Martha's Vineyard Film Center
Rated PG
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
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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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
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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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
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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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
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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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…
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
2015 | 122 minutes | Rated PG | Comedy, DramaDirected by John Madden
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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Now that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is full up with its long-term residents, co-managers Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) and Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) have a dream of expansion, and they’ve found just the place: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. With plans underway, Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy)…
Classic Film Night: SUDDENLY
USA | 1954 | 75 minutes | Rated PG | Action, Drama, Mystery/SuspenseDirected by Lewis Allen
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In advance of a presidential visit to the small town of Suddenly, California, a trio of FBI agents enters the Benson family’s home to assess potential security risks. Once inside, leader John Baron (Frank Sinatra) reveals himself as a psychopathic assassin, and he kidnaps the family in order to use their house…
JAWS – 40th Anniversary of its release by Universal
USA | 1975 | 124 minutes | Rated PG | Action, Drama, Mystery/SuspenseDirected by Steven Spielberg
Capawock Theatre VH, Strand Theatre OB
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Two Shows/Two Theaters — The Capawock Theater at 6:30 PM, The Strand Theater in Oak Bluffs at 9:30 PM. Directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, JAWS set the standard for edge-of-your seat suspense quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever changing the movie industry. When the seaside community of Amity finds…
THE WRECKING CREW
2015 | 95 minutes | Rated PG | Documentary, MusicDirected by Denny Tedesco
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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What the Funk Brothers did for Motown…The Wrecking Crew did, only bigger, for the West Coast Sound. Six years in a row in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, the Grammy for “Record of the Year” went to Wrecking Crew recordings. And now, THE WRECKING CREW tells the story in pictures and that…
TOMORROWLAND
USA | | Rated PG | Family & Kids, Fantasy, Sci-FiCapawock Theatre VH
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From Disney comes two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure TOMORROWLAND, starring Academy Award winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an…
MAX
2015 | 111 minutes | Rated PG | Action, AdventureDirected by Boaz Yakin
Capawock Theatre VH, Strand Theatre OB
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After U.S. Marine Kyle Wincott is killed in Afghanistan, Max, his highly trained service dog, is too traumatized to remain in service. Back in the U.S., Kyle’s family adopts the dog, but teenage brother Justin (Josh Wiggins) has problems of his own and doesn’t want the animal. However, Max may be Justin’s…
MINIONS
USA | 2015 | 91 Minutes | Rated PG | AnimationDirected by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda
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The story of Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. Continuously unsuccessful at keeping these masters-from T. rex to Napoleon-the Minions find themselves without someone to serve and fall into…
MR. HOLMES
USA | 2015 | 105 minutes | Rated PG | Drama, Mystery/SuspenseDirected by Bill Condon
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MR. HOLMES is a new twist on the world’s most famous detective. 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end…
SHAUN THE SHEEP
USA | 2015 | 85 min | Rated PG | Adventure, Animation, ComedyDirected by Mark Burton & Richard Starzak
Capawock Theatre VH, Strand Theatre OB
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Warm, funny, and brilliantly animated claymation, SHAUN THE SHEEP is yet another stop-motion jewel in Aardman’s family-friendly crown (creators of WALLACE AND GOMIT). When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan, and…
INSIDE OUT
USA | 2015 | 102 minutes | Rated PG | Animation, Family & KidsDirected by Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen
Capawock Theatre VH
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Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy…
SOLD OUT! Opening Night: Tented Reception and Film: MEET THE PATELS
India, USA | 2015 | 88 mins | Rated PG | Animation, ComedyGeeta V. Patel and Ravi Patel
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On Opening Night of the Festival, we will be holding a tented reception, from 5:30-7:30 PM, on the beautiful water-front lawn adjacent to Ferryboat Pond, just off Beach Road at the Tisbury Marketplace. We’ll be serving wines, beer ( festival sponsorStella Artois) and appetizers (provided by ) while Jeremy Berlin, Eric Johnson,…
CLASSIC FILM NIGHT: BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
USA | 1985 | 116 minutes | Rated PG | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-FiDirected by Robert Zemeckis
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Don’t miss the pre-show documentary that filmmakers made on those technology and cultural changes they expected to see in 2015 30 years ago. From Academy Award®-winning filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis comes BACK TO THE FUTURE— the original, ground-breaking adventure that sparked one of the most successful trilogies ever. When teenager…
MEET THE PATELS
India, USA | 2015 | 88 minutes | Rated PG | Comedy, Documentary, RomanceDirected by Geeta V. Patel and Ravi V. Patel
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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MEET THE PATELS is a laugh-out-loud real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams … and his parents. Filmed by Ravi’s sister in what started as a family vacation video, this hilarious and heartbreaking film reveals how love is…
THE WALK
USA | 2015 | 123 minutes | Rated PG | DramaDirected by Robert Zemeckis
Capawock Theatre VH
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THE WALK is the true story of a young dreamer, Philippe Petit, and a band of unlikely recruits who together achieve the impossible: an illegal wire walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. With little more than nerve and blind ambition, Petit and his ragtag crew overcome daunting…
Classic Film Night: HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)
USA | 1949 | 87 Mins | Rated PG | Comedy, RomanceDirected by Don Hartman
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War widow Janet Leigh hasn’t the money to buy the model train that her son Gordon Gebert wants for Christmas. Robert Mitchum overhears the boy’s plight, and offers to purchase the train for him, even though it will deplete his own money supply. This little gesture of kindness from Mitchum snowballs into…
THE GOOD DINOSAUR
USA | 2015 | 100 mins | Rated PG | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family & KidsDirected by Peter Sohn
Capawock Theatre VH
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“The Good Dinosaur” asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling…
THE LUNCHBOX – preshow reception with Indian food and live music
India | 2013 | 104 mins | Rated PG | Drama, RomanceDirected by Ritesh Batra
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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In tribute to the late Jonathan Revere of West Tisbury who was a big fan of cinema. Co-sponsored by the West Tisbury Library. Free (Indian inspired) refreshments and drinks in lobby starting at 6:30 PM in the film center lobby. Middle class housewife Ila is trying once again to add some spice…
THE JUNGLE BOOK (2016)
USA | 2016 | 111 mins | Rated PG | Action, Adventure, Family & KidsDirected by Jon Favreau
Capawock Theatre VH
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As lovely to behold as it is engrossing to watch, The Jungle Book is the rare remake that actually improves upon its predecessors — all while setting a new standard for CGI. Directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man), based on Rudyard Kipling’s timeless stories and inspired by Disney’s classic animated film, The…
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE
Finland, USA | 2016 | 95 minutes | Rated PG | Animation, Family & KidsDirected by Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly
Capawock Theatre VH, Strand Theatre OB
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In the animated comedy, THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry. The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds–or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad), and the volatile…
PELÉ: BIRTH OF A LEGEND
USA | 2016 | 107 minutes | Rated PG | Biography, Drama, SportDirected by Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Capawock Theatre VH, Strand Theatre OB
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Pelé. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of São Paulo, Brazil, so poor that he couldn’t…
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP
France, Ireland, Netherlands, USA | 2016 | 94 minutes | Rated PG | Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirected by Whit Stillman
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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Beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon visits to the estate of her in-laws to wait out the colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst ensconced there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and a future for her eligible but reluctant daughter, Frederica. In doing so she attracts…
DARK HORSE
UK | 2016 | 85 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Documentary, Drama, Family & KidsDirected by Louise Osmond
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
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Set in a former mining village in Wales, DARK HORSE is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion,…
THE YOUNG AMERICANS multimedia and live-music performance
USA | 2016 | 90 mins | Rated PG | Action, Adventure, Art, Documentary, Drama, History, Music, Music Concert, ScienceMartha's Vineyard Film Center
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A unique multimedia performance with live music chronicles the race to reach the moon. With rare archival footage and interviews with the major players, astronauts and their families, John Monsky, creator and narrator, takes us inside the capsule and the control room to trace the great rush to the lunar surface. The drama,…
BIG FRIENDLY GIANT (THE BFG)
UK, USA | 2016 | 117 minutes | Rated PG | Adventure, Family & Kids, FantasyDirected by Steven Spielberg
Capawock Theatre VH, Strand Theatre OB
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Steve Spielberg’s BFG minimizes the darker elements of Roald Dahl’s classic in favor of a resolutely good-natured, visually stunning, and largely successful family-friendly adventure. A girl named Sophie encounters the Big Friendly Giant who, despite his intimidating appearance, turns out to be a kindhearted soul who is considered an outcast by the other giants because,…
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS
USA | 2016 | 90 minutes | Rated PG | Animation, Comedy, Family & KidsDirected by Chris Renaud , Yarrow Cheney
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A comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature-film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, which co-stars Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Jenny Slate, Bobby Moynihan, Hannibal Buress and Albert Brooks. Directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable…
Special Event: JIMMY TINGLE FOR PRESIDENT– LIVE
2016 | 90 minutes | Rated PG | ComedyMartha's Vineyard Film Center
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As the upcoming 2016 Presidential election season unfolds against the backdrop of Donald Trump as Republican candidate on the right and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on the left, Jimmy Tingle has constructed another hilarious, thought provok-ing and politically charged one-man show based on his 2016 run for the presidency (shall we say he’s…