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Kitty Carlisle Hart’s 1963 Bermuda Vacation
Taking a break from her hectic television schedule in 1963 to enjoy a short Bermuda vacation, an American journalist commented that “Kitty Carlisle’s smile was as bright as the local sunshine” when he caught up with her on the island. Kitty Carlisle [1910–2007] was an American singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts. The widow... Read more of this article
Family Movie Night In St George’s Square
The St. George’s Corporation Events Committee will host their “Movies on the Square” event on Saturday, July 13th. From 6pm in King’s Square, there will be buskers and entertainers performing until the first movie starts at 8.30pm, and a second movie will screen at 10.15pm. The event is free, and food and snacks will be for... Read more of this article
BIFFlix To Screen “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] announced that the June screening in its BIFFlix series will be the political thriller, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” The film, which stars Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland, will be showing on Saturday [June 29] 5:30pm, at the Tradewinds Auditorium in the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, 40... Read more of this article
Video Trailers: June 23 Weekend Film Series
A beautiful and heart-warming nature documentary about the birds who inhabit Central Park, and a lush and sensuous biography of artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir will screen at the Weekend Film Series on Sunday [June 23]. Birders: The Central Park Effect [rated G] will screen at 3pm, and after the film, Andrew Dobson, president of the Bermuda Audubon Society,... Read more of this article
Spy Vs. Spy Thriller Featured Bermuda Episode
In the 1980 movie adaptation of author Brian Garfield’s bestselling novel “Hopscotch”, a rogue Central Intelligence Agency operative leads his former colleagues on a merry chase around the world — including to Bermuda — as agents try and prevent him from mailing out chapters of an exposé of the clandestine service’s... Read more of this article
Upcoming: Alliance Francaise Movie Screening
The monthly L’Alliance Française des Bermudes Ciné Club screening will be the 2011 romantic comedy Delicacy” which stars Audrey Tautou. The movie — which has English subtitles — will be shown on Tuesday, June 11 at 8pm at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute’s Tradwinds Auditorium. Tickets — available at the... Read more of this article
Roaring ’20s Romance Was Filmed In Bermuda
Hollywood director Herbert Brenon reshaped parts of Bermuda’s coastline with dynamite and teams of labourers to conform with the screenplay’s specifications during the production of the 1914 silent movie blockbuster “Neptune’s Daughter.” When he returned to the island for a second film shoot more than a decade later,... Read more of this article
Solving Problem Of Camera-Shy Bermudians
Bermudians proved to be remarkably camera-shy when Hollywood came calling in 1916, with pioneering silent film director Sidney Olcott having to resort to recruiting visitors staying at the island’s hotels as bit part players in his production “The Innocent Lie.” Famous Players-Lasky — precursor to today’s Paramount Pictures... Read more of this article
Free Screening Of “In The Hour Of Victory”
Afflare Films and TenTen Publications in conjunction with the Division of Liberal Arts of the Bermuda College are announced a free public screening of the award-winning film, ‘In the Hour of Victory.’ The film will be shown at 7:00pm on Tuesday [May 21] at Room G301 North Hall at the Bermuda College. The film won the top Platinum Remi Award in the... Read more of this article
Kubrick Documentary To Screen At College
The life and work of one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of all time will be looked at in close-up when the Bermuda College holds a special screening of the 2001 documentary “Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures” on Thursday [May 16]. Mr. Kubrick [1928–1999] — pictured here — was an American film director,... Read more of this article
Video Trailers: Weekend Film Series Previews
Award-winning films from two of the world’s top film festivals will screen at the Weekend Film Series on Sunday May 19. A River Changes Course, winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary category at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will screen at 3 p.m., while French dramedy In the House – winner of the FIPRESCI International... Read more of this article
Video: Merlin’s Excellent Bermuda Adventure
The 1963 Walt Disney animated fantasy “Sword In The Stone” features perhaps the quirkiest plug for Bermuda’s tourism industry ever committed to celluloid — with the eccentric magician Merlin departing for a vacation on the island several hundred years before it was discovered. Adapted from the novel by T.H. White [1906-1964],... Read more of this article
