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The Thin Man
1934 | 91 min. | Rated PG | Comedy, Mystery/SuspenseMartha's Vineyard Film Center
Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been considered extravagant), The Thin Man proved to be “sleeper,” spawning a popular film, radio, and television series. Contrary to popular belief, the title does not refer to star William Powell, but to…
FROM UP ON POPPY HILL
Japan | 2013 | 91 mins | Rated PG | AnimationWritten by legendary studio founder Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Goro Miyazaki
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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…
Classic Film Wednesday: CHILDREN OF PARADISE (1945)
France | 1945 | Rated PG | DramaMarcel Carné
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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…
PICNIC (1955)
USA | 1955 | 115 mins | Rated PG | Drama, RomanceMartha's Vineyard Film Center
One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into a small Kansas town during the Labor Day celebration to look up old college chum Alan (Cliff Robertson, in…
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…
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…
Midnight@Ten: JAWS
USA | 1975 | 124 min. | Rated PG | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, HolyCowThisMovieHasEverything!!, Mystery/SuspenseA Film by Steven Spielberg
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To open our Midnight@Ten series, we thought we’d invite you into the jaw of a man-eating monster from the deep. You know the story: boy meets girl, girl meets shark, shark meets oxygen tank. Classic. Favorite quote: “I can do anything; I’m the chief of police.”
The Queen of Versailles,
presented with filmmaker Lauren Greenfield
USA | 2012 | 100 min. | Rated PG | Documentary
A Film by Lauren Greenfield
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The filmmaker, Lauren Greenfield, will be conducting a Q&A after the screening. Don’t forget to come to her photography workshop on August 1 and a screening of her other film, Thin, on August 2. David Siegel grew his enormous wealth in the time-share business. He felt he was doing much more than selling…
Searching for Bobby Fischer
followed by a discussion with Fred and Josh Waitzkin
1993 | 109 min. | Rated PG | Comedy, Drama
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Join Fred Waitzkin, author of the book, and his son, Josh, for a screening of much loved SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER followed by a discussion by father and son of Fred’s highly acclaimed new novel, The Dream Merchant. Vineyard Psychiatrist Charles Silberstein will ask provocative questions to this well known father-son team about the…
A Place at the Table
USA | 2012 | 84 min. | Rated PG | DocumentaryMartha's Vineyard Film Center
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A discussion will follow, led by Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern and long-time seasonal West Chop resident Dr. Mariana Chilton, PhD, both of whom are featured in the film. Representative McGovern and Dr. Chilton will be joined by the film’s co-director Lori Silverbush and by Dr. Donald Berwick, MD, who has helped implement…
Fill the Void – introduced by Kate Feiffer
Israel | 2012 | 90 min. | Rated PG | DramaA Film by Rama Burshtein
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“Fill the Void,” the most successful independent Israeli film to be released in the past decade, tells the story of 18-year-old Shira, youngest daughter of an Orthodox Hassidic family, who is about to be married off to a promising young man of similar age and background. When her older sister dies giving…
Classic Film Wednesday: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
China | 2000 | 97 mins | Rated PG | Drama, Foreign, RomanceDirected by Kar Wai Wong
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Auteur filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directs this moody period drama about unrequited love that, like his earlier work, swoons with romantic melancholy. Set in a Shanghaiese enclave in Hong Kong in 1962, the film centers on two young couples who rent adjacent rooms in a cramped and crowded tenement. Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) works…
WADJDA
Saudi Arabia | 2013 | 98 min | Rated PG | Drama, ForeignHaifaa Al-Monsour
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WADJDA is a movie of firsts. This first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, it is the story of a spirited 10-year-old Saudi girl discovering the severe limitations placed on women in the name of custom, Islam and family honor. With impressive agility, “Wadjda” finds room to maneuver between harsh realism…
ROMEO AND JULIET (A Live on Screen performance from Broadway production with Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad)
USA | 2013 | 135 mins | Rated PG | Drama, RomanceDirected by David Leveaux
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Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings) and two-time Tony Award® nominee Condola Rashad (Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful) turned up the heat this fall as Broadway’s hottest, rule-breaking, heart-aching couple, ROMEO AND JULIET. “Mr.(Orlando) Bloom in a first-rate Broadway debut and the gifted (Condola) Rashad exude a too fine for this world…
PILLOW TALK (1959)
USA | 1959 | 98 mins | Rated PG | Comedy, RomanceMichael Gordon
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WEAR YOUR BEST BEDTIME ATTIRE, GET IN FREE TO THE MOVIE. Playboy composer Rock Hudson and interior-decorator Doris Day are obliged to share a telephone party line. Naturally, their calls overlap at the least opportune times, and just as naturally, this leads to Hudson and Day despising each other without ever having…
Classic Film Series: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
USA | 1981 | 115 minutes | Rated PG | AdventureSteven Spielberg
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Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman),…
Music and Film Festival: WE ARE THE BEST!
Sweden | 2013 | 102 minutes | Rated PG | Comedy, DramaLukas Moodysson
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‘We Are the Best!’ is a joyous celebration of youth, friendship and rebellion.WE ARE THE BEST! is Moodysson’s adaptation of his wife Coco’s graphic novel about three young misfits growing up in early ’80s Stockholm. This is a film of flawless, natural performances, particularly from the three young leads. It’s 1982, and…
BELLE
USA | 2014 | 105 minutes | Rated PG | Drama, Family & Kids, RomanceAmma Asante
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This film is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, yet her status prevents her from the traditions of noble social standing. While her…
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT
UK | 1964 | 87 minutes | Rated PG | ComedyRichard Lester
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During the first worldwide flush of Beatlemania in 1964, United Artists wanted to ship out a movie with The Beatles before their vogue was over. Working within a tight $500,000 budget, director Richard Lester turned out A Hard Day’s Night in a fast 6 1/2 weeks; the picture was in the theatres…
THE ISLAND PRESIDENT sponsored by The Center for Biological Diversity and in collaboration with Vineyard Conservation Society
UK | 2011 | 101 minutes | Rated PG | DocumentaryWednesday August 13, 2014, 7:30 pm
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ON FEBRUARY 7, 2012, MOHAMED NASHEED RESIGNED THE PRESIDENCY UNDER THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE IN A COUP D’ETAT PERPETRATED BY SECURITY FORCES LOYAL TO THE FORMER DICTATOR. THIS FILM IS THE STORY OF HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE. Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a…
THE GRADUATE with special guest director Mike Nichols (in collaboration with the MV Museum)
USA | 1967 | 106 minutes | Rated PG | Comedy, Drama, RomanceMike Nichols
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Saturday August 30, 2014, 7:30 pm
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Special guest, Mike Nichols will be in attendance for a Q&A session following the show. This screening is in collaboration with the MV Museum and benefits both the museum and the film center. “One word: plastics.” This line and others in THE GRADUATE became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth rebellion…