Posts Tagged ‘Film’
West Newton Cinema presents Join or Die
Directed 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…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents Bending the Arc: The Journey Continues
Global 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…
Read MoreDirector’s Spotlight: Age Group Winner
In 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…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents Ty Burr’s Movie Club: The Holdovers
From 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…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents Oscars Party
Strike 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…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: Hoosiers with Brad Stevens
ABOUT 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…
Read MoreWest 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,…
Read MoreWest 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 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…
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…
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