Film
One of my favorite things about summer on Martha’s Vineyard (apart from the beach) is going to the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. This year, I was asked to review High Hopes, a collection of short films.
A new program for kids — Cinema Circus — is coming from the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. The children’s cinema offerings will precede the festival’s established summer film series screenings at 8 p.m. every Wednesday in July and August at the Chilmark Community Center.
This Sunday evening the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center’s Summer Institute screens a powerful documentary, Four Seasons Lodge: Survival of the Joyous, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door.
In 1979, nearly 100 German and Polish survivors of Nazi death camps created a sprawling retreat in New York’s Catskill Mountains, calling it the Four Seasons Lodge. Members of this unique community gathered for decades to celebrate with good food, all-night dancing, and raucous poker games.
This June the Vineyard Haven library celebrates the culture of India, and what better way to set off on an exploration of the subcontinent than with a film that introduced Indian cinema, or Bollywood, to the West?
On Tuesday, June 2, librarygoers can sit back and enjoy the colorful story of a teenager who grew up in the slums of Mumbai as he becomes a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, shares events from his extraordinary life history.
Matzo & Mistletoe, a documentary from Vineyard-based filmmaker and author Kate Feiffer, will screen on Thursday, May 21, at 6 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs Public Library.
Ms. Feiffer was six years old when her father told her she was Jewish. Since she celebrated Christmas and never attended synagogue, this information came as a surprise. In Matzo & Mistletoe, she interviews a fascinating cast of characters, and uses archival footage, illustration and clips from television shows and movies to ponder the paradox of American secular Judaism.
M ow Crew will screen tomorrow at the Capawock, following its trium phant premiere at the Boston Independent Film Festival in late April. This semi-autobiographical romantic comedy about life on the Vineyard was written and directed by a Vineyard native ... and you can tell. In all the best ways.
Last spring, the Gazette wrote about Oak Bluffs native Taylor Toole, 30, and his crew as they were about to hold auditions for Island actors, who comprise all but the four lead roles. Since then, the Mow Crew project has sprouted.