September Events From Cinema Arts Centre

Greetings from Cinema Arts Centre. Here is a brief update of the interesting and engaging events we have recently added to our programming. Some of these great events include the follow-up to Grey Gardens: “That Summer”, a new Stand-up Comedy night, documentaries about some modern music legends, live music, a live recording of an Ian McKellen stage performance, a documentary on invasive species, a storytelling workshop, and more.

 

Folk Music Society of Huntington Presents: Hard Luck Café presents Kristin Maxwell and Clint Alphin

Members $10| Public $15

Thursday, September 20^th at 7:30 PM

Clint Alphin won the 2017 Telluride Troubadour Competition, a nationally recognized performing songwriter competition, and had the opportunity to perform a short set on the main stage during the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, a roots-oriented music festival set amid Colorado’s rugged San Juan Mountains.

Kirsten Maxwell is a multi-faceted young artist who has drawn comparisons to such timeless singers as Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins. Her vocal range and ability allow her to move seamlessly between genres, broadening the scope of her performances. A prolific songwriter, she has been steadily winning awards, drawing accolades, and building her fan base. An audience-voted Most Wanted to Return artists following the Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase at the 2016 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Maxwell also was a winner of the South Florida Folk Festival Singer-Songwriter Competition that year and took first place in a contest sponsored by the Rhode Island Songwriters Association (RISA) in 2015.

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Jazz After Hours: The Place For Jazz Around Midnight

$10 Member and Student | $15 Public

Friday, September 21^st 2018 at 9:30 PM

HOSTED BY: Pete & L.A. Enjoy some beer, wine, and live Jazz music in Cinema Arts Centre’s Sky Room Café.

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The Public Image is Rotten

$5 Public | $7 Members

Saturday September 22^nd at 10:00 PM

Johnny Rotten formed Public Image Ltd after eagerly leaving the infamous Sex Pistols in 1978 to create an experimental anti-rock band that would help change the landscape of music forever. This is their story as told by Lydon and many of the 40+ band members he played with along the 40 year journey. Also featuring interviews with Flea, Adam Horovitz, Thurston Moore and Moby. (USA, 2017, 103 Min., NR | Dir. Tabbert Fiiller)

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Arthouse Convergence Day: A National Event!

Sunday, September 23rd

A special day dedicated to celebrating arthouse theatres like our own Cinema Arts Centre.

Art House Theater Day is a worldwide celebration designed to honor cinemas that stand the test of time and the tremendous film culture that art house theaters promote. Every theater is unique, and the Art House Theater Day celebrations will reflect that. Several film distributors are offering exclusive programs that you will only be able to see on Art House Theater Day at participating theaters.

Participants will also have special film ephemera and other exclusive items to giveaway. Add to that your own locality’s unique filmmaker visits, live music and parties, and there is an abundance of festivities to look forward to on September 24!

As part of Arthouse Theater Day Cinema Arts Centre will be screening:

Foreign Body

Members $11 | Public $16

Sunday, September 23^rd at 2:20 PM

The incredible Hiam Abbass stars alongside Sarra Hannachi in this beautiful film about the impact, struggle, and humanity involved in the immigrant story.

Seeking refuge from her Islamist radical brother whom she informed on, a young woman arrives in France illegally following Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution and discovers a new world of both hope and danger

In the turbulent aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, young Samia flees her homeland. She braves hostile seas in the crossing to France, but once there she finds that her struggles have only just begun. With no friends, no family, and — most crucially — no immigration papers, Samia has to figure out how to make a life and a living in a foreign land. She meets a young man, Imed, and soon finds work in the employ of the elegant Leila. But her presence in Leila’s middle-class household triggers a shift in its dynamics, and soon Samia is enmeshed in a web of sexual tension. Timely as it is, Foreign Body seems to typify a media narrative of forced mass migration: desperate, distressing, and impossible. The film transcends this sweeping, reductive thinking due to the way director Raja Amari immerses her camera in Samia’s new reality. She shoots with a close, handheld aesthetic that makes abstraction and generalization all but impossible, bringing us the story of a unique young woman. (France, 2017, 92 min., NR, French & Tunisian with English subtitles | Dir. Raja Amari)

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MOVING STORIES: With reception & discussion with Director Rob Fruchtman, Council for Unity, and What Better Looks Like

Members $11 | Public $16

Monday, September 24th at 7:00 PM

Six dancers from New York’s Battery Dance Company travel across the world teaching some of the most vulnerable youth about expressing themselves through movement and creativity. Addressing issues from gender violence and poverty to persecution and prejudice, these students respond in extraordinary ways as they prepare to perform in their communities after only a week of practice. The film follows them to India, where they work with girls rescued from sex trafficking and gender violence; to Romania, with Roma (gypsy) kids from one of Europe’s worst slums; to South Korea, with young North Koreans who risked their lives to escape; and to Iraq, where they work with a gifted young Muslim dancer, fighting to survive. As they struggle to break through, the dancer-teachers confront their own frustrations. Yet their students respond in extraordinary ways – and as they prepare to perform in public in what seems an impossibly short time, both students and teachers experience surprising transformations, unlocking feelings and stories in wellsprings of creativity. (USA, 2017, 84 min., NR, English | Dir. Rob Fruchtman)

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Real to Reel: Bad Reputation with Joan Jett

$11 Members | $16 Public

Wednesday, September 26^th at 7:00 PM

Bad Reputation gives you a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning ’70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on.

Cinema Arts Centre will be showing a special one-night-only engagement with an exclusive solo performance by Joan made specifically for this screening. An incredible documentary that combines interviews and archival footage, get a look into the history of rock legend Joan Jett.

We’ll also have some special merchandise to offer as giveaways, some signed records and other fun stuff!

(USA, 2018, 95 min., R, English | Dir. Kevin Kerslake)

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National Theatre Live: Shakespeare’s King Lear starring Ian McKellen

$20 Members | $25 Public

Thursday, September 27^th at 7:00 PM

Broadcast live from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s extraordinarily moving portrayal of King Lear in cinemas.

Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers- one a King, one his courtier- reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.

 

This live broadcast is headlined by a true living legend, Sir Ian McKellen! Chichester Festival Theatre’s production received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfers to the West End for a limited season. Jonathan Munby directs this contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.

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Matangi / Maya/ M.I.A.

$5

Saturday, Oct 6 at 10:00 PM

An intimate portrait into the life of Sri Lankan/British rapper and artist M.I.A. following 22 years in the rapper’s life, her rise to fame and her perspective on the controversies sparked over her music, public appearances and political activism through interviews and a cache of never-before-seen personal footage. This is not a normal pop documentary because M.I.A. is not a normal pop star.
(USA/UK, 2018, 97 min., NR | Dir. Steve Loveridge)

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THERE’S A FUTURE IN THE PAST with Vince Giordano in person!

Members $11 | Public $16

Wednesday, October 10th, 7:30pm

Grammy-winner, New York native and multi-instrumentalist Vince Giordano has played in New York nightclubs, appeared in films such as The Cotton Club, The Aviator, Finding Forrester, Revolutionary Road, Cafe Society, HBOs Boardwalk Empire and for concerts at the Town Hall, Jazz At Lincoln Center, the Newport Jazz Festival and the 92nd St Y for the past four decades.  Vince Giordano keeps the Jazz Age alive with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, vintage musical instruments, and a collection of more than 60,000 original arrangements from the 1920s and ’30s.

This beautifully crafted documentary offers an intimate and energetic portrait of a truly devoted musician and preservationist, taking us behind the scenes of the recording of HBO’s Grammy award-winning Boardwalk Empire soundtrack, and alongside Giordano as he shares his passion for hot jazz with a new generation of music and swing-dance fans.

(USA, 2016, 90 min., Directors: Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards, The Nighthawks: Andy Stein, violin/baritone sax; Mike Ponella, trumpet; Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; Jim Fryer, trombone; Evan Arntzen, alto sax/clarinet; Mark Lopeman, tenor sax/clarinet; Dan Levinson, alto sax/clarinet; Peter Yarin, piano; Arnt Arntzen, guitar/banjo; Paul Wells, percussion; Vince Giordano, band leader, vocalist, string bass/bass sax/tuba )

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Real to Reel: Rodents of Unusual Size

Members $11 | Public $16

Thursday, October 11^th at 7:00 PM

Include reception with filmmaker Jeff Springer

An incredible documentary on one of the most important issues facing conservationists, the onslaught of invasive species and the impact they have on local ecosystems.  A story about giant swamp rats invading coastal Louisiana and the defiant people on the edge of the world, who are defending their communities, culture, and livelihoods from the onslaught of this curious and unexpected invasive species. (USA, 2017, 71 Min, NR, English | Dir. Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer)

Winner of:

Best of Festival Award: Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival

BEST Documentary Award: UNA George Lindsey Film Festival

Best Documentary Award: Tupelo Film Festival

Special Jury Award for Films For Our Future: Mendocino Film Festival

Excellence In American Profiles Award: SF Docfest

Jury Award for Best Documentary: Oceanside International Film Festival

Now You’re Talking! – A Storytelling Show presents: “Take Me To The Movies – Stories about the Silver Screen”

Members $20 | Public $25

Sunday, October 21^st at 2:00 PM

There’s magic in the movies. Films can transport us to distant worlds, and make us feel all the feels – hope, despair, love and joy. They also serve as the backdrop for some of the most meaningful moments in our real lives. Come join six storytellers as they share true stories of the cinema. From a young girl’s chance to meet her matinee idol to a straight-laced theater worker roped into a life of crime, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll identify with all of these movie moments!

The show is hosted by Tracey Segarra, an award-winning, Long Island-based storyteller whose true stories have appeared on The Moth Radio Hour on NPR, and the Risk! and Story Collider podcasts. 

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Emmy Blotnick – Stand-up Comedy in the Cafe!

Members $13 | Public $17

Friday, October 26^th at 9:30 PM

Emmy Blotnick is a stand-up comedian and writer based out of New York. She has appeared on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she is one of the program’s staff writers. She has also appeared on TBS’ CONAN.
Previously she was head writer for Comedy Central’s The President Show, with other writing credits including Comedy Central’s Not Safe with Nikki Glaser and @midnight. Emmy was highlighted as one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch and a “New Face” at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. Her half hour standup special premieres on Comedy Central on October 5th.

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That Summer

Members $20 | Public $25

Monday, October 29^th at 7:00 PM

A new chapter in the story of Grey Gardens!

Welcome to Grey Gardens…as you’ve never seen it before. The follow-up to the world-renowned 1975 documentary! Three years before the Maysles’ landmark documentary introduced the world to Edith and Edie Beale – the unforgettable mother-daughter (and Jackie O. relatives) living in a daycare dream world on Long Island – renowned photographer Peter Beard chronicled life at their crumbling estate during one summer in 1972. For the first time ever, director Goran Olsson assembles this long-lost footage – featuring glimpses of luminaries like Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, and Truman Capote – into a one-of-a-kind family portrait bursting with the loving squabbles, quotable bon mots, and impromptu musical numbers that would make Big and Little Edie beloved cultural icons. (USA, 2018, 82 mins. NR, English | Dir. Goran Olsson)

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