The News Review:
- Vermont’s Green Mountain pera Festival Unveils Special pera Packages
- Berlinale takes wraps off complete lineup
- Pizarro: Cinequest film festival stays true to local independent …
- Festivals in 3 cities put spotlight on ice carving
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival hotel packages
- Status quo strong at Sundance but the tide’s turning
Vermont’s Green Mountain pera Festival Unveils Special pera Packages
MSNBC
This three-week operatic Vermont sojourn is now in
its fourth year under internationally acclaimed artistic director and bass
Taras Kulish. The Festival runs May 28th – June 21st and explores the art
and beauty of opera with open air events performances luncheons open
rehearsals and master classes throughout the Mad River Valley culminating with
two fully staged and costumed performances of "The Marriage of Figaro"
accompanied by the Green Mountain pera rchestra at the beautifully
restored Barre pera House.
"The Elixir of Love" will also be performed by artists accepted into the
Emerging Artist Program.
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Berlinale takes wraps off complete lineup
Hollywood Reporter United States
All three films should give an added boost of star power to whatwas already shaping up to be a high-wattage Berlinale. KateWinslet Leonardo DiCaprio Clive wen Michelle Pfeiffer DemiMoore Parker Posey Keanu Reeves Gael Garcia Bernal and SteveBuscemi are just a sampling of the talent expected to attend. “I don’t think I’ll be alone on the red carpet” Berlinale directorDieter Kosslick joked as he unveiled the final festival lineup onTuesday. He added that at least one of the three guitaristsfeatured in “It Might Get Loud” — Jimmy Page Jack White and theEdge — would also make an appearance. Tom Tykwer’s “The International” will open the 59th Berlinale andCosta-Gavras’ “Eden Is West” will close it. The 2009 festival runsFeb.
Pizarro: Cinequest film festival stays true to local independent …
San Jose Mercury News USA
Expect this year to be no different as organizers announced the lineup and other tidbits for the San Jose film festival — which runs Feb. 25 through March 8 — during a patio reception Tuesday at the posh 88 condo building downtown. The festival keeps getting bigger with more than 230 films being screened this year (including approximately 70 premieres). The “local” is taken care of by actor and comedian Kevin Pollak a San Jose native who will receive a Maverick Spirit Award (as well as doing a live stand-up routine about film comedy). You don’t get much more “independent” than “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody another Maverick Spirit award recipient unless that whole winning an scar thing makes her seem mainstream.
Festivals in 3 cities put spotlight on ice carving
Detroit Free Press United States
• The Fourth annual Fire and Ice Festival hosted by the Northville Chamber of Commerce will include a chili and salsa cook-off ice sculptures and ice-carving demonstrations. “We have 13 restaurants taking part in the cook-off competitions as well as a firehouse chili challenge which pits the city of Northville’s fire department against the Northville Township Fire Department and we have wonderful works of art being made out of ice” says Janet Bloom marketing and events director for the Northville Chamber of Commerce.
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Santa Barbara International Film Festival hotel packages
Los Angeles Times CA
22 and runs to Feb. 1)? Here are some festival-related hotel packages: Hotel Santa Barbara offers a five-night stay ($1500 with tax) that includes a welcome amenity; Continental breakfast; $100 dining credit at Bouchon pal or Seagrass; and a “four-pack “Film Mini Pak.
Status quo strong at Sundance but the tide’s turning
The Boston – Bay State Banner MA
A number of films made by and starring artists of color wowed audiences at this year’s festival taking home several coveted awards. High on this mountain town’s exclusive slopes the 25-year-old Sundance Film Festival is supposed to showcase what’s on the cutting edge of the silver screen inviting up-and-coming artists to become part of the very media landscape that shapes and dictates pop culture.