on the screen

On The Screen - Movies and great food all in the same venue, we mean restaurant. Who can resist, move over popcorn, tapas coming through!

On The Screen - The Parrish Art Museum's Opera in Cinema series continues Sunday, November 14 and Thursday, November 18 with 2 pm screenings of Wagner's Das Rheingold.

On The Screen - The Center for Therapeutic Riding on the East End (CTREE), and Rupert Isaacson, author-producer of the New York Times bestseller of the same name, will present a screening of his Heartland award-winning film, “The Horse Boy" at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor.

On The Screen - The Hamptons International Film Festival is branching out, and expanding its presence and services to Southampton and its nearby communities. The Southampton expansion will extend the Festival’s reach in presenting the most exciting, entertaining and intriguing films and programs.

On The Screen - In its thirteenth year, the Hamptons International Film Festival that, runs from October 19 to 23, is truly coming of age as Chairman of the Board Stuart Match Suna notes, “It’s like its bar mitzvah.” With 170 films including shorts, 27 of which are world premiers, and $240,000 in prizes including the largest valued prize in the U.S., the Golden Starfish Narrative Award with the winner receiving $170,000 worth of filmmaking goods and services, the festival is garnering a level attention and basking in the light of the stars of today and tomorrow.

On The Screen - The film series is offered during the Fall, Winter and Spring each year. Cost is $5 per person, available at the door for all movies. All you need now is popcorn! Who can beat that!

On The Screen - Helen Hunt, that is, in her debut as a feature director, “Then She Found Me,” which has just opened in theaters. A week after the most recent movie starring his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, was released in theaters (“Smart People”), Hamptons resident Matthew Broderick stars in a winning romantic comedy along with Hunt, Bette Midler, and the very busy Colin Firth.

On The Screen - The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre continues to bring classic films this Fall and Winter. Bring on the popcorn and candy these are classics!

On The Screen - With all of the recent advents in CGI movie technology, we were excited to take a look at Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The story, deeply rooted in the idea of “eternal” love and the cycle of life and death.

On The Screen - The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre will present Lauren Bacall and Sidney Lumet in a conversation hosted by Jeffrey Lyons, live on stage after the screening of the 1974 Agatha Christie classic “Murder On The Orient Express”.

On The Screen - “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” is the riveting new feature directed by Sidney Lumet, an East Hampton resident who is 83 years young. The cast of his new movie includes Academy Award winners Philip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke who was nominated for an Oscar for “Training Day”, and Albert Finney who should have won five Oscars by now.

On The Screen - Noah Baumbach has finally fulfilled a goal that could conceivably be said was 25 years in the achieving: writing a script for his wife, Jennifer Jason Leigh, “Margot at the Wedding” that also stars Nicole Kidman and Jack Black.

On The Screen - "Diggers", starring Paul Rudd, is a movie that was embraced by critics when it had its feature release during the summer and is now being distributed as a DVD. The film is set in the 1970s and in a particular place – here in Moriches on eastern Long Island.

On The Screen - The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will screen filmmakers Jacqui Lofaro and Victor Teich's documentary, “The Last Fix: An Addict's Passage from Hell to Hope.”

On The Screen - The movie that won the Audience Award for Best Documentary this past Sunday at the Hamptons International Film Festival was a project developed by a man not associated with the movie business, nor has he been affiliated with much of any business over the last few years - Phil Donahue.

On The Screen - This weekend will mark the return of the 2nd Annual Black Film Festival to the Parrish Art Museum. The festival on November 3, 2007, showcases the best in black film past and present. Passes are a mere $5.00 and that grants entry to all films from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

On The Screen - Terry George has lived in the U.S. for over 20 years (presently in Sag Harbor) and he has been involved in six feature films, but it is only now, with “Reservation Road,” that he has filmed a story set in America, and small-town America at that.

On The Screen - Who knew that an 82-year-old woman and her 56-year-old daughter living in squalor in East Hampton would become a cultural phenomenon and spawn a cottage industry? The latest product of this industry was on view recently at the Hamptons International Film Festival, and it is about to be released nationally on DVD.

On The Screen - The quiet revolution taking place in Hollywood has just taken a big step forward. No, it has nothing to do with the writers strike. It was the ‘release’ of “Purple Violets,” the new feature written and directed by Edward Burns, who lives in East Hampton.

On The Screen - The director Mike Nichols has often had fascinating lead characters in his movies. It seems that he has hit the jackpot again with “Charlie Wilson’s War,” which opened in theaters last week, with Tom Hanks leading a star-studded cast that includes Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman.