Film
The Menemsha fisheries development fund will kick off its 2008 program series at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, Feb. 20 with two documentary films looking at traditional fishing communities impacted by declining fish stocks, changing regulations and the loss of a way of life.
Movie About Windsurfing
Will Benefit Sailing Team
Travel the world with four of its best windsurfers today, Friday, Feb. 8 in The Windsurfing Movie, which will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven to support the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School sailing team.
Sundance Appearance
Author and water researcher William E. Marks of Edgartown has returned from the Sundance Film Festival, where he was featured in the documentary film, FLOW: For Love of Water.
While water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet, the film confronts the disturbing reality that the crucial resource is dwindling and greed may be the cause.
The voices of several Vineyard residents will be featured in the upcoming documentary film Zeb: Schooner Life, which is being produced by Detrick Lawrence Productions of Edgartown.
The film tells the story of Zeb Tilton (1866-1952), a legendary schooner captain from the Vineyard and his iconic vessel, the Alice S. Wentworth. Covering the history of schooners, the schooner trade and its legacy, this film is scheduled for release later this year, with an Island premiere in June.
When Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, the story of a rape and murder told from three perspectives, was released in 1950, it won the Gold Lion at the Venice Film Festival and has since received some of the most gushing reviews of all time from Western critics. But the head of the Japanese production company which had coughed up just $5,000 for the film’s budget disliked what he saw so much, he took his name off the credits. Japanese critics called it complicated and boring, and they worried about the swear words.
Film critic Roger Ebert called The Great World of Sound, “a confident, sure-handed exercise focusing on the American Dream, turned nightmare.” This eccentric, awardwinning film screens this Saturday, Jan. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.