| Barre | 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. | Opening Reception Opening reception for Constructions. This visual investigation of shape, size, form, and function pays homage to the mother of all art, architecture. Location: Studio Place Arts, 201 North Main Street. Eva Schectman, 479-7069. | |
| Cabot | Spring Vacation — April 17th - 25th No school. | ||
| Hardwick | 2:00 p.m. | Film: Mystic River Family-Friendly Screening — April 22nd - 24th In Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, a murder mystery in South Boston unites three men who have been friends since childhood. Grippingly powerful performances from the entire cast — Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, and Laura Linney — combined with gritty photography, an exceptionally emotional script, and a convincing working-class Boston setting make this film one of Eastwood's most consistent and penetrating works. Though they live in the same houses where they grew up, Jimmy (Penn), Dave (Robbins), and Sean (Bacon) have drifted apart over time. Their distance is due to a disturbing and violent episode that occurred when they were children. Even now, as adults married with kids, they have never managed to overcome their fear and guilt about what happened. Dave and his wife (Harden) still live next door to Jimmy, who is married to a tough-sexy blond (Linney) and has three daughters. When Jimmy's 19-year-old girl is murdered, he turns to Sean, who works as a policeman, and delivers an ultimatum: find the killer fast or I'll go after him myself. Little do they know, the culprit is the last person they'd ever suspect. Rated R. 137 minutes. $5/suggested donation. Northeast Kingdom Arts Council. 472-8800. Location: the Hardwick Town House, 127 Church Street. 533-7422. | |
| Hardwick | 7:00 p.m. | Film: Mystic River Family-Friendly Screening — April 22nd - 24th In Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, a murder mystery in South Boston unites three men who have been friends since childhood. Grippingly powerful performances from the entire cast — Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, and Laura Linney — combined with gritty photography, an exceptionally emotional script, and a convincing working-class Boston setting make this film one of Eastwood's most consistent and penetrating works. Though they live in the same houses where they grew up, Jimmy (Penn), Dave (Robbins), and Sean (Bacon) have drifted apart over time. Their distance is due to a disturbing and violent episode that occurred when they were children. Even now, as adults married with kids, they have never managed to overcome their fear and guilt about what happened. Dave and his wife (Harden) still live next door to Jimmy, who is married to a tough-sexy blond (Linney) and has three daughters. When Jimmy's 19-year-old girl is murdered, he turns to Sean, who works as a policeman, and delivers an ultimatum: find the killer fast or I'll go after him myself. Little do they know, the culprit is the last person they'd ever suspect. Rated R. 137 minutes. $5/suggested donation. Northeast Kingdom Arts Council. 472-8800. Location: the Hardwick Town House, 127 Church Street. 533-7422. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 7:00 p.m. | Film: The Barbarian Invasians — April 16th - 22nd 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: Catamount Arts Center, 139 Eastern Avenue. catamountarts@charter.net, 748-2600, (888) 757-5559. | |