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  • Published
    July 20, 2011

    Bull Moose Top 10

    Top 10 for Portland store July 11-17: 1. “Insidious” (DVD) 2. Incubus, “If Not Now, When?” 3. “Rango” (DVD) 3. Sublime with Rome, “Yours Truly” 3. Gillian Welch, “Harrow & The Harvest” 6. Bon Iver, “Bon Iver” 6. Mumford & Sons, “Sigh No More” 8. “The Lincoln Lawyer” (DVD) 9. Tedeschi Trucks Band, “Revelator” 10. […]

  • Published
    July 20, 2011

    Movies at the Museum

    “BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK” — Directed by Richard Press. For decades, Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist and New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirees for the Times Style section. Documenting uptown fixtures, downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more […]

  • Published
    July 20, 2011

    DVD Releases

    NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: “LIMITLESS,” starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. A luckless, jilted and hopelessly blocked writer (Cooper) finds his miserable situation completely turned on its ear when he’s introduced to NZT, a little-known drug that gives the user access to 100 percent of their brain, enabling Cooper to become an overwhelming […]

  • Published
    July 20, 2011

    At the Drive-Ins

    BRIDGTON TWIN DRIVE-IN, 383 Portland Road, Bridgton; 647-8666. Open nightly. Screen 1: “Captain America: The First Avenger (PG-13) 8:40 p.m.; “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” (PG-13) 10:50 p.m. Screen 2: “Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2 (PG-13) 8:40 p.m.; “Horrible Bosses” (R) 10:55 p.m.  PRIDES CORNER DRIVE-IN, 651 Bridgton Road, Westbrook; 797-3154. Open […]

  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    At the Movies

    OPENING THIS WEEK “HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2” (2:10) (PG-13) Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. Directed by David Yates. The final chapter begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest of finding and destroying the Dark Lord’s three remaining Horcruxes. Some sequences of intense action violence and frightening […]

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  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    DVD Releases

    NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY “ARTHUR,” starring Russell Brand and Helen Mirren. Genial if relatively needless remake of the 1981 comedy favorite with the suddenly omnipresent Brand filling in for the sorely missed Dudley Moore as the “Arthur” in question, a perennially soused millionaire whose vast inheritance hangs in the balance when he falls for […]

  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    At the Drive-Ins

    ALL THREE local drive-ins will feature midnight screenings of the final installment in the Harry Potter series, with two playing Part 1 and Part 2 back-to-back. Both Saco and Bridgton Twin will show “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” at 9 p.m. tonight, followed by “Part 2” at 12:01 a.m. Pride’s Corner will […]

  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    See filmmakers and let their movies surprise you

    Organizers of the 14th annual Maine International Film Festival are delighted that the 10-day, audience-oriented event affords face-to-face interaction with filmmakers and actors. “The movie stars are accessible,” said Ken Eisen, programmer of the festival that runs this Friday to July 24 at Railroad Square Cinema and Colby College in Waterville. “You’re not going to […]

  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    Maine International Film Festival Schedule

    Times subject to change. OPENING NIGHT “The Athlete” — An extraordinary feature that blends epic, biography, drama and documentary tells the true-life tale of Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, a quiet man who is ceaseless in his journey to greatness. 6:30 p.m. Friday, Given Auditorium, Colby College; 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Railroad Square Cinema CENTERPIECE GALA […]

  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    Movies at the Museum

    “LE QUATTRO VOLTE” — Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino. In Italian with English subtitles. Inspired by Pythagoras’ belief in four-fold transmigration — by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral — this wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region […]