To honor the late, great David Lynch, Ty Burr’s Film Club will screen one of the director’s very best works, “Mulholland Drive” (2001), on February 6th at 6:30 p.m., with a discussion following. The film [...]
Join us for a screening of this 2022 documentary featuring the Newton South Debate Team. Set in the cutthroat, male-dominated world of high school debate, where tomorrow’s leaders are groomed, GIRL TALK tells the compelling [...]
This Valentine's Day, join the Gen X Movie Club for a special screening of Singles, writer-director Cameron (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Say Anything) Crowe’s Grunge-era romantic comedy that captures the trials, tribulations, and awkward [...]
The Pneumafractalist is about the life of autistic writer, actor and visual artist Harmon dot aut, who grew up in poverty in rural Kansas. Harmon was a spirited, creative and naïve child, and like many [...]
Made in Ethiopia takes viewers on an immersive journey into a rural Ethiopian town transformed by a sprawling Chinese industrial park. Over four years of exclusive access, the film captures the unfolding drama as the [...]
Join us after this screening for a very special Q&A with the director, Sandi DuBowski. A 39th generation ex-Orthodox rabbi embarks on a remarkable 21-year personal journey, also embracing life as a drag queen.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film's directors, Carter Oakley and Heather Hogan. ABOUT Death is inevitable, suffering may be optional. After three separate cancer diagnoses, and undergoing nauseating and difficult [...]
Q&A with Director Justin Schein and Chuck Collins, senior scholar at The Institute for Policy Studies, following the screening! DEATH & TAXES is a feature documentary about wealth, inequality and the American Dream, viewed through [...]
On August 27, 2024, thanks to the extraordinary support of over 1200 donors — including a transformational anchor gift — the West Newton Cinema Foundation purchased the historic Cinema, preventing its demolition, and began operating [...]
CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (风流一代) is an ambitious, genre-blending film from acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke. Spanning over two decades, the film interlaces newly shot scenes with archival footage, fragments from Jia’s earlier films, and [...]
WEST NEWTON CINEMA READS: A Night of Mystery at the West Newton Cinema Come celebrate the launch of Hank Phillippi Ryan’s latest “nail-biting” thriller, ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS, with Newtonville Books at the historic [...]
TY BURR’S MOVIE CLUB is hosted by the nationally recognized film critic Ty Burr. Each month Ty presents and discusses one of his favorite films with the audience. His selections span the spectrum from classics [...]