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6-9 Sept. 2012
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We have a rare opportunity to create a state-of-the-art film center that will serve as the permanent home of the Film Society, its International Film Festival, and also provide other uses for our community. But before we break ground we must have in hand the funds sufficient to create a modern digital theatre within the building architect/builder Sam Dunn is planning at the Tisbury Marketplace.
We need to raise $300,000 in our Capital Campaign in order to proceed with the project.
Please review our proposal, peruse the drawings, and ask us any questions you might have about the project and our plans to establish the non-profit film center. A Pledge Card can be downloaded below as a PDF. But if you can't contain yourself, by all means call me now and make your pledge (774-392-2972) or email me at rich@mvfilmsociety.com.
Remember, any amount helps: $50, $100, $1000 or more. We also have naming rights and a special "Founders Circle" contribution level with lots of special benefits. All levels are tax deduction charitable contributions.
I know our film-loving community can make this happen--if we all pull together.
Thanks in advance for your help and support over the years.
See you at the movies!
Richard Paradise, Executive Director
P.S. All donations should be mailed to MV Film Society, P.O. Box 4423, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568 or call for details on how to make a donation using a credit card.
Download our Development Proposal or Call Richard at 508-696-9369 for more information.
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MELANCHOLIA
Director & Writer: Lars von Trier
Featuring: Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgård, Kiefer Sutherland, and Charlotte Gainsbourg
"Melancholia is a remarkable mood piece with visuals to die for (excuse the pun), and a performance from Dunst that runs the color spectrum of emotions."
- Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
"It's a planet that can't come soon enough for her, but one that I kept willing away. Not, I'm a little embarrassed to say, to save humanity from Melancholia, but simply to stay in this remarkable movie's presence just a little longer."
- Bob Mondello, NPR
"A masterwork of grandeur, millennial angst and high romantic style, "Melancholia" takes themes that have marked the best films of 2011 and spins them into a blast of cosmic sparkle dust."
- Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
"We are alone, and yet Melancholia dares to imagine (and insist we do as well) the one event that might bring us all together."
- J. Hoberman, Village Voice
WINNER, Best Film & Cinematography, European Film Award
WINNER, Best Actress, Kirsten Dunst, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, Best Picture, National Society of Film Critics
In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth… MELANCHOLIA is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier.
SING YOUR SONG
Filmmaker: Susanne Rostock, Harry Belafonte
"a man whose story should be told for generations to come"
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Robert Redford
"Moving and Enlightening"
--
Variety
"A motivational look at an important figure in history who inspired change".
--
L.A. Times
"It is a quiet, beautiful song of protest from a man who is still trying to change the world."
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Yahoo Movies
SING YOUR SONG is an up close look at a great American, Harry Belafonte. A patriot to the last and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past 60 years. Told from Harry’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing.
From there the film follows Belafonte’s rise from the jazz and folk clubs of Greenwich Village and Harlem to his emergence as a star. However, even as a superstar, the life of a black man in 1960s America was far from easy and Belafonte was confronted with the same Jim Crow laws and prejudices that every other black man, woman and child in America was facing.
Among other things, the film presents a brief look at the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of an insider, someone who despite his high profile, wasn’t afraid to spend time in the trenches.
From Harlem to Mississippi to Africa and South Central Los Angeles, Sing Your Song takes us on a journey through Harry Belafonte’s life, work and most of all, his conscience, as it inspires us all to action!
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS - ANIMATION
Director/Writer: Various
Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 pm
Katharine Cornell Theatre
54 Spring Street, Vineyard Haven, MA
Admission: $8.00/$5.00 for Film Society members
Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening
Click Here to Watch Trailer
Sunday/Dimanche - 10 minutes - English - Patrick Doyon
Every Sunday, it's the same old routine! The train clatters through the village and almost shakes the pictures off the wall. In the church, Dad dreams about his toolbox. And of course later Grandma will get a visit and the animals will meet their fate.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore - 15 minutes - No Dialogue - William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/illustrator William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals. Morris Lessmore is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.
La Luna - 7 minutes - English - Enrico Casaroasa
A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work.
A Morning Stroll - 7 minutes - No Dialogue - Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we're left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.
Wild Life - 13 minutes - English - Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Calgary, 1909: an Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet
Various Countries * 2011 * 80 minutes * Animated Shorts* Not-Rated
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS -
LIVE-ACTION
Director & Producer: Various
Saturday, February 18 at 7:30 pm
Katharine Cornell Theatre
54 Spring Street, Vineyard Haven, MA
Admission: $8.00/$5.00 for Film Society members
Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening
Click Here to Watch Trailer
Pentecost - 11 minutes - English - Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish, he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo, or serve an extended ban from his life's passion - football.
Raju - 24 minutes - English/German - Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
Director Max Zaehle, together with his Director of Photography Sin Huh, and wonderful actors Wotan Wilke Möhring and Julia Richter, succeed at making the moral dilemma faced by couples wishing to adopt emotionally palpable.
The Shore - 31 minutes - English/Gaelic - Terry George and Oorlagh George
After 25 years in exile, Jim Mahon (Ciaran Hinds) returns to Ireland to show his American daughter Patty (Kerry Condon) his Belfast roots. But things don't go as planned when she learns of a secret love triangle and a long lost best friend, Paddy (Conleth Hill). Their reconciliation leads to hilarious confusion. Directed by two time Oscar nominee Terry George, The Shore won Best Director and Best Actor at the Rhode Island Film Festival, and is nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award.
Time Freak - 11 minutes - English - Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
A
neurotic inventor creates a time machine, only to get caught up travelling around yesterday.
Tuba Atlantic - 25 minutes - Norwegian - Hallvar Witzø
Everybody is going to die one day. Oskar, 70, is going to die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a disagreement years ago. Will he reach his brother, who he believes live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it's too late?
THE WHALE
Director & Producer:
Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit
Narrated by Ryan Reynolds
Lost Baby Orca's Rich Social Life
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The New York Times - Critics' Pick
'The Whale' is an Extraordinary Tale of an Extraordinary Animal
-- The Daily
The Ryan Reynolds-narrated documentary charts the murky waters of several ethical and practical issues behind the life of a young orca named Luna
-- The Hollywood Reporter
Wonderful Family Film (ages from 7 to 90)!
THE WHALE tells the true story of a young, wild killer whale - an orca - nicknamed Luna, who lost contact with his family on the coast of British Columbia and turned up alone in a narrow stretch of sea between mountains, a place called Nootka Sound.
Orcas are social. They live with their families all their lives. An orca who gets separated usually just fades away and dies.
Luna was alone, but he didn’t fade away. There weren’t any familiar orcas in Nootka Sound, but there were people, in boats and on the shore. So he started trying to make contact. And people welcomed him. Most of them.
This contact did not turn out to be simple. It was as if we humans weren’t ready for him.
THE WHALE celebrates the life of a smart, friendly, determined, transcendent being from the other world of the sea who appeared among us like a promise out of the blue: that the greatest secrets in life are still to be discovered.
Join - and reap the benefits!
Join as a new member at any one of this month's incredible shows, and you'll get in FREE that night.
Already a member or need to renew? Make an extra donation, or raise your membership level, and you too get in FREE! Or Bring a Friend that Joins - and You get in Free also.
The Martha's Vineyard Film Society is the Island's only year-round venue providing the best in independent cinema. But this all-volunteer non-profit group needs its members to keep going. (You might not know: a large portion of all ticket sales revenue goes to the off-Island film distributors. BUT membership dues stay on the Island!)
Join at the box office door, and you'll receive:
-one or two free admissions that night (depending on level);
-member discount prices at year-round film screenings and the
MV International Film Festival September 6-9, 2012;
-the satisfaction of knowing that because of you, one of the Vineyard's foremost cultural institutions will remain fiscally healthy.
Thanks for your continued community support!
September 6-9, 2012
Thanks to all of our dedicated volunteers and sponsors, the 2011 International Film Festival broke our previous record, over 3500 admissions sold for films and events over four days, and 12% increase in box office (and that's without any changes in pricing for the last three years). Next step, making the MV Film Center at the Tisbury Marketplace a reality for our 2012 festival.
Presented by the Martha's Vineyard
Film Society
Supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Martha's Vineyard
Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MV Savings Bank Foundation, and "You", our film-going public.
For additional information about the Martha's Vineyard
Film Society or upcoming films, please contact Richard Paradise at 508-696-9369
or e-mail to rich@mvfilmsociety.com
