PAAM filmArt screenings are held December through May.
All screenings are at Whalers' Wharf Cinema 241 Commercial Street. Films will not be shown at PAAM.
PAAMfilmArt@ presents movies that are recognized works of art - as well as inspiring films about art and artists - followed by a discussion and guest speakers. Screenings are twice monthly (with the exception of December, with only one screening) on Tuesday nights at 6:30pm.
PAAM is once again pleased to bring a series of artistic films to Provincetown. In partnership with the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF), PAAM presents "A Sense of Place: Locating the Inspiration in Art"--a bi-monthly film series screening art-house and art documentary films, ranging from the new to the classic. A discussion led by Howard Karren - owner of Alden Gallery and a former editor of Premier Magazine - follows each film.
Single tickets are available at the Whalers' Wharf Box Office the night of the screening, and a discounted Season Pass is available exclusively to PAAM members at the Museum Store at PAAM. SEASON PASS available exclusively to PAAM members: Planning on going to several screenings? Don't miss out on this fabulous deal! Pick up your Season Pass for a whopping $5 discount on each film.
You may purchase your Season Pass: At the PAAM Front Desk Open Thursday thru Sunday, 12-5pm Over the phone By calling (508) 487-1750 or (508) 487-9457 By mailing a check to PAAM filmArt 460 Commercial Street Provincetown MA 02657
Passes are $65 at the beginning of the season. Media Contact: Annie Longley, alongley@paam.org 508.487.1750 x16
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, at 6:30 p.m.
THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART (2010) As much as the arts flourished in the early days of the Soviet Union, the purges and totalitarian horror that followed under Stalin erased that legacy. Miraculously, one man, Igor Savitsky, managed to collect thousands of pieces of censored and discarded avant-garde art (as well as the folk art of Central Asia), and even more impressively, solicited state funds to open a museum in 1966 in an obscure corner of Uzbekistan (a former Soviet republic, now independent) to showcase it. Directors Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope have devotedly documented Savitsky's legacy - he died in 1984 of lung disease after years of exposure to toxic restoration chemicals - and the remarkable Nukus Museum that he established, a "treasure trove" that is little known in the West and even in today's Russia. Ben Kingsley, Ed Asner, and Sally Field voice the diaries and letters of Savitsky and other deceased artists. 80 mins. In English and Russian, with English subtitles.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011, at 6:30 p.m.
FIVE CORNERS (1987)
Playwright John Patrick Shanley (who won a Pulitzer for Doubt: A Parable on the stage and an Oscar for his screenplay for Moonstruck) was born in the Bronx and knows its streets well. In this glittering curio of a film, written by Shanley and directed by Tony Bill, a psychotic young thug (John Turturro) from the Bronx neighborhood of the title returns from jail in 1964, hoping to see the same young woman (Jodie Foster) he had stalked before being put away. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend (Tim Robbins), who had once protected her, now espouses Buddhist nonviolence. The movie has a one-of-a-kind feel to it, simultaneously streetwise and nostalgic, with atmospheric imagery punctuated by the random and imminent threat of malevolence. Bill, an actor turned producer turned director, coaxes charismatic performances out of his young cast, most of whom were on the brink of much wider fame. 90 mins.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011, at 6:30 p.m.
THE ART OF THE STEAL (2009) The late Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who invented a treatment for venereal disease, amassed in his lifetime an art collection of several hundred works, including many by Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, and van Gogh, worth an estimated $25 billion today. Housed in his home in Merion, Pennsylvania, a leafy suburb of Philadelphia, the Barnes Foundation has remained an out-of-the-way stop for far fewer visitors than one might expect such high-profile art would receive. And though Barnes, who hated the Philadelphia establishment that funded and ran the city's great museums, had left a will specifically prohibiting his collection from moving anywhere near the Philadelphia Museum of Art, that is precisely what has happened. It's an act that this shrewd documentary, directed by Don Argott, considers to be theft, pure and simple. 101 mins.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 6:30 p.m.
ROCKET SCIENCE (2007) It's easy to make fun of the middle-class sprawl of New Jersey suburbs, but no one has done it with the light, sweetly absurdist touch achieved in Rocket Science by native son Jeffrey Blitz, who had previously directed Spellbound, the Oscar-nominated spelling-bee documentary. Blitz, who was a stutterer growing up in Bergen County, chose for his first fiction feature the story of a meek high school student, Hal (Reece Thompson), whose stutter is so severe it would test the patience of a saint. When Hal sets his romantic sights on a confident, fast-talking classmate (Anna Kendrick), he ends up joining the debating team to compete with her and earn her respect. It's a folly so outsized and improbable, the comic consequences are almost too painful to watch, but Blitz has an endless supply of quirky local characters to liven up the landscape, and the movie's bittersweet heart delivers just the right amount of compassion. 101 mins.
