Welcome to "This Week at the Movies in Rhode Island" -- a new feature the previews what's coming, being made, and happening in the entertainment world in Rhode Island.
This week we look at fun nights out, amazing movies in the market, and creativity at its best (and sometimes worst).
Related Slideshow: “This Week at the Movies” November 3, 2016
This series is sponsored by the independent movie theater - the Avon Cinema -- and it is designed to promote the local industry and celebrate creativity on film.
In changing, oceanfront Recife, Brazil, Sonia Braga's 'Clara,' a vibrant, former music critic, is a force to be reckoned with when she defies corrupt real estate developers who are trying to harass her into selling her apartment so they can raze the building and put up a luxury condo tower. AQUARIUS is a portrait of modern Brazilian life in this story that touches on the preservation of history, community and lifestyle, politics, class, racial divides, sexuality, culture, family, the communication between generations and more - all set to a soundtrack that includes artists that range from Queen to Brazilian vocalist Roberto Carlo.
Rhode Island’s capital is home to some of the country’s most creative artists, and the Art & Design Film Festival has the footage to prove it. The silver screen will play dozens of films that demonstrate people’s affinity for creation beyond slapping paint on a blank canvas in elementary art class. Cartoons, land art, architecture and food art are some of the forms examined in these films, but creation doesn’t stop there.
“Windward is a boatbuilding village in Carriacou, and if this thing gone from here, everything gone you know...” Alwyn Enoe is one of the last boatbuilders in the Eastern Caribbean, practicing a trade passed down the generations from Scottish settlers that arrived here more than two centuries ago. Approaching his 70s and with no more orders coming in, he decides to build one last sailing sloop with the hope that his sons will continue the trade. The film follows Alwyn’s progress and despair over three years - from hauling his trees out of the forest to a final traditional launching ceremony on the bayside. Stories of trading by sail and smuggling contraband, told by some of the last old Caribbean sea characters weave through the film like the currents through the reef. With all the family’s hope & resources now in the wooden vessel, Alwyn tries to complete her in time to race in the Antigua Classic Regatta - five weeks & three hundred miles away - here traditional West Indian and metropolitan elements fuse to create the final resolution of the film…
