First Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 7:00 PM Last Festival Screening – September 7, 2015 @ 8:30 AM BITTER LAKE picks up the baton, distilling hundreds of hours of archival TV footage into a revelatory study of the relationship between Afghanistan and the West. Punctuated by a number of shocking scenes, the result […]
First Festival Screening – September 5, 2015 @ 9:30 PM Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 2:30 PM Johnny Depp miraculously descends into the body and soul of James “Whitey” Bulger, the South Boston street thug who became the city’s most feared organized crime figure in the ‘80s. Joel Edgerton is superb as […]
Festival Screening – September 5, 2015 @ 6:15 PM Romantic sparks fly when Therese (Rooney Mara), an inexperienced shop girl with vague artistic ambitions, crosses path with Carol (Cate Blanchett), a wealthy, sophisticated married woman. But in post-World War II America, a romance like theirs is not only forbidden; it is dangerous. Director – Todd […]
First Festival Screening – September 5, 2015 @ 9 AM Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 8:30 PM In 2001, a new Boston Globe editor (Liev Schreiber) assigns a crack team of reporters (Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Brian d’Arcy James) to investigate Boston’s Catholic Archdiocese handling of a priest’s sexual misconduct […]
First Festival Screening – September 4, 2015 @ 7:30 PM Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 8:00 PM In 1972, Aretha Franklin arrived at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles to record an album of the gospel music she’d heard— and sung—as a girl growing up in her father’s church […]
First Festival Screening – September 4, 2015 @ 5:45 PM Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 9:30 PM Also known as Saul fia After decades of depictions of the Holocaust, we might assume that no film can have anything new to express on the subject. But the relentless, shockingly original SON OF SAUL […]
