Film
The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center invites the public for a film and discussion on Sunday, April 11 at 3 p.m. for their Yom Ha’Shoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, program. A screening of the prize-winning film, Pilgrimage into the Past, will be followed by a talk with the film’s director, Austin de Besche, and the film’s subject, Holocaust survivor Michael Kraus. The event is free; donations will be accepted.
As spring gets in to full swing, everything becomes a little more animated. This is especially true on Friday, April 2, at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, when the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society presents a special screening of The Secret of Kells, a 2010 Oscar nominee for best animated feature.
Classic Dark Comedy
Charlie Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux screens at the Capawock, Wednesday, March 24 at 7 p.m.
Lamenting in short order “that three and a half hour shambles on Sunday night,” the Academy Awards; the “very stupid piece in the New York Times this morning which implies that the popular movies should have won the awards;” and the news that show-business trade magazine Variety had fired its veteran critic — “that’s really an outrage” — David Denby sounds every bit the articulate, authoratative film critic he is every other week in the New Yorker magazine.
It took the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival about three years to get into the casual character it has enjoyed for the past seven. In the first year, a black and white printout distributed the day before the Grange Hall screenings announced a one-day program consisting of a collection of shorts, a few features and some ethnic food. The next year, a move to the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven eliminated the food; eating wasn’t allowed at the site, so the festival moved again.
Oscar Nominated Shorts
Tonight, Feb. 26, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society presents a special screening of all 10 2010 Oscar nominated short films at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. Split into two screenings, the night begins at 5:30 p.m. with the top five animated shorts, followed by the top five live-action shorts at 7:30 p.m.