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West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: The Testament of Ann Lee
West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: The Testament of Ann Lee
ABOUT THE FILM: From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The…
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West Newton presents Behind the Screen: Sinners
West Newton presents Behind the Screen: Sinners
SINNERS is a genre-defying period horror drama written and directed by Ryan Coogler, set in 1932 Mississippi during the Jim Crow era. The story follows twin brothers Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore, portrayed by Michael B. Jordan in dual roles, who return to their hometown to open a juke joint for the local…
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West Newton Cinema presents Mary Pickford’s Sparrows: Live Music Accompaniment
West Newton Cinema presents Mary Pickford’s Sparrows: Live Music Accompaniment
Join us for a screening of Mary Pickford's, SPARROWS (1926) with live musical accompaniment. ABOUT THE FILM: Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of. LIVE MUSIC BRUCE VOGT Bruce Vogt is a…
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West Newton Cinema presents Night Fight
West Newton Cinema presents Night Fight
Night Fight is a hybrid documentary, nonfiction framed with creative, cinematic storytelling directed and edited by Khary Saeed Jones. The film emerges from a harrowing incident in 2017 when Jones was followed by a racist vigilante along back roads in rural Canada. Over time, that encounter cast a long shadow over his life, prompting a…
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West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: All God’s Children
West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: All God’s Children
In an unprecedented attempt to heal centuries of racism and antisemitism, and combat the rising racial and ethnic tension in their Brooklyn communities, the largest reform synagogue and the oldest black Baptist Church attempt to unite their congregations and bring about peace, by becoming family. Shot over five years by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner,…