The folks over at “Fantastic Fungi” have sprung to streaming and online purchase of the film early due to COVID-19, and as a bonus are helping support your local theaters by giving out dedicated links that split the proceeds – https://vimeo.com/ondemand/frontiercafe. This is a wonderful opportunity. Please consider using the provided link to support Frontier […]
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Award-winning film about L/A shoe strike to be shown in Lewiston
The Western Maine Labor Council will be screening the award-winning documentary film “Roughing the Uppers,” about the famous 1937 Lewiston-Auburn shoe strike, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, in Room 170 at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn campus. On April 20, 1937 intense clashes between police and striking shoe factory workers broke out […]
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The 23rd Maine Jewish Film Festival presents 40 evocative, challenging and inspiring films
Amid increasing concern about hate crimes, a divisive political environment, the threat of climate change, and other societal challenges, the films and programs at the 2020 Maine Jewish Film Festival frame important issues in a global context. From March 28 through April 5, MJFF will screen 40 dramatic features, documentaries and short films. Now in […]
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The Greater Franklin Food Council kicks off ‘Full Bellies Film Series’
In honor of National Nutrition Month, the Greater Franklin Food Council has coordinated a series of food-related films to be publicly screened in Farmington. The council has partnered with four different departments at the University of Maine at Farmington to create community collaboration and call attention to the many facets of the food system. Each […]
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Maine influences shine through in new film ‘The Lighthouse’
Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, the murky drama is set at a fictional Maine lighthouse in the 1890s, with dialogue and visuals heavily influenced by Maine writings, history and art. It opens nationally Friday.
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Lewiston’s National Night Out to include Movie Night
The movie to be shown is “Mary Poppins Returns,” and the Night Out will be held at LMS on Tuesday.
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Auburn UU to screen documentary ‘Paris to Pittsburgh’
From coastal cities to America’s heartland, “Paris to Pittsburgh” celebrates how Americans are demanding and developing real solutions in the face of climate change.
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In Netflix’s Central Park Five miniseries, Trump is called a ‘bigot’ whose ’15 minutes’ are almost up
The Central Park Five, as they became known, are the focus of the four-part series that was released Friday. But Trump is an ineradicable part of their story, which began after a white woman was raped and beaten while jogging in Central Park.
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With Brad and Leo, Tarantino debuts a fairy tale in Cannes
Twenty-five years after premiering ‘Pulp Fiction’ in Cannes, Quentin Tarantino debuted ‘Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood,’ with Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, at the French film festival.
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Ron Howard to shoot ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ in Georgia but vows boycott if abortion bill goes into effect
The Oscar winner is one of the latest prominent filmmakers who will move forward with production in Georgia but make a donation toward the fight against a restrictive abortion bill recently signed by Gov. Brian Kemp.