| Today's Montpelier listings are sponsored by Lost Nation Theater. City Hall Arts Center, 39 Main Street. 229-0492. info@lostnationtheater.org. Theater with Heart in the Heart of Vermont. | |||
| Montpelier | Book Sale — March 22nd - April 10th Thousands of books sorted by subject and at very reasonable prices. Location: Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main Street. Ellen Miles, 223-3338. | ||
| Montpelier | 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Jazz Jam Green Mountain Jazz Series — 1st Sundays At each of our monthly jazz jam sessions, we set up in advance certain experienced players who commit to being present for that particular month. This month: Mickey Carter, drums; Glendon Ingalls, bass; Michael Arnowitt, piano; Dan Haley, guitar. 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.: open to all players and singers. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.: advanced & experienced musicians only. Listeners welcome at all times. All are welcome. Free. Contact 223-5516. Location: T.W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center, 1st floor, College Hall, 36 College Street. woodartgallery@tui.edu, 828-8743. | |
| Montpelier | 6:30 p.m. | Film: The Barbarian Invasions — April 2nd - 8th A.O. Scott, The New York Times: "Denys Arcand resembles many of the same lustful, left-wing French-Canadian intellectuals who populated his 'Decline of the American Empire,' his 1986 comedy of intellectual grandiosity and sexual duplicity. This time, the bawdy talk and political banter is shadowed by mortality, and by the rueful awareness that history has had the last laugh. Remy (Remy Girard) is dying of cancer, and his friends, former lovers, and estranged wife gather round his death bed for a sentimental seminar replete with naughty jokes and wistful nostalgia. Joining them are two members of the younger generation — Remy's son Sebastien, a wealthy international banker, and Nathalie, a heroin addict — who lack both the bravado and narcissism of their parents. What makes this much more than a facile study in generational conflict is Mr. Arcand's acute sense of history: he has made the cultural contradictions of global capitalism into the material of heartfelt domestic drama that is also a broad, accessible and devilishly funny sex farce." Rated R, 99 minutes, in French with subtitles. Location: Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street. film@savoytheater.com, 229-0509, (800) 676-0509. | |
| Montpelier | 8:30 p.m. | Film: The Barbarian Invasions — April 2nd - 8th A.O. Scott, The New York Times: "Denys Arcand resembles many of the same lustful, left-wing French-Canadian intellectuals who populated his 'Decline of the American Empire,' his 1986 comedy of intellectual grandiosity and sexual duplicity. This time, the bawdy talk and political banter is shadowed by mortality, and by the rueful awareness that history has had the last laugh. Remy (Remy Girard) is dying of cancer, and his friends, former lovers, and estranged wife gather round his death bed for a sentimental seminar replete with naughty jokes and wistful nostalgia. Joining them are two members of the younger generation — Remy's son Sebastien, a wealthy international banker, and Nathalie, a heroin addict — who lack both the bravado and narcissism of their parents. What makes this much more than a facile study in generational conflict is Mr. Arcand's acute sense of history: he has made the cultural contradictions of global capitalism into the material of heartfelt domestic drama that is also a broad, accessible and devilishly funny sex farce." Rated R, 99 minutes, in French with subtitles. Location: Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street. film@savoytheater.com, 229-0509, (800) 676-0509. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 1:30 p.m. | Film: Girl with a Pearl Earring — April 2nd - 8th In a visually stunning adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel, a resilient Dutch girl (Scarlet Johansson) becomes a maid in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth) and ultimately the subject of one of the artist's most famous works. Though from vastly different backgrounds, the artist and the maid strike a unique emotional chord in one another and develop a societally taboo relationship responsible for the passion behind the creation of one of his greatest paintings. Tom Wilkinson and Cillian Murphy also star. It has just been nominated for Oscars for Costume Design and Art Direction. Rated R, 99 minutes. Location: Catamount Arts Center, 139 Eastern Avenue. catamountarts@charter.net, 748-2600, (888) 757-5559. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 4:00 p.m. | Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon Barry Sahagian (Newport Center), bass; Micah Carbonneau (Orleans), drums; Chris Peterman (Burlington), tenor & soprano sax; Lar Duggan (Burlington), piano. Location: Catamount Arts Center, 139 Eastern Avenue. catamountarts@charter.net, 748-2600, (888) 757-5559. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 7:00 p.m. | Film: Girl with a Pearl Earring — April 2nd - 8th In a visually stunning adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel, a resilient Dutch girl (Scarlet Johansson) becomes a maid in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth) and ultimately the subject of one of the artist's most famous works. Though from vastly different backgrounds, the artist and the maid strike a unique emotional chord in one another and develop a societally taboo relationship responsible for the passion behind the creation of one of his greatest paintings. Tom Wilkinson and Cillian Murphy also star. It has just been nominated for Oscars for Costume Design and Art Direction. Rated R, 99 minutes. Location: Catamount Arts Center, 139 Eastern Avenue. catamountarts@charter.net, 748-2600, (888) 757-5559. | |