Images Cinema

BED: Photographs by Lodiza LePore

Lodiza LePore is extremely loyal and dependable volunteer to Images Cinema and a relatively new resident to the Berkshire area. A small selection of images will be displayed the cinema foyer, created from her participation in the "BED" project, a national competition for photographs and photo-based artwork at Umbrella Arts, New York City. 'We all have BED but it’s mostly hidden away in a remote room upstairs in our houses or in the back room of our apartments. BED is rarely discussed, is mostly taken for granted, yet we use it more than anything else in the house, spending perhaps one-third of our lifetime there.'

Lodiza's work is award winning, published and shown in galleries all around the country. All her images are hand printed and toned [sepia/selenium] using traditional darkroom techniques [sans Photoshop or other computer enhancements], so no two prints of the same image are exactly alike. Almost without exception, all work is done on black and white film and subject matter covers a wide range, from landscape to street scenes to surreal tabletop imagery, often using experimental techniques that yield textural or impressionistic qualities to the imagery.

Family Flicks Under the Stars: WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Sunday, July 12th at 8:00 pm

Images Cinema will present its 3rd Annual Outdoor Film Series on four consecutive Sundays, July 12 - August 2.

Based on the Roald Dahl book, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory features Gene Wilder in the title role. Charlie Bucket is a poor and kind-hearted boy living with his widowed mother and four bedridden grandparents in a tiny, ramshackle house. The famously reclusive chocolate maker, Willy Wonka, has hidden five Golden Tickets amongst his billions of Wonka Bars. The finders of these special tickets will be given a full tour of his world-renowned candy factory – the inner workings of which are a tightly kept secret – along with a lifetime supply of chocolate.

Family Flicks Under the Stars was made possible by the generous corporate sponsorship of Williams College, Williamstown Savings Bank, Gramercy Bistro, The Harrison Gallery, McClellands Press, Shima Boutique, Spice Root, West Wine and Spirits, Wild Oats Market

Family Flicks Under the Stars: THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Sunday, July 19th at 8:00 pm

Images Cinema will present its 3rd Annual Outdoor Film Series on four consecutive Sundays, July 12 - August 2.

The classic touchstone of the comic adventure romance fantasy genre! A man reads a book to his grandson, The Princess Bride. The book tells the story of a beautiful woman named Buttercup, and her romance with the farm hand Westley. After his ship is attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts, and Westley is assumed dead, she reluctantly becomes engaged to Prince Humperdinck. Will true love prevail?

Family Flicks Under the Stars was made possible by the generous corporate sponsorship of Williams College, Williamstown Savings Bank, Gramercy Bistro, The Harrison Gallery, McClellands Press, Shima Boutique, Spice Root, West Wine and Spirits, Wild Oats Market

Family Flicks Under the Stars: CHARADE

Sunday, July 26th at 8:00 pm

Images Cinema will present its 3rd Annual Outdoor Film Series on four consecutive Sundays, July 12 - August 2.

With a cast that includes Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Mathau and James Coburn, Charade is the epitome of classy comedy suspense films. Regina Lambert returns from vacation planning to ask her husband for a divorce, when she discovers her apartment has been emptied of all their possessions, and the police notify her that her husband has been murdered. She encounters a charming stranger named Peter Joshua, but she can't be sure if he's trying to help her or is after her money.

Family Flicks Under the Stars was made possible by the generous corporate sponsorship of Williams College, Williamstown Savings Bank, Gramercy Bistro, The Harrison Gallery, McClellands Press, Shima Boutique, Spice Root, West Wine and Spirits, Wild Oats Market

Family Flicks Under the Stars: SUPERMAN (1978)

Sunday, August 2nd at 8:00 pm

Images Cinema will present its 3rd Annual Outdoor Film Series on four consecutive Sundays, July 12 - August 2.

Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, and Marlon Brando star in the first film adaptation of the classic comic book character. A pod from planet Krypton lands on Earth, in Smallville, Kansas. Jonathan and Martha Kent raise the infant they find inside as their own son, and name him Clark. After discovering his powers and responsibilities, he gets a job at the Daily Planet in Metropolis, keeping his super powers a secret.

Family Flicks Under the Stars was made possible by the generous corporate sponsorship of Williams College, Williamstown Savings Bank, Gramercy Bistro, The Harrison Gallery, McClellands Press, Shima Boutique, Spice Root, West Wine and Spirits, Wild Oats Market

Student Independent Film Festival

Friday, August 7th at 5:00 pm

Are you a video or film maker? Are you 12-25 years old? Submit your work to the Student Independent Film Festival! The deadline is June 30, 2009

Click here to visit the Official SIFF Website for more details

BLACK LIGHT

Sunday, August 9th at 9:30 pm

Q&A with Writer/Director Andrew Bemis to follow

Nikki Blue (Bella Vendetta) is a dancer at Club Castaway, a strip club hidden along a back road in rural New England. Further down the road, Alice (Jessica Conger), a burnt-out, neurotic college grad with no particular ambitions, spends her days working at a roadside fossil and rock shop. When Nikki and Alice meet, a friendship begins that could change their lives forever. Shot entirely in western MA, Black Light is a sexy romantic comedy about finding love in the middle of nowhere.

(Parents note: There is no violence in Black Light, but it does contain language and sexual content that is inappropriate for children.)