West Newton Cinema Foundation
West Newton Cinema presents Mary Pickford’s Sparrows: Live Music Accompaniment
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesJoin 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…
West Newton Cinema presents Night Fight
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesNight 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…
West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: All God’s Children
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesIn 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,…