Martha's Vineyard Film Center
Film Archives
MOANA
USA | 2016 | 103 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family & Kids, MusicalDirected by Ron Clements, John Musker, Chris Williams (IX) , Don Hall
Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one knows exactly why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes MOANA, a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who…
PASSENGERS
USA | 2016 | 116 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-FiDirected by Morten Tyldum
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in an exciting action-thriller about two passengers who are on a 120-year journey to another planet when their hibernation pods wake them 90 years too early. Jim and Aurora are forced to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction as the ship teeters on the brink of…
Special Free Screening: ONCE UPON A SESAME STREET CHRISTMAS
USA | 2016 | 60 minutes | Rated G | Family & KidsENJOY THE HOLIDAYS IN DOWNTOWN VINEYARD HAVEN ON SUNDAY DECEMBER 11th. This holiday special goes back in time to show how Elmo’s ancestors–not to mention those of Grover, Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster–helped transform “the most unfriendly street in town” into the bright, kind, music-filled place it…
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA — Last Show
USA | 2016 | 135 minutes | Rated R | DramaDirected by Kenneth Lonergan
In MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, the latest film from award-winning writer and director Kenneth Lonergan, the life of a solitary Boston janitor is transformed when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew. The story of the Chandlers, a working-class family living in a Massachusetts fishing village for…
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
USA | 2016 | 115 minutes | Rated R | Drama, Mystery/Suspense, ThrillerDirected by Tom Ford
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival. From writer/director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a…
Warren Miller’s 67th Ski film, HERE, THERE, & EVERYWHERE
International | 2016 | 120 mins | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Biography, DocumentaryIncluded with each ticket Movie Ticket – National Premier Tour of Warren Miller’s 67th movie Sugarbush Lift Ticket (weekday) FREE with each movie ticket Free weekday lift ticket to Steamboat in Colorado National WME Tour Sweepstakes for Ski trips and more! Visit Audi Norwell, test drive, and get a chance to win…
ALLIED
UK, USA | 2016 | 124 minutes | Rated R | Action, Adventure, Drama, RomanceDirected by Robert Zemeckis
Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) and Marianne Beauséjour (Marion Cotillard) are World War II operatives who never reveal their true identities. After falling in love during a risky mission, they hope to leave all that double-dealing behind them and start new lives. Instead, suspicion and danger envelop their marriage as both husband and…
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
USA | 2016 | 133 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Sci-FiDirected by Gareth Edwards
From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key…
ARRIVAL
USA | 2016 | 116 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-FiDirected by Denis Villeneuve
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team–lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams)–are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers–and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her…
JACKIE – Oscar nominated
Chile, France, USA | 2016 | 95 minutes | Rated R | Biography, Drama, HistoryDirected by Pablo Larraín
JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). JACKIE places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary…
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS
Mongolia, UK, USA | 87 minutes | 87 minutes | Rated G | DocumentaryDirected by Otto Bell
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. Set against the breath-taking expanse…
MOONLIGHT redux — 2016 Best Picture Winner!
USA | 2016 | 110 minutes | Rated R | DramaDirected by Barry Jenkins
MOONLIGHT won Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, MOONLIGHT chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami….
TAMPOPO
Japan | 1985 | 114 minutes | Not Rated | Comedy, ForeignDirected by Jûzô Itami
Chris Fischer, the Beard Award winning author and chef is going to present a new short film beforehand and talk afterwards about Tampopo, a film he specifically selected for us this evening. The sophomore directorial effort from ill-fated Japanese filmmaker Juzo Itami, Tampopo is an off-beat comedy featuring several intersecting stories all…
2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Short Film Tour
2016 | 95 minutes | Not Rated | Short FilmShowcasing a wide variety of story and style, the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 95-minute theatrical program of eight short films selected from this year’s Festival, which over the course of its more than 30-year history has been widely considered the premier showcase for short films and the…
THE HANDMAIDEN
South Korea | 2016 | 145 minutes | Not Rated | Drama, Foreign, RomanceDirected by Chan-wook Park
From PARK Chan-wook, the celebrated director of OLDBOY, LADY VENGEANCE, THIRST and STOKER, comes a ravishing new crime drama inspired by the novel ‘FINGERSMITH’ by British author Sarah Waters. Having transposed the story to 1930s-era colonial Korea and Japan, Park presents a gripping and sensual tale of a young Japanese Lady living…
BALLET IN CINEMA: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
2017 | 100 minutes | Not Rated | Opera, Opera & Ballet, Opera/Theater/BalletComposer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Choreographer George Balanchine, Conductor Simon Hewett
Numerous choreographers have delved into Shakespeare to find dramatic material for their ballets, beginning with Jean-Georges Noverre, an ardent defender of the “action ballet” and Marius Petipa, who was the first to use Mendelssohn’s stage music. George Balanchine, who also loved the score, would prove no exception. In 1962 he created his…
OPERA: THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO
2014 | 180 minutes | Not Rated | Opera, Opera & Ballet, Opera/Theater/BalletConductor Philippe Jordan, Director Zabou Breitman
Sung in German. Die Entführung aus dem Serail was the first grand opera in the German language to be constructed as a Singspiel, the German theatrical form in which spoken and sung text alternate. At a period when the influence of the Ottoman Empire on its Austrian neighbor lent a certain Turkish…
SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY
USA | 2016 | 94 minutes | Not Rated | Documentary, EnvironmentDirected by Taggart Siegel , Jon Betz
Special guest speaker afterwards — Carol Koury, Sow True Seed Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds. Worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. SEED: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties…
KEVIN HART: WHAT NOW?
USA | 2016 | 96 minutes | Rated R | ComedyDirected by Leslie Small, Tim Story
Comedian Kevin Hart performs at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, providing a humorous insight into parenting, people on the edge, current events and his hardship’s in everyday life. In the film’s sub-plot, set before the events of the concert, Kevin is an agent for MI6 (Agent 0054) and attends a poker game…
A MAN CALLED OVE
Sweden | 2016 | 116 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Comedy, DramaDirected by Hannes Holm
Stepping from the pages of Fredrik Backman’s international best-selling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, who spends his days enforcing block association rules that only he cares about, and visiting his wife’s grave, Ove has given up on…
NT LIVE: HEDDA GABLER
2016 | 210 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Opera/Theater/Ballet“I’ve no talent for life.” Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free… Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel. Tony Award-winning director Ivo van…
NT LIVE: NO MAN’S LAND
2016 | 150 minutes | Not Rated | Opera/Theater/BalletDirected by Sean Mathias
Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s NO MAN’S LAND, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham’s Theatre, London. One summer’s evening, two aging writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst’s stately house nearby. As the…
OPERA IN CINEMA: SAMSON AND DELILA
France | 2016 | 170 minutes | Not Rated | Opera, Opera & Ballet, Opera/Theater/Ballet, RomanceConductor Philippe Jordan
Live filming of an October 2016 performance. Sung in French at the Opéra de Paris. Lightning streaks through the skies as Dalila declares her love to Samson in one of the finest arias of romantic opera. “My heart awakens to your voice like a flower to the kiss of dawn.” An enchanting yet…
THE NUTCRACKER BALLET
Austria | 2012 | 102 minutes | Not Rated | Dance, Family & Kids, Opera & Ballet, Opera/Theater/BalletThe Nutcracker filmed live at the Vienna State Opera House. Tchaikovsky’s winter wonderland comes to life in this special production of The Nutcracker. Choreography by Rudolph Nureyev. Starring Liudmila Konovalova as Clara, and Vladimir Shishov as Drosselmeier and The Prince. From the Wiener Staatsballett. Act 1: 47 min | Act 2: 55…
NT LIVE: THE THREEPENNY OPERA
2016 | 180 mins | Not Rated | Opera/Theater/BalletDirected by Rufus Norris
Rory Kinnear is Mack the Knife in a new version of this landmark twentieth-century musical, broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre. Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s classic musical theatre piece is adapted by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and directed by Rufus Norris…
LOVING — Last Show!
UK, USA | 2016 | 123 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Biography, DramaWritten and Directed by Jeff Nichols
From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case,…
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
UK, USA | 2016 | 132 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Family & Kids, FantasyDirected by David Yates
There are growing dangers in the wizarding world of 1926 New York. Something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets, threatening to expose the wizarding community to the Second Salemers, a fanatical faction of No-Majs (American for Muggles) bent on eradicating them. And the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald,…
DOCTOR STRANGE
USA | 2016 | 130 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-FiDirected by Scott Derrickson
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Based in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real…
CORALINE
USA | 2009 | 101 minutes | Rated PG | Action, Adventure, Animation, Family & Kids, Fantasy, Sci-FiDirected by Pete Kozachik, Henry Selick
Coraline Jones is a girl of 11 who is feisty, curious, and adventurous beyond her years. She and her parents have just relocated from Michigan to Oregon. Missing her friends and finding her parents to be distracted by their work, Coraline tries to find some excitement in her new environment. Coraline seriously…
DENIAL
UK, USA | 2016 | 110 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Biography, Drama, HistoryDirected by Mick Jackson
Based on the acclaimed book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, DENIAL recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Academy Award (R) winner Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Cannes Award winner Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier….