SPA CITY CINEMA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 on HBO; “The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne,” about a 92-year-old grandma who becomes a notorious jewel thief, and “This Ain’t No Mouse Music,” a profile of Arhoolie Records’ Chris Strachwitz, the man behind seminal recordings of the likes of Bukka White, Clifton Chenier and Mance Lipscomb. Altrui and Pledger hope that the Malco returns as a venue one day, but both say that the Arlington will continue to be the hub of the festival indefinitely. The Arkansas Motion Picture Institute, an umbrella nonprofit aimed at supporting film culture in the state that Pledger leads, lets the HSDFF use its
ROTHKO BEFORE ROTHKO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 Color: Complement, Shade, Tone and Tint,” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; fee is $92 for members and $115 for non-members. More information on the workshop and a teacher academy set for Oct. 5 can be found on the Arts Center’s website, arkansasartscenter.org, or by calling 372-4000. The show runs through Feb. 9 in the Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, whose attempt to share, for $30 million, the Alfred Stieglitz Collec-
‘WICKED’ FALL LINEUP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23 play “Still. Going Forward Backward” (Nov. 13-16), which deals with “themes running to sexual attraction, infidelity, and relationships that break down,” according to NPR’s Morning Edition. On Nov. 18, UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall hosts “The Addams Family Musical,” featuring the classic characters of the television show with an original story and score. Kicking off the holiday season on stage will be the Walton Arts Center, with Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” (Nov. 19-24). It’s a new musical based on the classic 26
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state-of-the-art screens and projectors. Placed in a setting where festivalgoers can go into the lobby for a drink or a meal or even go up to their room for a break (the hotel will offer discounted rates for festivalgoers), the HSDFF works better in the Arlington than it did in the Malco, Altrui argues. Though with parties and other events up and down Hot Springs’ main drag, “the festival really becomes about Central Avenue,” Pledger said. Because of the relatively low cost of camera equipment and new means of securing financing and distribution, documentary film is a “growth industry” in the film business, Pledger said. “Because of the nature of the festival and its reputation and the uniqueness of Hot Springs, there is just huge, huge potential for the festival to grow.”
tion at the Fisk Museum sparked years of litigation and was finally successful, will show works from the Fisk starting Nov. 9. The show will include O’Keeffe’s wonderful “Radiator Building — Night, New York, 1927,” which should bring art lovers from all over to Bentonville. There are 101 pieces in the Stieglitz collection, donated to Fisk by Georgia O’Keeffe, the photographer’s wife; artists represented include French artists like Paul Cezanne. Paul Signac, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre-Auguste Renoir as well as Americans Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Alfred Maurer and, of course, Stieglitz and O’Keeffe.
holiday movie (and was well-received last year at The Rep). Speaking of The Rep, the state’s largest nonprofit professional theater company will host the world premiere of “Because of Winn Dixie” (Dec. 4-29), a new musical based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo about a young girl and a dog she finds at a Winn Dixie supermarket. TheatreSquared keeps up the holiday spirit with its production of “A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens” (Dec. 5-29) at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios. And on a similar theme, The Weekend Theater will stage “Scrooge! The Musical” (Dec. 6-22), a musical version of Dickens’ classic holiday tale “A Christmas Carol.”