BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE AND RHETT BRINKLEY
COURTESY OF ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY
Vax up, mask up and support your local creatives however you can. As more and more artists — and local venues — move toward requiring proof of vaccination, make sure you have that card ready to go. Gathering safely these days is hard; be on the lookout for policy changes or date changes, and handle them with all the grace you can summon.
FILMLAND
THROUGH 10/3. MACARTHUR PARK LAWN. $5-$40 PER EVENT, DISCOUNTED RATES FOR ACS MEMBERS. Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain is headlining Arkansas Cinema Society’s Filmland in the Park on Saturday, Oct. 2, with her new biopic “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” (pictured), which tells the story of the “rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.” A Q&A with Arkansas native director and Arkansas Cinema Society founder Jeff Nichols (he directed Chastain in his 2011 feature “Take Shelter”) will follow the screening. Also on the schedule: headlining documentary “Becoming Cousteau,” about the life of adventurer, filmmaker and environmentalist JacquesYves Cousteau, who sounded the alarm about the warming seas and Earth’s vulnerability 50 years ago; David Gordon Green’s slasher film “Halloween”; Oscar-winning writer/director Asghar
Farhadi’s “A Hero,” which won the Grand Prix award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival; tons of Arkansas-made short films; a roster of feature films like “88.3 FM and The Voice of the People” from former Arkansas Times entertainment editor J.T. Tarpley. Plus, the Society offers a wide range of workshops from film experts like Graham Gordy to coach aspiring filmmakers and creators on everything from “Landing the Role” to “Building A Scene (And Hopefully, Eventually, a Screenplay).” Filmland screenings will take place on the MacArthur Park lawn at 1200 McMath Ave., so bring a blanket and chairs. The gates open each night at 6 p.m., with shows starting at 7:15 p.m. Find tickets at arkansascinemasociety.org/filmland. RB ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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