Maryland Film Festival

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Midday at the Movies: The Maryland Film Festival is here!

Tom Hall

Midday at the movies is joined by the founder of the Maryland Film Festival, which is this weekend.

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WYPR presents the first ever New/Next Film Festival

Wambui Kamau

The Maryland Film Festival’s Board of Directors decided to pause screenings following poor turnout from the COVID-19 pandemic. But the void is filled this weekend, as WYPR will present the New/Next Film Festival, which will feature more than 50 shorts and features.

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Movies: Previewing the 'New/Next Film Fest,' coming to The Charles

Tom Hall

On our monthly look at films and filmmaking, Tom and Maryland Film Festival founder Jed Dietz talk with a producer and a curator of the WYPR-sponsored New/Next Film Festival, running August 18-20 at The Charles theater in Baltimore.

In Chevalier, Kelvin Harrison Jr. stars as Joseph Bologne, who rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with a love affair and falling out with Marie Antoinette. (Photo by Larry Horricks)

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Movies: "Chevalier," "Showing Up," Hollywood writers' strike impact

Tom Hall

Midday movie mavens Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post and Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival join us to discuss the writers' strike and what's new at the movies.

The poster art for "Little Richard: I Am Everything," the new documentary by Lisa Cortes about the life and impact of Richard Wayne Penniman, the Black queer musician who became the influential rock n roll icon known as Little Richard. (Poster art credit: Bungalow Media + Entertainment)

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Movies! Little Richard, Brooke Shields docs, best flicks of '23

Tom Hall

Midday movie mavens Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post and Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival join us for our monthly look at what's new in films and filmmaking.

Michelle Yeoh in a scene from "Everything Everywhere All At Once," an A24 film directed by "Daniels" (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert). The rollicking multiverse parable has earned 11 Academy Award nominations -- more than any other film contending this year -- including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Yeoh) and Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor and Actress. The 95th annual Oscars presentation will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide. (image courtesy A24 Films)

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Movies, the Oscars edition: Our picks for the top artists and flicks

Tom Hall

Baltimore Magazine's Max Weiss and Maryland Film festival founder Jed Dietz join us to spotlight which of 2022's best films and film artists will — or should — win Oscars on March 12th. And we share your predicitions as well!

The cast of "Women Talking," the Best Picture Oscar-nominated film by Canadian director Sarah Polley in which a group of Mennonite women gather secretly to decide whether to flee their colony en masse, or stay to confront the men who have been sexually attacking them. (photo courtesy AMC-Artisan Films)

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At the Movies: Sundance, Oscar nom surprises, Ann's Worst of '22

Tom Hall

Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday and Maryland Film Festival founder Jed Dietz join us for our monthly roundup of the best (and worst) in cinema.

"Top Gun: Maverick"- Paramount Pictures' military action drama starring Tom Cruise -- has generated more than $718 million in US box office receipts since its opening in May of 2022, making it last year's top-grossing movie in the US. (image courtesy Paramount Pictures)

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At the Movies: Ann's Top 10 for '22, Golden Globes, Parkway blues

Tom Hall

Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday joins us with her picks for best flicks of '22, ahead of next Tuesday's Golden Globes awards, plus a look at why the venerable Parkway Theatre is struggling.

The poster for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," the sequel to 2018's "Black Panther." (image credit Disney Studios and Marvel Studios)

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Movies: No Md FilmFest til '24; "Wakanda" & other year-end flicks

Tom Hall

Midday's movie maven — Maryland Film Festival founder Jed Dietz — joins us for our monthly chat about movies and film biz trends, including sad news about the 2023 MD Film Festival.

The new historical drama recounts the events surrounding the 1955 kidnapping, torture and lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year old Black youth, in Mississippi, which helped spark the US civil rights movement. (image courtesy Orion/Universal Pictures)

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Movies: From "Armageddon" to "Till": a fall feast of potent films

Tom Hall

Our monthly look at films and filmmaking, with Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday and MD Film Festival founder Jed Dietz.