Martha's Vineyard Film Center
Film Archives
FILM+MUSIC – Exploring music and culture through film
FILM+MUSIC – Exploring music and culture through film The MV Film Society will be presenting a weekend of documentaries features that celebrate the convergence of music, culture, and film. In collaboration with MVY Radio. Music and film flow naturally together. Our first-ever Film + Music Festival will bring you closer…
2ND ANNUAL “BRAVE WOMEN, BRAVE MEN” BENEFIT CONCERT
USA | | Not Rated | Music ConcertRock Musician Jonathan Auerbach Produces and Performs a Musical Tribute Marking Memorial Day on Martha’s Vineyard to Salute America’s Troops In honor of Memorial Day and the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation, local Massachusetts Veterans, from WWII to Afghanistan, will attend a benefit…
MUD – encore audience favorite
USA | 2013 | 130 mins | Rated PG-13 | DramaJeff Nichols
Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios-he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and…
WAGNER & ME
UK | 2010 | 89 mins | Not Rated | DocumentaryCLASSIC MUSIC AT THE FILM CENTER The newest addition to the popular new Martha’s Vineyard Film Society theater in Vineyard Haven, a dazzling white grand piano, will be put to the test on Friday, May 24, when MVCMS Artistic Director, pianist Delores Stevens, and violist Lila Brown will present a 30 minute…
GOOD MORNING
Japan | 1959 | 93 mins | Not Rated | ComedyYasujirô Ozu
Ozu’s hilarious Technicolor reworking of his silent I Was Born, But . . . , Good Morning (Ohayô) is the story of two young boys in suburban Tokyo who take a vow of silence after their parents refuse to buy them a television set. Shot from the perspective of the petulant brothers,…
IN THE HOUSE
France | 2013 | 105 mins | Rated R | Drama, Mystery/SuspenseFrançois Ozon
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Buddha’s Birthday Bash – Two Films, Poetry, Music, and Birthday Cake
USA | 2012 | Not Rated | DocumentaryTo celebrate Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha birthday this year on May 17th, the Film Center is collaborating with a number of individuals and organizations to present two films that deal with the teachings of Buddhism in the West. Our program will begin at 4:00 pm with the screening of CRAZY WISDOM: Crazy Wisdom…
El Ángel Exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) (1962)
Mexico | 1962 | 95 mins | Not Rated | Comedy, DramaLuis Buñuel
The great screen surrealist Luis Buñuel co-wrote and directed this dark, bitterly witty satire. A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have gone away,…
RENOIR
France | 2012 | 111 mins | Rated R | Drama, RomanceGilles Bourdos
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Gilles Bourdos’ lushly atmospheric drama RENOIR tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74, and his middle son Jean, who returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. The elder Renoir is…
THE SAPPHIRES
Australia | 2012 | 99 mins | Rated PG-13 | Comedy, MusicalFilmmaker Wayne Blair
Inspired by a true story, THE SAPPHIRES follows four vivacious, young and talented Australian Aboriginal girls from a remote mission as they learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertains the U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968. Cynthia (Tapsell), Gail (Mailman), Julie (Mauboy) and Kay (Sebbens)…
HIGH AND LOW (1963)
Japan | 1962 | 143 mins | Not Rated | DramaAkira Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low(Tengoku to jigoku), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to…
Classic Film Wednesday: CHILDREN OF PARADISE (1945)
France | 1945 | Rated PG | DramaMarcel Carné
Even in 1945, Marcel Carné Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Pravert’s screenplay concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty). Each loves Garance in his own fashion, but only the intentions of sensitive mime-actor Deburau (Jean-Louis…
Classic Film Wednesday Night, The Mikado (1939)
UK, USA | 1939 | 90 Minutes | Not Rated | Comedy, Musical, RomanceFilmmaker Victor Schertzinger
Though it boasts an American director and star, this Technicolor cinemadaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta The Mikado is a faithful record of what it must have been like to attend a performance of Britain’s D’Oyly Carte opera company. Radio tenor Kenny Baker stars as Nanki-Poo, the wand’ring minstrel who wanders…
FROM UP ON POPPY HILL
Japan | 2013 | 91 mins | Rated PG | AnimationWritten by legendary studio founder Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Goro Miyazaki
The setting is Yokohama in 1963, and the filmmakers masterfully bring to life the bustling seaside town, with its salty air, sun-drenched gardens, and some of the most mouthwatering Japanese home-cooking set to film (plan on ramen and pork katsu after the movie). The story centers on an innocent romance beginning to…
The Quartet
UK | 2013 | 97 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Comedy, DramaFilmmaker Dustin Hoffman
Filmmaker Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman’s affectionate direction and the talented cast’s amiable charm make Quartet too difficult to resist.
Romantics Anonymous
Filmmaker JEAN-PIERRE AMÉRIS
Join NOT YOUR SUGAR MAMAS for some free sweet chocolate sampling before our screening and visit their store at the Tisbury Marketplace
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Filmmaker Alan Resnais
Resnais and scenarist Marguerite Duras weave a complex story concerning a French actress’s (Emmanuelle Riva) experiences in occupied France, juxtaposed with the horrendous ordeal of a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) coping psychologically with the bombing of Hiroshima.
Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival (Festival posts for 2012 or earlier)
2012: The MV International Film Festival Finds Its Center September 21, 2012 September 20, 2012 (Vineyard Haven, MA)-Right on cue the curtain went up! Though the scene of fevered construction just days before, the 7th annual MV International Film Festival was able to launch its opening night event at its new year-round…