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Letter regarding
the end of publication of Focus
March 2007
In the Best of Families: Domestic Drama in New French and
Francophone Film; Postcard from Sundance, Salacious 17th Century
at the Clark, David Fincher's Return, and more.
February 2007
Cinema Francais; In the Best of Families: Domestic Drama in New French and Francophone Film; Women with Gumption; Why Kate Winslet is Aweseom; Spotlight: Richard Remsberg; and more.
January 2007
Cheap (Prices), Quality (Films), Great (in General): the results of our survey; Music Film Series; Almodovar Midcareer; and more.
December 2006
Membership Update & Business Partner Network; Spotlight: Laura Goldhamer; Hayao Miyazaki's Masterpiece Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind; and more.
September 2006
Moving Images Celebrates Marta Renzi, Kevin Smith: American Auteur, Spotlight: Stacy Cochran, and more.
August 2006
Ezra Miller: From Philip Glass to Shakespeare; Spotlight: Juliana Haubrich, Celluloid Lives, and more.
July 2006
Spotlight: Sharon Wyrrick; New!: Focus on Local Happenings Event Calendar; and more.
June 2006
Summer Films, Films at the Clark, Spotlight: Sadie Miller, the 4th Annual 24-Hour Video Goosechase, and more.
May 2006
Crime and Punishment in L'Enfant; Film School Confidential; Rocky Horror Picture Show Pics; Performing Arts Summer Camps, and more.
April 2006
The Berkshire International Film Festival, Crispin Glover: A Real American Hero, Ouside/In Onstage, Williamstown Reads Seabiscuit, and more.
March 2006
Through the Woman's Lens: Celebrating 35 Years of Women at Williams, Report from Sundance, We Love Werner Herzog, Homegrown: Film and Video from North Berkshire County, and more.
February 2006
Beyond the Femme Fatale French Film Series, Day to Day in the Life of a Night Person, Favorite Films of 2005, and more.
January 2006
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange at Williams College, Ballet Russe vs. Ballet Russe, Triple Features at the Clark, and more.
December 2005
The Globe Redux: Shawn Rosenheim Documents Biosphere 2; Kids First!; Stories & Porches; Searching for the Savory and Sweet; Kubrick's Legacy, and more.
November 2005
Kids First! Film Club; Save the Brattle!; Clark Fellows Film Series; Spotlight: Vivian Schoung; How's Images Doing?, and more.
October 2005
The Williamstown Mountain Film Festival; Architectural Dreams Film Series at the Clark; The Williamstown Film Festival, and more.
September 2005
Sound Exhibitions at Topia & the CAC; BHIP Internships; Daytripping: Area Film Festivals; Bad Timing: The Ron Howard Paradox; Moving Images Dance Festival, and more.
August 2005
Murderball; Cinemapanavistaramascope; Spotlight: Steve Satullo; Dancers, choreographers and video artists make film; Theater for the Whole Family, and more.
July 2005
Four on the Fringe, The Berkshire Bienniel, A Firsthand Account of an Alien Attack, Moving Pictures at WCMA, The Berkshire Jewish Film Festival, and more.
June 2005
Detourism at the CAC, 10 Directors Under 50, Triumph of the Geeks Part II: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Spotlight: Vaal London Kane, Williams College Reunion Weekend, and more.
May 2005
Family Film: Millions, Bollywood, Pothole Pictures, Finding the Good Stuff with Steve Satullo, Triumph of the Geeks Part I: Comics, A Surprise Visit from Werner Herzog, and more.
April 2005
Williams College Cinephiles films at Images, Spotlight: Elizabeth Whitney, spring film, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, discount DVDs, and more.
March 2005
James Howard Kunstler and The End of Suburbia, 2004 in Retrospect, Highlight on Barbara Roan, Spotlight: Tom Stackpole, Web Comic, Cinephiles Spring Screenings
January 2005
Images Celebrates Its Seventh Anniversary, Williamstown Reads! Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Spotlight: Vic Paquette, Tabula Choreographa, and more.
December 2004
Tarnation, Spotlight: Ray Bub, Sideways:Fine Wine Women and Ambiguity, Films that Got Away, Saved By Film, and more.
November 2004
The Yes Men, Spotlight: Howard Cruse, Jaded at the Movies, Philosophical Slapstick in a Post-9/11 World, and more.
October 2004
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid!, Silver and Sayles in the Electric City, Adams Theater Reborn as Topia, Clark Art Fellows Film Series, and more.
September 2004
The Documentary Through an Unobjective Lens, Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Kristine Thompson Takes Off, Spotlight: John Cronin, Northern Berkshire Creative Arts Fall/Winter Classes, and more.
July/August 2004
The Billy Nayer Show, Artist's Guide to the Berkshires, Movies Under the Stars, Sharks Spiders and the End of the World, and more.
June 2004
Back to Sandra's Future, An Interview with The Books, A Tale of Two Pizzas, Spotlight: John Mitchell, and more.
May 2004
Power Corrupts in Lars von Trier's Dogville, Interview with Ven Voisey, Minerva Stage, START Cultural Inventory, and more.
April 2004
Jesse and Todd Howard on Making an Independent Feature, Documenting Afghanistan in Transition, In Defense of the Critics, and more.
March 2004
Benjamin and His Brother, Spotlight: David Lachman, Sundancing, and more.
February 2004
Arts Focus on Northern Berkshire, Devin Powers Resurrects Painting, Spotlight: Barbara Wynroth, Interview with an Activist: Simone Nicole Sneed, and more.
January 2004 (Not Available)
Alejandro Gonzalex Inarritu, Director of 21 Grams and Amores Perros, Triplets of Belleville, Spotlight: Andrew Bemis, and more.
December 2003
Harvey Pekar Gets What He Deserves, Spotlight: Peter Mehlin, Microcinema, and more.
November 2003 (Not Available)
An Interview with George, Spotlight: Lodiza Lepore, The Station Agent
October 2003
Digital Cinema vs. 35mm, Williamstown Film Festival, Spotlight: Dave Blair, Daryl Hannah, Student Filmmaking Workshop, and more.
September 2003
Inaugural Issue, A Movie Windfall, Thank You Very Much, Spotlight: Clark Semon, and more.
