Martha's Vineyard Film Center
Sunday September 11, 2016, 2PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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CHAITANYA TAMHANE
Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the “people’s poet,” is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker…
2016 MVIFF – CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR
Thailand | 2015 | 122 mins | Not Rated | DramaApichatpong Weerasethakul
Friday September 09, 2016, 9:15PM,
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.They are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier…
2016 MVIFF – AFERIM!
Romania | 2015 | 108 mins | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Comedy, DramaRADU JUDE
Friday September 09, 2016, 4:30PM,
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RADU JUDE
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife. Together with his son, they set out in search for the gypsy slave. While the unflappable Costandin comments on…
DON’T THINK TWICE (last showing)
USA | 2016 | 92 minutes | Rated R | Comedy, DramaDirected by Mike Birbiglia
Thursday September 15, 2016, 8:15PM (Strand),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by Mike Birbiglia
Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Mike Birbiglia, Kate Micucci, Chris Gethard, Tami Sagher
When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets cast on a hit TV show, the rest of the group – all best friends – start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all. From Mike Birbiglia, director of “Sleepwalk With Me”, and the creator of “This American Life” comes…
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KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
USA | 2016 | 101 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Animation, Family & KidsDirected by Travis Knight
Tuesday August 30, 2016, 6:00PM (Capawock)
Wednesday August 31, 2016, 6:00PM (The Strand)
Thursday September 01, 2016, 3:30PM (Capawock)
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by Travis Knight
Charlize Theron, Rooney Mara, George Takei, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew McConaughey
Older viewers will tune in to its melancholy – its battles between memory and loss, its themes of filial piety and betrayal – while younger ones will dig the more basic emotions of Kubo’s epic journey. Staggeringly beautiful and immensely true, this is the best animated film of 2016. Voice cast includes Charlize Theron,…
Thursday September 01, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by Todd Phillips
Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Steve Lantz
WAR DOGS follows two friends in their early 20s (Jonah Hill and Miles Teller) living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War who exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets…
Tuesday September 06, 2016, 6:00PM (Strand)
Thursday September 08, 2016, 6:00PM (Capawock),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by Richard Tanne
Parker Sawyers, Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Inspired by Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU recounts the eventful summer day in 1989 when a young law firm associate named Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) tried to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) during a daylong date that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a…
2016 MVIFF — THE WEEKEND SAILOR
Canada, Mexico | 2016 | 70 minutes | Not Rated | Adventure, Biography, Documentary, Foreign, HistoryDirected by Bernardo Arsuaga
Sunday September 11, 2016, 7:00PM (Capawock),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by Bernardo Arsuaga
With almost no experience, Mexican captain Ramon Carlin raced against the superstars of sailing in a 9 month deadly trip ’round the world, his regatta winning the overall prize. In 1973, the United Kingdom organized the first head to head sailing race around the world, inviting expert crews from Europe and other…
PETE’S DRAGON
USA | 2016 | 102 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Family & Kids, FantasyDirected by David Lowery
Sunday August 28, 2016, 4:00PM (Capawock),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by David Lowery
Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban
A reimagining of Disney’s cherished family film, “Pete’s Dragon” is the adventure of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who just so happens to be a dragon. Wonderful live-action family film from Disney.
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
USA | 2016 | 110 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Biography, ComedyDirected by Stephen Frears
Tuesday September 06, 2016, 6:00PM (Capawock)
Wednesday September 07, 2016, 6:00PM (Strand)
Thursday September 08, 2016, 6:00PM (Capawock)
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by Stephen Frears
Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg
A wealthy New York heiress (Maryl Streep) attempts to become an opera singer despite her horrible singing voice. Hugh Grant and Rebecca Ferguson co-star in this biopic directed by Stephen Frears. Another comic gem from Streep.
2016 MVIFF — International Short Films Juried Competition– SOLD OUT!
International | 2016 | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Romance
Saturday September 10, 2016, 6:30PM,
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This screening is SOLD OUT! From over 300+ entries our festival selection committee has chosen 10 finalists. We will screen each finalist short film and our jury will choose Best Over-all Short at the conclusion of the program. Program notes to be added very very soon. TO PURCHASE AN ALL-ACCESS…
Thursday August 25, 2016, 8:30 PM (Strand)
Friday August 26, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock)
Saturday August 27, 2016, 8:45PM (Strand)
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by David Ayer
Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez.
Director David Ayer (FURY) takes the helm for this production adapted from the DC Comics series about a group of super-villains who are given a shot at redemption by embarking on a heroic mission that will most likely mean the death of them all.
2016 MVIFF – THE TENTH MAN
Argentina | 2016 | 82 minutes | Not Rated | Comedy, Drama, Foreign, RomanceDaniel Burman
Sunday September 11, 2016, 12:00PM,
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Daniel Burman
Singer songwriter, Usher
The romantic comedy, THE TENTH MAN, is a kind-hearted story about a son re-entering the world of his father, the world he left long ago.In the process of trying to meet his father and getting entangled in his charitable commitments, Ariel meets Eva. Her independent spirit motivates Ariel to come to grips…
Thursday September 08, 2016, 8:00PM (Film Center)
Sunday October 16, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center)
Wednesday October 19, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center)
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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HIROKAZU KOREEDA
The beautiful film from Japan, OUR LITTLE SISTER, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother’s home after the death of their father, and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister. The Huffington Post writes, “Our Little Sister is a film of surpassing beauty and sensitivity, a fully realized…
2016 MVIFF — THE INNOCENTS
France, Poland | 2016 | 115 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Drama, Foreign, History, WarDirected by Anne Fontaine
Friday September 09, 2016, 7:00pm(Film Center),
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Directed by Anne Fontaine
The hauntingly beautiful film from Poland, THE INNOCENTS directed by Anne Fontaine is set in 1945 Poland where a young French Red Cross doctor is sent to assist survivors of a concentration camp and discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy at a nearby convent. Warsaw, December 1945: the second World…
Friday September 09, 2016, 9:00PM,
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Gabriel Mascaro
Wild, sensual and utterly transporting, Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro’s second fiction feature unfolds within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails. Neon Bull explores the vaquejada through the eyes of Iremar, a handsome cowboy who works the…
Monday August 22, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock)
Wednesday August 24, 2016, 8:30PM (Strand),
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Directed by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Mumolo, Jay Hernandez, Jada Pinkett Smith, Christina Applegate
A woman with a seemingly perfect life – a great marriage, overachieving kids, beautiful home, stunning looks and still holding down a career. However she’s over-worked, over committed and exhausted to the point that she’s about to snap. Fed up, she joins forces with two other over-stressed moms and all go on…
New York Film Critics Series Premiere: SILVER SKIES
USA | 2015 | 95 minutes | Rated R | Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirected by Rosemary Rodriguez
Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
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Directed by Rosemary Rodriguez
Valerie Perrine, George Hamilton, Mariette Hartley, Jack McGee, Alex Rocco, Barbara Bain, Jack Betts, Howard Hesseman, Heather McComb, Nestor Rodriguez, Todd Williams, Micah A. Hauptman, Melissa Hayden
Post-screening simulcast Q&A with George Hamilton, Mariette Hartley, Barbara Bain, & Jack McGee. You can never be too old for new beginnings. A group of eccentric retirees’ lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them. About the NY Film Critics Film Series: A regular…
2016 ALL-ACCESS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PASS
International | 2016 | Not Rated | Documentary, Foreign, Short Film
Tuesday September 06, 2016
Wednesday September 07, 2016
Thursday September 08, 2016,
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$225 per person, $185 per person for film society members
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ALL-ACCESS FESTIVAL PASS Click here for festival information and details $225 per person $185 per person, discounted for film society members First Choice Admission to any film during festival (however pass holder must pre-select movie tickets at box office, and arrive 10 minutes before start time to guarantee a seat for themselves)…
JASON BOURNE
USA | 2016 | 123 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Action, Adventure, DramaDirected by Paul Greengrass
Tuesday September 06, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock)
Wednesday September 07, 2016, 6:00PM (Capawock), 8:30PM (Strand)
Thursday September 08, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock)
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed
Years after the events of THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, former CIA assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) resurfaces just as his former employers are implementing a new program aimed at hunting him down. Now fully recovered from his amnesia, Bourne teams up with Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) to uncover the ultimate truth about his…
AGENTS OF CHANGE– One Time Screening
USA | 2014 | 66 minutes | Not Rated | DocumentaryFrank Dawson and Abby Ginzberg
Tuesday August 16, 2016, 6:00PM (Strand),
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Frank Dawson and Abby Ginzberg
Post-screening discussion with filmmakers Frank Dawson and Abby Ginzberg, and acclaimed director Stanley Nelson. AGENTS OF CHANGE is an award-winning film about the black-led student protest movement of the late 1960’s which helped bring about Black and Ethnic Studies programs across the country. Through the stories of the young men and women who…
STAR TREK BEYOND — Last Show!
USA | 2016 | 120 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Sci-FiDirected by Justin Lin
Thursday August 11, 2016, 6:00PM (Strand),
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Directed by Justin Lin
John Cho, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba
Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise encounter an alien warrior race when marooned on a distant planet after the destruction of their spaceship in this thrilling sequel directed by Fast & Furious director Justin Lin. ‘Star Trek Beyond’ is a terrific 50th anniversary salute to the series appeal.
BIG FRIENDLY GIANT (THE BFG)
UK, USA | 2016 | 117 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Family & Kids, FantasyDirected by Steven Spielberg
Saturday July 30, 2016, 4:00PM (Strand)
Sunday July 31, 2016, 4:00PM (Capawock),
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Directed by Steven Spielberg
Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall, Bill Hader
Steve Spielberg’s BFG minimizes the darker elements of Roald Dahl’s classic in favor of a resolutely good-natured, visually stunning, and largely successful family-friendly adventure. A girl named Sophie encounters the Big Friendly Giant who, despite his intimidating appearance, turns out to be a kindhearted soul who is considered an outcast by the other giants because,…
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Tuesday July 26, 2016, 8:30PM (Strand)
Wednesday July 27, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock)
Thursday July 28, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center)
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Mandie Fletcher
Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Celia Imrie
Appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and…
Tuesday July 26, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock)
Wednesday July 27, 2016, 6:00PM (Strand)
Thursday July 28, 2016, 8:30PM (Strand)
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Directed by Paul Feig
Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Charles Dance, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chris Hemsworth
Ghostbusters makes its long-awaited return, rebooted with a cast of hilarious new characters. Thirty years after the beloved original franchise took the world by storm, director Paul Feig brings his fresh take to the supernatural comedy, joined by some of the funniest actors working today–Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth….
THE BIG CHILL with Special Guest JoBeth Williams
USA | 1983 | 115 minutes | Rated R | Comedy, DramaDirected by Lawrence Kasdan
Monday July 18, 2016, Pre-screening reception at 6:45PM, film starts at 7:30PM (Film Center),
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Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, JoBeth Williams
6:45PM pre-show reception with producer Diane English and actress JoBeth Williams. Post-screening Q&A with JoBeth Williams. She will discuss its cast, production, and lasting appeal after the screening. A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group of old college friends who are now all grown up and hardened by the big wide world…
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS
USA | 2016 | 90 minutes | Rated PG | Animation, Comedy, Family & KidsDirected by Chris Renaud , Yarrow Cheney
Saturday August 06, 2016, 4:00PM (Capawock)
Sunday August 07, 2016, 4:00PM (Strand),
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Directed by Chris Renaud , Yarrow Cheney
Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Steve Coogan, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan
A comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature-film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, which co-stars Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Jenny Slate, Bobby Moynihan, Hannibal Buress and Albert Brooks. Directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable…
Wednesday September 14, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
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Woody Allen
Jeannie Berlin, Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Ken Stott
Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen’s bittersweet romance CAFE SOCIETY follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) to Hollywood, where he falls in love, and back to New York, where he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life. Centering on events in the lives of Bobby’s colorful Bronx…
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Special Event: PAPER LANTERNS
USA | 2016 | 60 minutes | Not Rated | Documentary, HistoryDirected by Barry Frechette
Tuesday August 23, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
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Directed by Barry Frechette
Post-screening Q&A with director Barry Frechette, composer Chad Cannon, and cinemoatographer/ editor Max Esposito. Mr. and Mrs. Suzuki from Hiroshima will also be participating in the discussion. In the summer of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. On August 6th, “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, and three…
THE YOUNG AMERICANS multimedia and live-music performance
USA | 2016 | 90 mins | Rated PG | Action, Adventure, Art, Documentary, Drama, History, Music, Music Concert, Science
Monday July 25, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
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A unique multimedia performance with live music chronicles the race to reach the moon. With rare archival footage and interviews with the major players, astronauts and their families, John Monsky, creator and narrator, takes us inside the capsule and the control room to trace the great rush to the lunar surface. The drama,…
NT LIVE: ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS
UK | 2015 | 180 minutes | Not Rated | ComedyNicholas Hytner, Cal McCrystal
Tuesday July 26, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
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Nicholas Hytner, Cal McCrystal
James Corden
For a limited time only, National Theatre Live’s Encore Series brings a selection of award-winning British theatre productions to your local cinema. Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the uproarious One Man, Two Guvnors was a runaway hit both in London’s West End…
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN – Last Show!
USA | 2016 | 109 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Action, AdventureDirected by David Yates
Wednesday July 20, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock)
Thursday July 21, 2016, 8:30PM (Strand),
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Directed by David Yates
Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent, Casper Crump
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Margot Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary…
THE SAME HEART
Global, USA | 2016 | 67 minutes | Not Rated | DocumentaryDirected by Len Morris & Georgia Morris
Sunday July 24, 2016, 8:30PM (Strand),
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Directed by Len Morris & Georgia Morris
Why do half of the world’s children live in grinding poverty? The Same Heart features a growing number of global economists and moral leaders who agree that an extremely small financial transactions tax, the “Robin Hood Tax,” could place the needs of all children at the heart of the global financial system for the first time. Suggesting…
THE SHALLOWS
USA | 2016 | 127 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Drama, Horror, ThrillerDirected by Jaume Collet-Serra
Thursday July 21, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock),
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Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Blake Lively
In the taut thriller The Shallows, when Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy’s ingenuity, resourcefulness,…
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
USA | 2016 | 120 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Sci-FiDirected by Roland Emmerich
Monday July 04, 2016, 6:00PM (Strand)
Tuesday July 05, 2016, 8:30PM (Strand)
Wednesday July 06, 2016, 8:30PM (Strand)
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Directed by Roland Emmerich
Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Travis Tope, William Fichtner
We always knew they were coming back. After INDEPENDENCE DAY redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction. All-star cast including many from the original movie from…
Film Club: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
USA | 1962 | 130 minutes | Not Rated | Crime, DramaDirected by Robert Mulligan
Wednesday July 13, 2016, 9:30AM (Capawock),
$9 General Admission, $7 Member, children ages 14 or younger, & Bunch of Grapes discount card holders, who must purchase tickets at the door to receive the discount
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Directed by Robert Mulligan
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters, Frank Overton
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer/director team of Robert Mulligan and Alan J. Pakula. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently embodied by Gregory Peck. Finch puts…
Film Club: LIFE OF PI
Taiwan, USA | 2012 | 127 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Drama, FantasyDirected by Ang Lee
Wednesday August 24, 2016, 9:30am (Capawock),
$9 General Admission, $7 Member, children ages 14 or younger, & Bunch of Grapes discount card holders, who must purchase tickets at the door to receive the discount
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Directed by Ang Lee
Surja Sharma, Irrfan Khan
Director Ang Lee creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with another survivor…a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Film Club: THE PRINCESS BRIDE
USA | 1987 | 98 minutes | Rated PG | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family & Kids, FantasyDirected by Rob Reiner
Wednesday August 17, 2016, 9:30am (Capawock),
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Directed by Rob Reiner
Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Robin Wright, Peter Falk, Billy Crystal
An elderly man reads the book “The Princess Bride” to his sick and thus currently bedridden adolescent grandson, the reading of the book which has been passed down within the family for generations. The grandson is sure he won’t like the story, with a romance at its core, he preferring something with…
Film Club: EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
USA | 2012 | 129 minutes | Rated PG-13 | DramaDirected by Stephen Daldry
Wednesday July 27, 2016, 9:30am (Capawock),
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Directed by Stephen Daldry
Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis
John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright
Oskar (Thomas Horn) is convinced that his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock) and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe…
Film Club: FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
USA | 1991 | 130 minutes | Rated PG-13 | DramaDirected by Herbert Ross
Wednesday July 20, 2016, 9:30AM (Capawock),
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Directed by Herbert Ross
Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker
A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) barely acknowledges…
Film Club: THE COLOR PURPLE
USA | 1985 | 154 minutes | Rated PG-13 | DramaDirected by Steven Spielberg
Wednesday August 10, 2016, 9:30am (Capawock),
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Directed by Steven Spielberg
Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter…
World Premiere: VISIONS OF HOME: THE WORK OF HEATHER NEILL
USA | 2016 | 58 minutes | Not Rated |Directed by David Fokos, Barbarella Fokos
Friday July 29, 2016, 6:00PM (Capawock),
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Free Admission (Limit to 2 tickets per person)
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Directed by David Fokos, Barbarella Fokos
Directors David Fokos, Barbarella Fokos, and Artist Heather Neill will attend. Free admission (Limit to 2 tickets per a person) There is beauty to be found in the pattern on a porcelain teacup, or the “patina of a working boat at rest.” In her nostalgic, lifelike, and sometimes whimsical paintings, artist Heather Neill pays…
Monday August 01, 2016, 7:30PM
Tuesday August 02, 2016, 7:30PM
Wednesday August 03, 2016, 7:30PM
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$100 General Admission, $75 MVFS Member
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Documentary films have become the conscience of the nation, providing a deeper study of contemporary, and often unnoticed, social issues. By using the unique medium of film, documentarians are able to cultivate more compelling and fruitful discussion by mixing strongly-drive narratives with vivid imagery. In lieu of the rise of the documentary, the…
2016 Doc Week: BECOMING MIKE NICHOLS
USA | 2016 | 1 hr. 12 min. | Not Rated | Documentarydirected by DOUGLAS MCGRATH
Wednesday August 03, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
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$15 General Admission, $12 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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directed by DOUGLAS MCGRATH
POST-SCREENING Q&A WITH DIRECTOR DOUGLAS MCGRATH via SKYPE, plus special guests in attendance, Vineyarders and friends of Mike Nichols, ROSE STYRON and JAMES LAPINE to discuss Nichols’ love of the theater, and of the Vineyard. Just four months before he died, in a set of final, historic interviews, director Mike Nichols opened…
2016 Doc Week: MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES
USA | 2016 | 1 hr. 20 min. | Rated R | Art, Documentary, HistoryRandy Barbato and Fenton Bailey
Monday August 01, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
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$15 General Admission, 12 Member,
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Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey
Debbie Harry
Brooke Shields
Fran Lebowitz
FOLLOWED BY A Q&A WITH VISITING DIRECTOR RANDY BARBATO The only thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs was his life. He was obsessed with magic and in particular, with what he saw as the magic of photography and the magic of sex. He…
Saturday June 18, 2016, 4:00PM (Strand), 6:00PM (Capawock)
Sunday June 19, 2016, 4:00PM (Capawock)
Thursday June 23, 2016, 6:00PM (Strand)
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by Thea Shamrock
Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance, Brendan Coyle
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Jo Jo Moyes, Me Before You tells the story of the unexpected relationship that blossoms between a contented small town Englishwoman and the wealthy, paralyzed Londoner who hires her as his caretaker.Me Before You benefits from Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin’s alluring chemistry.
DARK HORSE
UK | 2016 | 85 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Documentary, Drama, Family & KidsDirected by Louise Osmond
Tuesday July 12, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center)
Thursday July 14, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by Louise Osmond
Set in a former mining village in Wales, DARK HORSE is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion,…
FINDING DORY
USA | 2016 | 100 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family & KidsDirected by Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane
Saturday September 03, 2016, 4:00PM (Capawock)
Sunday September 04, 2016, 4:00PM (Capawock),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane
Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Ed O'Neill
FINDING DORY reunites the friendly-but-forgetful blue tang fish with her loved ones, and everyone learns a few things about the true meaning of family along the way. The all-new big-screen adventure dives into theaters in 2016, taking moviegoers back to the extraordinary underwater world from the original film.
Filmusic Festival: THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE
USA | 2015 | 1 hr. 50 min. | Not Rated | Documentary, History, MusicDIRECTED BY JEFF L. LIEBERMAN
Sunday June 26, 2016, 4:00PM,
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$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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DIRECTED BY JEFF L. LIEBERMAN
The Amazing Nina Simone – directed by Jeff L. Lieberman This new documentary reveals the real Nina Simone through over 50 intimate interviews with those who best knew the artistry and intentions of one of America’s true musical geniuses. Much beloved and often misunderstood, the story of Americaʼs most overlooked musical genius…
NOW YOU SEE ME 2
USA | 2016 | 115 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Action, Comedy, Mystery/SuspenseDirected by Jon M. Chu
Thursday June 16, 2016, 9:00PM (Capawock)
Friday June 17, 2016, 6:00PM (Capawock)
Saturday June 18, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock)
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by Jon M. Chu
Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan, Jay Chou, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman
THE FOUR HORSEMEN (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Lizzy Caplan) return for a second mind-bending adventure, elevating the limits of stage illusion to new heights and taking them around the globe. One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, the illusionists resurface…
Thursday June 16, 2016, 7:00PM (Strand)
Friday June 17, 2016, 8:30PM (Capawock)
Saturday June 18, 2016, 7:00PM (Strand)
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by James Wan
Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O'Connor, Madison Wolfe, Simon McBurney, Franka Potente
Reprising their roles, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga (“Up In the Air,” TV’s “Bates Motel”) and Patrick Wilson (the “Insidious” films), star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued…
Friday September 09, 2016, 8:15PM (Strand)
Saturday September 10, 2016, 6:00PM (Strand)
Monday September 12, 2016, 6:00PM (Capawock)
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Hamish Linklater, Alex Neustaedter, Sam Shephard, Jack Quaid
When his older brother leaves to fight in the Second World War, fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley takes on a job as a bicycle telegraph messenger to provide for his widowed mother, his older sister and his younger brother. Homer delivers messages of love, hope, pain and death to the good people of Ithaca,…
Wednesday June 29, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
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Directed by Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman
ANTHONY WEINER
Former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner’s catastrophic race for Mayor of New York City in 2013 is detailed in this behind-the-scenes documentary. Weiner became embroiled in his second widely publicized sexting scandal during the race, derailing his once-promising political career. Weiner is directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg and received its world…
Wednesday August 10, 2016, 6:00PM (THE STRAND),
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$15 General Admission, $12 MVFS or MVM Member (must show MVM card at door),
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Discussion throughout the short film segments with Tom Dunlop & John Wilson. We are excited to collaborate with the MV Museum and the Vineyard Gazette to offer this historic program to you. The Historic Movies of Martha’s Vineyard project, a pioneering and award-winning effort of the Vineyard Gazette, presents films shot on the…
Filmusic Festival: ELVIS AND NIXON
USA | 2016 | 1hr 26 mins | Rated R | Comedy, Drama, HistoryDirected by LIZA JOHNSON
Sunday June 26, 2016, 7:30pm,
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Individual Tickets: $12 per movie, $9 for MV Film Society members (except when special pricing). Festival Pass $75, Member’s Festival Pass $60.
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Directed by LIZA JOHNSON
Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon
7:00PM – MINI CONCERT WITH SINGER SONGWRITER NATE D’ANGELO IN THE LOBBY An American comedy-drama This comedy cleverly blends fact and fiction to reveal the untold story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, King of Rock ‘n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, that resulted in the most requested photograph in the National Archives….
2016 Doc Week: THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE — SOLD OUT
International, USA | 2016 | 1 hr. 36 min. | Not Rated | Documentary, Family & Kids, Music, Music ConcertDirected by MORGAN NEVILLE
Thursday August 04, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
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Individual Tickets: $15 per movie, $12 for MV Film Society members.
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Directed by MORGAN NEVILLE
Morgan Neville, Academy Award Winner (2015 Best Documentary) will join us for a Q&A afterwards. From the director of the Oscar – winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom and the critically acclaimed Best of Enemies, the new film The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble tells the extraordinary…
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING
USA | 2016 | 86 minutes | Rated R | Comedy, MusicDirected by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone
Friday June 10, 2016, 6:00PM (Strand), 8:30PM (Capawock)
Saturday June 11, 2016, 8:30PM (Strand),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Sarah Silverman, Tim Meadows, Maya Rudolph, Joan Cusack
Universal Pictures’ POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING is headlined by musical digital-shorts superstars Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone, collectively known as The Lonely Island. The comedy goes behind the scenes as singer/rapper Conner4Real (Samberg) faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants, and rivals all…
PELÉ: BIRTH OF A LEGEND
USA | 2016 | 107 minutes | Rated PG | Biography, Drama, SportDirected by Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Saturday June 11, 2016, 3:30PM (Capawock)
Sunday June 12, 2016, 4:00PM (Strand),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Kevin de Paula, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta, Colm Meaney
Pelé. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of São Paulo, Brazil, so poor that he couldn’t…
WGBH’s NOVA: OPERATION LIGHTHOUSE RESCUE — Free Admission
USA | 2016 | 53 minutes | Not Rated | Documentary
Sunday June 12, 2016, 4:00 pm (Film Center),
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LIMIT OF TWO TICKETS PER PERSON. On the picturesque bluffs at the very tip of the island of Martha’s Vineyard, disaster looms. The historic Gay Head Lighthouse is soon to become the next victim of the ocean’s relentless erosion of the island cliffs. Built in 1856, the more than 400-ton structure soars…
LIFE, ANIMATED
France, USA | 2016 | 89 minutes | Rated PG | DocumentaryDirected by Roger Ross Williams
Monday August 29, 2016, 7:30PM (Film Center),
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by Roger Ross Williams
Ron Suskind, Owen Suskind
The inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films. This emotional coming-of-age story follows Owen as he graduates to adulthood and takes…
2018 FILMUSIC FESTIVAL: BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY
Saturday June 23, 2018, 1:00pm ,
DEADPOOL 2
Saturday June 23, 2018, 8:00pm (Strand)
Wednesday June 27, 2018, 7:00pm (Strand) ,
2018 FILMUSIC FESTIVAL: A MAN AND HIS TRUMPET: THE LEROY JONES STORY
Saturday June 23, 2018, 4:00pm ,
2018 FILMUSIC FESTIVAL: THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928) with Live Musical Score performed by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
SPECIAL EVENT
Thursday June 21, 2018, 7:30pm ,
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM
Thursday June 21, 2018, 7:00pm (Capawock)
Saturday June 23, 2018, 5:00pm (Strand)
Sunday June 24, 2018, 4:00pm (Strand)
INCREDIBLES 2
Friday June 22, 2018, 5:00pm (Strand), 8:00pm (Strand)
Thursday June 28, 2018, 7:00pm (Strand) ,
OCEAN’S 8
Tuesday June 19, 2018, 7:00pm (Capawock)
Wednesday June 20, 2018, 4:00pm (Capawock)
Thursday June 21, 2018, 7:00pm (Strand)
WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR, with Academy Award Winning Director Morgan Neville for both screenings
Tuesday June 26, 2018, 7:30pm
Wednesday June 27, 2018, 7:30pm ,
ADRIFT
Monday June 18, 2018, 7:00pm (Strand)
Thursday June 21, 2018, 4:30pm (Capawock)
Saturday June 23, 2018, 7:00pm (Capawock)
JAWS – Every Friday
Friday June 22, 2018, 3:00pm (Capawock Theater)
Friday June 29, 2018, 3:00pm (Capawock Theater)
Friday July 06, 2018, 3:00pm (Capawock Theater)
FAIR GAME (Director’s Cut) with Valerie Plame, former covert CIA ops officer, and Director/Producer Doug Liman in person for Q&A
SPECIAL EVENT
Sunday June 24, 2018, 7:30pm ,
2018 FILMUSIC FESTIVAL: HEARTS BEAT LOUD
Saturday June 23, 2018, 7:30pm ,
2018 FILMUSIC FESTIVAL: FIDDLIN’ with Director Julie Simone and Creative Producer Vicki Vlasic
Sunday June 24, 2018, 4:00pm ,
2018 FILMUSIC FESTIVAL: CONCERT FOR GEORGE
Friday June 22, 2018, 4:00pm ,
2018 FILMUSIC FESTIVAL PASS
Friday June 22, 2018
Saturday June 23, 2018
Sunday June 24, 2018,
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SPECIAL EVENT
Sunday June 24, 2018, 1:00pm (FILMUSIC Festival) ,
2018 FILMUSIC FESTIVAL: CLIVE DAVIS: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
Friday June 22, 2018, 7:30pm ,
RBG: RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Thursday June 28, 2018, 7:30pm ,