Film
When the National Science Foundation sent acclaimed film director Werner Herzog to Antarctica to shoot a documentary, they may have been hoping that he might return with a message of oncoming global climactic disaster, evidenced in the swift melting of the great icebergs that cluster the shores of this barren consistent, or a sad picture of the ways in which the pristine snowy wilderness has been marred by humankind’s insatiable need to map the unknown, plant flags and harvest resources.
The Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven introduces a two-part November rock and roll cinema program this weekend with Smashing Pumpkins: If All Goes Wrong. The Pumpkins film screens tonight, Friday, Nov. 7 at 9:15 p.m. and Monday, Nov. 10 at 7 and again at 9:15 p.m.
The second film, The Who: Live at Kilburn 1977, will be showing Saturday, Nov. 15 at 4 and 9:15 p.m.
Need more election reflection before Tuesday night’s poll results? On Saturday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. the film The Election Game — showing the results gathered by a news team from Italy who travelled around America this past year asking Americans what issues in this year’s Presidential election were most important to them — will screen at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
Producer Emi Norris will attend and take questions after the film.
Talking Guitars, an intimate portrait on film of master guitar craftsman and now Island resident Flip Scipio, will screen tonight, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre.
This behind-the-scenes music documentary illustrates the fascinating juxtaposition of the quiet artist and the world of musicians who seek his expertise. His clients include Jackson Browne, David Lindley, Ben Taylor, Paul Simon, David Tronzo, Leni Stern and Carly Simon. For himself music is like Esperanto, a universal language.
The New York art scene is the setting for Saturday night’s film, Guest of Cindy Sherman, screening at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.
This feature documentary (88 minutes) is directed by Paul H-O and Tom Donahue.
The Manhattan Short Film Festival (ManhattanShort.com) has selected 12 finalists now screening across four continents this week — including here, at Vineyard Haven’s Katharine Cornell Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Island film lovers will have the opportunity to view and vote on the next generation of filmmakers. There were 429 entries from 42 countries. This week the finalists screen 295 times in 115 cities, from St. Petersburg, Russia to St. Kilda in Melbourne, Australia.