"Liberty Heights," Barry Levinson's new movie that was filmed in Baltimore last year, will have its premiere Sunday night at the Senator Theatre. The coming-of-age film, which portrays a young man grappling with race and religion in 1954 Baltimore, opens in theaters Nov. 19.
Levinson, as well as members of the movie's cast, will be in attendance at the premiere, which will benefit Dr. John Mann of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Jewish Musuem of Maryland. Dr. Mann will donate his share of the benefit's proceedings to the Osler Scholars Endowment of Johns Hopkins.
The screening of "Liberty Heights" starts at 6 p.m. Carlton J. Smith, who portrays James Brown in the film, will perform at a cocktail buffet at 8 p.m.
Tickets may be purchased for a $100 donation, $80 of which is tax-deductible, through the Johns Hopkins Fund for Medicine at 410-614-6700. The Senator is at 5400 York Road.
Microcinema program
MicroCineFest '99 continues today with a free outdoor screening at the Coffee Mill in Hampden at 5 p.m. Some favorites from the festival's shorts program will be shown.
Tonight don't miss "A Primer For Dental Extraction" in the 8 p.m. program and Mike Mitchell's funny and clever "Herd" at 10 p.m. A Huck Botko retrospective follows at midnight.
Saturday's screenings begin at 4 p.m. with a screening of "Barbie: An American Biography," followed by three shorts programs. Craig Baldwin's highly anticipated "Spectres of the Spectrum" will be shown at midnight. The festival wraps Sunday with a screening of "Existo," a hilariously subversive musical comedy from Nashville, which will be shown at the Charles Theatre at 7 p.m. With the exception of "Existo" and the Coffee Mill screenings, MicroCineFest will take place at The G-Spot, 2980 Falls Road.
Cinema on Sunday
Cinema Sundays this weekend will present "Mansfield Park," Patricia Rozema's adaptation of the Jane Austen novel starring Frances O'Connor. The Sun's own Milton Kent will introduce the movie and lead the post-screening discussion.
Four Cinema Sundays "mini-memberships" are available for $56 ($48 for renewals), and walk-up tickets will be available for $15 when doors open at 9: 45 a.m. Show time is 10: 30 a.m. Cinema Sundays is held at the Charles Theatre, 1711 N. Charles St.
Showing of `Metropolis'
