Critically Acclaimed Films this Summer at the Historic Tabernacle and other places...(scroll down please)

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MINE


Tuesday, July 14
at 8:00 p.m.

The Tabernacle
Trinity Park, Camp Meeting Grounds, Oak Bluffs

Admission: $8.00/$5.00 for Film Society
members

Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening


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Winner, Audience Award, 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival

with Special Guest, Director/Producer Geralyn Pezanoski

MINE is the powerful story about the essential bond between humans and animals told against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.

MINE explores how tragedy intensifies that bond and is told from the perspective of original guardians, rescuers, and adoptive parents of the voiceless victims of Katrina. These individuals are all connected by two things, the tragic aftermath of Katrina and their love of animals.

When two families love the same pet, conflicts inevitably arise over who is the rightful "owner" and what is right for the animal. At the center of this tension are pets who are loved like family, but by law are considered property. This begs the question, who is looking out for the best interest of the animals? Set in a post-Katrina landscape of poverty, loss and moral uncertainty, MINE presents the complexity of an intensely emotional situation that has no simple answers.

2009 * USA * Documentary * 83 mins. * Not Rated

Goodbye Solo


Tuesday, July 21
at 8:00 p.m.

The Tabernacle
Trinity Park, Camp Meeting Grounds, Oak Bluffs

Admission: $8.00/$5.00 for Film Society
members

Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening





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GOODBYE SOLO IS THE BEST-REVIEWED FILM OF 2009!!!

"Honest humor and poignancy. Performances that are beyond reproach."

"Beautiful, haunting and moving. West and Savane are outstanding."

"Four Stars! Intensely moving. A masterpiece."

"Four Stars! Extraordinary! Exhilarating! As engaging as it is original."

"There is little doubt that Bahrani is the biggest new name in cinema."

"Four Stars! Savane shows an intelligence and humor that'll grab you."

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Winner of the Venice Film Festival’s prestigious FIPRESCI International Critics Prize

On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol‘ boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man's American dream is just beginning, while the other‘s is quickly winding down. But despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit. Through this unlikely but unforgettable friendship, GOODBYE SOLO deftly explores the passing of a generation as well as the rapidly changing face of America.

Goodbye Solo is the latest film from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (“Chop Shop”, “Man Push Cart”).

2008 * USA * Feature * 91 min. * Rated PG-13 (for language)

The Beaches of Agnes

Tuesday, July 28
at 8:00 p.m.


The Tabernacle
Trinity Park, Camp Meeting Grounds, Oak Bluffs

Admission: $8.00/$5.00 for Film Society
members

Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening




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NY Times Review by A.O. Scott - Click Here


“Spellbinding visual beauty that reminds you of the transporting power of pure cinema, in which images alone convey the ineffable. It attests to the undiminished creativity of a woman who has led a charmed life surrounded by art and artists. An attitude of surreal playfulness informs the visuals.”
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“Dear Agnès Varda. She is a great director and a beautiful, lovable and wise woman, through and through.
It is not enough that she made some of the first films of the French New Wave. Her greatest triumph is her life itself. If you have not seen a single film by Agnès Varda, perhaps it is best if you start with THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS.”
– Roger Ebert

"New Wave vet Varda has contrived a wondrous vehicle for recapturing watershed moments, a kind of cine memoir that
filters her past through the many beaches, from Noirmoutier in France to the Pacific in California, that in some way shaped her.”
– Erica Abeel, indieWIRE

“Few filmmakers possess the èlan to warrant a feature length auto-exegesis. Agnès Varda is one, and her most recent memory piece cheerfully dissolves the boundaries between memoir, retrospective and installation…enough beautiful images to warrant several viewings. A must.”
– Max Goldberg, San Francisco Bay Guardian

2009 Cesar Award, Best Documentary

For her 80th birthday, Agnes Varda offers us a gift: this gorgeous, affecting, revealing autobiographical reflection filtered through the many beaches that, in their way, have shaped her life. Although she was born in the city, trips to the seaside with her family were an important part of her childhood. She spent part of the war in the coastal town of Sète, and, when she embarked on a career in cinema, she returned to Sète to make her first feature, the highly influential La pointe courte.

The cultural explosion that included the French New Wave; her life with her late husband, filmmaker Jacques Demy, and children, Rosalie and Mathieu; her long sojourn in the U.S., where she knew everybody from the Black Panthers to Jim Morrison—all are part of this extraordinary voyage through a most remarkable life.

Agnès Varda, whom A.O. Scott in The New York Times deemed “a treasure” when writing about her acclaimed documentary, THE GLEANERS AND I, returns with a movie that synthesizes 50 years of filmmaking, and 80 years of a life well-lived. An early member of the French New Wave, Varda has worked with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve and Philippe Noiret - not to mention Harrison Ford, the Black Panthers and Viva. Stories of her childhood in Brussels and adolescence in occupied Paris, of Los Angeles in the ’60s, and of life in her 14e arrondissement Paris neighborhood are melded with clips from both documentary and fiction work. Husband/filmmaker Jacques Demy, who died in 1990, is an abiding presence. Varda is an avid collector: of people and places, sensual experiences and intellectual preoccupations, personal commitments and political principles. She is a mother and wife, a feminist, nature-lover and urban-dwelling artist. Above all, she is a woman in love with the cinema whose new movie perfectly expresses her sentiment, “While I live, I remember.”

2009 * France * Documentary * 111 mins. * Not-Rated * English & French with English subtitles

House of Bones


Tuesday, August 4 at 8:00 p.m.

The Tabernacle
Trinity Park, Camp Meeting Grounds, Oak Bluffs

Admission: $8.00/$5.00 for Film Society
members

Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening

Island Premiere, Q&A with Vineyard Director/Writer Victoria Campbell

The film "House of Bones" is an honest portrait of a family coming to terms with the recent death of the matriarch and the unavoidable sale of a big, rambling Vineyard summer home by the sea. It is more of a memoir than a straightforward documentary, narrated and filmed by Victoria.

Victoria Campbell grew up on the island and is a trained actress having worked in off-broadway theatre in New York and Los Angeles. She is a self-taught filmmaker and this is her first feature length film which she has been working on since 2006. The film is centered on the loss of her family house and grandmother which occur in the time span of 6 months. She documents the last summer painting a raw, honest, intimate portrait of her family, particularly her mother. The house is portrayed as a female character threaded with the lives of her great grandmother, grandmother, mother and herself.

Mixing in home movies and archival photographs from the past 60 years, Victoria principally shot HOUSE OF BONES during the last summer spent in her family's generational home on Martha's Vineyard in the year 2006. A very honest portrait of what it has meant to spend summers on the Vineyard, and more specifically West Chop.

2009 * USA * Documentary * 83 mins. * Not-Rated