With songs by Oscar winning legend A.R. Rahman of Slumdog Millionaire. The foremost exponent of classical dance in India, the danseuse and actor Shobana is coming with 22 performers from India for a magical show that will be the first ever musical show in Little Rock directly from India.
Please come out and enjoy the show. Free Indian food box dinner for all attending from 6pm to 6:30pm.
The performance begins at 6:30pm. Tickets are available at Wildwood.
Nobody’s Perfect. But Some Like It Hot comes pretty close to it.
Billy Wilder’s screwball comedy set in the 1920s stars Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. Written by Wilder and his longtime scribe partner I.A.L. Diamond, it tells the tale of two musicians who witness the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre and must go undercover to escape the attention of some mobsters. Along the way, they meet a big-hearted blonde who always gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop stick, a randy aging millionaire and a spats wearing gangster.
Joining Lemmon, Curtis and Monroe in the cast are Joe E. Brown, George Raft, Pat O’Brien, and many others.
Shot in black and white, this movie’s zany characters provide enough color regardless of the film stock. The film was nominated for six Oscars; it won for Orry-Kelly’s Black and White costume design.
The movie starts at 7pm tonight. Admission is $5. Concessions are available for purchase as well.
You can’t eat breakfast at Tiffany’s, but you can enjoy the classic film tonight at the Ron Robinson Theater which presents the 1961 classic Blake Edwards film. (Be sure and pay attention to a passing reference to Arkansas, too.)
Based on Truman Capote’s novella, the film was one of Audrey Hepburn’s iconic roles. Joining her in the cast were George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam, Buddy Ebsen and Mickey Rooney. The film features the famous song “Moon River” which Hepburn sings at one point in the movie. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Actress (Hepburn), Best Adapted Screenplay (George Axelrod) and Best Art Direction. It won the Oscars for Best Song – “Moon River” (Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini) and Best Score (Mancini again).
The movie starts at 7pm tonight. Admission is $5. Concessions are available for purchase as well.
(You may not be able to shop at a Tiffany & Co. in person in Little Rock, but you can see Tiffany stained glass at City Hall and the State Capitol, as well as other Tiffany furnishings at the latter.)
The first rule about watching Fight Club is that you DO talk about going to see the movie. Tonight, the CALS Ron Robinson Theater will be screening this modern iconic film starring Oscar winner Brad Pitt and Oscar nominee Edward Norton. (Hard to believe the film is 16 years old in 2015.)
Directed by David Fincher, it also starred Meat Loaf and Helena Bonham Carter. Fight Club concerns an insomniac office worker looking for a way to change his life. He crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker and they form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more…
The movie starts at 7pm tonight. Admission is $5. Concessions are available for purchase, as well.
Today at 2pm at the Ron Robinson Theatre, the animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox will be shown on the big screen. Admission is $5.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a 2009 American stop-motion animated film based on the Roald Dahl novel. The film is about a fox who steals food each night from three mean and wealthy farmers. They are fed up with Mr. Fox’s theft and try to kill him, so they dig their way into the foxes’ home, but the animals are able to outwit the farmers and live underground.
Development on the film started in 2004, but it was released in autumn 2009. It features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody. The film’s director, Wes Anderson, also voiced one of the characters. This was Anderson’s first animated film.
The film was nominated for two Oscars: Best Animated Film and Best Original Score (Alexandre Desplat).
The emergency evacuation of U.S. forces in the final days of the Vietnam War is examined in Last Days in Vietnam, a PBS American Experience film which has been nominated for numerous awards including an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
The film’s theatrical premiere in Arkansas is at the Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., on Saturday, March 21, at 2 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served, and the doors will open at 1:30 p.m.
The film’s television broadcast premiere is Tuesday, April 28, at 8 p.m. on AETN.
Last Days in Vietnam documents the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, when the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. The United States had only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country.
As Communist victory became inevitable and the U.S. readied to withdraw, some Americans began to consider the certain imprisonment and possible death of their South Vietnamese allies, co-workers, and friends. Meanwhile, the prospect of an official evacuation of South Vietnam became terminally delayed by Congressional gridlock and the inexplicably optimistic U.S. Ambassador.
With the clock ticking and the city under fire, a number of heroic Americans took matters into their own hands, engaging in unsanctioned and often makeshift operations in a desperate effort to save as many South Vietnamese lives as possible.
Last Days in Vietnam was produced and directed by Rory Kennedy, an Emmy Award-winning independent documentary filmmaker and co-founder and president of Moxie Firecracker Films. Her work has been shown on PBS, HBO, A&E, MTV, and Lifetime.
The screening is presented by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, a department of CALS. For more information, call 501-918-3033.
As part of the Arkansas Times monthly film series at the Ron Robinson Theater, tonight they will be showing a series of shorts from the creators of Beasts of the Southern Wild. The series is produced in partnership with the Little Rock Film Festival.
This will be a special presentation of short films and music videos from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Benh Zeitlen and others in Court 13–a New Orleans film and arts collective.
Following the screenings, Court 13 members Casey Coleman and Nathan Harrison will participate in a panel discussion.
The films being screened are:
Tickets are $5. The screening starts at 7pm.
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