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Boosted by a partnership with Otsego 2000 — a not-for-profit organization founded in 1981 to protect the environmental, agricultural, scenic, cultural and historic resources of the Otsego Lake region — Glim- merglass Film Days will celebrate its fourth annual festival next week. This year’s theme, “Against the Odds,” will feature 16 films from Thursday through Sunday at various venues around Cooperstown, including the Fenimore Art Museum, the Farmers’ Museum and Templeton Hall. For the first time, the selections will branch out beyond strictly environmental topics, although that remains the focus. “The films are meant to strike a chord of hope,” said Parsons, who serves as the festival’s curator. “They all deal with gritty problems that people have, either related to the environment or health issues, things like that. All of the films, even though they are PROVIDED quite vast in what they portray, they all strike this In “All the Time in the World,” to be shown at Glimmerglass Film Days, a family moves to Canada’s Yukon to disconnect from the element of promise — or, at least, let’s face the issues modern world and reconnect with each other. and find out what’s going on to find some hope in tack- ling them head-on.” Film Days launches Thursday with the documen- If you go tary “Miss Sharon Jones!” Partly set in Sharon What: Glimmerglass Film Days Springs and Cooperstown, it follows the Grammy- Film schedule nominated R&B singer from her 2013 pancreatic can- When: Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 10-13 cer diagnosis to her triumphant return to the stage in Thursday, Nov. 10 Where: Various venues around Cooperstown 2015. Barbara Kopple, the documentary’s Oscar-win- 5:15 p.m. at Otesaga Resort Hotel (60 Lake St.): ning director, will participate in a question-and-an- Tickets: Tickets to individual films are $7 at the door or $6 in “Miss Sharon Jones!” swer session after the screening, and Jones is also advance. Several films and events were sold out last year, so expected to attend. purchasing tickets in advance is recommended. 7:30 p.m. at The Smithy (55 Pioneer St.): Hannah Bloch, digital editor of inter news for Na- Opening Night Party and Companion Exhibition Film Days passes also are available. The Glimmerglass Pass tional Public Radio, will be at festival Friday for the ($140) includes admission to all events and films; the film “Saving Mes Aynak.” The documentary recounts Friday, Nov. 11 Templeton Pass ($75) offers admission to the full lineup of the efforts of archaeologists to preserve their cultural films but does not include food events. Individual tickets to 10 a.m. at Fenimore Art Museum heritage from a Chinese mining company, the Taliban events like the Japanese fall buffet, wrap party, opening party (5798 State Highway 80): “Saving Mes Aynak” and local politics. Bloch was the first full-time corre- and Sunday brunch discussion ($25 to $30 in advance, $30 to spondent for Time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Noon at The Farmers’ Museum $35 at door) are also available. she wrote an article on Mes Aynak for National Geo- (5775 State Highway 80): “Grass: A Nation’s graphic. More info: www.glimmerglassfilmdays.org Battle for Life” (free screening) Also on Friday, director Peter D. Hutchison, who 2 p.m. at Fenimore Art Museum: grew up in Oneonta, will present his film “Requiem “Requiem for the American Dream” for the American Dream,” a collection of interviews from the brewery featured in the film will be offered with and about historian and activist Noam Chomsky. at Templeton Hall. 4:15 p.m. at Fenimore Art Museum: Jane Steuerwald, director of the Black Maria Film On Sunday, Nov. 13, the brunch accompanying the “How To Change the World” Festival, will present and discuss award-winning screening and discussion on “The Language You Cry 8:30 p.m. at Fenimore Art Museum: shorts from the New Jersey City University-based In” will be inspired by Gullah food traditions. The “Heart of a Dog” competition, including films made by Syrian girls in a Film Days wrap party later that day at Mel’s at 22 refugee camp. features a live auction of a painting of Otsego Lake by Saturday, Nov. 12 Peter Rutkoff, founder of the Department of Amer- Susan Jones Kenyon. In addition, the Cooperstown ican Studies at Kenyon College, will present a Sunday Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the first Coo- 10 a.m. at Fenimore Art Museum: brunch discussion of the film “The Language You Cry pEats Restaurant Weekend, with multiple restaurants “The Anthropologist” In,” a documentary about a distinctive traditional offering special prix fixe dinners. 10 a.m. at The Farmers’ Museum: “Rango” burial song in the Mende language of Sierra Leone Keeping with the festival’s nature theme, the Dela- that has been preserved for generations by a Gullah ware-Otsego Audubon Society will lead a free bird 1 p.m. at Fenimore Art Museum: “The Messenger” family in coastal Georgia. Canadian filmmaker Su- walk on the grounds of the Fenimore Art Museum 3:15 p.m. at Fenimore Art Museum: zanne Crocker will present her film “All the Time in prior to Saturday screening of “The Messenger,” “The Birth of Saké” the World,” which chronicles her family’s nine about the threats to songbirds. Bill Evans from Cor- months living in a remote Yukon cabin without run- nell University’s Lab of ornithology, who is featured 7:30 p.m. at Templeton Hall (63 Pioneer St.): ning water, electricity or clocks. in the film, will be on hand for a Q&A session. Black Maria Film Festival selections of shorts “She’s making the trek from Dawson City, and it’s Then on Monday, Nov. 14, the Otsego Land Trust 9:15 p.m. at Templeton Hall: “Rams” not easy to get from there to Cooperstown,” Parsons will offer a free archaeological survey hike of Thayer said. “It’ll take her a couple of days, but she was able and Rum Hill Homesteads in Richfield Springs that Sunday, Nov. 13 to get a screening in Toronto right after us, so that will be led by archaeologist David P. Staley of the made it worth her while.” New York State Museum’s Cultural Survey Program. 9:30 a.m. at Templeton Hall: Brunch, screening In “How to Change the World,” writer-director While attendees enjoy getting to meet some of the and discussion for “The Language You Cry In” Jerry Rothwell dig into the roots of Greenpeace, minds behind the films, the festival’s guests also love 12:30 p.m. at The Farmers’ Museum: which started as a movement to stop Richard Nixon’s the personal touch and the connections that a smaller “Embrace of the Serpent” nuclear bomb tests in Amchitka, Alaska. event like Glimmerglass Film Days offers. “Back in the late ’60s and early ’70s, the guys who “There’s a wonderful B&B where most of the 1:15 p.m. at Fenimore Art Museum: “Indivisible” were interested in forming this thing called Green- guests will stay, and they bond during the weekend — 3 p.m. at Fenimore Art Museum: peace always had a movie camera with them — one of it’s a nice thing for them,” Parsons said. “I think they “All the Time in the World” them was an amateur cinematographer and recorded feel they’re treated really well, because a lot of times everything they did, so all of that footage exists,” when they go to a bigger film festival, it’s kind of 5:30 p.m. at Fenimore Art Museum: Parsons said. “You get insight into what was in their anonymous and there’s so much going on, but here it’s “The Babushkas of Chernobyl” minds at the time. The filmmaker also pairs footage much more intimate. That’s a good thing for every- 7:30 p.m. at Mel’s at 22 (22 Chestnut St.): of these guys now reflecting on what they regretted body.” Film Days wrap party and what they would have done differently. You see them as real people and not as crackpots.” Follow Chris Kocher on Twitter: @RealChrisKocher Other films include the 1925 silent film “Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life,” following Iranian herders’ seasonal journey to better pastures; Laurie Ander- son’s “Heart of a Dog”; the family-friendly animated film “Rango”; “The Birth of Saké,” a look at the 144- year-old Yoshida Brewery in Japan; “Rams,” an Ice- landic drama about two feuding sheep-farming broth- ers who must unite against a common enemy; the Oscar-nominated “Embrace of the Serpent”; the docu- mentary “Indivisible,” about migrant families sep- arated by deportation; and “The Babushkas of Cher- nobyl,” about Ukrainian women who have refused to leave their homes despite the fallout contamination from the 1986 nuclear power plant explosion. “We don’t want to get too esoteric,” Parsons said. “This isn’t for an academic crowd, but the audiences we get are really smart and savvy, and they’re eager to participate, ask questions and hang out. Every- body’s had a lot of fun working on it — it’s all volun- teer — and the people who come to it seem to enjoy it.” Also part of Film Days are parties and film/food pairings. On Thursday, the opening party will be held at The Smithy Gallery, where a companion exhibition “Earth Shattering” features works by artists Molly Welch, Christy Rupp, and Laura Moriarty. On Friday, the Empire House will cater a Persian-themed lunch, to complement the films “Saving Mes Aynak” and “Grass.” After “The Birth of Sake” showing on Sat- PROVIDED urday, Nov. 12, a Japanese buffet with a saké toast Biologist Erin Bayne eyes an Oven bird in the film “The Messenger,” to be shown at Glimmerglass Film Days.

Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ buildings. While some of the magical elements may be far out Strange eee (out of four) (a levitating cape, for example), the Ancient One’s Continued from Page 1C Rated: PG-13: (sci-fi violence and action throughout, and an messages are grounded in contemporary pop psychol- intense crash sequence) ogy and spirituality. She says things like, “We never lose our demons, we only learn to live above them,” tel Ejiofor) and the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), war- Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel and “Silence your ego and your power will rise.” Com- riors who introduce him to magical powers and mysti- Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen; Walt Disney, 115 ing from a bald Tilda Swinton, it sounds more insight- cal realms. As a scientist, Strange dismisses their minutes. ful than preachy. teachings (“I do not believe in fairytales about chak- The film addresses such sweeping concepts as ras”), but desperation — and a bizarre trip down a death and time, but only to define the characters’ third-eye wormhole — make him a believer. — all dynamic settings for destruction and mind- motives. Some of the messages may be worth con- Meanwhile, one of the Ancient One’s former stu- bending magic. templating, but “Doctor Strange” is not a message dents (Mads Mikkelsen, always an excellent villain) Each of the city sequences look great, but the New movie. It is a visual delight, where the spiritual notion has gone rogue, using the mystical teachings to con- York scenes are truly phenomenal. In the hands of that not all can be explained by science allows for an nect with dark forces. He and his minions believe director Scott Derrickson and the special-effects “Inception”-like unraveling of reality. they’ll receive eternal life if they destroy the sanc- artists who worked on “Guardians of the Galaxy,” the Be sure to stay through the credits for two Marvel tums of the Ancient One’s power, which are conve- Big Apple becomes mesmerizingly Escher-esque: a “Easter eggs.” One involves a massive, self-refilling niently located in New York, London and Hong Kong disjointed, gravity-ignorant collection of streets and beer and the other teases a possible “Strange” future.