a movement around the country."

Vermont Filmmakers Contribute to CNBC Doc on Mac Parker

by Ethan de Seife Posted on July 15, 2014 at 7:13AM

"Lights! Camera!

What I'm Watching: Hell in the Pacific

by Ethan de Seife Posted on July 12, 2014 at 8:11AM

The question is likely moot as regards Hell in the Pacific, in which the experience of incomplete understanding actually links, rather than distinguishes, the two characters; we are not intended to “identify” with either one, regardless of our native tongue. As is always the case in films that tell stories, narrative context is of the utmost importance in understanding meaning.

Movies You Missed & More: The Missing Picture

by Margot Harrison Posted on July 11, 2014 at 6:57PM

What would it be like to lose your entire life so you could enter someone else's heaven — to be forced, in essence, into a nationwide cult? When we contemplate such things, our minds shut off.