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'Hope Springs': A Fine Romance...With No KissesBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:40AM / Thursday, August 16, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
So this guy who wins $300 million runs into the house yelling, "Honey, we won the lottery, pack your bags." Thrilled, his wife asks where they’re going. He replies, "I don’t know where you're going, but pack your bags." Kay, the romantically disappointed wife in "Hope Springs," would politely laugh at that joke. But inside she'd be crying. Portrayed with heartrending conviction by Meryl Streep, Kay has, in the last five years or so, been suffering in silence. Her marriage of 31 years to Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) is on automatic pilot, its routine status delineated by perfunctory pecks on the 0 Comments
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Cultural Pittsfield This Week: Aug. 10-16| 09:56AM / Friday, August 10, 2012 | |
WordXWord Festival returns for another year of incredible live performances written, spoken and sung in Pittsfield's ! The 4th Annual WordXWord Festival is a week-long celebration of the power of words running from Sunday, August 12 through Saturday, August 18. Dozens of word workers—authors, poets, story tellers, spoken word artists and songwriters—will perform in both traditional and not-so-traditional venues, ranging from a barbershop to a theater. With over 40 events, they can't all fit here. And get this: every event is!
Free Fun Friday at the Berkshire Museum
The will be open to the public for on Friday! There
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'Total Recall': FuhgeddabouditBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:45AM / Thursday, August 09, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
One's worst fears are imagined, realized and rummaged through to no end in director Len Wiseman's "Total Recall," a more or less reimagining of the 1990 film, also inspired by Philip K. Dick's short story, "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale." It tempted me to visit Rekall, where I could buy memories of a better movie. I don't think I did. You see, Rekall is where you go for an ingestion of drug-induced fantasy in this late 21st century, post-apocalyptic Earth decimated by chemical warfare. Call it the opiate of the brave new world. Gee, and you don't even need a prescription...glad they finally got that settled. 0 Comments
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Cultural Pittsfield This Week: Aug. 3-9| 11:49AM / Friday, August 03, 2012 | |
Friday: Acting Up with Melville's Characters Two actors will be dressed in costumes inspired by Melville's most prominent characters, during a reading from a children's version of Melville's stories. It will finish up with fun, fast-paced theater games, including a special-inspired treasure hunt! For ages 5 & up. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18 at all times. Friday, August 3 | 2pm | Berkshire Athenaeum | 1 Wendell Avenue | 413-499-9480, ext. 203 | FREE Friday: First Fridays Artswalk is Back!
returns to downtown Pittsfield with the most artist exhibitions yet! Over 30 artists and venues
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Berkshire Children & Families Celebrates 125th Year With Benefit Concert| 11:50AM / Thursday, August 02, 2012 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. - In celebration of Berkshire Children & Families’ 125th anniversary, the social service agency will host an evening of jazz, first starting with performances from the talented, young musicians of Kids 4 Harmony El Sistema, followed by a benefit jazz concert “Strike up the Band!” featuring the music of George Gershwin on Monday, Aug. 6.
The benefit concert will take place at Barrington Stage Company's Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center at 36 Linden St. Tickets are $25 and $35. Reservations are strongly suggested. Proceeds support BCF’s Kids 4 Harmony, an intensive afterschool music program based on classical music education for children 0 Comments
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'Beasts Of The Southern Wild': Civilizing CinemaBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:58AM / Thursday, August 02, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Director Benh Zeitlin's iconically independent "Beasts of the Southern Wild," about a little girl's search for identity, meaning and security in a remote section of the Louisiana Bayou referred to as the Bathtub, is a haunting splash of poetic reality. It is an endearing, intelligent and searing shard of sociology, artistically pungent with eye-opening truths. Through the often frightening, always surprising adventures of the ultra-precocious Hushpuppy, magnificently portrayed by 6-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, we are reminded of one of America’s richest diversities: our poverty. Pick a region, any region. There, 0 Comments
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'The Dark Knight Rises': ... After About Two HoursBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
12:34PM / Thursday, July 26, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) and his knightly alter ego are trapped in despair before finally rising to the occasion in this conclusion to the Batman trilogy.
Via the character of Bane (Tom Hardy), director Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" consternates our filmgoing experience with one of the evilest villains in recent memory, second only to Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter. I mean, he ate people. Cannibalism! Sheesh! Bane is pretty much content to just terrorize and kill his victims.
You'll meet him and his repulsive ilk as you thumb through all the other pretty pictures that, after much ado, finally congeal during the 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Cultural: July 20-26| 02:08PM / Friday, July 20, 2012 | |
 Friday: Hancock Shaker Village Free Fun Day Hancock Shaker Village and the Highland Street Foundation bring you a HancockShaker Village is an outdoor living history museum and center for thestudy of principled living in the 21st century. The fully-restoredVillage includes 18 historic buildings, heirloom medicinal and vegetablegardens, Shaker furniture, crafts, tools, and clothes, as well asheritage breed farm animals and spectacular hiking trails. Come see for free!
Friday, July 20 | 10am-5pm | Hancock Shaker Village | 1843 West Housatonic Street | 1-800-817-1137 | FREE Buy a bevy of books at the ,as part of its summer book sale. If you're a book lover, you
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'Katy Perry: Part Of Me': A Star is Born: The Rock VersionBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
12:05PM / Friday, July 20, 2012 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Paramount Pictures
Katy Perry shares the life on tour as a musical sensation in the documentary, 'Katy Perry: Part of Me.'
A point of disclosure before reviewing directors Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz's rock tour documentary, "Katy Perry: Part of Me." While I'm old enough to be her father, the subject, born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, is my latest fantasy heartthrob. Oh, it's OK. As always, I've cleared it with my wife. You see, I pick a new Dulcinea every decade or so. And my real-life fantasy has come to be rather understanding of the syndrome, not unlike the tolerance William Powell's film wife, Irene 0 Comments
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Local Authors Find Diverse Outlets for Their WorkBy Joe Durwin, iBerkshires Staff
08:29AM / Tuesday, July 17, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — For many writers, navigating the mystifying waters of book publishing has become an increasingly challenging prospect.
Here in the Berkshires, a number of local authors have found themselves trying new strategies and unconventional approaches that may reflect a restructuring and diversification of the industry of getting books into the hands of readers.
For author Nicole "Nik" Davies, the perfect fit for her new young adult novel was found locally, in the form of the growing Pittsfield-based publishing house Big Head Books.
Davies released her first book, "FIF15TEEN," Thursday evening at a packed launch party at the Beacon Cinema. 0 Comments
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