METROPOLIS to screen at the Palace Nov. 1 at 7pm.

That is if we don’t get blown away.

But! Come marvel at the classic of cinema history as it was meant to be seen, with organ playing throughout the one hundred and forty-eight minute silent film by Fritz Lang.

Meanwhile in other film-related activities:

• The Society has also announced North Country Winter Shorts! If you want to submit your short film send to PO Box 489, Lake Placid, NY 12946.
• Also, stay tuned for Friday as we will announce our next film project! Hint: it involves the boys from Marist.

See you Thursday and stay safe!

Russell Banks event at Paul Smith’s College.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russell Banks, board member of the Adirondack Film Society and author of such North Country classics like The Sweet Hereafter and Cloudsplitter, will be reading from his new book The Lost Memory of Skin on Thursday, September 13, at 7:30pm. The event sponsored by the Adirondack Center for Writing will be at the VIC.  Here are some details:

Come see Russell Banks at the Paul Smith’s College VIC, September 13th at 7:30 PM. $5 for the reading, or $25 to include pre-reading appetizers and non-alcoholic drinks with the author.

Russell Banks was raised in New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts. The eldest of four children, he grew up in a working-class environment, which has played a major role in his writing. 

Mr. Banks (who was the first in his family to go to college) attended Colgate University for less than a semester, and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before he could support himself as a writer, he tried his hand at plumbing and as a shoe salesman and window trimmer. More recently, he has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, University of New Hampshire, New England College, New York University, and Princeton University.

We’ll see you there!

Caitlin Scholl brings “The Space We Make”.

Friend Caitlin Scholl put together a project called The Space We Make. Kickstarter’d (is this becoming the new term along with “Google’d” or something?) for $5,000, Scholl and partner Simon Thomas-Train have created a collaborative dance/ music/ theater project that will premiere at the Upper Jay Art Center, August 25. 

In Upper Jay, New York, on the bank of the East Branch of the Ausable River there is an old wooden building. Four stories high, this old warehouse has been many things in the past—a Model-T assembly factory (built by Henry Ford himself), a pine cone threshing plant, an antique store and an upholstery studio. Now you have the chance to help make the space anew by taking part in an exciting experiment that we, a collective of 13 seasoned artists, are calling collaborative community performance. And we want you to be involved. Here’s your chance to partake in a truly revolutionary kind of performance piece, not just with your dollars but with your ideas as well.

Scholl recently published the truly excellent Makebelieve—a kind of scrapbook biography of Arto Monaco, the mind behind Jay’s The Land of Make Believe–is one of those creative minds that refuses to be restrained by literary convention.

(Full Disclosure is necessary at this point, to avoid all Lehreriness: Mogul co-founder Dave Press, the writer of this post, reviewed Scholl’s book at his blog).

We are very much looking forward to this performance, which gears up for seven days before a one night only performance Saturday, the twenty-fifth.

Kirk Sullivan premieres “The Come Up” tonight at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts!

Tonight at 7pm, Saranac Lake native Kirk Sullivan premieres his Kickstarter-funded film The Come Up. For those of you wondering what the film is about, check out the logline:

An ambitious production assistant pulls off a daring heist on a Hollywood film set in a scheme right out of the movies, all to impress the industry’s biggest producer while (of course) pitching his screenplay.

Earlier last year our own Timothy Brearton wrote about Kirk’s legacy of North Country-based cinema pioneers. His father Fred was also a producer. In TJ’s article in the Champlain Weekly, Sullivan spoke to the power of Kickstarter and how it could have greatly helped his father.

In the eighties, Fred Sullivan would go door to door, setting up slide projectors and giving demonstrations about his film projects as a campaign to procure funds.  “My dad traveled around the country and the Upstate NY region extensively,” Kirk told me when I caught up with him amid the hurly-burly of his moviemaking life. Kirk gives presentations too, but it happens online, thanks to a fundraising platform called Kickstarter.com. “I’m sure (my dad) would have preferred to have something like Kickstarter available to him. I think the online community wants to support creative projects and be a part of something like a short film if they are somehow connected to the filmmakers or the theme or concept of the film itself.”

Tonight, we can finally see the fruits of the funds that went towards making Sullivan’s short film, and get a glimpse at the future of filmmaking in the Adirondack region. The cost of the viewing is five bucks. We hope you enjoy it.