Martha's Vineyard Film Center
Live Theatre on Screen: DRIVING MISS DAISY with Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones
Australia | 2013 | 90 minutes | Not Rated | DramaPlay directed by David Esbjornson
Sunday June 15, 2014, 7:30 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
$20 General Admission, $18 Member
Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening
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Play directed by David Esbjornson
Alfred Uhry
Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones, and Boyd Gaines
Two of the world’s greatest living actors — five-time Tony Award and three-time Academy Award nominee Angela Lansbury and two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award winner James Earl Jones star in Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer–Prize winning play Driving Miss Daisy. Driving Miss Daisy, shot during the play’s Australian tour, after sell out…
Classic Film Wednesdays: MULHOLLAND DRIVE
USA | 2001 | 147 minutes | Rated R | Drama, Mystery/SuspenseDavid Lynch
Wednesday April 16, 2014, 7:30 pm,
$12 General Admission, $9 Member
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David Lynch
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux
David Lynch’s dreamlike and mysterious Mulholland Drive is a twisty neo-noir with an unconventional structure that features a mesmirizing performance from Naomi Watts as a woman on the dark fringes of Hollywood. David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and…
Monday July 21, 2014, 7:30 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
$20 General Admission, $18 Member
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Jonathan Kent
Leading tenor of today Jonas Kaufmann stars in a brand new production of Manon Lescaut alongside Kristine Opolais
Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre will present a special live ‘preview’ performance by WT DOT singers, Monday July 21 thirty minutes before Opera in Cinema Pucinni’s Manon Lescaut beginning at 7:00 PM Puccini’s first triumph returns to Covent Garden for the first time in 30 years in a new staging by Jonathan…
Sunday June 22, 2014, 12:00 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
$20 General Admission, $18 Member
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Richard Eyre's
Old favorites, star studded cast - Renee Fleming, Thomas Hampson (baritone), Joseph Calleja (tenor)
Verdi’s La Traviata, based on Alexander Dumas fils’s play La Dame aux camélias, is one of Verdi’s most popular operas, combining drama, passion and memorable melodies. Verdi’s tragic tale of a Parisian courtesan who sacrifices all for love is vividly presented in Richard Eyre’s production. Alfredo and the courtesan Violetta fall passionately in…
Saturday May 31, 2014, 12:00 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
$20 General Admission, $18 Member
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Daniele Abbado’
This was Domingo's debut in the baritone role of Nabucco (over the last few years he has transitioned from tenor to baritone roles)
Placido Domingo, one of the most celebrated vocal talents of our time, is making a major role debut. This is a rare chance to see a genre-defining masterwork, containing some of the greatest choral music ever written, along with some wonderful arias and ensembles. This new production of Nabucco is not-to-be-missed. Domingo…
Saturday April 12, 2014, 12:00 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
$20 General Admission, $18 Member
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Kasper Holten
Star studded cast featuring the leading Don Giovanni of today Mariusz Kwiecien and French soprano Veronique Gens.
The debut feature film of leading opera director Kasper Holten (Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), DON GIOVANNI (JUAN) retells Mozart’s classical masterpiece as a story of the modern man’s escape from himself and his demons. Star studded cast featuring the leading Don Giovanni of today Mariusz Kwiecien…
Wednesday April 09, 2014, 7:30 pm,
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening
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Richard Quine
William Holden, Nancy Kwan
William Holden stars as an American Artist who becomes involved with the sordid underworld of prostitution in Hong Kong in The World of Suzie Wong, based on Paul Osborn’s Broadway adaptation of the novel by Richard Mason. Robert Lomax tired of working in an office, wants to be an artist. So he…
Saturday April 12, 2014, 4:00 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
Free Admission
Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening
Macky Alston
Discussion with director Macky Alston following the film. Co-presented with the Open and Affirming Committee of the First Congregational Church of West Tisbury THIS IS A FREE COMMUNITY EVENT Love Free or Die is the true story about gay Bishop Gene Robinson whose two defining passions the world cannot reconcile: his love for…
Wednesday April 02, 2014, 7:30 PM,
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid,
The plot of this Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper from the Coen Brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) pivots around a case of mistaken identity complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, sex, pot, and gallons of White Russians (made with fresh cream, please). In 1991, unemployed ’60s refugee Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski…
Wednesday March 26, 2014, 7:30 PM,
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Ethan Coen , Joel Coen
John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams, Van Brooks
In the first film of brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, M. Emmett Walsh plays Visser, an unscrupulous private eye hired by Texas bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to murder Marty’s faithless wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her paramour, Ray (John Getz), one of Marty’s employees. But Visser is no more up-front…
PUCKER UP with filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner and live whistling performance by 3 times World Champion Geert Chatrou
Thursday July 24, 2014, 7:30pm ,
DETROPIA with filmmaker Heidi Ewing
Saturday July 26, 2014, 7:30 PM ,
LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM with filmmaker Rory Kennedy
Monday July 28, 2014, 7:30 PM ,
Special screening of Academy Award winning short documentary THOTH and feature doc MARJOE, Q&A with filmmaker Sarah Kernochan
SPECIAL EVENT
Wednesday July 23, 2014, 7:30 pm ,
CHEF
Friday July 25, 2014, 7:30 PM ,
NY Film Critics National Series: CHILD OF GOD with on-screen Q&A with James Franco afterwards
SPECIAL EVENT
Wednesday July 30, 2014, 7:30 pm ,
ONE FAST MOVE OR I’M GONE: KEROUAC’S BIG SUR — In collaboration with the West Tisbury Library Foundation — reception at 6:30pm
SPECIAL EVENT
Tuesday July 29, 2014, 7:30pm ,
THE LIFE AND MIND OF MARK DEFRIEST with panel discussion afterwards featuring Professor Alan Dershowitz, Judge Mark Wolf, and Dr. James Gilligan
SPECIAL EVENT
Sunday July 27, 2014, 7:30 PM ,
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
Friday July 25, 2014, 9:30pm
Saturday July 26, 2014, 9:45pm ,