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Ron Robinson to host preview screening of new Glen Campbell doc July 10

The Arkansas Motion Picture Institute will host a preview screening of the new documentary "I'll Be Me ... Glen Campbell" on July 10 at the Ron Robinson Theater, followed by a discussion will the filmmakers (including director James Keach) and members of the Campbell family.
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Watch a documentary about craft beer in Arkansas

"Tapping the Ozarks," a new film by University of Arkansas students Danny Henkel and Alyssa Becker, focuses on NWA beer culture and the rise of microbreweries in the region.
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Watch Phil Chambliss doc 'Glass Eyes of Locust Bayou'

Simon Mercer's "Glass Eyes of Locust Bayou," the great short film about the Arkansas filmmaker Phil Chambliss that screened at last month's Little Rock Film Festival and which I wrote about for the paper at the time, is now online so you can watch it for free. This is good news for the Internet and for the state of Arkansas. Take fifteen minutes and watch this thing.

Market Street Cinema will move to Riverdale 10, add new digital projectors

Market Street Cinema owner Matt Smith told the Times today that they will be closing their current location and reopening at Riverdale 10, the 10-screen, 35,000 square ft. theater on Cantrell Road that closed in December. "The big change that the customers will see is we’re going to be installing new Barco digital projectors and Dolby digital sound," he said over the phone this morning (before, both theaters used 35mm film and analog sound).
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Splice Microcinema continues with a pair of Arkansas B-Movies

Have you been going to Splice Microcinema, the mysterious (but unpretentious) and free (though donations are encouraged) underground screening series in the backroom at Vino's? I really hope that you have, particularly if you're a Little Rock film fan, which, let's face it, has always been a pretty unfortunate position to be in. It's also true, though, that things are looking up in the Rock lately, at least cinematically, from the Ron Robinson Theater's unveiling to the flourishing and increasingly well-respected (and forthcoming) Little Rock Film Festival. And the folks at Splice — writers and academics and filmmakers and enthusiasts — are contributing to this upswing in a major way.

Bob Hoskins and the making of the Arkansas-set 'White River Kid'

I never actually met Bob Hoskins in the sense of sitting down and exchanging life stories with him, but the actor, who died last week, was extremely cordial in greeting several of us stand-ins and extras during the filming of “The White River Kid” in Arkansas some 16 years ago.
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Film adaptation of Leveritt's 'Devil's Knot' premieres in Little Rock

Every seat full tonight at Little Rock's Ron Robinson Theater in the River Market for the premiere of "Devil's Knot," the new film based on the exhaustively researched 2002 book by Times contributing editor Mara Leveritt about the West Memphis Three case. The film focuses on the murders of Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore, and ends just after the 1994 convictions of Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin. Oscar Winners Colin Firth (as private investigator Ron Lax) and Reese Witherspoon (as Pam Hobbs) star. We'll have a full review in next week's issue and online.

Watch 'The Act of Killing' and 'The Unknown Known' this weekend

It's a great weekend for documentaries. On Saturday, at the Ron Robinson Theater, there will be a screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's Oscar-nominated "The Act of Killing." Meanwhile, Errol Morris's latest, "The Unknown Known," will be screening at Market Street twice a day (at 1:45 and 6:45) through next Thursday.
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Amy Poehler joins Tina Fey for new Jason Moore comedy 'The Nest'

Fayetteville native Jason Moore, the director of "Avenue Q" and "Pitch Perfect" who was profiled in this paper last year by David Koon, has had a new project starring Tina Fey in development for at least a year now, but it sounds like things are finally coming together. As Variety reported last night, Amy Poehler is in "final negotiations" to join the film, called "The Nest," about two sisters in their thirties who learn their childhood home is up for sale.

The Renaud Brothers team up with VICE for 'Last Chance High'

Little Rock filmmakers (and film festival proprietors) Craig and Brent Renaud have a new project out this month through Vice News. "Last Chance High" focuses on the Moses Montefiore Academy in Chicago's West Side (the only therapeutic school in the Chicago public school system) and follows its students, deemed 'at-risk' for extreme behavioral or emotional disorders. The first episode was released last week, to be followed by seven more every Friday this month and next.
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Jason Baldwin to appear as 'celebrity guest' at a horror movie conference in May

Jason Baldwin is apparently slated to appear as a 'celebrity guest' at the Texas Frightmare Weekend, an annual horror movie conference held in Dallas in early May. Baldwin (billed as "Paradise Lost's Jason Baldwin") is listed alongside George A. Romero and the cast of "Dawn of the Dead," the cast of "The Walking Dead," Linda Blair, and various actors and from "The Creature from the Black Lagoon," "Aliens," "Terminator" and "Hellraiser."

Free screening tonight of 'Medora' documentary

AETN and KUAR will host a free screening of the new documentary "Medora" tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the William F. Laman Library. Directed by Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart (of FOUND magazine and "This American Life"), the film focuses on small, rural Indiana town called Medora and its high school basketball team, last-place in the state.
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