Avon Cinema to Host International Ocean Film Tour on Monday
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Avon Cinema to Host International Ocean Film Tour on Monday
The tour features the best, most inspiriting environmental documentaries and water adventure films from all over the world. The films will be shown and then followed by a Q & A with the films' directors and subjects.
Providence filmmaker Carlos Andres Toro's film "The Edge: A Sharklovers Guide to the Sea" was picked as one of the Tour's feature films and will be shown at the Avon Monday night.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTToro won the internationally renowned Blue Ocean Film Festival's Best Emerging Filmmaker Award for his directional work on the film.
He is the founder and owner of Steer Digital Media in Providence.
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"This Week at the Movies" May 12
Odeum Theatre
Give Me 5
Join us for the GIVE ME 5 STUDENT FILM SHOWCASE. Five minute or less short films from around the State. SATURDAY NIGHT...MAY 14, 2016 at the East Greenwich Odeum Theatre on Main Street. 7pm.Tickets are FREE. Support the young movie moguls and see what they are creating! Actor Robert Capron is the host and it will be a fun family night.
Online
The Angel of Nanjing
The Angel of Nanjing is available on iTunes, Vimeo, and Google Play. This is an interesting documentary to say the least, both about the most popular spot in the world to commit suicide from, as the characters we meet along the way (men and women saved by Chen, brought out for a meal, housed in an apartment he rents for the purpose of getting distraught folks on their feet again). We are treated to beautiful landscape shots of the region (there are as many gorgeous day and night scenes of the bridge and Yangtze river) as the urban bursting-at-the-seams chaos where Chen lives. But when you meet the folks ready to jump, the anguish we read on their faces really cuts you to the core; this is the heart of the movie I feel, the ‘why’ we get so desperate. One of the Directors, Frank Ferendo, is a Rhode Island native. http://www.angelofnanjing.com/
Cable Car
Our Last Tango
OUR LAST TANGO: Executive produced by Wim Wenders, Our Last Tango tells the life and love story of Argentina’s most famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, who met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation tore them apart.
Relaying their story to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from Buenos Aires, their story of love, hatred and passion is transformed into unforgettable tango-choreographies. CAST: Maria Nieves Rego, Juan Carlos Copes, Pablo Veron, Alejandra Gutty & Juan Malizia. DIRECTOR: German Kral. At the Cable Car.
Avon Cinema
Sing Street
At the AVON this weekend is SING STREET. This film takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy named Conor who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool and beautiful Raphina, and with the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band's music videos.
There's only one problem: he's not part of a band...yet. She agrees, and now Conor must deliver what he's promised - calling himself "Cosmo" and immersing himself in the vibrant rock music trends of the decade, he forms a band with a few lads, and the group pours their heart into writing lyrics and shooting videos.
