Film
The comedic drama Noodle, the third film in its summer film series, screens on Sunday, July 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
One reviewer called it an Israeli film about grief and loss that takes the form of a crowd-pleaser: “That’s an odd combination. It works pretty well because for most of its length, we have no idea where it’s going.”
As filmmaker Roman Polanski once said: “Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre.” He clearly never saw a film screened at the Tabernacle. As riveting as the movie may be, it would be next to impossible not to appreciate the open-air theatre in which it was shown.
Seasonal residents Peter and Bobby Farrelley are famously fanatical Red Sox fans, so it’s no surprise their names appear as executive producers on the film The Lost Son of Havana, about legendary Sox pitcher Luis Tiant, the folk-hero hurler with a 19-year career in the majors, most memorably at Fenway. Tonight the film has its Island debut at 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center, with Q& A with some of the filmmakers after the screening.
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. This week the film is Kirikou and the Sorceress, and here to review it is Island kid critic Stella Frank.
See article below for details of the grownup film, Lost Son of Havana, which screens at 8 p.m., same place.
Kirikou and the Sorceress
By Stella Frank
Fledgling director and Vanity Fair special correspondent Matt Tyrnauer filmed 270 hours of the final two years of Italian haute couture designer Valentino Garavani’s career before his 2007 retirement, capturing the absurdly opulent life of the small, bronzed man he calls both a genius and “a bossy nightmare.”
Outspoken author, lawyer and political commentator Alan Dershowitz will be the special guest at Sunday’s presentation of The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost, a 77-minute documentary screening at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
The film begins at 7:30 p.m. on July 5. Tickets are $15 at the door on Centre street in Vineyard Haven.