Film
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society presents the comic feature The Big Bad Swim tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
A community pool in Connecticut is the setting for this film in which, as you might expect, learning to swim is the metaphor for life: Ultimately it’s better to jump in with both feet, and get in the swim, rather than sit on the deck, because life happens to you anyway.
Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. The film In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first, and possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every Apollo mission that flew to the moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words.
How to Save the World last month won the award for best nonbroadcast film at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, an international event where other winners came from the BBC, Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel. Tonight, the awardwinning documentary about biodynamic farming will be broadcast — premiering on MVTV.
The filmmakers were on the Island last month to interview Vineyard author William E. Marks for their next film, which is about water. Mr. Marks facilitating the right to screen the film, which begins tonight at 8 p.m.
Abu Ghraib Film Screens
The documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib will screen for free on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center at 130 Center street in Vineyard Haven.
Join Adnan Sabeh, the Rev. Alden Besse, Father Michael Nagle, Rabbi Brian Walt, and fellow community members for an open and free discussion and refreshments to follow the screening of Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. All participants and opinions welcome.
This film is for mature audiences only.
A classic film, by turns funny, sad and profound, Killer of Sheep offers a sympathetic and humane glimpse into inner-city life — and this affecting film screens with a restored print on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.
Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid 1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.
The film Alice Neel, Portrait Painter, a documentary about one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century, will screen on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.