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Martha's Vineyard Film Society Happenings Newsletter - March 7, 2023
Arts and Entertainment
March 7, 2023
From: Martha's Vineyard Film SocietyCelebrating 20+ years as the Vineyard's Premiere Non-Profit Member-Supported Film Organization
Warm Greetings,
Last week before the Oscars - please get your Guess Oscar ballots in to us by Sunday at 4PM. You can slip the ballot through our front doors anytime day or night if we're closed.
We're also introducing a new contest, one that allows you to program and introduce YOUR favorite film in April at the MV Film Center. Scroll down for the details.
This Wednesday night, our SCIENCE ON SCREEN series continues with EX MACHINA and Guest Speaker YOGESH GIRDHAR. Prior to the film, WHOI Computer Scientist Yogi Girdhar will give a presentation entitled “Enabling Ecologically Curious Robots for Monitoring Coral Reefs”
FREE ADMISSION for all.
EX MACHINA -- 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.
NEW THIS WEEK...MORE OSCAR nominated films!
THE QUIET GIRL — A remarkable debut for writer-director Colm Bairéad, The Quiet Girl offers a deceptively simple reminder that the smallest stories can leave a large emotional impact. Set in Rural Ireland 1981, this film tells the story of a young girl, Cáit, who is sent away for the summer from her dysfunctional family to live with "her mother's people". These are Seán and Eibhlín Cinnsealach; a middle-aged couple she has never met. Slowly, in the care of this couple, Cáit blossoms and discovers a new way of living, but in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT in collaboration with Netflix Films. Oscar nominated in 9 categories, including Best Picture and International Picture. Both timely and timeless, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT retains the power of its classic source material by focusing on the futility of war. War breaks out in Germany in 1914. Paul Bäumer and his classmates quickly enlist in the army to serve their fatherland. No sooner are they drafted than the first images from the battlefield show them the reality of war.
CONTINUING 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.
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...
MET OPERA -- Wagner's LOHENGRIN - March 18 at 12:55PM
Wagner’s masterpiece Lohengrin, in a new production by internationally renowned director François Girard. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, leads the critically acclaimed cast, with tenor Piotr Becza?a—praised for his “shining musical performance” (The New York Times) and “natural warmth” (Financial Times)—singing the title role of the swan knight. The cast also includes much-praised soprano Tamara Wilson as the virtuous duchess Elsa and soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud. Distinguished bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud’s power-hungry husband, Telramund, and celebrated bass Günther Groissböck is King Heinrich.
Thank you for your your memberships, donations, and/or purchases of gift certificates. Your support has meant we've been able to keep our staff together and continue to deliver on our mission and programming year-round during these uncertain times.
To find out about upcoming virtual events, scroll below and don't forget to follow us on Facebook & Twitter.
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!
Richard Paradise, Founder/ Executive Director
P.S. Renewing or becoming a member of the Film Society, help sustain us year-round!
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FILM IN ALL THE WORLD? BE A GUEST PROGRAMMER
We'll accept your responses until March 31st. The MV Film Center staff will select the top 5 responses to be featured in the April 4th Film Center e-blast newsletter and voted on by YOU. The winner will receive two tickets to the MV Film Center and get to introduce their favorite film on stage. We'll announced the winner on April 11th and the date of the screening of the winning film at that time!
SCIENCE ON SCREEN:
EX MACHINA with Guest Speaker, WHOI Computer Scientist YOGESH GIRDHAR
"Enabling Ecologically Curious Robots for Monitoring Coral Reefs"
FREE ADMISSION -- GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE ONLINE
Wednesday, March 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.
Yogesh Girdhar is a computer scientist, and the PI of the WARPLab (http://warp.whoi.edu) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering department. He received his BS and MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY; and his Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. During his Ph.D. Girdhar developed an interest in ocean exploration using autonomous underwater vehicles, which motivated him to come to WHOI, initially as a postdoc, and then later continue as a scientist to start WARPLab. Girdhar’s research has since then focused on developing smarter autonomous exploration robots that, through the use of AI, can accelerate the scientific discovery process in oceans. Some notable recognition of his work includes the Best Paper Award in Service Robotics at ICRA 2020, finalist for Best Paper Award at IROS 2018, and honorable mention for 2014 CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
March 11th @ 7:00 pm
*Note the early 7pm start time
WINNER OF 7 BAFTA AWARDS
NOMINATED FOR A BEST PICTURE OSCAR
All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
“A striking and harrowing portrait of the perils of nationalism, the chaos and madness of combat, and the lasting physical and psychological scars produced by both.” – The Daily Beast
THE QUIET GIRL
Mar 10th @ 7:30 pm
Mar 11th @ 4:00 pm
Mar 12th @ 4:00 pm
Mar 15th @ 7:30 pm
Mar 16th @ 7:30 pm
Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her "mother's people" for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. These are Seán and Eibhlín Cinnsealach; a middle-aged couple she has never met. Slowly, in the care of this couple, Cáit blossoms and discovers a new way of living, but in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
2023 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS: LIVE ACTION
Mar 10th @ 4:00 pm
Mar 16th @ 4:00 pm (last showing)
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.
2023 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS: DOCUMENTARY
Mar 9th @ 4:00 pm (last showing)
166 MINUTE PROGRAM OF 5 SHORTS (Rated R):
THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS
Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga, India, 40 min.
HAULOUT
Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev, UK, 25 min.
HOW DO YOU MEASURE A YEAR
Jay Rosenblatt, USA, 29 min.
THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT
Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison, USA, 40 min.
STRANGER AT THE GATE
Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones, USA, 29 min.
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
Mar 9th @ 7:30 pm (last showing)
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.
2023 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS: ANIMATION
Mar 12th @ 1:00 pm (last showing)
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.
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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