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THE SOUND OF MUSIC - Catamount Community Cinema
Monday, February 6th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to sing the title song. Deciding that Maria needs to learn something about the real world before she can take her vows, the Mother Superior (Peggy Wood) sends her off to be governess for the children of the widowed Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). Arriving at the Trapp home, Maria discovers that her new boss is cold and aloof, and his seven children virtual automatons-at least, whenever the Captain is around. Otherwise, the kids are holy terrors, as evidenced by the fact that Maria is the latest in a long line of governesses. But Maria soon ingratiates herself with the children, especially oldest daughter Liesl (Charmian Carr), who is in love with teenaged messenger boy Rolf. As Maria herself begins to fall in love with the Captain, she rushes back to the Abbey so as not to complicate his impending marriage to a glamorous baroness (Eleanor Parker). But the children insist that Maria return, the Baroness steps out of the picture, and Maria and the Captain confirm their love in the song "Something Good." Unhappily, they return home from their honeymoon shortly after the Nazis march into Austria. Already, swastikas have been hung on the Von Trapp ancestral home, and Liesl's boyfriend Rolf has been indoctrinated in the "glories" of the Third Reich. The biggest blow occurs when Von Trapp is called back to active duty in the service of the Fuhrer. The Captain wants nothing to do with Nazism, and he begins making plans to take himself and his family out of Austria.

BUCK
Tuesday, February 7th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http://www.ifcfilms.com/buck
The incredible true story of Buck Brannaman, the unusually perceptive cowboy whose remarkable ability to communicate with horses inspired both Mick Evans' novel The Horse Whisperer, and the hit Robert Redford film that followed.
The incredible true story of Buck Brannaman, the unusually perceptive cowboy whose remarkable ability to communicate with horses inspired both Mick Evans' novel The Horse Whisperer, and the hit Robert Redford film that followed. As a young boy, Brannaman developed a love for the cowboy lifestyle by performing lasso tricks. But one false move meant a merciless beating at the hands of his abusive father, and as a result Brannaman gradually developed the intuition to recognize when horses were in distress. In this documentary we not only learn about Brannaman's remarkable life, but also watch as he works closely with horses and their owners to encourage greater communication.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, February 7th, 1:30 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link:
Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to sing the title song. Deciding that Maria needs to learn something about the real world before she can take her vows, the Mother Superior (Peggy Wood) sends her off to be governess for the children of the widowed Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). Arriving at the Trapp home, Maria discovers that her new boss is cold and aloof, and his seven children virtual automatons-at least, whenever the Captain is around. Otherwise, the kids are holy terrors, as evidenced by the fact that Maria is the latest in a long line of governesses. But Maria soon ingratiates herself with the children, especially oldest daughter Liesl (Charmian Carr), who is in love with teenaged messenger boy Rolf. As Maria herself begins to fall in love with the Captain, she rushes back to the Abbey so as not to complicate his impending marriage to a glamorous baroness (Eleanor Parker). But the children insist that Maria return, the Baroness steps out of the picture, and Maria and the Captain confirm their love in the song "Something Good." Unhappily, they return home from their honeymoon shortly after the Nazis march into Austria. Already, swastikas have been hung on the Von Trapp ancestral home, and Liesl's boyfriend Rolf has been indoctrinated in the "glories" of the Third Reich. The biggest blow occurs when Von Trapp is called back to active duty in the service of the Fuhrer. The Captain wants nothing to do with Nazism, and he begins making plans to take himself and his family out of Austria.

Jugglers On The Roof - YES! Theater
Wednesday, February 8th, 10:30 am & 1:00 pm
Fuller Hall
Tickets: $4.00 per person / Discounts for groups of 50 or more
Website Link: http://www.yestheater.com
Students of all age groups will laugh out loud at the antics of YES! Theater while at the same time learning the values of cooperation and common sense. Set on an urban rooftop, this live theater production examines the struggles of Charlie and Margaret, country bumpkins who have moved to the city for a new start. Their old fashioned common sense meets many challenges, but nothing that the ingenuity of a couple of clowns can't handle.
YES! Theater was founded in 2007 by Brent and Maya McCoy, who have gained a national reputation as physical comedians who communicate with young audiences in a way that is both educational and highly entertaining.

FAT, SICK AND NEARLY DEAD - Free Film and Discussion
Wednesday, February 8th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/
LOCAL MEDIA PERSONALITY VAL DAVIS WILL LEAD THE DISCUSSION OF THIS IMPORTANT FILM ABOUT PERSONAL HEALTH. 100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn't end well- with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn't far behind. FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe's personal mission to regain his health.
With doctors and conventional medicines unable to help long-term, Joe turns to the only option left, the body's ability to heal itself. He trades in the junk food and hits the road with juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for the next 60 days. Across 3,000 miles Joe has one goal in mind: To get off his pills and achieve a balanced lifestyle. While talking to more than 500 Americans about food, health and longevity, it's at a truck stop in Arizona where Joe meets a truck driver who suffers from the same rare condition. Phil Staples is morbidly obese weighing in at 429 lbs; a cheeseburger away from a heart-attack. As Joe is recovering his health, Phil begins his own epic journey to get well. What emerges is nothing short of amazing - an inspiring tale of healing and human connection. Part road trip, part self-help manifesto, FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD defies the traditional documentary format to present an unconventional and uplifting story of two men from different worlds who each realize that the only person who can save them is themselves.

Printmaking - Free Children's Workshop
Saturday, February 11th, 9 am - 11 am
Classroom One
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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This free one-day workshop for kids from 8 - 11 years of age is a great chance for kids to have fun printing with natural objects and interesting textures. Children will learn about using color and good composition, too.
All supplies for the workshop will be provided. The workshop, which will be taught by area artist Sharon Kenney Biddle, will be limited to 12 participants. Parents are welcome to join in the fun.

MUSIC OF THE HEART - Open Minds & Hearts Film Festival
Tuesday, February 14th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http://www.karmecholing.org
Open Minds and Hearts is a series of six films based on the lives of real people who manifested inherent human goodness in meeting life challenges. Each film will be introduced by an experienced meditation teacher and followed by a discussion. Information about the practices of mindfulness/awareness as a way to cultivate the strength of resting in an open mind and heart will be offered. The series is presented by Karme Choling in association with Catamount Arts.
After devoting his career to such horror films as Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Last House on the Left, director Wes Craven makes a dramatic change of pace with this inspiring drama about a teacher who helps change the lives of her students. Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras (Meryl Streep) teaches at an elementary school in Harlem, where discipline is a higher priority than the lively arts. But Roberta believes that studying music will give the children a sense of purpose invaluable in later life. Despite indifference from the school administration and budget cuts that force her to seek outside funding (and even threaten her job), Roberta struggles to teach the violin to her students, instilling a love of classical music in kids who might otherwise never have heard Bach or Mozart, and leading to a student recital at Carnegie Hall. Angela Bassett, Cloris Leachman, and Aidan Quinn highlight the supporting cast, and virtuoso violinists Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, and Mark O'Connor appear as themselves. The Music of the Heart is based on a true story; the real Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras and her students can be seen in the documentary Small Wonders.

FOOD MATTERS - Free Film and Discussion
Wednesday, February 15th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http://foodmatters.tv/
LOCAL MEDIA PERSONALITY VAL DAVIS WILL LEAD THE DISCUSSION ON THIS IMPORTANT FILM ABOUT PERSONAL HEALTH. "Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine, And Thy Medicine Be Thy Food." - Hippocrates That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in this brave new documentary film brought to you by Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. 'Food Matters' is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health.
Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is definitely not helping the situation. In a personal quest of discovery James & Laurentine together with a film crew and the editorial and production expertise of Enzo Tedeschi have set out on an independent mission to uncover the wholesome truth. The filmmakers have interviewed several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer. 'Food Matters' seeks to uncover the business of disease and at the same time explore the safe, cheap and effective use of nutrition and supplementation for preventing and often reversing the underlying causative aspects of the illness. With the premise of the film being: access to solid information helps people invariably make better choices for their health. The 'Food Matters' duo have independently funded the film from start to finish in order to remain as unbiased as possible, delivering a clear and concise message to the world. Food Matters. Written by Anonymous "Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine, And Thy Medicine Be Thy Food." - Hippocrates That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in this brave new documentary film brought to you by Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. 'Food Matters' is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is definitely not helping the situation. In a personal quest of discovery James & Laurentine together with a film crew and the editorial and production expertise of Enzo Tedeschi have set out on an independent mission to uncover the wholesome truth. The filmmakers have interviewed several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer. 'Food Matters' seeks to uncover the business of disease and at the same time explore the safe, cheap and effective use of nutrition and supplementation for preventing and often reversing the underlying causative aspects of the illness. With the premise of the film being: access to solid information helps people invariably make better choices for their health. The 'Food Matters' duo have independently funded the film from start to finish in order to remain as unbiased as possible, delivering a clear and concise message to the world.

MORE THAN A MONTH - Independent Lens
Thursday, February 16th, 7 pm
Theater One
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http://www.itvs.com
Please join us for the Independent Lens presentation of MORE THAN A MONTH at 7:00 pm Thursday, February 16. Independent Lens is the showcase program for independent documentaries on Public Television. Each month Independent Lens: Community Cinema previews upcoming documentaries in selected communities in order to generate feedback and suggestions. Catamount Arts is proud to bring this rare opportunity to preview major independent films before they are shown nationally to our area. Each monthly screening will be followed by a panel discussion and the opportunity for the audience to contribute their points of view. And, what is more important, EACH SCREENING IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please join us for this exciting event each month.
More Than a Month: Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this tongue-in-cheek journey, MORE THAN A MONTH investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a "post-racial" America.

THE ROAD TO MOROCCO - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, February 21st, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African coast. Commandeering a convenient camel (who takes time to ad-lib a spit in Hope's eye!), Bob and Bing are off on the road to Morocco, an event they celebrate in song. With nary a penny in their pockets, the boys try various methods to scare up a meal. Old reliable Bing shows up with the necessary funds; when Bob asks where the money came from, Bing calmly informs his pal that he's been sold into slavery. Bob is dragged off to parts unknown; later, Bing, his conscience bothering him, scours the town in search of his buddy. He stumbles into a luxurious palace, where Bob is being treated like a rajah. Even more puzzling, Bob is being kissed and cosseted by Moroccan-princess Dorothy Lamour, who announces plans to marry him in a few days! Neither Bing nor Bob can figure this out, but the audience knows that Dorothy has been advised by her astrologers that her first husband will suffer a violent death, and that her second marriage will be long and happy. Since Dorothy is affianced to desert sheik Anthony Quinn, ol' buddy Bob is once more set up as a dead duck. But Dorothy finds herself attracted to Bing, and forgets all about her pre-arranged marriage to Quinn (just as well, since Quinn is the heavy of the piece). On the eve of the wedding, the astrologers find they've made a mistake, and that Dorothy is now free to marry the man of her dreams-who, by this time, is Bing. Bob must console himself with handmaiden Dona Drake, who's some looker herself. As the wedding procession proceeds, Quinn comes riding into town, kidnaps Dorothy, and leaves Bob and Bing trussed up in the desert. Freeing themselves, Bob and Bing make their way through the desert wastes ("This must be where they empty the old hourglasses") in search of Quinn's camp. After an amusing series of mirages, the boys sneak into camp and attempt to rescue Dorothy and Dona. Imprisoned by Quinn, the boys muff an opportunity to use a magic ring, but still manage to escape. Using exploding cigars and hotfoots, our heroes sabotage a peace conference between Quinn and rival sheik George Givot, prompting a talking camel to remark "This is the screwiest picture I've ever been in." Bob, Bing and the girls escape to New York, but not before Crosby spoils Hope's chances at getting an Academy Award by interrupting Bob's "mad scene." Generally regarded as the best of the "Road" pictures, Road to Morocco is as fresh and funny today as it was back in 1942; even in repeated viewings, the rapid-fire one liners and comic setpieces result in boffo bellylaughs. An Oscar was bestowed upon Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen's ballad "Moonlight Becomes You".

Catamount Bluegrass Jam
Saturday, February 25th, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Cabaret Room
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount's always popular Bluegrass Jam returns for another edition on Saturday, January 21. These jams are held in the Cabaret Room at Catamount Arts and bring together a cross-section of roots musicians and talented area residents to celebrate one of the most popular and representative music genres of the Northeast Kingdom.
Each Catamout Bluegrass Jam ties together three distinct segments to create a toe-tapping, hand-clapping evening of fun for everyone. Each jam features one or more area musicians who take center stage in presenting their own brand of bluegrass music for the evening. The jam also includes a set by the Bluegrass Volunteers, a revolving group of local performers who have become favorites in their own right. And each jam concludes with a call for members of the audience to bring their instruments and voices on stage to join the musicians in an old-fashioned jam. Catamount Bluegrass Jams are free and open to the public. Refreshments are always available for purchase.

OKLAHOMA - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, March 6th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which were the play's intricate integration of song and storyline, and the simplicity and austerity of its production design. The 1955 film version of Oklahoma! retains the songs (except for Lonely Room and It's a Scandal!, which are usually cut from most stage presentations anyway) and the story, but the simplicity is sacrificed to the spectacle of Technicolor, Todd-AO, and Stereophonic Sound. The story can be boiled down to a single sentence: a girl must decide between the two suitors who want to take her to a social. In her movie debut, 19-year-old Shirley Jones plays Laurie, an Oklahoma farm gal who is courted by boisterous cowboy Curley (Gordon MacRae) and by menacing, obsessive farm hand Jud Frye (Rod Steiger). Fearing that Jud will do something terrible to Curley, Laurie accepts Jud's invitation to the box social. But it's Curley who rescues Laurie from Jud's unwanted advances, and in so doing wins her hand. On the eve of their wedding, Laurie and Curley are menaced by the drunken Jud. During a fight with Curley, Jud falls on his own knife and is killed (this sudden-death motif was curiously commonplace in the Rodgers and Hammerstein ouevre). The local deputy insists that Curley be arrested and stand trial, but he is outvoted by Curley's friends, and the newlyweds are permitted to ride off on their honeymoon. Counterpointing the serious elements of the story is a comic subplot involving innocently promiscuous Ado Annie (Gloria Grahame), her erstwhile sweetheart Will Parker (Gene Nelson) and lascivious travelling salesman Ali Hakim (Eddie Albert). None of the Broadway cast of Oklahoma! was engaged for the film version, though Charlotte Greenwood is finally able to essay the role of Auntie Eller that had been written for her but she'd been unable to play back in 1943. The evergreen songs include Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin', Surrey with the Fringe on Top, People Will Say We're In Love, I Cain't Say No, and the rousing title song. Two versions of Oklahoma! currently exist: the Todd-AO version, filmed on 65-millimeter stock, and the simultaneously shot CinemaScope version, shipped out to the theaters not equipped for the wider-screen Todd-AO process. Both versions have been issued in "letterbox" form on laser disc, and the subtle differences in performance style and camera angles in each and every scene are quite fascinating.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, March 20th, 1:30 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link:
Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple's passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other's motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation. Told in flashbacks from Neff's perspective, the film moves with ruthless determinism as each character meets what seems to be a preordained fate. Movie veterans Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson give some of their best performances, and Wilder's cynical sensibility finds a perfect match in the story's unsentimental perspective, heightened by John Seitz's hard-edged cinematography. Double Indemnity ranks with the classics of mainstream Hollywood movie-making.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY - Catamount Community Cinema
Wednesday, March 21st, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple's passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other's motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation. Told in flashbacks from Neff's perspective, the film moves with ruthless determinism as each character meets what seems to be a preordained fate. Movie veterans Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson give some of their best performances, and Wilder's cynical sensibility finds a perfect match in the story's unsentimental perspective, heightened by John Seitz's hard-edged cinematography. Double Indemnity ranks with the classics of mainstream Hollywood movie-making.

2012 Green Mountain Film Festival
Friday, March 30th, Fri. 6-10 pm / Sat & Sun - Noon - 10 pm
St. Johnsbury
Tickets: $9 - Individual Screenings / $8 - Members and Seniors
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Catamount Arts and Focus on Film are proud to present the 15th annual Green Mountain Film Festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 30, 31 and April 1.
This year's festival, the third straight year that it has been held in St. Johnsbury in coordination with the main festival in Montpelier, will feature 25 films on 4 different screens over the three days. One of the highlights of this year's festival will again be the High School Filmmaker's Showcase, which draws entries from all of the United States and several foreign countries. As a special attraction this year, the festival will showcase 3 screenings of the the new documentary "Circus Dreams" about Vermont's own Circus Smirkus.

GUYS AND DOLLS - Catamount Commuity Cinema
Tuesday, April 3rd, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link:
Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This material was fleshed out into a 2-act libretto by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling, then set to music by Frank Loesser and directed by George S. Kaufman. Opening late in 1950, Guys and Dolls was one of Broadway's hottest tickets for several seasons. The plot involves a certain Broadway citizen by the name of Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), who maintains the "Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York." Seeking a location for his latest high-stakes game, Nathan has an opportunity to rent out the Biltmore Garage, but he needs $1000 to do so. He decides to extract the money from high-rolling Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), known for his willingness to bet on anything. Nathan wagers that Sky will not be able to talk the virginal Salvation Army lass Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) into going on a date with him. While Sky goes to work on Sarah, Nathan endeavors to fend off his girlfriend Miss Adelaide (Vivian Blaine, repeating her Broadway role), who has developed a psychosomatic cold because of her frustrating 14-year engagement to the slippery Mr. Detroit. Thanks to some fast finagling, Sky is able to take Sarah on that date, flying to Havana for this purpose. By the time they've returned to New York, Sky and Sarah are in love, but their ardor cools off abruptly when Nathan, unable to secure the Biltmore garage, attempts to use Sarah's mission as the site of his crap game.

The Mister Loop Show - Mister Loop
Wednesday, April 11th, 10:30 am & 1:00 pm
Fuller Hall
Tickets: $4.00 per person / Discounts for groups of 50 or more
Website Link: http://www.youtube.com/misterloop
Mister Loop is a crowd-pleasing musician who teaches students all about the technology and art of creating modern recordings. Mister Loop uses digital looping stations to capture and repeat live sounds, "stacking" them into songs. Without pre-recording anything, he creates songs where he plays percusson, bass, guitar, lead and sings three part harmonies with himself.
Best of all, he includes the students in the creation of the rhythms for the songs. Student response has been phenomenal to this process. Themes for Mister Loop's songs include living well, staying healthy, healthy choices for food and exercise and getting good at something. You and your students will love this positive, highly creative program!

HIS GIRL FRIDAY - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, April 17th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Cary Grant plays Walter Burns, Hildy's editor and ex-husband, who feigns happiness about her impending marriage as a ploy to win her back. The ace up Walter's sleeve is a late-breaking news story concerning the impending execution of anarchist Earl Williams (John Qualen), a blatant example of political chicanery that Hildy can't pass up. The story gets hotter when Williams escapes and is hidden from the cops by Hildy and Walter--right in the prison pressroom. His Girl Friday may well be the fastest comedy of the 1930s, with kaleidoscope action, instantaneous plot twists, and overlapping dialogue. And if you listen closely, you'll hear a couple of "in" jokes, one concerning Cary Grant's real name (Archie Leach), and another poking fun at Ralph Bellamy's patented "poor sap" screen image. Subsequent versions of The Front Page included Billy Wilder's 1974 adaptation, which restored Hildy Johnson's manhood in the form of Jack Lemmon, and 1988's Switching Channels, which cast Burt Reynolds in the Walter Burns role and Kathleen Turner as the Hildy Johnson counterpart.

HELL AND BACK AGAIN - Independent Lens
Thursday, April 19th, 7 pm
Theater One
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http:///www.itvs.com
Please join us for the Independent Lens presentation of HELL AND BACK AGAIN at 7:00 pm Thursday, April 19. Independent Lens is the showcase program for independent documentaries on Public Television. Each month Independent Lens: Community Cinema previews upcoming documentaries in selected communities in order to generate feedback and suggestions. Catamount Arts is proud to bring this rare opportunity to preview major independent films before they are shown nationally to our area. Each monthly screening will be followed by a panel discussion and the opportunity for the audience to contribute their points of view. And, what is more important, EACH SCREENING IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please join us for this exciting event each month.
Hell and Back Again: What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home - injured physically and psychologically - and build a new life? HELL AND BACK AGAIN that asks and answers these questions with the conflict in Afghanistan as the backdrop. Two overlapping narratives intercut: the life of a Marine on the war front, and the life of the same Marine in recovery at home – creating a realistic depiction of how Marines experience this war.

GREASE - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, May 1st, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
"Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and adding a dash of disco to the ersatz '50s score, producer Allan Carr and director Randal Kleiser turned this long-running Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey Broadway smash into the biggest blockbuster of 1978. 1950s teens Danny (John Travolta) and Australian transfer Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) spend their "Summer Nights" falling in love, but once fall comes, it's back to Rydell High and its cliques. As one of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny has to act cool for best pal Kenickie (Jeff Conaway) and their leather-clad mates Sonny (Michael Tucci) and Doody (Barry Pearl, in the role Travolta played on-stage). Despite befriending Frenchy (Didi Conn), one of the rebel Pink Ladies, virginal Sandy is "too pure to be Pink," as the Ladies' leader, Rizzo (Stockard Channing), acidly observes. Declaring their devotion in such ballads as "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "Sandy," Sandy and Danny split, reconcile, and split again amidst a pep rally, dances, drive-ins, and a drag race, before deciding "You're the One That I Want" at the climactic carnival. With Travolta white-hot from Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease soundtrack singles climbed the charts and summer movie crowds poured in. With the presence of Joan Blondell, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, and Frankie Avalon appealing to grown-up memories, Grease became the highest-grossing film of 1978, the highest-grossing movie musical ever, and the third most popular film of the new blockbuster '70s after Star Wars (1977) and Jaws (1975). Its sequel, Grease 2, did not exactly set the world on fire in 1982.

REAR WINDOW - Catamount Communit Cinema
Tuesday, May 15th, 1:30 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (Georgine Darcy), a professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings just might happen to be the truth. One of Alfred Hitchcock's very best efforts, Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires.

REAR WINDOW - Catamount Community Cinema
Wednesday, May 16th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (Georgine Darcy), a professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings just might happen to be the truth. One of Alfred Hitchcock's very best efforts, Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires.

STRONG! - Independent Lens
Thursday, May 24th, 7 pm
Theater One
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http://www.itvs.com
Please join us for the Independent Lens presentation of STRONG! at 7:00 pm Thursday, May 24. Independent Lens is the showcase program for independent documentaries on Public Television. Each month Independent Lens: Community Cinema previews upcoming documentaries in selected communities in order to generate feedback and suggestions. Catamount Arts is proud to bring this rare opportunity to preview major independent films before they are shown nationally to our area. Each monthly screening will be followed by a panel discussion and the opportunity for the audience to contribute their points of view. And, what is more important, EACH SCREENING IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please join us for this exciting event each month.
Strong!: A formidable figure, standing at 5'8" and weighing over 300 pounds, Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end. STRONG! chronicles her journey and the challenges this unusual elite athlete faces, exploring popular notions of power, strength, beauty and health.

CAMELOT - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, June 5th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Joshua Logan directs this lavish version of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Broadway success with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and Franco Nero in the lead roles originally portrayed on Broadway by Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet. The musical, based on T.H. White's The Once and Future King, chronicles the legend of King Arthur (Richard Harris) and his tortured love affair with his queen Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave). Arthur first encounters Guenevere, on the day of their wedding, in the enchanted forest surrounding Camelot. After the wedding, Arthur's bliss at his marriage to the lovely Guenevere prompts him to establish the Knights of the Round Table, a lofty order of chivalry in which all the member knights are bound by a desire the help the oppressed, keeping faith with trust and honor. Such is the fame of the Knights of the Round Table that a young French knight, Lancelot Du Lac (Franco Nero), seeks to join the order. Lancelot quickly becomes the most celebrated of all the knights, and Guenevere, aloof at first, falls in love with him. Although both have a deep love for Arthur, their passion knows no bounds, and they begin an illicit love affair behind Arthur's back. Arthur ignores the rumors circling around him, but when his illegitimate son, Mordred (David Hemmings) arrives at Camelot, he exposes Lancelot and Guenevere during a tryst. Lancelot escapes, but Guenevere is sentenced to be burned at the stake. Lancelot rescues her at the last minute, and Arthur prepares for battle, his dreams of an idealistic Camelot shattered.

ROMAN HOLIDAY - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, June 19th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Audrey Hepburn became a star with this film, in which she played Princess Anne, weary of protocol and anxious to have some fun before she is mummified by "affairs of state." On a diplomatic visit to Rome, Anne escapes her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She happens to meet American journalist Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck), who, recognizing a hot news story, pretends that he doesn't recognize her and offers to give her a guided tour of Rome. Naturally, Joe hopes to get an exclusive interview, while his photographer pal Irving (Eddie Albert) attempts to sneak a photo. And just as naturally, Joe falls in love with her. Filmed on location in Rome, Roman Holiday garnered an Academy Award for the 24-year-old Hepburn; another Oscar went to the screenplay, credited to Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton but actually co-written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo. The 1987 TV movie remake with Catherine Oxenberg is best forgotten.

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