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SUMMARY:Behind the Screen: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
DESCRIPTION:Agathe (Camille Rutherford) works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris\, where she dreams of becoming a successful writer and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel. Instead\, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writer’s block. When Agathe’s best friend (Pablo Pauly) helps secure her a spot at the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England\, Agathe finally has her Jane Austen moment . . . and is caught in a very unexpected romantic triangle. In the end\, Agathe must let go of her insecurities to decide what she really wants for herself and to achieve her romantic and professional dreams. \nPOST SCREENING PANEL DISCUSSION\nJane Austen’s novels have inspired countless adaptations in film\, literature\, television\, and theater. Our distinguished panel will dive deep into the author’s unparalleled influence on the arts and her enduring appeal\, tracing themes of class\, gender\, and marriage in her work and their resonance in today’s world. \nSONIA HOFKOSH\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor & Chair of English at Tufts University \nSonia Hofkosh is the author of Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author and coeditor of Romanticism\, Race\, and Imperial Culture\, 1780–1834. She has published essays on Jane Austen and among her favorite courses to teach is one that considers Austen’s marriage plots in relation to Mary Shelley’s speculative fiction. \nDEIDRE LYNCH\, Ph.D.\nErnest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature at Harvard University \nDeidre Lynch is the editor of Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees and has prepared editions of Austen’s Persuasion for Oxford University Press and Mansfield Park for Harvard University Press. She is also the author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History and has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books and Public Books. \nTARA MENON\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor of English at Harvard University \nTara Menon’s debut novel\, Under Water\, will be published by Riverhead Books in\nMarch\, and her first monograph\, Speaking Parts: Conversation\, Character\, and Social\nWorlds\, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in the fall of 2026. \nModerator: \nMARY COTTON\nMary has owned and operated Newtonville Books with her husband\, the writer and editor Jaime Clarke\, for nearly twenty years.
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/behind-the-screen-jane-austen-wrecked-my-life/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Film and Media
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SUMMARY:West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: Caught by the Tides
DESCRIPTION:West Newton Cinema will present a “Behind the Screen” film and panel discussion\, featuring Caught by the Tides\, followed by a distinguished panel that will delve into the film’s themes and its broader cultural\, historical\, and cinematic contexts. The discussion will consider how the film reflects on China’s transformation\, the interplay between personal stories and national history\, and the ways cinema can blur the lines between fiction and documentary.
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/west-newton-cinema-presents-behind-the-screen-caught-by-the-tides/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250731T080000
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SUMMARY:West Newton Cinema presents Sabbath Queen
DESCRIPTION:West Newton Cinema will show the documentary Sabbath Queen\, followed by a Q&A discussion with the director\, Sandi DuBowski. Sabbath Queen is a feature documentary filmed over 21 years\, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis\, including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. Torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny\, Amichai becomes a drag-queen rebel\, a queer bio-dad\, and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly\, God-optional\, artist-driven\, pop-up experimental congregation.
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/west-newton-cinema-presents-sabbath-queen/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film and Media
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250413T123000
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SUMMARY:Behind the Screen: SECRET MALL APARTMENT with Director Jeremy Workman and Artist/Resident Michael Townsend
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Jeremy Workman\nStarring Michael Townsend\, Colin Bliss\, Adriana Valdez-Young\, Andrew Oesch\, James J.A. Mercer \nFilm and Post-Screening Discussion with:\nJeremy Workman\, Director\nMichael Townsend\, Artist and onetime mall resident\nNate Harrison\, Dean of Academic Affairs\, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University \nIn 2003\, eight young Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years\, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture\, tapped into the mall’s electricity\, and even secretly constructed a brick wall with a locking door\, smuggling in over 2 tons of cinderblock. Far more than just a wild prank\, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all its inhabitants – a personal expression of defiance against local gentrification\, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art\, a clubhouse to coordinate their artistic charity\, and finally\, a 750 square foot space that sticks it to the man. \nJEREMY WORKMAN\nEmmy-nominated director of the documentaries SECRET MALL APARTMENT (Executive Produced by Jesse Eisenberg)\, LILY TOPPLES THE WORLD (Discovery)\, DECIDING VOTE (Oscar-shortlisted Best Documentary Short)\, THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET (Greenwich Entertainment / Kino Lorber)\, and MAGICAL UNIVERSE (IFC Films). Jeremy’s documentaries have played at prestigious film festivals and been released in theaters and on TV across the globe. He has been praised for creating his own genre of uniquely cinematic character portraits that bring viewers deep inside extraordinary worlds. \nMICHAEL TOWNSEND\nProvidence\, RI artist known as “that guy that lived in a mall” and “that guy who invented Tape Art.” He has made over 500 temporary tape art murals on buildings all over the world\, has taught collaborative drawing to over 60\,000 students\, and still sneaks in the time to make large secret artworks that no one will ever see. \nNATE HARRISON\nDean of Academic Affairs\, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a Professor of the Practice. An artist and writer working at the intersection of intellectual property\, cultural production and the formation of creative processes in modern media\, Nate’s work has been exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Centre Pompidou\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, and the Kunstverein in Hamburg\, among others.
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/behind-the-screen-secret-mall-apartment-with-director-jeremy-workman-and-artist-resident-michael-townsend/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film and Media
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SUMMARY:Tui T. Sutherland\, Author of Wings Of Fire
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Newton Children’s Book Festival\, West Newton Cinema is excited to host a children’s book event with Tui T. Sutherland\, the New York Times best-selling author of the much beloved Wings of Fire series and other books. Tickets are $20/person and include a limited edition copy of THE DRAGONET PROPHESY or a $10 gift certificate to Newtonville Books\, available at time of entry. \nLearn more about the Newton Children’s Book Festival taking place on December 14th at the New Art Center: newtonchildrensbookfest.com
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/tui-t-sutherland-author-of-wings-of-fire/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Family Friendly,Literary Arts
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SUMMARY:Behind The Screen: WICKED with author Gregory Maguire
DESCRIPTION:Gregory Maguire\, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West\, joins us for a screening and discussion of the new musical film WICKED (2024)\, the world within his books\, and all things Oz! \nWICKED brings the untold origin story of the witches of Oz to life\, based on Maguire’s bestselling novel and the beloved Broadway musical. Directed by Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians)\, this visually stunning adaptation stars Cynthia Erivo\, Ariana Grande\, Michelle Yeoh\, and Jeff Goldblum. \nGregory Maguire is a New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels for adults and children in addition to Wicked\, including Son of a Witch\, After Alice\, and A Wild Winter Swan. A former professor and co-director at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children’s Literature\, Maguire continues to enchant readers with his inventive storytelling and masterful prose. \nMovie Screening followed by Discussion.\n160 minutes | PG | Musical
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/behind-the-screen-wicked-with-author-gregory-maguire/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film and Media
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T150000
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SUMMARY:Behind The Screen: A Real Pain (Film & Discussion)
DESCRIPTION:Screening & Post-Film Discussion with Michelle Ephraim\, Jonathan Wilson and Tim Miller! \nJesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain is a sharp\, thoughtful take on family and the weight of inherited history. In it\, cousins David and Benji—played by Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin—travel to Poland to connect with their Jewish roots and honor their late grandmother\, a Holocaust survivor. The two cousins couldn’t be more different: David is responsible and tightly wound\, while Benji is a free spirit\, creating a humorous and heartfelt dynamic between the two as they confront their past and the unresolved tensions in their relationship. \nPanelists:\nMichelle Ephraim\, Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and author of the memoir Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare\, weaves together her life\, the lives of her Holocaust-survivor parents\, and the writings of Shakespeare.\nJonathan Wilson\, Professor of Rhetoric and Debate Emeritus at Tufts\, with interests in creative writing and contemporary Jewish literature\, is the author of nine books including The Red Balcony.\nModerated by Tim Miller\, co-president of the Boston Society of Film Critics.
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/behind-the-screen-a-real-pain-film-discussion/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film and Media
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SUMMARY:West Newton Cinema presents Ty Burr's Movie Club: "It's Always Fair Weather"
DESCRIPTION:If “Singin’ in the Rain” is regarded as the high-water mark of the MGM musical\, (and one of the great all-time movies)\, this reunion of star Gene Kelly and director Stanley Donen is the studio’s brilliant best-kept secret. Kelly\, Dan Dailey and Michael Kidd play three ex-GI pals who meet up ten years after WWII and discover they can’t stand each other — until a “This Is Your Life” TV producer (Cyd Charisse) gets them on national television. A delightful discovery with some of the most eye popping song-and-dance number you’ll ever see. (Gene Kelly tap-dancing on roller skates — enough said.) \nTy Burr\, former Boston Globe film critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist\, presents this handpicked film screening at West Newton Cinema followed by an interactive group discussion.
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/west-newton-cinema-presents-ty-burrs-movie-club-its-always-fair-weather/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film and Media
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241110T123000
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SUMMARY:West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: ANORA
DESCRIPTION:Join us at West Newton Cinema for a special screening of Sean Baker’s critically acclaimed film “Anora” followed by a panel discussion featuring Lisa Goldblatt Grace\, Malcolm Turvey\, and Ty Burr. \nAnora* is a comedy-drama about a New York exotic dancer (Mikey Madison) whose involvement with the son of a Russian oligarch (Paul Weissman) leads to a farcical odyssey across Brooklyn and a hard reckoning. The film won the top prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and is already being hailed as one of the year’s best movies—but is its portrait of sex work empathetic or exploitive\, a clear-eyed acknowledgment of the realities or just another Hollywood fairy tale? \nPanelists will include Lisa Goldblatt Grace\, Co-Executive Director of My Life My Choice\, a national organization fighting the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children\, and Professor Malcolm Turvey\, founding Director of Tufts University’s Film and Media Studies Program and a distinguished scholar of film theory and aesthetics. The event will be moderated by Ty Burr\, the Boston Globe’s film critic from 2002 to 2021 and currently reviewing movies for The Washington Post and in the subscription newsletter Ty Burr’s Watch List. \n*Content Note: Anora is an R-rated film\, with rough language and scenes of nudity and graphic sexuality.
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/west-newton-cinema-presents-behind-the-screen-anora/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film and Media
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T210000
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SUMMARY:West Newton Cinema presents Gen X series: The Breakfast Club
DESCRIPTION:This Friday\, we invite you to step back\, reconnect\, and share a laugh together at our first Gen X Series film\, THE BREAKFAST CLUB—the iconic story of five teens who\, despite their differences\, learn to find common ground. \nBrad Abraham\, seasoned screenwriter and creator of the comic series Mixtape\, together with Susannah Gora\, pop culture expert and author of “You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack\, John Hughes\, and Their Impact on a Generation”\, will discuss the Brat Pack’s legacy and how these films shaped the Gen X view of friendship\, romance\, and success. \n** Screening and Post-Film Discussion ** \nTHE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)\n97 minutes | R | Comedy\nA film by John Hughes\nStarring: Molly Ringwald\, Judd Nelson\, Anthony Michael Hall\, Ally Sheedy\, and Emilio Estevez
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/west-newton-cinema-presents-gen-x-series-the-breakfast-club/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film and Media
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T110000
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SUMMARY:Behind the Screen:  Killers of the Flower Moon
DESCRIPTION:West Newton Cinema Foundation presents \nJoin us for a conversation about the true events that inspired Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling book by the same name. The Osage murders\, a series of killings in the 1920s targeting members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma due to their substantial oil wealth\, prompted FBI involvement at a pivotal moment in the agency’s history and revealed a sinister conspiracy. \nPanelists: \nEmilie Connolly\nAssistant professor of Native American history at Brandeis University studying political economy\, colonialism\, and the Indigenous peoples of North America \nDenise Cummings\nSenior lecturer in film and media studies at Tufts University\, whose areas of expertise include Native American and global Indigenous screen cultures\, as well as Native literature\, Art\, and visual culture \nMalcolm Turvey\nSol Gittleman Professor and founder of film and media studies at Tufts University\, known for research on film theory and storytelling \nModerator: J.B. Sloan\, a member of the West Newton Cinema Foundation\, and a member of the Osage Nation \nFree event\, registration required\n*Movie tickets sold separately through West Newton Cinema
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/behind-the-screen-killers-of-the-flower-moon/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture and Education
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