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Real Art Ways News - March 22, 2023
Arts and Entertainment
March 23, 2023
From: Real Art WaysCinema
Held Over - Final Week
(We mean it this time)!
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Winner of 7 Academy Awards Including:
Best Picture
Best Director - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (The Daniels)
Best Actress - Michelle Yeoh
Best Supporting Actor - Ke Huy Quan
Best Supporting Actress - Jamie Lee Curtis
Best Original Screenplay
Best Film Editing
"This inventive extravaganza has a deep layer of family feeling and a well-earned emotional pull at the end." - BBC.com
Opens Friday 3/24!
The Quiet Girl
Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.
Set in rural Ireland in 1981, nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
In Irish with English subtitles.
96% on Rotten Tomatoes
"In a world of noise, this story of found family speaks loudest when saying nothing." - Washington Post
"The Quiet Girl technically lives up to its name, but speaks volumes about the transformative power of what it means to be loved." - Globe and Mail
"A genuine work of art." - Rolling Stone
Last Days Wednesday (3/22) & Thursday (3/23)!
All Quiet on the Western Front
Winner of Four Academy Awards Including:
Best International Feature Film
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I.
In German with English Subtitles.
Last Days Wednesday (3/22) & Thursday (3/23)!
Navalny
A fly-on-the-wall documentary thriller about anti-authoritarian Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Recovering in Berlin after nearly being poisoned to death, he makes shocking discoveries about his assassination attempt and bravely decides to return home–whatever the consequences.
Winner of Best Documentary Feature Film.
"Undoubtedly one of the most thrilling documentaries to be released this, or any, year." - Times (UK)
Opens Friday 3/31!
Home Again: Carole King Live in Central Park
Opening Night Showings at 4:50 and 7pm
(with Carole King karaoke in between the showings,
opening night only)!
This film presents musical icon Carole King’s triumphant May 26, 1973 homecoming concert on The Great Lawn of New York City’s Central Park before an estimated audience of 100,000.
Alongside the complete performance is the behind the scenes story of King’s remarkable transformation from a staff songwriter to an iconic music artist.
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
Composed entirely of archival footage, this film grants rare access to the public life of Pope Francis over a decade, including his travels across all corners of the world.
In Italian with English subtitles.
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
“A balance of impossibly high-profile subject and low-key, humanizing perspective.” Variety
“Fascinating. Remarkable for its access into Pope Francis’s life.” – IndieWire
Opens Friday 4/7!
No Bears
Jafar Panahi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly identified with the Iranian New Wave film movement. This film bears witness to Panahi's incisive filmmaking, while urging viewers to examine the complex layers of a deceptively simple story: a man oppressed and suppressed by his country. He was recently released from prison in Iran.
In Persian with English subtitles.
"A fierce critique of small-town traditionalism and religious dogma. But while this is an angry and ultimately devastating movie, it's also a surprisingly playful and inventive one." - NPR
"A complex work of novelistic density, this is among the boldest and most accomplished statements from one of the world’s exemplary filmmakers..." - Screen International
"...Its very existence is an act of defiance, a metafictional portrait of a dissident artist still at work." - Financial Times
Attention Lovers of Ballet!
Reading and Discussion with Jennifer Homans
Sunday 3/26 2:30pm
"An intricate, meticulously researched biography of the revered and controversial dance icon...engrossing...vivid...the definitive account." - Kirkus Reviews
2:30pm discussion, with a book signing immediately following.
Free Admission. RSVP
Jennifer Homans is the dance critic for The New Yorker and the bestselling author of Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century (2022) and Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (2010). Homans was a professional dancer and performed with the Pacific Northwest Ballet before earning a BA at Columbia University and a PhD in Modern European History at New York University, where she is now a Distinguished Scholar in Residence and the Founding Director of the Center for Ballet and the Arts.
Science on Screen
Tuesday 3/28 6:30pm
The Botany of Desire
Presentation at 6:30 with organismal biologist Dr. Nikisha Patel of Trinity College, followed by a screening at 7pm!
Dr. Patel’s research and teaching focuses on field and experimental biology involving both ferns and moss evolution as well as a broad interest in plant global biodiversity.
She will be discussing her research in plant global biodiversity in relation to the film The Botany of Desire.
More information on Dr. Nikisha Patel.
Based on Michael Pollan's best-seller, this film presents the history of four plants, each of which found a way to make itself essential to humans. Apples, for sweetness; tulips, for beauty; marijuana, for pleasure; and, potatoes, for sustenance. Each has a story of discovery and adaptation; each has a symbiotic relationship with human civilization.
Mark Your Calendars for the Rest of the Season!
Improvisations Now
Sunday 4/2 2:30pm
Kate Bae
A Rite of Passage
Societal barriers and personal relationships, hope, inclusion, uncertainty, and love in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Artist Talk with Kate Bae
Thursday 3/30 6pm
Kate Bae is an independent curator, artist, and a recent recipient of a 2021 Real Art Award. She will be discussing her artistic practice and the meaning behind her exhibition A Rite of Passage at Real Art Ways.
We Love Our Members!
When you become a member of Real Art Ways, you become part of a diverse, creative, and vibrant arts community.
Thank you to our sponsors.
Major support for Real Art Ways programs comes from The Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; Zachs Family Foundation; Howard and Sandy Fromson; The Wallace Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Bank of America; Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts; Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign; Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; M&T Bank; National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts through the New England Arts Resilience Fund; Raytheon Technologies Corporation; Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation; The Gawlicki Family Foundation and Mary C. and Theodore M. Gawlicki, The Ruth Foundation; Travelers; & Real Art Ways Members.