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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, Drama, Family & KidsLukas 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…
ALIVE INSIDE
USA | 2014 | 78 mins | Rated PG | Documentary, Family & Kids, HealthMartha's Vineyard Film Center
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As dementia continues to affect millions of elderly Americans, Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory reveals a remarkable, music-based breakthrough that has already transformed lives. Spearheaded by social worker Dan Cohen and captured on camera over the course of three years by filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett, we learn that songs from a patient’s past…
THE ISLAND PRESIDENT sponsored by The Center for Biological Diversity and in collaboration with Vineyard Conservation Society
UK | 2011 | 101 minutes | Rated PG | Documentary, Environment, Family & KidsBUY TICKETS
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…
SOLD OUT! 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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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…
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
France | 2013 | 104 minutes | Rated PG | Family & Kids, ForeignNicolas Vanier
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Set in a small village in the snowy Alps during WWII, an orphan named Sebastian befriends Belle, a wild dog wandering the French Alps, in the midst of a great disruption by German soldiers wishing to dismantle a network of smugglers into Switzerland. Filmmaker Nicolas Vanier transforms the 1960’s hit television show…
Celebrating National Fossil Day – DINOSAUR 13 with special guest speaker Dr. Henry Kriegstein
2014 | 95 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Documentary, Drama, Family & KidsTodd Douglas Miller
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National Fossil Day is a celebration to promote public awareness and stewardship of fossils, as well as to foster a greater appreciation of their scientific and educational values. THE TRUE TALE OF ONE OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERIES IN HISTORY! When Paleontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute…
A MASTER BUILDER
USA | 2013 | 130 minutes | Rated PG | DramaJonathan Demme
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The artistic triumvirate of Jonathan Demme, André Gregory, and Wallace Shawn update Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder, a modern classic about a successful, egomaniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses – who nonetheless wants to make peace with himself as his life approaches its final act. Working…
REAR WINDOW – In tribute to Jonathan Revere with the West Tisbury Library
USA | 1954 | 112 minutes | Rated PG | Mystery/Suspense, ThrillerAlfred Hitchcock
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In tribute to the late Jonathan Revere of West Tisbury who was a big fan of classic Hollywood cinema. Co-sponsored by the West Tisbury Library. Doors open at 6:45 pm with free refreshments and live piano music in lobby, the film will screen at 7:30 pm. Laid up with a broken leg,…
Classic Film Night: ROME, OPEN CITY
Italy | 1946 | 103 minutes | Rated PG | Drama, WarRoberto Rossellini
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This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Rome Open City is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II. The location: Nazi occupied Rome. As Rome is classified an open city,…
THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA
Japan | 2013 | 137 minutes | Rated PG | Animation, Dance, FantasyIsao Takahata
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Legendary Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, Pom Poko) revisits Japan’s most famous folktale in this gorgeous, hand-drawn masterwork, decades in the making. Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter (James Caan) and his wife (Mary Steenburgen), a tiny girl grows rapidly into an…
Classic Holiday Film Night: ELF
USA | 2003 | 107 minutes | Rated PG | Comedy, Family & Kids, FantasyJon Favreau
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS! For our second Holiday Classic Film Night the Film Society will be screening ELF at the Film Center. You can expect all the usual treats that would appear at any Elf gathering (the four main food groups) : candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup! This…
The Christmas Show — A sensory mosaic of storytelling, moving imagery, and music for stage and screen
USA | 2014 | 90 mins | Rated PG | HolyCowThisMovieHasEverything!!Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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Susan Klein, Alan Brigish, and Gary Girouard join artistic forces for this spritely show a new offering this season highlighting the stories, images, and music of Christmas. These heartfelt stories, selected from “Silent Night,” the popular Christmas CD by Susan Klein, which have become part of the annual tradition for many, celebrate cherished…
AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA (LAST SHOWING!)
USA | 2014 | 87 minutes | Rated PG | DocumentaryPaola di Florio, Lisa Leeman
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AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda is an unconventional biography about an Indian Swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s. This feature documentary explores the life and teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, who authored the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi, which has sold millions of copies worldwide and…
Classic Film Night: GROUNDHOG DAY
USA | 1993 | 101 minutes | Rated PG | Comedy, Drama, FantasyHarold Ramis
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Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp. Phil displays a charm and wit on camera that evaporates the moment the red light goes off; he is bitter, appallingly self-centered, and treats his co-workers with contempt,…
DR. STRANGELOVE (Co-sponsored by the MV Museum)
USA | 1964 | 95 minutes | Rated PG | Comedy, WarStanley Kubrick
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OR: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. In collaboration with the MV Museum’s ongoing exhibit “Sea Change: Martha’s Vineyard in the 1960s”, join us for the first in this four part 1960s film series. In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers’ minds, the Cold War at…
2014 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS: ANIMATION
International | 2014 | 82 mins | Rated PG | Animation, Short FilmMartha's Vineyard Film Center
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Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films before the 87th Annual Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, February 22! And the winners are?… Once again, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is proud to present this nationally-touring program highlighting all of the Live Action, Animated, and Documentary Short Films that received Academy…