March 26, 2015
The MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series Presents EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL with Darius Clark Monroe on Monday 3/30!
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Mon Mar 30

MFF 2014's EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL returns with director Darius Clark Monroe, 7:30pm. $10/free for FOFs, MICA students and faculty.

 

Tue Apr 21

The MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series presents BRASSLANDS, 7:30pm, MICA Brown Center. $10/free for FOFs, MICA students and faculty.

 

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PAST EVENTS
Mon 3/2
Sneak preview of THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

Thu 2/19
Sneak preview of FOCUS

Tue 2/17
MFF 2014's THE VANQUISHING OF THE WITCH BABA YAGA with Jessica Oreck

Wed 1/28
Sneak preview of BLACK SEA

Thu 12/11
Sneak preview of THE IMITATION GAME

Tue 12/9
Sneak preview of TOP FIVE with Chris Rock

Tue 12/9
Sneak preview of WILD
The MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series Presents EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL with Darius Clark Monroe on Monday 3/30!
EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL

Next week: Maryland Film Festival is pleased to bring back MFF 2014's EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL with filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe on Monday 3/30 at 7:30pm at the MICA Brown Center.  This will be part of the MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series and WYPR's Sheilah Kast will record a live 10-minute interview with Darius for later airing on WYPR.  Afterwards, the floor will be opened for audience Q & A.

 

Darius Clark Monroe

"EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL is an unflinching and unusual cinematic self-portrait, the type few directors are ever in a position to make, let alone pull off with such intimacy and panache."

- Filmmaker Magazine

 

EVENT INFO: 

The MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series Presents EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL with Darius Clark Monroe

Monday, March 30th

7:30pm

MICA Brown Center

$10/Free for Friends of the Festival and MICA students and faculty with ID

 

FILM SYNOPSIS:

How does a 16-year-old go from honors student to bank robber? Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe explores the financial desperation that led him to turn to crime as a teenager in Texas, and returns to the scene of the crime to interview family members, close friends, and mentors to reflect on the aftermath. 

TONIGHT!  The JHU Film Society Presents Lars Von Trier's MELANCHOLIA in 35mm -- Free for Friends of the Festival!
Join the JHU Film Society tonight for a screening of Lars von Trier's unforgettable MELANCHOLIA. The screening takes place in Shriver Hall on the Hopkins Homewood campus.

The film is a meditation on depression and the end of the world, and stars Kirsten Dunst as an emotionally troubled newlywed named Justine, whose sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) throws her a lavish wedding party. Meanwhile, Melancholia, a blue planet, hurtles towards the Earth.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzD0U841LRM

$5/Free for Friends of the Festival and JHU Students with ID.
SAVE THE DATE: The MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series Presents BRASSLANDS 4/21! SAVE THE DATE: The MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series will present the award-winning music documentary BRASSLANDS on Tuesday 4/21 at 7:30pm at the MICA Brown Center! 

 

Bryan Chang

The film will be presented by Bryan Chang, a member-owner of the Meerkat Media Collective. WYPR's Tom Hall will conduct a 10 minute interview with Chang immediately following the screening for later airing on WYPR as part of the MFF/ WYPR Spotlight Series.

 

EVENT INFO:

The MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series presents BRASSLANDS

Tuesday 4/21

7:30pm

MICA Brown Center

$10/Free for Friends of the Festival and MICA students and faculty with ID

 

BRASSLANDS Synopsis

A tiny Serbian village explodes with brass cacophony and riotous celebration as more than half a million music fans descend upon Guča, the world's largest trumpet competition. Amidst a cast of defending Serbian champions and struggling Roma Gypsies, an unlikely brass band from New York City, Zlatne Uste, voyages to represent the United States only a decade after NATO bombs rocked Belgrade. They will be the first Americans ever to compete at Guča. BRASSLANDS offers an intimate and sometimes unsettling portrait of how the hopes and fears of this diverse group of characters collide in their search for common ground and musical ecstasy.

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