Martha's Vineyard Film Center
Saturday October 19, 2019, 7:30 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
$25 General Admission, $22 Member
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Starring Jimmy Tingle
THIS IS A LIVE STAND-UP COMEDY EVENT Jimmy Tingle’s 20/20 Vision is a funny, thought provoking and hopeful look at contemporary life and politics through the experience of comedian, commentator and 2018 candidate for LT Governor of Massachusetts, Jimmy Tingle. The show will help answer the question “why would a comedian run…
BOLSHOI BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER
Russia | 2019 | 140 mins. | Not Rated | Dance, Family & Kids, Fantasy, Opera & Ballet
Sunday December 22, 2019, 1:00 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
$20 General Admission, $17 Member,
$15 child age 14 or younger
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On Christmas Eve, Marie’s Nutcracker doll magically transforms into a prince and together their wonderful adventure begins. The Nutcracker invites audiences of all ages on a magical journey, through a world of enchantment, complete with dancing snowflakes and dolls that have come to life, accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s beloved score. The timeless holiday classic returns to the Bolshoi stage…
FROZEN – An Interactive Movie Experience – FREE EVENT
USA | 2013 | 1 hr 49 mins | Rated PG | Adventure, Animation, Musical
Sunday November 10, 2019, 1:00 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
FREE EVENT
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AN INTERACTIVE MOVIE EXPERIENCE! FREE EVENT! BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MV FILM SOCIETY, THE NEWMAN’S OWN FOUNDATION AND THE MV LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INTERACTIVE MOVIE SCRIPT & GOODIE BAG INCLUDED! COSTUMES WELCOME! Featuring the voices of Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel, “Frozen” is the coolest comedy-adventure ever to hit the big screen. When…
WiFF 2019: ATLANTICS
Belgium, France, Senegal | 2019 | 1 hr 44 mins | Not Rated | 2019 Women in Film Festival, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, RomanceA Film by Mati Diop
Sunday October 27, 2019, 7:30 PM,
SPECIAL EVENT
$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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A Film by Mati Diop
Marginalized young lovers in Senegal desperately seek a better life by any means necessary, in this highly anticipated, Cannes Grand Prix–winning feature debut from Mati Diop. In Senegal’s bustling capital, Dakar, two young lovers sneak private moments with the urgency of youthful desire. Their gravitational pull towards each other is also based…
WiFF 2019: A FINE LINE
USA | 2017 | 70 minutes | Not Rated | 2019 Women in Film Festival, DocumentaryA Film by Joanna James
Sunday October 27, 2019, 4:00 PM,
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$15 General Admission, $12 Member,
$10 child age 14 or younger
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A Film by Joanna James
WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION BEFORE THE FILM! A Fine Line provides behind the scenes look of restaurant culture with women at the helm. The documentary explores why less than 7% of head chefs and restaurant owners are women hearing insight from world-renowned chefs and a small-town restaurateur who says its how it is…
WiFF 2019: PARADISE HILLS
Spain, USA | 2019 | 94 minutes | Not Rated | 2019 Women in Film Festival, Drama, FantasyA Film by Alice Waddington
Saturday October 26, 2019, 8:00 PM,
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$15 General Admission, $12 Member,
$10 child age 14 or younger
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A Film by Alice Waddington
Starring Emma Roberts, Milla Jovovich and Awkwafina
In this futuristic fairy tale, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves—run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich). The outspoken Uma finds solace in friendship with other Paradise Hills residents: Chloe (Danielle McDonald, Dumplin’; Pattycakes),…
WiFF 2019: SENSITIVITY TRAINING
USA | 2018 | 1 hr 27 mins | Not Rated | 2019 Women in Film Festival, ComedyDirected by Melissa Finell
Saturday October 26, 2019, 5:30 PM,
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$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Directed by Melissa Finell
Rude, crude and unapologetic, microbiologist Dr. Serena Wolfe didn’t get to where she is by playing nice. When a colleague’s untimely demise is attributed to Dr. Wolfe’s ferocious abrasiveness, she’s ordered to undergo an attitude adjustment courtesy of perpetually chipper sensitivity coach Caroline. With Caroline shadowing Serena’s every move, they develop an…
WiFF 2019: BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ
USA | 2018 | 103 minutes | Not Rated | 2019 Women in Film Festival, DocumentaryDirected by Pamela B. Green
Friday October 25, 2019, 7:30 PM ,
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Directed by Pamela B. Green
Narrated by Jodie Foster
Director Pamela Green will join us via Skype after the film for a discussion! Alice Guy-Blaché was a true pioneer who got into the movie business at the very beginning—in 1894, at the age of 21. Two years later, she was made head of production at Gaumont and started directing films. She…
WiFF 2019: I AM NOT A WITCH
Zambia | 2018 | 90 minutes | Not Rated | 2019 Women in Film Festival, Art House & International, DramaA Film by Rungano Nyoni
Friday October 25, 2019, 4:00 PM,
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$12 General Admission, $9 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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A Film by Rungano Nyoni
Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni’s provocative satire revolves around a young girl sentenced to life imprisonment at a state-run witch camp. Counting Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos as kindred artistic spirit, Nyoni’s film is an at times unapologetically confounding work that tackles misogyny in Zambia. The film was shot over six weeks in the…
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE – HANSARD
UK | 2019 | 1 hr 20 mins | Not Rated | National Theater - LiveWritten by Simon Woods
Thursday November 07, 2019, 7:30 PM,
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$20 General Admission, $17 Member,
$15 child age 14 or younger
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Written by Simon Woods
Starring Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings
Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. See Olivier Award-winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and Alex Jennings (The Lady in the Van, The Queen), in this brand new play from Simon Woods, broadcast live from the National Theatre in London. It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin…
GREAT ART ON SCREEN: TINTORETTO: A REBEL IN VENICE
USA | 2019 | 90 mins. | Not Rated | Art, Documentary, Great Art on Screen
Wednesday October 16, 2019, 7:30 PM,
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$18 General Admission, $15 Member,
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Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice fully immerses audiences in the life of the last great artist of the Italian Renaissance. With the enchanting narrative voice of twice Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter, cinema audiences visit places that evoke and preserve the memory of the painter, including the State Archives, the Doge’s Palace, St. Mark’s…
GREAT ART ON SCREEN: THE PRADO MUSEUM: A COLLECTION OF WONDERS
USA | 2019 | 90 mins. | Not Rated | Art, Documentary, Great Art on Screen
Wednesday December 11, 2019, 7:30 pm,
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THE PRADO MUSEUM: A COLLECTION OF WONDERS celebrates the 200th anniversary of the storied Prado Museum — one of the most-visited museums in the world. Hosted by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, this cinematic journey offers viewers a spell-binding experience, telling the story of Spain and beyond, through the works of Vélazquez,…
GREAT ART ON SCREEN: GAUGUIN IN TAHITI: PARADISE LOST
USA | 2019 | 90 mins. | Not Rated | Art, Documentary, Great Art on Screen
Wednesday November 13, 2019, 7:30 pm,
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$18 General Admission, $15 Member,
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GAUGUIN IN TAHITI: PARADISE LOST traces the legendary life story of Paul Gauguin who left France for Tahiti, feverishly in search of deep immersions into lush nature, for feelings, visions and colors, ever purer and brighter. Audiences join this journey from Tahiti to American museums including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art,…
2019 MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL hosted by MV Film Society
International | 2019 | 130 mins | Not Rated | HolyCowThisMovieHasEverything!!, Short Film
Thursday September 26, 2019, 7:30pm
Friday September 27, 2019, 7:30pm
Saturday September 28, 2019, 7:30pm
SPECIAL EVENT
$15 General Admission, $12 Member,
$7 child age 14 or younger
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Film Lovers of Martha’s Vineyard can unite with an audience of over 100,000 film buffs in over 300 cinemas across 6 Continents during this week when the MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival screens at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center. MANHATTAN SHORT announced the Final 10 for its 22nd Annual Short Film Festival, a…
MVIFF 2019: COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD
Denmark | 2019 | 2 hrs 8 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, DocumentaryA Film by Mads Brügger
Friday September 06, 2019, 4:00 PM (Film Center),
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$15 General Admission, $12 Member,
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A Film by Mads Brügger
In 1961, United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously crashed, killing Hammarskjöld and most of the crew. With the case still unsolved 50-plus years later, Danish journalist, filmmaker, and provocateur Mads Brügger (The Red Chapel, The Ambassador) leads us down an investigative rabbit hole to unearth the truth. Scores of false starts,…
MVIFF 2019: CLOSING NIGHT FILM: PARASITE + Closing Party at LA SOFFITTA (Special Asian menu)
South Korea | 2019 | 2 hrs 12 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film FestivalA Film by Bong Joon-Ho
Sunday September 08, 2019, 4:30pm (Capawock) (Party to follow),
SPECIAL EVENT
$45 General Admission, $40 Member
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A Film by Bong Joon-Ho
Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and…
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MVIFF 2019: OPENING NIGHT PARTY & FILM: HONEYLAND
Macedonia | 2019 | 85 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Documentary
Thursday September 05, 2019, 5:30 pm (Film Center),
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$85 General Admission, $75 Member
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On Opening Night of the Festival, enjoy meeting fellow festival attendees and special guests inside a tented reception, from 5:30-7:30 PM, on the beautiful waterfront lawn adjacent to Lagoon Pond, just off Beach Road at the Tisbury Marketplace. We’ll be serving wines, beer (Festival sponsor OUR MARKET) and appetizers (provided by Sarah…
MVIFF 2019: LUCKY GRANDMA with Michael Tow “Little Handsome” for Q&A
China, USA | 2019 | 1 hr 40 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, DramaA Film by Sasie Sealy
Sunday September 08, 2019, 2:15 PM (Film Center),
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$15 General Admission, $12 Member,
$10 child age 14 or younger
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A Film by Sasie Sealy
Starring Tsai Chin, Michael Tow, and Corey Ha
In the heart of Chinatown, New York, ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year–old Grandma (Tsai Chin) is eager to live life as an independent woman, despite the worry of her family. When a local fortune teller predicts a most auspicious day in her future, Grandma decides to head to the casino and goes all in,…
MVIFF 2019: EVERY DAY A GOOD DAY (NICHINICHI KORE KÔJITSU)
Japan | 2019 | 1 hr 40 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, DramaA Film by Tatsushi Ohmori
Sunday September 08, 2019, 12:00 PM (Capawock),
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A Film by Tatsushi Ohmori
A college student finds solace in the meditative art of Japanese tea ceremonies.
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MVIFF 2019: FIG TREE
Ethiopia, Israel | 2018 | 93 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Drama
Sunday September 08, 2019, 2:15 PM (Capawock),
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Ethiopian-Israeli writer-director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian makes a startlingly confident feature debut with this story of lives torn asunder by civil war. Set in Addis Ababa in 1989, FIG TREE follows a teenage girl’s harrowing coming of age. Mina is 16 years old. The Ethiopian Civil War has been underway her entire life. She…
MVIFF 2019: SIBEL
Turkey | 2019 | 95 Minutes | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, DramaA film by Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
Sunday September 08, 2019, 12:00 PM (Film Center),
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$15 General Admission, $12 Member,
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A film by Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area. Rejected by her fellow villagers, she relentlessly hunts down a wolf that is said to be…
MVIFF 2019: NON-FICTION (DOUBLES VIES)
France | 2018 | 1 hr 48 mins | Rated R | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Comedy, Drama, RomanceA Film by Olivier Assayas
Saturday September 07, 2019, 9:15 PM (Capawock),
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$15 General Admission, $12 Member,
$10 child age 14 or younger
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A Film by Olivier Assayas
Starring Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche and Guillame Canet reunite with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas for this wry, slyly seductive tale of sex, lies, and literature. Set amidst the bohemian intelligentsia of the Parisian publishing world, NON-FICTION traces the romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer begins blurring the line between fact and…
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MVIFF 2019: ANIMATION SHORTS SHOWCASE with Bill Plympton and other filmmakers
International | 2019 | 73 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Short FilmCurated by BILL PLYMPTON
Saturday September 07, 2019, 4:00 PM (Film Center),
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Curated by BILL PLYMPTON
A collection of some of the world’s best new short animated films from acclaimed animators curated by Bill Plympton. The MV International Film Festival will present a display of animated shorts with a showcase curated by Bill Plympton, Academy Award-nominated animator recently garnered national attention with his short films “Trump Bites” ran on…
MVIFF 2019: THE SOUVENIR
UK | 2019 | 2 hrs | Rated R | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Drama, Mystery/SuspenseA Film by Joanna Hogg
Saturday September 07, 2019, 4:00 PM (Capawock),
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A Film by Joanna Hogg
A shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke). She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship…
MVIFF 2019 SPOTLIGHT: BIRDS OF PASSAGE (PÁJAROS DE VERANO)
Colombia | 2019 | 125 Minutes | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, DramaDirected by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
Tuesday September 03, 2019, 7:30 PM (Film Center),
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Directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
From the Oscar-nominated team behind the genre-defying Embrace of the Serpent, comes an equally audacious saga centered on the Wayúu indigenous people during a crucial period in recent Colombian history. Torn between his desire to become a powerful man and his duty to uphold his culture’s values, Rapayet (José Acosta) enters the drug…
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MVIFF 2019: MIDNIGHT FAMILY
Mexico | 2019 | 1 hr 21 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Crime, DocumentaryDirected by Luke Lorentzen
Saturday September 07, 2019, 9:15 PM (Film Center),
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Directed by Luke Lorentzen
In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help. As the Ochoas try to make a living in this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.
MVIFF 2019: ALONE AT MY WEDDING (SEULE À MON MARIAGE)
Belgium | 2018 | 121 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, DramaWritten & Directed by Marta Bergman
Friday September 06, 2019, 9:15PM (MV Film Center),
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Written & Directed by Marta Bergman
Insolent, spontaneous, funny. Pamela, a young Roma, is different from other girls in her community. A single mother, she lives with her grandmother and her little girl in a small hut where the three of them share a bed. How can she reconcile the needs of her two-year old daughter and her…
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MVIFF 2019: A FAITHFUL MAN (L’homme fidèle)
France | 2018 | 1 hr 15 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film FestivalDirected by Louis Garrel
Friday September 06, 2019, 9:00 PM (Capawock),
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Directed by Louis Garrel
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies. Abel and Marianne get back together, arousing feelings of jealousy in both Marianne’s son, Joseph, and Paul’s sister, Eva, who has secretly loved Abel since childhood.
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MVIFF 2019: IN THE AISLES (In den Gängen)
Germany | 2018 | 2 hrs 5 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Comedy, DramaA Film by Thomas Stuber
Friday September 06, 2019, 6:30 PM (Capawock),
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A Film by Thomas Stuber
When the reclusive Christian (Franz Rogowski, TRANSIT) takes a job working the night shift at a big box store, his new manager, Bruno from the Beverage Department (Peter Kurth, BABYLON BERLIN), teaches him the lay of the land and the delicacy it takes to operate a forklift. Christian becomes enamored by his…
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MVIFF 2019: 3 FACES
Iran | 2019 | 100 Minutes | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Art House & International, DramaDirected and Written by Jafar Panhi
Friday September 06, 2019, 04:00 PM (Capawock),
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Directed and Written by Jafar Panhi
Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught by a provincial girl’s video plea for help–oppressed by her family to not pursue her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help solve the mystery of the young girl’s troubles. They travel by car to…
MVIFF 2019 SPOTLIGHT: LORO (THEM)
Italy | 2019 | 158 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Comedy, DramaA Film by Paolo Sorrentino
Wednesday September 04, 2019, 7:30 PM (Film Center),
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A Film by Paolo Sorrentino
Starring Toni Servillo and Elena Sofia Ricci
Sex, drugs, power, and vice: welcome to the mid-2000s Italy of Silvio Berlusconi, the egomaniac billionaire Prime Minister who presides over an empire of scandal and corruption. Sergio (Riccardo Scamarcio) is an ambitious young hustler managing an escort service catering to the rich and powerful. Determined to move up in the world,…
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MVIFF 2019: ASH IS PUREST WHITE
China | 2019 | 2 hrs 16 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Crime, DramaWritten & Directed by Zhangke Jia
Saturday September 07, 2019, 6:00 PM (Film Center),
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Written & Directed by Zhangke Jia
A tragicomedy initially set in the jianghu-criminal underworld-setting, ASH IS PUREST WHITE is less a gangster movie than a melodrama. With a three-part structure, it begins by following the quick-witted Qiao (Tao Zhao) and her mobster boyfriend Bin (Fan Liao) as they stake out their turf against rivals and upstarts in 2001…
MVIFF 2019: THE BRA Plus Q&A with Director Veit Helmer!
Azerbaijan, Germany | 2019 | 90 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Comedy, RomanceA Film by Veit Helmer
Friday September 06, 2019, 7:00 PM (Film Center),
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A Film by Veit Helmer
Starring Miki Manojlović, Paz Vega, Chulpan Khamatova, Denis Lavant, Maia Morgenstern
Train driver Nurlan is heading to Baku for the last time before retirement. On its way round the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner…
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE – FLEABAG – Special Encore!
UK | 2019 | 80 mins. | Not Rated | National Theater - LiveWritten and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Wednesday October 09, 2019, 7:30 PM (Film Center),
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Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, broadcast live to cinemas from London’s West End. Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Fleabag may…
MVIFF 2019: INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS JURIED COMPETITION
International | 2019 | 1 hour 41 mins | Not Rated | 2019 MV International Film Festival, Short Film
Saturday September 07, 2019, 7:00 PM (Capawock),
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From over 350+ entries our festival selection committee has chosen 9 finalists. We will screen each short film and our jury will select the “Best Overall” film at the conclusion of the program. The winning film will be shown again prior to the Closing Night film. 2019 MVIFF SHORT FILM FINALISTS 1)…
DOWNTON ABBEY – SPECIAL SNEAK PEEK with TEA & COOKIES at 6:30 in Lobby! (return engagement starts 9/20)
UK | 2019 | 90 mins | Rated PG | Drama, History, Romance
Thursday September 12, 2019, 7:30 PM (SNEAK PEEK),
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SPECIAL SNEAK PEEK SHOW SEPTEMBER 12 with TEA & COOKIES SERVED at 6:30 in Lobby! Join us early for a proper reception! This September, the worldwide BBC phenomenon DOWNTON ABBEY, becomes a grand motion picture event, as the beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff have prepared for the most important moment of…
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THE GRATEFUL DEAD: LIVE AT GIANTS STADIUM 6/17/91
USA | 2019 | 120 Minutes | Not Rated | Documentary, Music Concert
Saturday August 10, 2019, 7:30 PM,
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Starring The Grateful Dead
Special introduction by JerBear from MVY Radio’s “SHAKEDOWN STREET” Come one, come all! This can’t-miss event features the previously unreleased complete June 17, 1991 concert from Giants Stadium. Widely considered one of the greatest shows of the band’s final decade of performing, 6/17/91 also sounds unlike any Dead show you’ve ever heard…
THE GREAT HACK – with a panel afterward. One Show Only!
USA | 2019 | 113 Minutes. | Not Rated | DocumentaryA Film by Jehane Noujaim & Karim Amer
Saturday August 03, 2019, 7:30 PM,
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A Film by Jehane Noujaim & Karim Amer
A panel discussion will follow with information technology author Shoshana Zuboff, film producer and Vineyard Haven resident Nina Flalkow, Guardian and Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr, Oscar winner for “Born into Brothels” and Vineyard summer resident Geralyn Dreyfous, and poet and Vineyarder Jorie Graham. Data, arguably the world’s most valuable asset, is being…
2019 DOC WEEK: ALL ACCESS PASS
International | 2019 | 5 nights | Not Rated | 2019 Doc Week, Documentary
Thursday July 25, 2019,
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$65 for General Admission, $55 for MV Film Society Members
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In recognition of the rising importance of documentaries to public dialogue, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is proud to announce its 5th Annual Documentary Week from August 5th through August 9th, 2019 To see the entire line-up of films click here. PASS HOLDERS, PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL with a list of the events that you…
SOLD OUT — 2019 DOC WEEK: THE SPY BEHIND HOME PLATE – plus Q & A with Director Aviva Kempner!
USA | 2019 | 1 hr 41 mins | Not Rated | 2019 Doc Week, Documentary, HistoryA Documentary by Aviva Kempner
Tuesday August 06, 2019, 7:30 PM ,
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A Documentary by Aviva Kempner
A Q&A with Director Aviva Kempner afterward. Joining her will be Charles Pinck, who is in the film, and the head of the OSS Society. Among the contemporary interviewees are authors Robert Fitts, David Ignatius, and Thomas Powers, baseball executives Jerry Reinsdorf and Bud Selig, biographer Nicholas Davidoff, film professor Annette Insdorf, Los…
2019 DOC WEEK: FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO – plus Q & A with director Dan Karslake!
USA | 2019 | 1 hr 31 mins | Not Rated | 2019 Doc Week, Documentary, LGBTQDirected by Daniel Karslake
Wednesday August 07, 2019, 7:30 PM,
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Directed by Daniel Karslake
From the director/producer of FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO comes a new film that continues the conversation about the impact of religious belief on the lives of LGBTQ people. It challenges the far-right’s use of the Bible and the U.S. Constitution to fight against equality for LGBTQ citizens and takes on…
2019 DOC WEEK: THE 5TH DEMENTIA with Q & A by Director Serene Meshel-Dillman
USA | 2019 | 1 hr 37 mins | Not Rated | 2019 Doc Week, DocumentaryA Film by Serene Meshel-Dillman
Thursday August 08, 2019, 7:30 PM,
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A Film by Serene Meshel-Dillman
PLUS Q & A with Director Serene Meshel-Dillman The 5th Dementia is a diverse band featuring former professionals from a range of socioeconomic and educational backgrounds who now struggle to remember anything at all due to their illnesses. Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Parkinson’s. They come together to play and sing a list of songs compiled…
MET OPERA LIVE: The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS
USA | 2019 | 3 hrs 15 mins | Not Rated | MET OPERA: LIVE
Saturday February 01, 2020, 12:55 PM,
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Written by George and Ira Gershwin
One of America’s favorite operas returns to the Met for the first time in nearly 30 years. James Robinson’s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row on the Charleston waterfront, vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhabitants. “If you’re going to stage Gershwin’s opera, this is how,” raved…
Saturday May 09, 2020, 12:55 PM,
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Written by Gaetano Donizetti
Soprano Diana Damrau, following her triumph as Violetta in last season’s new production of Verdi’s La Traviata, stars as the martyred Mary, Queen of Scots, in Donizetti’s bel canto showcase. Star mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is her imperious rival Queen Elizabeth I, and the silken-voiced tenor Stephen Costello is the noble Earl of…
Saturday April 11, 2020, 12:55 PM,
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Written by Giacomo Puccini
Soprano Anna Netrebko, whom the New York Times hailed as “magnificent” when she made her role debut as Tosca in 2018, returns as Puccini’s explosive diva, back by popular demand. Tenors Najmiddin Mavlyanov and Brian Jagde alternate as the idealistic painter Cavaradossi, and baritones George Gagnidze and Michael Volle complete the opera’s…
Saturday March 14, 2020, 12:55 PM,
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Written by Richard Wagner
The great bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel returns to the company for the first time since 2012, in the title role of the cursed sea captain doomed to sail the open ocean for eternity. Valery Gergiev conducts a new production by François Girard, whose visionary 2013 take on Parsifal set the recent Met…
Saturday February 29, 2020, 12:55 PM,
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Written by George Frideric Handel
Handel’s tale of intrigue and impropriety in ancient Rome receives its first Met performances, with star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as the controlling, power-hungry Agrippina and Harry Bicket conducting. Sir David McVicar’s production ingeniously reframes the action of this black comedy about the abuse of power to “the present,” where it should loudly…
Saturday January 11, 2020, 12:55 PM,
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Written by Alban Berg
After wowing audiences with his astounding production of Lulu in 2015, South African artist William Kentridge now focuses his extraordinary visual imagination on Berg’s other operatic masterpiece, set in an apocalyptic pre–World War I environment. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium for this important event, with baritone Peter Mattei making his…
Saturday November 23, 2019, 12:55 PM,
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Written by Philip Glass
Director Phelim McDermott tackles another one of Philip Glass’s masterpieces, following the now-legendary Met staging of Satyagraha. Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is the title pharaoh, the revolutionary ruler who transformed ancient Egypt, with the striking mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges in her Met debut as his wife, Nefertiti. To match the opera’s hypnotic, ritualistic…
Saturday November 09, 2019, 12:55 PM,
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Written by Giacomo Puccini
Leading sopranos Hui He and Ana María Martínez share the heartbreaking title role of the doomed geisha, with tenors Piero Pretti and Andrea Carè as the American naval officer who abandons her. Brazilian baritone Paulo Szot adds a new role to his Met repertory as Sharpless, a role that he has previously sung…
Saturday October 26, 2019, 12:55 PM,
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Written by Jules Massenet
Exhilarating soprano Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Tenor Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for Manon proves their undoing. Maurizio Benini conducts Massenet’s sensual score.
Saturday October 12, 2019, 12:55 PM,
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Written by Giacomo Puccini
Two of opera’s most thrilling dramatic sopranos, Christine Goerke and Nina Stemme, reprise their fierce portrayals of the title princess. Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Franco Zeffirelli’s dazzling production of Puccini’s final masterpiece, which also features tenors Yusif Eyvazov and Marco Berti as Calàf, sopranos Eleonora Buratto and Hibla Gerzmava as…
AGENTS OF CHANGE – with co-directors Abby Ginzberg and Frank Dawson in collaboration with Cornell University
USA | 2016 | 66 minutes | Not Rated | DocumentaryA film by Frank Dawson and Abby Ginzberg
Wednesday August 07, 2019, 4:00 PM (Strand),
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A film by Frank Dawson and Abby Ginzberg
Post-screening discussion with filmmakers Abby Ginzberg and Frank Dawson AGENTS OF CHANGE is an award-winning film about the black-led student protest movement of the late 1960’s which helped bring about Black and Ethnic Studies programs across the country. Through the stories of the young men and women who were at the forefront of…
THE MET Encore: Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE
Germany, USA | 2019 | 120 minutes | Not Rated | MET OPERA: LIVE, OperaWritten by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday December 14, 2019, 1:00 PM,
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Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte), is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. Separately, then together, Tamino and Pamina undergo severe trials of initiation, which end in triumph, with the Queen and her cohorts vanquished. Tony Award winner Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s…
THE MET: LIVE IN HD 2019/20 MINI SEASON PASS (any 5 performances)
International | 2019-20 | Not Rated | MET OPERA: LIVE
Saturday October 12, 2019, 12:55 PM,
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The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts is returning for it’s 14th season. The 2019–20 Live in HD season of movie theater transmissions begins on October 12 with Puccini’s Turandot, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The 2019-20 Live in HD season features ten transmissions, All…
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THE MET: LIVE IN HD 2019/20 FULL SEASON PASS TO ALL 10 LIVE PERFORMANCES
International | 2019-20 | Not Rated | MET OPERA: LIVE
Monday September 30, 2019,
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$220 Season Pass, $200 Member's Season Pass
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MET OPERA LIVE — SEASON PASSES ON SALE NOW! The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts is returning for it’s 14th season. The 2019–20 Live in HD season of movie theater transmissions begins on October 12 with Puccini’s Turandot, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The…
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE – ALL MY SONS
UK | 2019 | 165 minutes | Rated PG-13 | Drama, National Theater - Live
Thursday January 16, 2020, 7:30 PM,
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Written by Arthur Miller
Starring Sally Field and Bill Pullman
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE – ALL MY SONS by Arthur Miller directed by Jeremy Herrin Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons. America, 1947. Despite hard choices…
SOLD OUT — 2019 DOC WEEK: PAVAROTTI – with special performance by Baritone David Behnke! – Opening Night Reception beforehand at 6:30 PM
USA | 2019 | 1 Hour and 54 Minutes | Rated PG-13 | 2019 Doc Week, Documentary, MusicA Film by Ron Howard
Monday August 05, 2019, 7:30 PM,
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A Film by Ron Howard
THIS EVENT TONIGHT IS SOLD OUT — WE ARE PLANNING TO BRING PAVAROTTI back on August 13, next week. TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE SOON. DOC WEEK OPENING NIGHT – RECEPTION AT 6:30 PM IN FILM CENTER LOBBY David Behnke (Baritone) accompanied by Molly Sturges on the keyboard will sing for us prior to…
Pursuing the Dream: Refugee & Migrant Film Festival ALL-ACCESS PASS
International | 2019 | Not Rated | 2019 Refugee and Migrant Film Festival, Documentary
Wednesday July 10, 2019,
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2019 REFUGEE AND MIGRANT FESTIVAL ALL-ACCESS PASS The current migration crisis suggests that many have forgotten the importance of immigrants to the formation and advancement of our country. In an effort to raise public awareness of the centrality of immigration to America’s history and the advancement of our democracy, the Exodus institute…
SOLD OUT Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (A conversation with Henry Louis Gates & Eric Foner)
USA | 2019 | 90 minutesDocumentary
Thursday August 22, 2019, 7:30 PM,
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In 2019, Henry Louis Gates Jr. presented a vital new documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years…
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DOWNTON ABBEY
Saturday October 12, 2019, 4:30 PM (Capawock)
Sunday October 13, 2019, 6:30 PM (Capawock)
Wednesday October 16, 2019, 4:00 PM (Film Center)
GREAT ART ON SCREEN: TINTORETTO: A REBEL IN VENICE
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Wednesday October 16, 2019, 7:30 PM ,
JUDY
Saturday October 12, 2019, 7:30 PM (Film Center)
Sunday October 13, 2019, 4:00 PM (Film Center)
Monday October 14, 2019, 7:30 PM (Capawock)
MVIFF ENCORE: THE BRA
Saturday October 12, 2019, 5:00 PM
Sunday October 13, 2019, 7:30 PM
Thursday October 17, 2019, 7:30 PM
JIMMY TINGLE’S 2020 VISION
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