May 06, 2010

Events

PHOTOGRAPHIC Opening Reception

An opening reception for the new exhibition, PHOTOGRAPHIC, will be held with artists Anne Collier and Melanie Schiff at the Art Center.

Films

The Ghost Writer

Director Roman Polanski, as everyone knows, was arrested in 1977 for having sexual relations with a minor (the girl was 13 years old at the time), fled the U.S. to avoid sentencing, and has remained (and worked) in semi-exile since then, mostly in France.  And though he may never reach the heights of his older films, which include Chinatown, Repulsion, and Rosemary’s Baby, he’s still created a respectable body of work since his flight, culminating in a Best Director Academy Award for The…

North Face

Movie fans might recall The Eiger Sanction, a rather campy, preposterous spy thriller built around an astounding mountain-climbing set-piece.  The real “star” of that film was not Clint Eastwood but the Eiger, the 13,000 ft. high Swiss mountain whose treacherous north face was a legendary source of defeat—and death—for climbers, earning it the German nickname Mordwand (“Death Wall”).  A lot of mountains are high, and many are difficult, but there was something spooky and…