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Martha's Vineyard Film Society Happenings Newsletter - February 28, 2023
Arts and Entertainment
March 1, 2023
From: Martha's Vineyard Film Society
Warm Greetings,
This week brings a quieter pace to Island life, with our community's schools taking their winter breaks. For families and educators, so well deserved. Yet at the Film Center we continue to roll out Oscar nominated films for your viewing pleasure, like ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, nominated for Best Documentary of 2022. In Laura Poitras new film, artist Nam Goldin mixes art with activism with startling results.
NEW THIS WEEK...
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED - Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid overdose crisis.
CONTINUING THIS WEEK...
LET IT BE MORNING is the story of Sami (Alex Bakri) a Palestinian-born Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem who receives an invitation to his brother’s wedding forcing him to return to the Arab village where he grew up. After the wedding finishes, with no explanation, Sami’s hometown is put under a military blockade lockdown by the Israeli government. Despite its melodramatic story, the movie also has dashes of humor and social commentary that are fairly bold and quite poignant. Anchored by Bakri’s complex performance, Let It Be Morning was directed by acclaimed Palestinian-Israeli auteur Eran Kolirin (THE BAND’S VISIT).
WOMEN TALKING — Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. For years, the men have occasionally drugged the women and then raped them. The truth comes out and the women talk about their new situation. Sarah Polley’s film has been nominated for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay Oscars, and co-stars Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Jessica Buckley, Judith Ivey, and Claire Foy.
NOMINATED OSCAR SHORTS — LIVE ACTION, ANIMATION, & DOCUMENTARY. For the 18th consecutive year, the Film Society presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories rotating – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar ballot)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. Playing until the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12th. All nominees and trailers scroll down.
COMING ATTRACTIONS...
SCIENCE ON SCREEN® – EX MACHINA with Guest Speaker YOGESH GIRDHAR. Prior to the film, WHOI Computer Scientist
Yogesh Girdhar will give a presentation entitled
“Enabling Ecologically Curious Robots for Monitoring Coral Reefs”
FREE ADMISSION
Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence.
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We miss you, and we all look forward to welcoming you again to the Film Center for a movie or event in the coming weeks, months!
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Martha’s Vineyard has become an epicenter of Documentary producing in the last 10 years with many prominent filmmakers residing here part-time throughout the year -- Stanley Nelson, Dawn Porter, Kate Davis & David Heilbroner, Davis Guggenheim, Dan Cogan & Liz Garbus, and Geralyn Dreyfous to just name just a few.
This year's Oscars shine a light on the Oscar nominated documentary, NAVALNY (with Vineyard connections), having been executive produced by Nina & David Fialkow and Jim & Susan Swartz. All are prominent seasonal Vineyard residents and philanthropists. You might remember this same team won an Oscar for ICARUS a few years back. Nina Fialkow is also just coming off chairing the Mass Cultural Council under Governor Baker for the last four years -- a real advocate for Mass cultural arts
non-profits.
2023 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS: LIVE ACTION
Mar 1st @ 7:30 pm
Mar 3rd @ 7:30 pm
115 MINUTE PROGRAM OF 5 SHORTS (Rated R):
AN IRISH GOODBYE
Tom Berkeley and Ross White, UK, 23 min.
IVALU
Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan, Denmark, 17 min.
LE PUPILLE
Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, 39 min.
NIGHT RIDE
Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen, Norway, 16 min.
THE RED SUITCASE
Cyrus Neshvad, Luxembourg, 18 min.
WOMEN TALKING
Mar 2nd @ 7:30 pm
Mar 5th @ 4:00 pm
Oscar Nominated for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. For years, the men have occasionally drugged the women and then raped them. The truth comes out and the women talk about their new situation. Sarah Polley’s film has been nominated for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay Oscars, and co-stars Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Jessica Buckley, Judith Ivey, and Claire Foy.
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
Mar 3rd @ 4:00 pm
Mar 4th @ 7:30 pm
Mar 9th @ 7:30 pm
Oscar Nominated for Best Documentary
A bone-deep look at a photographer's fight against addiction and the institution responsible for her pain
Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
LET IT BE MORNING
Mar 4th @ 4:00 pm
Mar 5th @ 7:30 pm
Israel’s Official Submission for the 95th Academy Awards.
LET IT BE MORNING is the story of Sami (Alex Bakri) a Palestinian-born Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem who receives an invitation to his brother’s wedding forcing him to return to the Arab village where he grew up. After the wedding finishes, with no explanation, Sami’s hometown is put under a military blockade lockdown by the Israeli government. When chaos erupts overnight amongst the villagers stuck behind the wall due to the blockade, Sami is cut off from the outside world and trapped in an unexpected situation. As he deals with questions about his own identity and hidden secrets are revealed, Sami watches everything he holds dear begin to fall apart. Written and directed by award-winning Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin (The Band’s Visit), and adapted from the international best-selling novel by Palestinian author Sayed Kashua, LET IT BE MORNING is a film about a state of siege, both internal and external – centered around a man who has built a wall around his heart, and how that inner wall starts coming apart when an actual, real wall goes up around his hometown.
2023 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS: ANIMATION
Mar 5th @ 1:00 pm
97 MINUTE PROGRAM OF 5 SHORTS:
THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE
Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud, UK, 33 min.
THE FLYING SAILOR
Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan, Denmark, 17 min.
ICE MERCHANTS
João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano, Portugal/France/UK, 15 min.
AN OSTRICH TOLD ME THE WORLD IS FAKE AND I THINK I BELIEVE IT
Lachlan Pendragon, Australia, 12 min.
MY YEAR OF DICKS (Rated R)
Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon, USA, 26 min.
SCIENCE ON SCREEN: EX MACHINA
with Guest Speaker YOGESH GIRDHAR "Enabling Ecologically Curious Robots for Monitoring Coral Reefs"
FREE ADMISSION -- GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE ONLINE
Mar 8th @ 7:30 pm
Alex Garland, writer of "28 Days Later" and "Sunshine", makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, Ex Machina (2014). Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.
VOTING IS NOW OPEN FOR MV MAGAZINE BEST OF THE VINEYARD 2023
VOTE FOR THE MV FILM CENTER IN THE CATEGORY OF BEST MOVIE THEATER, FESTIVAL, OR SERIES
and
MV INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL for Best Off Season Event
The perfect date night to cure your winter blues!
At a loss for what to do this winter outside the home? Join the MV Film Society and the Little House Cafe with
DINNER & A MOVIE
Starting at 4 pm, enjoy a fantastic dinner at the Little House Cafe in Vineyard Haven. Then make your way over to the Film Center to enjoy that night's 7:30 pm movie, with a $3 discount!
While not required, if it makes you more comfortable, you are encouraged to continue to wear a mask.
To reduce lines and promote touchless transactions, we suggest you purchase your tickets online in advance.
We can’t wait to see you, but. . . if you are not feeling well or you've been in contact with someone that recently tested positive for COVID-19, we trust you will stay home until you are well.
Please be respectful and kind to everyone regardless of their mask-wearing preference.
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The Martha's Vineyard Film Society, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit cultural arts organization celebrating 20+ years of service. Although our main activity consists of the operation of the award-winning Martha's Vineyard Film Center, our programming offers much more than films. We produce special community events in collaboration with numerous Island non-profits, host live performances, stream MET Opera live from NYC, and offer Youth Programming year-round, including our Summer Camp with MVTV and Featherstone Center for the Arts. We hope you, our patrons and members, found this newsletter a glimpse into our continued efforts to fulfill our mission and enliven our Island’s cultural arts scene.