Film
Mow Crew, a landscaper love affair comedy filmed on Martha’s Vineyard, will have a one-night screening on Saturday, August 8, at the Capawock with two showings, at 7 and 9:15 p.m.
Since it screened to sold-out crowds in the spring, the film has won the Indie Spirit Special Recognition Award at the Boston International Film Festival
Writer-director Taylor Toole will attend with cast and crew members for question-and-answer sessions following the film.
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society has appointed Richard L. Berkley and Susan Kantrowitz to its board of directors.
A seasonal Island resident, Ms. Kantrowitz is responsible for all legal matters affecting the WGBH Educational Foundation, including the production contracting process and the negotiation and administration of national collective bargaining agreements with actors, writers and musicians. She also oversees the WGBH media library and archives, which manages all aspects of film research and the licensing in and out of stock footage.
A screening of an acclaimed documentary film about the SS United States and a special tribute to the late Walter Cronkite will take place in Edgartown on August 12. The event is a benefit for the SS United States Conservancy, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the SS United States, widely considered the crowning maritime achievement of the 20th century. Mr. Cronkite will be honored as the SS United States Conservancy’s first National Flagship Champion.
They are among the greatest storytellers in our country’s history. Tomorrow, they will be gathered in Vineyard Haven to share their colorful tales with Martha’s Vineyard. Of course, the four men weave these tales without a word, and are no longer alive to tell them in person. But their stories live on in their vibrant, expressive artwork.
We’ve waited 72 years to meet a princess like Tiana. In the history of Disney’s animated fairy tales, we all know Snow White, Princess Aurora and Cinderella. Belle and Ariel came later, their fair-skinned complexions falling in line with their princess predecessors. In 1992, Disney integrated their princess line-up with the Middle Eastern Jasmine, followed closely by Native American Pocahontas and the Chinese Mulan.
Hollywood filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan has an interesting philosophy on careers, one that defies conventional logic. While most people say you should always love your job, he believes at some point you should truly hate your job.
“I think at some point you should take a job you truly despise . . . that way you’ll always know what you really want in life,” he told the Gazette in a telephone interview this week.