This year's Maryland Film Festival opens on Thursday evening with a program of short films hosted by Bobcat Goldthwait at MICA's Brown Center.It should be a hoot. The festival also includes...
Millard Kaufman, who created the Mister Magoo cartoon character, passed away a few days ago. Kaufman, who grew up in Baltimore and graduated from Hopkins, also wrote the screenplay for Bad Day at...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The movie The Way We Were. Stunning. Heartbreaking. Never fails to punch me in the gut and leave me reeling. It perfectly captures...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
It is a hard question for me cause I can't say that any one work caused an art epiphany, my head is always spinning. As a child I...
Local filmmaker Michael Lawrence embarked on a labor of love two years ago, filming contemporary musicians playing their favorite Bach pieces and talking about them. Like any magical...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
A Mark Rothko retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1998. Standing in a large room with those large, luminescent works vibrating all...
Last Sunday, Gospel Hill premiered at the Uptown Theater in D.C. The film—which stars Angela Bassett, Danny Glover, and Julia Stiles—was co-written and produced by locals Jeffrey Pratt Gordon and...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick - Specifically the music in the film. How could you know at 15 years old that abstract sound could be just...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
When I was five years old, my Dad took me to see a movie with Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye. It was called The Five Pennies. I saw Louis...
