West Newton Cinema Foundation
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,…
West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: Hoosiers with Brad Stevens
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesABOUT THE FILM: A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship. PANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS BRAD STEVENS Brad Stevens is the President of Basketball Operations for the NBA's Boston Celtics, a position he has held since June 2021,…
West Newton Cinema presents Ty Burr’s Movie Club: The Holdovers
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesFrom acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer…
West Newton Cinema presents Oscars Party
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesStrike a pose at our red carpet photo booth, enjoy a dinner buffet by Anoush’ella, and settle in to watch the Awards with fellow film lovers. A cash bar will be available throughout the evening. Film critic Ty Burr will serve as MC, sharing commentary, predictions, and reactions as the night unfolds. Be sure to…
West Newton Cinema presents Cosmic Coda
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesJoin West Newton Cinema for the Local Spotlight screening of Cosmic Coda with a post-film discussion with the Filmmaker MJ Doherty and Senior Research Scientist Peter Fritschel. COSMIC CODA is about the in-between moments of scientific discovery - how it feels going to work each day on a machine that tests both the limits of our…
West Newton Cinema presents Bending the Arc: The Journey Continues
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesGlobal Spotlight: Partners in Health Partners In Health: The Journey Continues In the 1980s, Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, activist Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and investor Thomas White began a movement that changed global health forever. Treating patients who had been abandoned by the health establishment, they developed through Partners In Health (PIH)…
Director’s Spotlight: Age Group Winner
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesIn 1980 Jay Helgerson shocked the world, becoming the first person to run a marathon a week for a year – each race completed in under three hours. For the last ten years, his daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Helgerson, followed him with a camera in order to understand the eccentric man who raised her. What she…
West Newton Cinema presents Join or Die
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesDirected by Rebecca Davis, Pete Davis Starring Robert Putnam, Vivek Murthy, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Raj Chetty, Priya Parker, Jane McAlevey, Glenn Loury, Hahrie Han THE POWER OF BELONGING: JOIN OR DIE Stronger communities start with showing up. 3:00 - 4:30 PM – “Join or Die” screening 4:30 - 5:30 PM – Club Fair in…
West Newton Cinema Reads: Perrotta & Phillips
West Newton Cinema 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, United StatesWest Newton Cinema Reads & Newtonville Books present: Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers, Little Children, and Election, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips reading from, discussing, and signing copies of their new books, Ghost Town and Small Town Girls, followed by a screening of The Last Picture Show. Tom Perrotta’s new novel, Ghost…