WEST CHESTER—Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Middle is as soon as once more lighting up its massive display screen for the Spring. First, the Chester County performing arts venue is without doubt one of the native spots for the regional premiere of the Magnolia Movies and Sundance Movie Pageant choice, Little Richard: I Am All the things, this rockin’ documentary will display screen Tuesday April 11, 7 p.m.
Uptown’s $5 Film Mondays return with the basic Judy Garland and Fred Astaire musical, Easter Parade, on Monday April 17 at 7 p.m. and the fantastical Disney basic, Fantasia, set to an epic classical music rating, on Monday, Might 22 at 7 p.m. All $5 Film Mondays embody free popcorn. Uptown! may also host among the occasions of the seventeenth Annual West Chester Worldwide Brief Movie Pageant April 28 – 30. Ticket costs fluctuate for every efficiency. Each movie is at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Middle at 226 N. Excessive Road and Mac’s Foxhole Lounge and Bar are open for each occasion. For extra about this present, different live shows and upcoming occasions, go to uptownwestchester.org or name (610) 356-2787.
Little Richard: I Am All the things (movie)
Tuesday, April 11, 7 p.m.Tickets: $15
Magnolia Footage is releasing Little Richard: I Am All the things for particular one-night-only theatrical screenings on April 11, adopted by further theaters and a digital launch on April 21.
$5 Film Monday
Easter Parade, Monday, April 17, 7 p.m. Tickets: $5 together with free popcorn
Simply in time for spring, Easter Parade! From the 1940’s studios of hit-maker MGM, and starring Fred Astaire (who stepped in after Gene Kelly broke his ankle) and Judy Garland, this basic massive musical additionally options Peter Lawford and Ann Miller in her MGM debut. With a rating by Irving Berlin, this movie grew to become a field workplace hit and re-established Astaire as an viewers favourite.
On this romantic comedy, a nightclub performer hires a naive refrain lady to grow to be his new dance associate to make his former associate jealous and to show he could make any associate a star. He doesn’t notice that his new dance associate has “left-right confusion.” Romance, comfortable endings, and 16 full-scale dance numbers all add as much as an ideal household movie for April.
Fantasia
Monday, Might 22, 7 p.m.; Tickets: $5, together with popcorn
For those who’ve by no means seen Walt Disney’s Fantasia on an enormous display screen, now’s the time. The backstory is that the animated character Mickey Mouse was declining in recognition and Disney was searching for to revive its picture. Disney was engaged on a brief movie, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and as manufacturing prices rose, he determined to create a characteristic size movie. Fantasia is a set of animated interpretations of nice works of Western classical music, starting from the summary to depictions of mythology and fantasy, and settings together with the prehistoric, supernatural and sacred. Offered as a live performance, Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Stokowski, Dukas, Ponchielli and different good composers are matched to every beautiful sequence – and there’s even a jazz “intermission.”
The seventeenth Annual West Chester Movie Pageant shall be held from Friday, April 28 – Sunday, April 30, 2023. The competition presents brief movies which can be half-hour or much less from all over the world. In the course of the weekend they are going to present over 50 movies from 2-minute comedies to 30-minute dramas and every part in between.
The competition launches on Friday, April 28, 2023 with an Opening Evening Get together and the principle venue is Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Middle. Pop-Up Movies Blocks shall be proven at places across the borough of West Chester. There are informative and free filmmaker workshops and a Filmmaker Meet & Greet on Saturday afternoon of the Pageant weekend. The Pageant ends on Sunday with extra screenings and our not-to-be-missed Closing Evening Get together the place we award the highest movies in every style.
