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Martha's Vineyard Film Society News - December 26, 2023

Arts and Entertainment

December 26, 2023

From: Martha's Vineyard Film Society

Happy Holidays,

We've got two special events this holiday week and several new films for your viewing pleasure. We'd love to see you at the Film Center and bring your house guests and family members along.

Wednesday evening at 7PM we are presenting TITANIC THE MUSICAL, which won 5 Tony Awards. This stunning production, captured live on stage in London, celebrates the 10th anniversary of its premiere, and sweeping critical acclaim..

This Friday we also open the new Michael Mann film FERRARI, starring Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz -- for New Year's Eve we're throwing an Italian la festa at 3:00 pm with complimentary Prosecco, Italian sweets, and Piano/Singer David Hannon in our lobby before our 4pm screening.

BTW, we just reached 80% of our fundraising goal to purchase a new laser projector and we'd love your help in putting us over the top. For those who have already sent in an end-of-year donation, we truly cherish your kindness and applaud your support.

Scroll down for all the details.

NEW ARRIVALS THIS WEEK...

TITANIC THE MUSICAL... Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and Song Book. Captured live from the London stage!

Based on real people aboard the most legendary ship in the world, Titanic: The Musical is ‘breathtaking’ (the Guardian) and ‘magnificent’ (the Telegraph), a stunning and stirring production focusing on the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of her passengers who each boarded with stories and personal ambitions of their own. All innocently unaware of the fate awaiting them, the Third-Class immigrants dream of a better life in America, the Second Class imagine they too can join the lifestyles of the rich and famous, whilst the millionaire Barons of the First Class anticipate legacies lasting forever.

FERRARI -- Starring Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz, FERRARI is set during the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle and danger of 1950’s Formula 1, ex-racer, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for their one son. Ferrari struggles with the acknowledgement of another. His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race, the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic Mille Miglia.

CONTINUING THIS WEEK...

THE BOY AND THE HERON (Japanese with English subtitles and Dubbed English Voices versions) - A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.  

MAESTRO — Maestro is a biopic film that centers on the relationship between American composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre. It was directed by Bradley Cooper, from a screenplay he wrote with Josh Singer. It was produced by Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Cooper, among others. The film stars Cooper as Bernstein alongside Carey Mulligan as Montealegre; Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, and Sarah Silverman appear in supporting roles.

“It’s a film for cinephiles as well as musos and romantics, with its discrete

'movements’ mirroring the movie making style of its time frame.”

THE HOLDOVERS — From acclaimed director Alexander Payne (SIDEWAYS THE DESCENDANTS), follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).

COMING ATTRACTIONS...

MONSTER
Opens January 5th
From Academy Award-nominee Hirokazu Kore-eda

After discovering that a teacher is responsible for her young son’s sudden change of behavior, a mother storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. As the story unfolds through the eyes of the mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.

Thank you for your memberships, donations, and/or purchases of gift certificates. Your support has meant we've been able to stay open every week of the year and continue to deliver on our mission and programming year-round.

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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!