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This Week at the Cinema: April 28 - May 4, 2023
Arts and Entertainment
April 27, 2023
From: Cinema Arts CentreCelebrating 50 years as Long Island’s Premier Not-for-Profit, Member-Supported, Independent Community Cinema
This week at the Cinema we are opening an outstanding new adaptation of the beloved Judy Blume novel, 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret', as well as the boisterously fun action film about sisterly love, 'Polite Society'. You can also still catch 'Chevalier', which tells the incredible true story of 18th century composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Special events this week include a selection of incredible documentary film screenings including 'Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island', which will feature a panel discussion and special reception, along with a film about the Ukrainian Paralympic team, 'Pushing Boundaries' - featuring a Q&A with director Lesia Kordonets in-person. We are also screening a new documentary film about Chronic Lyme Disease: 'The Quiet Epidemic', a film about soil regeneration, 'Kiss the Ground', and 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica', a unique and groundbreaking documentary about surgery and the human body.
Make sure to check out our calendar for all of the screenings and special events coming up!
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
A beloved classic comes to the big screen with this adaptation of Judy Blume’s best-selling novel. At 11, Margaret is moving to a new town and beginning to contemplate everything about life. Her mother (Rachel McAdams) and grandmother (Kathy Bates) offer loving support but are themselves finding their footing in a new place, and coming to terms with finding happiness in the next phase of life. For all three, one’s place in the world, and what brings meaning to life will draw them closer together than ever before.
NPR: Judy Blume, both beloved and banned, on 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.'
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review – Judy Blume adaptation is a winner
Showtimes
Fri: 1:50; 4:20; 6:50; 9:25
Sat: 1:50; 4:20; 7:05; 9:30
Sun: 12:05 (Open Captions); 2:40; 5:10; 7:10
Mon: 2:10; 4:40; 7:10
Tues: 2:10; 4:40; 7:10
Wed: 2:10; 4:40
Thurs: 2:10; 4:40; 7:10
The Sunday 12:05 screening will be played with subtitles
Polite Society
A merry mash up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment and bold action, Polite Society follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
‘Polite Society’ Smashes the Patriarchy With Thrilling Flair
Showtimes
Fri: 2:00; 4:30; 7:00; 9:35
Sat: 1:55; 4:25; 6:55; 9:35
Sun: 12:10; 4:40; 7:40
Mon: 2:00; 4:30; 7:05
Tues: 1:55; 4:25
Wed: 2:00; 4:30; 7:00
Thurs: 2:00; 4:30; 7:05
Chevalier
Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr. in a tour de force performance) rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton) and her court.
‘Chevalier’ Review: Kelvin Harrison Jr. Triumphs in the Lush Joseph Bologne Biopic
Showtimes
Fri: 1:55; 4:25; 6:55
Sat: 2:00; 4:30; 9:25
Sun: 2:10; 5:30; 8:00
Mon: 1:55; 4:25
Tues: 2:00; 4:30; 7:05
Wed: 2:10; 4:40; 7:10
Thurs: 1:55; 4:25
This week's Special Events
Cage Match: The Best of Nicolas Cage
Pig
Nicolas Cage stars as Rob, once a legendary chef, he is now a truffle hunter living alone in the Oregonian wilderness with his beloved truffle pig. Rob lives an isolated existence, cut off from society except for a truffle buyer named Amir (Alex Wolff). When a pair of meth addicts arrive in the night, beat Rob with a metal bat, and steal his pig, he must return to his past in Portland to save his pet.
Friday, April 28th at 9:30 PM
$10 Members | $15 Public
Director Q&A!
Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island
Featuring Q&A with director Heidi Hutner, stars Beth Drazba, Paula Kinney, Linda Braasch, Joyce Corradi, Joanne Doroshow, and editor & producer Simeon Hutner. Moderated by Kelly McMasters.
Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island, an award-winning feature documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown--recounts the story of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. The film covers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers, two lawyers who took the local community's case all the way to the Supreme Court, and a young female journalist who was caught in the radioactive crossfire.
Featuring activist and actor Jane Fonda – whose film, China Syndrome (a fictional account of a nuclear meltdown), opened 12 days before the real disaster in Pennsylvania. Radioactive also breaks the story of a radical new health study (in process) that may finally expose the truth of the meltdown. For over forty years, the nuclear industry has done all in their power to cover up their criminal actions, claiming, as they always do, "No one was harmed and nothing significant happened." In this thrilling feminist documentary, indomitable women fight back against the nuclear industry Goliath to expose one of the worst cover-ups in U.S. history.
Saturday, April 29th at 7:00 PM
$14 Members | $19 Public
Featuring post-film Q&A and reception catered by Slow Food North Shore
Cinema for Kids
The Princess Bride (1987)
Director Rob Reiner's fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman (Robin Wright) and her one true love (Cary Elwes), who must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. Based on the William Goldman novel The Princess Bride which earned its own loyal audience.
Sunday, April 30th at 12 PM
$7 Members | $12 Public | $5 Kids
Kiss the Ground
With Post-Film In-Theater Zoom Discussion with Stewardship Program Advisor and Teacher Don Smith
Narrated by Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis. Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by revitalizing soil, we can solve humanity’s greatest challenge, to balance the climate and secure our species' future.
Sunday, April 30th at 3:00 PM
$8 General Admission
ReelAbilities Film Festival
The Quiet Epidemic
A new documentary that explores Chronic Lyme Disease
After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl from Brooklyn and a Duke University scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not exist: Chronic Lyme disease. Their search for answers lands them in the middle of a vicious medical debate. What begins as a patient story evolves into an investigation into the history of Lyme disease, dating back to its discovery in 1975. A paper trail of suppressed scientific research and buried documents reveals why ticks—and the diseases they carry—have been allowed to quietly spread around the globe.
Monday, May 1st at 7:00 PM
$10 Members | $15 Public
Tai Chi in the Sky Room!
Enjoy some Tai Chi, Chi Gung, & Meditation classes in the Sky Room, every Tuesday at 10 am! Improve your balance, strength, and peace of mind. Free of charge!
Tuesdays at 10 AM in the Sky Room!
FREE!
ReelAbilities Film Festival
Pushing Boundaries
with director Lesia Kordonets in-person
The story of Ukraine's Paralymic Team
With the Russian annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian Paralympic National Team loses their training base overnight. The film follows the team’s fight to qualify for the upcoming games under poor training conditions. As borders shift and their personal and professional lives are displaced, the athletes must push beyond not only physical limits but the weight of political turmoil.
Tuesday, May 2nd at 7:00 PM
$10 Members | $15 Public
With post-film Q&A with filmmaker Lesia Kordonets
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
In their thrilling new work of nonfiction exploration, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, best known for such aesthetically and ethnographically revelatory films as Leviathan and Caniba, burrow deeper than ever, using microscopic cameras and specially designed recording devices to survey the wondrous landscape of the human body. More transfixing than clinical, the film, shot in hospitals in and around Paris, eschews the normal narrative parameters for medical documentation in favor of a rigorously detached, expressionistic look at our tactile yet essentially unknowable flesh and viscera. With its unshakable images of biopsies, cesarean delivery, endoscopic procedures, and the little-seen crevices inside all of us, De Humani Corporis Fabrica both demystifies and celebrates life and death.
"Extraordinary... digs deep into the human body and opens up landscapes as otherworldly—and harrowing—as any you're likely to see. The result is a work of purest corporeal poetry... and a remarkably unvarnished, sympathetic portrait of doctors and nurses at work." — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"An astonishing dive into the human body. A real-life Fantastic Voyage. Remarkable. It left this writer with a deeper understanding of the proverbial, universal self — and maybe with what it means to be human." — A.A. Dowd, Digital Trends
"A movie that simply has everything: sadness and humor, death (at the morgue) and birth (when we see a Caesarean section), camaraderie and coldness." — Ben Kenigsberg, RogerEbert.com
NY Times Critic's Pick: De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ Review: Showing What We’re Made Of
Wednesday, May 3rd at 7:30 PM
$10 Members | $15 Public
FMSH & NOOM Present
Open Mic Night!
Join us most Wednesdays in the Sky Room for our new Open Mic Night! Hosted by the Folk Music Society of Huntington (FMSH) and Northshore Original Open Mic (NOOM), open mic is welcome to performers of any kind!
Wednesday, May 3rd at 7 PM
Sign-up at 6:30 PM
Free!
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Luke Skywalker begins a journey that will change the galaxy in Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope. Nineteen years after the formation of the Empire, Luke is thrust into the struggle of the Rebel Alliance when he meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived for years in seclusion on the desert planet of Tatooine. Obi-Wan begins Luke’s Jedi training as Luke joins him on a daring mission to rescue the beautiful Rebel leader Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth Vader and the evil Empire.
Thursday, May 4th at 7:30 PM
$10 Members | $15 Public