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'A Wrinkle in Time': Folds, Spindles and Doesn't ExhilarateBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
01:44PM / Friday, March 16, 2018 | |
 'A Wrinkle in Time': Folds, Spindles and Doesn't Exhilarate 2 popcorns By Michael S. Goldberger film critic I expected more from director Ava DuVernay's "A Wrinkle in Time," an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1962, adventure-fantasy novel. The book has been touted by a couple generations of youngsters, including my own moppet, Erin, who in retrospect adds that the freaky ideas were also a bit terrifying to a 9-year-old who hadn't to date "given that acid trip-type stuff much thought." Well, that's gratifying. But in any case, I saw my critiquing mission as a sort of command performance and wanted to bring news 0 Comments
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'Death Wish': What this World Doesn't Need NowBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
03:19PM / Thursday, March 08, 2018 | |
 "Death Wish," essentially a reboot of its 1974 namesake starring Charles Bronson, is problematic at best. For gosh sakes, there's tons of fear, loathing and guns -- the deadly sum of which the world doesn't need, especially at this incendiary and anguishing juncture in our history. But you can't blame MGM or director Eli Roth for the untimely release of this heir apparent to what became the standard of vigilante ethos. Considering the ceaseless conveyor belt of mass shootings bloodying our landscape, there is never a good time. You watch and wince. The casual mention of an AR-15 when Bruce Willis' Dr. Paul Kersey makes inquiries at a gun shop 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Signs Compact With State Cultural CommissionBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
04:33PM / Monday, March 05, 2018 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city is adding to its toolbox for artists and cultural development with the signing of compact on Monday that brings together local and state cultural resources.
Pittsfield was one of only six communities invited into the pilot program established by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
The Upstreet Cultural District, Pittsfield Cultural Council, the city of Pittsfield and the Massachusetts Cultural Council signed the agreement that seeks to align the city's cultural activities with its economic development and more deeply embed arts and culture in a way that betters the lives of the city's citizens.
"In this shared vision, MCC and Pittsfield
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'Black Panther': It's All GoodBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
04:51PM / Thursday, March 01, 2018 | |
 As the film critiquing tumblers in my brain jumbled about during a viewing of Ryan Coogler's "Black Panther," one heck of an astute action-drama courtesy of Marvel Studios, I contemplated the complexities regarding one's point of view. Granted, this white, would-be silk stocking liberal was gratified by the racial and political wish fulfillment represented by the semi-secret, technologically advanced African kingdom of Wakanda where T'Challa, aka Black Panther, has just been elevated to the throne. But what remains of the kid in me took it a bit further. I thought about heroes and what they meant to us in that portion of growing up that reveled in playing make 0 Comments
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MCLA Stages Adaptation of 'Rhinoceros'| 06:30PM / Friday, February 23, 2018 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The third show of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Fine and Performing Arts Department's theater program continues to emphasize this season's theme of "We the People" with its adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's play, "Rhinoceros," which will open at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23, in MCLA's Venable Theater. Guest artist David Lane, who directs the production, described "Rhinoceros" as an absurdist theater production that includes comedy and tragedy, as well as dark political tones. "'We the People' is not a given, and democracy doesn't exist without a country of people to 1 Comment
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Norman Rockwell Museum Appoints Chief Philanthropy Officer| 01:54PM / Friday, February 23, 2018 | |
 STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Norman Rockwell Museum has appointed Ellen Spear, currently president and CEO of Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, Mass., as the museum's new chief philanthropy officer.
Spear will officially join Norman Rockwell Museum over the summer, assuming a newly created senior-level position to lead the museum's development efforts at a pivotal time of growth. Spear succeeds chief advancement officer Michelle Clarkin, who joined the development staff of Fordham University in Manhattan.
Norman Rockwell Museum recently announced plans to assess the feasibility of adapting the Old Stockbridge Town Hall as a National Center for Illustration Education
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'The Art of the Oscar Picks': The Devil Is in The DetailsBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
05:04PM / Thursday, February 22, 2018 | |
 On a recent gloomy night I pondered weak and weary, not because I was necessarily weak or weary, but because I like the expression and it was time to make my Oscar picks, an annual tradition I abhor with no small amount of dread and disdain. All the same, I was determined that this year's choices would be the likes of which the world has never before seen. Believe me. They'd be so correct that people would be bored by them. I'm like a smart person. I went to the best schools. I make great deals. All I had to do was get a little help from the outside. It's all the rage, y'know? Thus it was quite fortuitous that, after channeling the modus operandi of New 0 Comments
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'Peter Rabbit': Hop to It!By Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
03:25PM / Thursday, February 15, 2018 | |
 The kids whooped and hollered in gleeful approval of director Will Gluck's adaptation of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit." This even included the 10-to-12 contingent, usually too sophisticated to admit endorsement of an entertainment that might indict them of liking "baby stuff." And while the littler ones among the audience of fully engaged firstnighters whose space I recently invaded brought fingernails to lips whenever the title character risked cottontail and whiskers for ill-gotten vegetation, they, too, were otherwise charmed. I was heartened by several insights, not the least of which was the erudition evinced by these young moviegoers 0 Comments
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'I, Tonya': Class Warfare on SkatesBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
05:41PM / Friday, February 09, 2018 | |
 I wasn't looking forward to seeing "I, Tonya," about provocative, world class ice skater Tonya Harding. The events surrounding her quest for Olympic greatness and fellow competitor Nancy Kerrigan's ruthlessly broken kneecap seemed so yesterday, and anyway, I never learned to ice skate. A bunch of fancily clad skaters twirling about on slippery ice while a Rachmaninoff etude plays in the background seemed like an awful yawn. But alas, dear reader, it appears I'm not entirely bereft of the genteel gene required to appreciate such stuff. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not going to move heaven and earth to make sure I don't miss the competitive figure 0 Comments
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Berkshire Museum, AGO Agreement Would Allow Art Sale to ProceedBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:08PM / Friday, February 09, 2018 | |
An American museum is interested in purchasing 'Shuffleton's Barbershop' but would loan it to the Norman Rockwell Museum first for up to two years. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A U.S. based museum is waiting in the wings to purchase Norman Rockwell's famed "Shuffleton's Barbershop" if an agreement between the Berkshire Museum and the Attorney General's Office is approved by the Supreme Judicial Court. Under the agreement, the painting, donated to the museum by Rockwell in 1958, would first spend 18 to 24 months on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge and then possibly at museums in Massachusetts before being put on prominent 3 Comments
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