Film
A Sea Change
A groundbreaking documentary about ocean acidification, A Sea Change, screens at the Chilmark library on Wednesday, September 16 at 5:30 p.m. The screening is free, sponsored by the Menemsha Fisheries Development Fund and the Friends of the Chilmark Public Library.
Said one critic, “The story that ‘A Sea Change’ tells is urgent, unsettling and desperately in need of understanding and action.” For details, call 508-645-3360.
Funny that Patricia Neal attributes much of her success as an actress to the lucky breaks she got early in her career. The woman revealed in an unusual Monday Night Special event for the Vineyard Playhouse — held on Sunday — seemed largely shaped by those decidedly unlucky events for which she’s become known. In As I Am, Ms.
One of Richard Paradise’s favorite things about cinema is its ability to transport viewers in an instant to far-off places, foreign cultures and fanciful situations. At the 2009 Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival, Mr. Paradise will enhance these screen voyages by bringing a taste of the exotic right to our doorstep, or rooftop, in the case of opening night.
The Stone Soup celebration of heroes, an awards ceremony featuring the late Walter Cronkite, originally held at the Tabernacle in July, 2000, featured as a film, will be rebroadcast on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m. on MVTV Channel 13, followed by a free reception for award winners, friends and supporters from 7 to 8 p.m. (RSVP for directions: e-mail [email protected] or call 415-912-6957.)
For the final time this summer, you can bring the kids for the stilt walkers and jugglers, for the popcorn, pizza and face-painting, for all the under-the-big-tent fun that is Cinema Circus at the Chilmark Community Center every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The main act, of course, is the movie. Here to review what’s on the big screen tomorrow — a collection of short films — is Island kid critic David Merkel.
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, tells the story of one of the most famous and controversial lawyers of the 20th century. At the center of such cultural and political touchstone events as the defense of the Chicago 8, the Attica Prison riots, the standoff at Wounded Knee, and the Central Park jogger rape case, Kunstler represented accused terrorists and murderers as well as civil rights and anti-war activists.