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| | Sunset Boulevard + Q&A with David Lubin
Latchis Arts’ Classics at the Latchis series continues with SUNSET BOULEVARD on Sunday, June 14, at 7:00pm, including an introduction, afterthoughts and a book signing with David M. Lubin, author of Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream.
Consistently cited as one of the greatest American Films of all time, SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) starts Gloria Swanson as an aging silent film queen who refuses to accept that her time in the limelight has ended. She hires a young, down-on-his-luck screenwriter (William Holden) to help with her movie comeback. As things unfold, the situation devolves into violence, madness and death.
Praised as “a deft account of a Hollywood classic” and a “razor-sharp analysis (that) deepens the history and power of the cinematic masterpiece,” David M. Lubin’s Ready for My Close-Up is a cultural history and making-of book that explores the creation of this very meta and uniquely fascinating film.
SUNSET BOULEVARD: Ready for my Close-Up is sponsored by Sages and Latchis Arts. Tickets are $15 in advance, $16 at the door. | Buy tickets |
| | Amy Goodman: Steal This Story, Please!
Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from war zones and the Democracy Now! newsroom. Goodman will be coming to the Latchis Theatre with the new film, STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! on Friday, June 19, at 7:00pm. This special screening of STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! includes a Q&A with journalist David Goodman, host of VT Digger's Vermont Conversation.
Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media.
In Steal This Story, Please!, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism’s power – and peril – in an era of corporate control and political attacks on truth.
Steal This Story, Please! begins a week-long run at the Latchis Theatre on June 19, and Goodman will be here for the first screening for a Q&A after the film.
Tickets for the June 19 event are $15 in advance, $16 at the door. After June 19, tickets will be available at the Latchis at regular movie admission prices.
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| | Skylark
Skylark, the acclaimed string quartet derived from the Vermont Symphony Orchestra is making its Brattleboro area debut with two concerts in July, including on Sunday July 12, at 5:00pm, at the Latchis Theater.
SKYLARK is an innovative contemporary string ensemble based in northern Vermont. With decades of experience, Skylark's sound and repertoire challenge the boundaries between classical, folk and modern idioms, creating inspired original works for all audiences. Influenced by the Nordic, Celtic and American regions, Skylark’s programs feature arrangements and compositions by sonic trailblazers such as Väsen, the Danish and Turtle Island String Quartets, Dreamers' Circus, Pete Sutherland, and many more. At its heart, Skylark’s music is melody-driven with unique energy, irresistible flair and undeniable beauty.
Tickets for the Skylark performance at the Latchis are $20, available in advance at latchis.com, and at the door.
The events are a collaboration among the Brattleboro Area Interfaith Leadership Alliance (BAILA) and three area nonprofits: Latchis Arts, manitouproject.org (Community with Nature), and highergroundconservburial.org, together celebrating the uplifting, natural connections in the flow of conscious living to conscious dying that feeds our soul, our community, and the living earth.
The occasion marks Higher Gound’s opening after seven years’ navigating the uncharted waters of becoming the first conservation burial ground in the state of Vermont.
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