Posts Tagged ‘Art’
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…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents An Evening with John Sayles
West Newton Cinema Reads & Newtonville Books present: The iconic filmmaker John Sayles reading from and discussing his new novel, The Crucible, along with his classic film, City of Hope,…
Read MoreCapella Clausura presents “‘in tongues’: Ruehr’s “Cassandra”
Magic spells, prophecies, secrets, prayers; what happens when words mean more than what they say? Speech has the power to persuade, clarify, distort, and to move. It can even affect…
Read MoreWest 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…
Read MoreWest 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…
Read MoreNewton Cemetery & Arboretum: Artist in Residence Program – Applications Now Open
The Friends of Newton Cemetery & Arboretum is delighted to announce that the application period for the 2026-27 Artist in Residence (AiR) Program is now open. This residency invites an…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents Ty Burr’s Movie Club: Her
TY BURR’S MOVIE CLUB is hosted by the nationally recognized film critic Ty Burr. Each month Ty presents and discusses one of his favorite films with the audience. His selections…
Read MoreBehind the Screen: It Was Just an Accident
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT marks another remarkable act of defiance by Jafar Panahi, one of the most courageous filmmakers of our time. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents There Was, There Was Not
In THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT, myth and reality intertwine to reveal the lives of four Armenian women facing the loss of their homeland. What began as a quiet observation…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: Nouvelle Vague
NOUVELLE VAGUE is Richard Linklater’s love letter to the magic of French New Wave cinema, as he reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960), the film that established Godard’s…
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