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SUMMARY:Ty Burr's Film Club: Seven Samurai
DESCRIPTION:This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment\, delicate human emotions\, and relentless action\, into a rich\, evocative\, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.
URL:https://www.newtonbeacon.org/event/ty-burrs-film-club-seven-samurai/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Visual Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="West Newton Cinema Foundation":MAILTO:kbrown@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261115T130000
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SUMMARY:Behind the Screen: La Bola Negra
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FILM\nLA BOLA NEGRA\, the bold new film from Spanish writer-directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi\, won the Best Director award at Cannes and the People’s Choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Inspired by the surviving pages of an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca and by Alberto Conejero’s award-winning play La piedra oscura\, the film tells the interconnected stories of three gay men in Spain in 1932\, 1937\, and 2017. Moving from the years before the Spanish Civil War\, through the war itself\, to the present day\, LA BOLA NEGRA is a sweeping\, passionate triptych about desire\, repression\, historical memory\, and what one generation carries forward to the next. \nPANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS\nOur panel will explore the film’s roots in Lorca’s work\, its portrayal of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco era\, and how it brings queer history and historical memory to the screen. \nCARLOS RAMOS\nMargaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literary Studies and Professor of Spanish\, Wellesley College\nCarlos Ramos’s teaching and research focus on the literature and cultural history of contemporary Spain. His published work includes Construyendo la modernidad: Escritura y arquitectura en el Madrid moderno (1918-1937) and Poesía insomne. \nWAN SONYA TANG\nAssociate Professor of Hispanic Studies\, Boston College\nWan Sonya Tang teaches courses on Spanish literature and culture from the nineteenth century onward. She is the author of Specters\, Monsters\, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in 19th-Century Spain and co-editor of Televising Restoration Spain\, which examines how heritage film and television explore Spain’s relationship to modernity in the late 1800s and early 1900s. \nModerator:\nFERNANDO ROSENBERG\nProfessor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature\, Brandeis University\nFernando Rosenberg is the author of After Human Rights: Literature\, Visual Arts\, and Film in Latin America\, 1990-2010.
URL:https://www.newtonbeacon.org/event/behind-the-screen-la-bola-negra/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Visual Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="West Newton Cinema Foundation":MAILTO:kbrown@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261118T183000
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SUMMARY:Riverdogs & The Same River Twice
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FILMS\nIn 1978 Robb Moss filmed a group of friends\, young river guides\, on a 35-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon\, and he has kept filming them ever since. \nTHE SAME RIVER TWICE (2003\, 78 min.) catches up with five of those friends\, Barry\, Cathy\, Danny\, Jeff and Jim\, twenty years later. Two have served as mayors and one as a county commissioner\, and all five are weighing the free lives they once led against the ones they have built. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. \nRIVERDOGS (1982\, 32 min.) is Moss’s original record of that summer on the Colorado River\, a lyrical and unselfconscious portrait of youth and the canyon. RIVERDOGS contains nudity.
URL:https://www.newtonbeacon.org/event/riverdogs-the-same-river-twice/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Visual Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="West Newton Cinema Foundation":MAILTO:kbrown@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T183000
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SUMMARY:Behind the Screen: Once Upon A Time In Harlem
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FILM\nONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM captures an extraordinary evening in 1972\, when pioneering documentarian William Greaves gathered surviving luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance at Duke Ellington’s Harlem townhouse. Over four hours\, artists\, writers\, and intellectuals\, many of whom had not seen one another in fifty years\, reminisced\, argued\, laughed\, and debated their place in a rapidly changing cultural landscape. Greaves considered it the most important event he ever filmed. Decades later\, his son David Greaves\, one of the original camera operators\, restored the 16mm footage and completed the film\, creating both a vivid time capsule and a searching inquiry into one of the most creative periods in American history. \nPANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS\nOur panelists will discuss the Harlem Renaissance and its legacy\, the remarkable figures gathered in Greaves’s footage\, and the story of how this film was made and\, fifty years later\, finally completed. \nKENDRA FIELD\nAssociate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History\, Tufts University\nKendra Field is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at Tufts University. She is author of Growing Up with the Country: Family\, Race\, and Nation after the Civil War and the winner of numerous awards\, including the 2025-26 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Field co-founded the Du Bois Forum\, a retreat for writers\, scholars\, and artists\, and serves as chief historian for the 10 Million Names Project. She has advised and appeared in historical documentaries including Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” and “Roots: A History Revealed.” \nKHARY JONES\nProfessor of the Practice\, Theatre\, Dance\, and Performance Studies\, Tufts University\nKhary Jones is Professor of the Practice\, Theatre\, Dance\, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. As a writer-director\, his work includes the award-winning documentary Night Fight and the short films Hug\, Three and a Half Thoughts\, and Chrysalis. He has also served on the editorial teams behind the documentary features Where the Pavement Ends; Black Memorabilia; Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart; He Named Me Malala; Sembene!; and The World According to Dick Cheney. \nJESSE MCCARTHY\nJohn L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies\, Harvard University\nJesse McCarthy is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War; Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? Essays\, which won the 2022 Whiting Award for Non-Fiction; and the novel The Fugitivities\, featured on NPR. He is editor of the Norton Library edition of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk and the co-editor with Henry Louis Gates Jr. of The Norton Critical Edition of Jean Toomer’s Cane.
URL:https://www.newtonbeacon.org/event/behind-the-screen-once-upon-a-time-in-harlem/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Visual Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="West Newton Cinema Foundation":MAILTO:kbrown@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T183000
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SUMMARY:Riverdogs & The Bend in the River
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FILMS\nIn 1978 Robb Moss filmed a group of friends\, young river guides\, on a 35-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon\, and he has kept filming them ever since. \nRIVERDOGS (1982\, 32 min.) is Moss’s original 16mm record of that summer on the Colorado River\, a lyrical and unselfconscious portrait of youth and the canyon. RIVERDOGS contains nudity. \nA short break follows. \nTHE BEND IN THE RIVER (2025\, 83 min.) returns to Barry\, Cathy\, Danny\, Jeff and Jim\, now in their seventies. Moss weaves together footage from across their lives into a portrait of friendship and aging that is often funny and finally very moving. Executive produced by Frances McDormand and Joel Coen\, the film premiered at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival. \nCONVERSATION WITH THE FILMMAKER FOLLOWS\nRobb Moss joins Anne Marie Stein to talk about filming the same people across a lifetime\, and what it is like to watch his friends\, and himself\, grow older on screen. \nROBB MOSS\nRudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking\, Harvard University\nRobb Moss is a documentary filmmaker who teaches filmmaking at Harvard. His films include RIVERDOGS\, THE SAME RIVER TWICE\, which premiered at Sundance\, and SECRECY and CONTAINMENT\, both made with Peter Galison. He has been an advisor at the Sundance Institute Documentary Labs since their first year and has served on documentary juries at Sundance and many other festivals. \nModerator:\nANNE MARIE STEIN\nFormer Executive Director\, Boston Film/Video Foundation\nAnne Marie Stein is a Newton resident who led the Boston Film/Video Foundation from 1988 to 2001 and co-founded the Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema.
URL:https://www.newtonbeacon.org/event/riverdogs-the-bend-in-the-river/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="West Newton Cinema Foundation":MAILTO:kbrown@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261121T130000
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SUMMARY:Musical Matinee: Kiss Me Kate
DESCRIPTION:Two formerly married actors (Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel) are forced back into contact with each other when they’re cast in a production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Will their history completely derail the show\, or will they find a way to put their differences aside until\, at least\, opening night? Or could they even start to like each other again? A bright technicolor confection\, Kiss Me Kate brings The Taming of the Shrew into the age of the MGM musical\, complete with music by the one and only Cole Porter. This film brings laughs a-plenty\, with gorgeous sets and costumes—and keep your eyes peeled for a young Bob Fosse in one of his first screen roles!
URL:https://www.newtonbeacon.org/event/musical-matinee-kiss-me-kate/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community
ORGANIZER;CN="West Newton Cinema Foundation":MAILTO:kbrown@mit.edu
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