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Classic Film Wednesday Night, The Mikado (1939)
UK, USA | 1939 | 90 Minutes | Not Rated | Comedy, Musical, RomanceFilmmaker Victor Schertzinger
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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…
THE SAPPHIRES
Australia | 2012 | 99 mins | Rated PG-13 | Comedy, MusicalFilmmaker Wayne Blair
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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)…
Cabin in the Sky, Pre-show at 7 pm with The Spirituals Choir!
USA | 1943 | 98 min. | Rated PG | MusicalA Film by Vincente Minnelli
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Presented with pre-show at 7 pm, The Spirituals Choir! Mortally shot at a crap game, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson gets a six-month Heavenly reprieve thanks to prayers from wife and True Believer Ethel Waters, but Rex Ingram’s “Lucifer Jr.” has a secret weapon in the ensuing battle for Anderson’s soul: Lena Horne’s sultry…
Good Ol’ Freda with introduction by Ray Whitaker, mvyradio’s “Just Four Guys”
UK | 2013 | 86 min. | Not Rated | Documentary, MusicalDirected by Ryan White
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Special introduction by Ray Whitaker, mvyradio’s “Just Four Guys”. ‘Good Ol’ Freda’ tells the story of Freda Kelly, a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: the Beatles. As the Beatles’ fame multiplies, Freda bears witness to music and cultural history but never exploits…
“This is Gary McFarland” with introduction by Dave Kish – mvyradio’s “All That Jazz”
USA | 2006 | Not Rated | MusicalKristian St. Clair
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Featuring candid interviews with some of the world’s hippest musicians, This is Gary McFarland explores the life and times of self-taught musician, composer, and producer Gary McFarland, who despite contributions and affilations with such notables as Gerry Mulligan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Clark Terry, Gabor Szabo, and Cal Tjader,…
AKA Doc Pomus with Sharyn Felder (daughter of Doc Pomus)
USA | 2012 | 98 mins | Not Rated | MusicalPeter Miller and Will Hechter
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Discussion with Sharyn Felder, Doc’s daughter after the screening. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus, then emerged as a one of the most brilliant songwriters of the early rock and roll era, writing “Save the Last Dance for…
Classic Film Night — Dangerous When Wet
USA | 1953 | 95 min. | Rated PG | Comedy, Musical, RomanceMartha's Vineyard Film Center
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Join us for our final Classic Film Night before the summer season kicks off! The Classic Film Series will return in the fall. For our last hurrah we’re celebrating the late Esther Williams with the 1963 musical comedy classic Dangerous When Wet. Dangerous When Wet marks an important milestone in the life and career…
SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY in collaboration with the Vineyard Haven Public Library (FREE SCREENING)
USA | 1982 | 100 mins | Rated G | Documentary, MusicalGeorge T. Nierenberg
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The Vineyard Haven Public Library will kick off its six-week long film and lecture series “America’s Music: A History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway” with a free screening of the documentary “Say Amen, Somebody” The series will feature showings of six award-winning documentary films about uniquely American…
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
USA | 2014 | 105 mins | Rated R | Drama, MusicalDirected by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
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INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961 LLEWYN DAVIS (OSCAR ISAAC) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly…
Music and Film Festival: LIVING STARS with dance contest to follow
Argentina | 2014 | 63 minutes | Not Rated | Comedy, Documentary, MusicalMariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat
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An all-ages dance party through the kitchens, backyards and living rooms of Buenos Aires, Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat‘s Living Stars sets its camera on dozens of everyday Portenos and lets each do his or her thing for the duration of a single dance track. The setup is straightforward: Fixed camera, mic on the floor to catch ambient…
Music and Film Festival: MATEO
USA | 2014 | 88 Mins | Not Rated | Documentary, MusicalAaron Naar
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Matthew Stoneman dreamed of pop stardom. Instead, he went to jail, learned Spanish, and emerged as “Mateo,” America’s first white mariachi singer. Mateo is on the brink of completing an album of original songs in Havana. But his estrangement from friends and family, his criminal past, and his love for Cuban women…
Music and Film Festival: BRASSLANDS
Serbia | 2013 | 84 Mins | Not Rated | Documentary, MusicalMeerkat Media Collective
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An eccentric New York brass band, a virtuosic group of struggling Roma Gypsies, and reigning Serbian champions converge with half a million fans and transcend political and ethnic borders at the world’s l!argest trumpet festival in Guča, Serbia.! A tiny Serbian village explodes with brass cacophony and riotous celebration as more than…
Classic Film Night: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
USA | 1975 | 100 minutes | Rated R | Comedy, MusicalJim Sharman
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This low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion that they come across on a rainy night. After the wholesome pair profess their love through an opening song, their car breaks down in the woods, and they…
OPERA & BALLET in cinema: Balanchine Millepied
France | 2014 | 143 minutes | Not Rated | Dance, Musical, Opera & BalletGeorges Bizet and Maurice Ravel
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Alongside Balanchine’s Palais de Cristal, set to music by Bizet, Benjamin Millepied adapts Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé. Philippe Jordan will be accompanying the Paris Opera Ballet for the first time. This encounter between two great French composers and two choreographers from the New York City Ballet, its founder George Balanchine and former…
OPERA & BALLET in cinema: THE NUTCRACKER from the Vienna Staatsballett
Austria | 2012 | 105 minutes | Not Rated | Dance, Family & Kids, Fantasy, Musical, Opera & BalletPiotr Ilytch Tchaikovsky
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Starring Liudmila Konovalova as Clara, and Vladimir Shishov as Drosselmeier and The Prince. From the Vienna Staatsballett. The Nutcracker, certainly the most performed work in the ballet literature and one which has become a central experience for generations of ballet audiences. Choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev in 1967, this version holds a special place…