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All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997)

Synopsis

In the late 80s and early 90s, the streets of downtown Manhattan were the site of a collision between two vibrant subcultures: skateboarding and hip hop. Narrated by Zoo York co-founder Eli Gesner with an original score by legendary hip-hop producer Large Professor (Nas, A Tribe Called Quest), All the Streets Are Silent brings to life the magic of the time period and the convergence that created a style and visual language that would have an outsized and enduring cultural effect.

From the DJ booths and dance floors of the Mars nightclub to the founding of brands like Supreme, this convergence would lay the foundation for modern street style. Paris Is Burning meets Larry Clark’s KIDS, All the Streets Are Silent is a love letter to New York—examining race, society, fashion, and street culture.

Featuring never-before-seen archival footage from the era and interviews with celebrated characters from both worlds and figures from the downtown scene including Rosario Dawson, Harold Hunter, Justin Pierce, Keith Hufnagel, Darryl McDaniels (Run-D.M.C.), Jefferson Pang, Bobbito Garcia, Stretch Armstrong, Kool Keith, Leo Fitzpatrick, Mike Hernandez, DJ Clark Kent, Kid Capri, Mike Carroll, Moby, Fab 5 Freddy, Peter Bici, Yuki Watanabe, Clayton Patterson, Beatrice Domond, Tyshawn Jones, and more.

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The Green Knight

Starring Dev Patel

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger, and tester of men. Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and schemers in what becomes a deeper journey to define his character and prove his worth in the eyes of his family and kingdom by facing the ultimate challenger. From visionary filmmaker David Lowery comes a fresh and bold spin on a classic tale from the knights of the round table.

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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

NY Times Critic’s Pick

92% on Rotten Tomatoes

“Portrait of how Bourdain evolved as a person during the years of his celebrity.” –Variety

Synopsis:

Anthony Bourdain traveled the world showing us beauty in food, people and culture. He exposed the precariousness of our virtues and the strength of our vulnerabilities, the illusiveness of success and the fragility of happiness. Bourdain lived as a Romantic — diving into human expression while seeking out uncharted frontiers. He was the best friend we never really knew.

From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) comes this unflinching look at Bourdain.

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Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It

97% on Rotten Tomatoes

NY Times Critic’s Pick

“This 89-year-old stage and screen legend has refreshingly few qualms about saying exactly what she thinks” –Los Angeles Times

“Shares Moreno’s power as an activist and an EGOT-winning performer who continues to break barriers as an 87-year-old…”-Chicago Reader

“It’s almost hard to believe that the radiant Moreno we see in the film – who at 89 continues to epitomize that ineffable and rare quality we call star power – was ever restrained.”-NY Times

“It makes you feel both the highs and lows of being such a trailblazer in Hollywood.” –RogerEbert.com

Synopsis:

Over a 70+ year career, Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become a celebrated and beloved actor, one of the rare EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) Award Winners of our time. Born into poverty on a Puerto Rican farm, Moreno and her seamstress mother immigrated to New York City when Moreno was five years old. After studying dance and performing on Broadway, Moreno was cast as any ethnic minority the Hollywood studios needed filled, be it Polynesian, Native American, or Egyptian. Despite becoming the first Latina actress to win an Academy Award for her role as Anita in “West Side Story” (1961), the studios continued to offer Moreno lesser roles as stereotypical ethnic minorities, ignoring her proven talent.

RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT illuminates the humor and the grace of Moreno, as well as lesser-known struggles faced on her path to stardom, including pernicious Hollywood sexism and abuse, a toxic relationship with Marlon Brando, and serious depression a year before she emerged an Oscar winner. Moreno’s talent and resilience triumphed over adversity, as she broke barriers, fought for representation and forged the path for new generations of artists.

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Two Gods

100% on Rotten Tomatoes

“With depth of feeling and warm black-and-white photography, Zeshawn Ali’s humble documentary “Two Gods” fully acknowledges how death is a part of life.” –NY Times

“A masterpiece just waiting to be discovered.” –Criterion Cast

Synopsis:

An intimate documentary about faith, renewal, and healing, Two Gods follows a Muslim casket maker and ritual body washer in New Jersey, as he takes two young men under his wing to teach them how to live better lives.

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The Man in the Hat

100% on Rotten Tomatoes

“Sustains a whimsical tone beautifully throughout…” –RogerEbert.com

“The Man in the Hat with its French setting, minimal dialogue, picaresque plot line and obsession with a couple of unique, if also economical, vintage automobiles, is a throwback to Jacques Tati’s 1971 classic Trafic. ” –Boston Herald

Synopsis:

The Man In The Hat sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500. On the seat beside him is a framed photograph of an unknown woman. Behind him is a 2CV into which is squeezed Five Bald Men. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? As he travels North through France, he encounters razeteurs, women with stories to tell, bullfights, plenty of delicious food, a damp man, mechanics, nuns, a convention of Chrystallographers and much more. And always, on his tail, the Five Bald Men.

As the Fiat 500 wends its way across the mountains, gorges and bridges of France, the 2CV hard behind him, the Thin Man (Ciaran Hinds) comes face to face with the vivid eccentricities of an old country on an old continent.

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Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2022 Academy Awards: Best Documentary Feature.

The concert experience is back. The revolution returns.

“It’s an extraordinary event not just of musical history. It’s a mind-blowing moment of American history.” –NY Times

“It’s a music documentary like no other, because while it’s a joyful, cataclysmic, and soulfully seductive concert movie, what it’s really about is a key turning point in Black life in America” – Variety.

“A joyous piece of filmmaking, something that I could have watched for literal hours, and contains quite simply some of the best concert footage ever put on film.” – RogerEbert.com

Synopsis:

In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary-part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion.

Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten–until now. SUMMER OF SOUL shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Ray Baretto, Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach and more.

A concert film still from Summer of Soul

A still from Summer Of Soul. Photograph: Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Mass Distraction Media

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In The Heights

98% on Rotten Tomatoes

“As a big, energizing summertime songfest, In the Heights delivers with verve.” – Vanity Fair

“In the Heights captures the bustling, changing multicultural Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan with a dizzying array of song and dance styles, from hip-hop to Latin influences.” – USA Today

“A brash and invigorating entertainment, a movie of tender, delicate moments that nonetheless revels unabashedly in its own size and scale.’ – Los Angeles Times

Synopsis:

In the Heights fuses Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (Hamilton) kinetic music and lyrics with director Jon M. Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians) lively and authentic eye for storytelling to capture a world very much of its place, but universal in its experience.

In the Heights lights up on Washington Heights… The scent of a cafecito caliente hangs in the air just outside of the 181st Street subway stop, where a kaleidoscope of dreams rallies this vibrant and tight-knit community. At the intersection of it all is the likable, magnetic bodega owner Usnavi (Anthony Ramos), who saves every penny from his daily grind as he hopes, imagines and sings about a better life.

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Madan Sara

**We invite you to a one-night virtual screening of Madan Sara followed by a post-film discussion with director Etant Dupain.**

Grand’Anse Health and Development Association (GAHDA) is happy to be working with Real Art Ways to show this important film about the women who play a central role in the Haitian economy and supporting local communities.

“Madan Sara is a film about the power of Black women in a global economy and their contributions that too often go unacknowledged.” – Ms. Magazine

Event Details:

-Buy your ticket online anytime before the event.

-Tickets are $10 (with 50% of the profits benefiting Madan Sara and an additional donation to GAHDA)

-On Wed, June 9 you will receive an email with a link to the virtual screening room and a link to the post-film discussion on Zoom.

-Log in to watch Madan Sara at 6:45 PM (runtime 50 min.)

-At 8 pm log into the Zoom room for the post-film discussion and Q&A with director Etant Dupain.

More about the film:

The women known as Madan Sara in Haiti work tirelessly to buy, distribute, and sell food and other essentials in markets through the country. Despite the obstacles faced by the women working in a sector that lacks investment, infrastructure and state assistance, the Madan Sara continue to be one of the most critical parts of the Haitian economy and of who we are as a country.

The Madan Sara documentary tells the stories of these indefatigable women who work at the margins to make Haiti’s economy run. Despite facing intense hardship and social stigma, the hard work of the Madan Sara puts their children through school, houses their families, and helps to ensure a better life for generations to come. This film amplifies the calls of the Madan Sara as they speak directly to society to share their dreams for a more just Haiti.

Post-Film Talk | 8 PM:

Madan Sara director Etant Dupain will be in conversation with and answer questions from the audience. The discussion will be moderated by Judy Lewis, Professor of Public Health Sciences at UCONN Health.

About the Panelists:

Etant Dupain is a journalist, filmmaker, and community organizer. For over a decade, he has worked as a producer on documentaries and for international news media outlets including Al Jazeera, TeleSur, BBC, CNN, Netflix, PBS, and Vice. Etant founded an alternative media project in Haiti to enable citizen journalists to provide access to information in Haitian Creole for and about internally-displaced people, aid accountability, and politics. Now, moved by the strength of his mother and the women known as the Madan Sara who make Haiti’s economy run, he’s making his first personal film.

Judy Lewis is a public health sociologist and Professor Emeritus of Public Health Sciences and Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut Medical School. She is President of the Grand’Anse Health & Development Association Board; founding member and Board Chair of Women and Health Together for the Future, and has served in leadership positions of many global health organizations including the World Federation of Public Health Association, American Public Health Association and CORE Group. Prof. Lewis has worked to improve community health in rural Haiti for over 30 years. She is senior author of “The Health of Women/Mothers and Children,” in Understanding Global Medicine and Health, and has written many articles about maternal and child health and other public health issues in Haiti, Ecuador and Sri Lanka. She has conducted research, program evaluation and training in over 50 countries. She received the 2018 Carl E. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Health Section, American Public Health Association, honoring the visionaries and leaders in international health.

Another Round

Academy Award Winner Best International Feature Film

93% on Rotten Tomatoes

Starrring Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale)

“Mikkelsen elevates what could have been another traditional message movie about living life to the fullest even after you think you’ve had your final drink.” – RogerEbert

Synopsis:

Four high school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.

Mads Mikkelsen lifting a glass in a cheering crowd in Another Round

Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round

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Nomadland

Academy Award Winner Best Director, Best Picture & Best Actress

Starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand

Winner Golden Lion Best Film, 2020 Venice Film Festival

Winner People’s Choice Award, 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

NY Times Critic’s Pick

96% on Rotten Tomatoes

“Frances McDormand wows (again) in the earthbound yet expansive ‘Nomadland’” – Washington Post

“It suggests that the road less traveled can yield joy as well as sorrow and that it can fulfill a person’s need for both solitude and community.” – NPR

Synopsis:

Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.

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The Father

Academy Award Winner Best Adapted Screenplay & Best Actor

Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman

NY Times Critic’s Pick

100% on Rotten Tomatoes

“At once stupendously effective and profoundly upsetting, “The Father” might be the first movie about dementia to give me actual chills.” – The NY Times

“‘The Father’ showcases Anthony Hopkins at his devastating best.” – The Los Angeles Times

Synopsis:

Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can’t make daily visits anymore and Anthony’s grip on reality is unravelling. As we experience the ebb and flow of his memory, how much of his own identity and past can Anthony cling to? How does Anne cope as she grieves the loss of her father, while he still lives and breathes before her? THE FATHER warmly embraces real life, through loving reflection upon the vibrant human condition; heart-breaking and uncompromisingly poignant – a movie that nestles in the truth of our own lives.

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Promising Young Woman

Starring Carey Mulligan

Five Academy Award Nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director

“Mulligan’s withering disdain is a thing of beauty.” – Observer UK

“In filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s diabolically funny takedown of toxic masculinity, Carey Mulligan gives a dynamite performance.” – ABC News

“Fennell cleverly mixes romantic comedy tropes with more serious issues to give us one of the most complex #MeToo narratives we’ve seen so far.” – The Jewish Chronicle

Synopsis:

Nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be — she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs from the past.

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The Mole Agent

95% on Rotten Tomatoes

Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary

“The film’s people are moving, and the payoff is compassionate, humane and worth heeding.” – NY Times

“Sounds depressing. Its big reveal was that it was often the exact opposite. Sweet, charming and poignant, it was a meditation on growing old, loneliness and making a life when confined in an institution.” – Times U.K.

Synopsis:

A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.

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Sound of Metal

NY Times Critic’s Pick

97% on Rotten Tomatoes

Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Screenplay

Starring Riz Ahmed

“A movie that doesn’t just allow for silence but thrives in it, with Ahmed’s eyes and body language charting the arc of his character.” – RogerEbert.com

“Propelled by a distinctive style and a potent lead performance, Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal” builds a singular tension between silence and noise.’ – NY Times

“Riz Ahmed is doing particularly amazing work in this very, very good film.” – NPR

Synopsis:

During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career — and with it his life — is over. His bandmate and girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) checks the recovering heroin addict into a secluded sober house for the deaf in hopes it will prevent a relapse and help him learn to adapt to his new situation. But after being welcomed into a community that accepts him just as he is, Ruben has to choose between his equilibrium and the drive to reclaim the life he once knew.

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Dream Horse

91% on Rotten Tomatoes

Starring Toni Collette

“The kind of unabashed crowd-pleaser that was made with care.” RogerEbert.com

“A well-cast, artfully handled effort that exercises sufficient restraint to really earn its requisite laughter and tears.” – Variety

Synopsis:

Experience the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes (Toni Collette). With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.

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The Truffle Hunters

NY Times Critic’s Pick

98% on Rotten Tomatoes

“An enchanting documentary about men and their best friends combing the northern Italian forests for an unlikely delicacy.” – NY Times

Synopsis:

Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle—which to date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at cultivation. They’re guided by a secret culture and training passed down through generations, as well as by the noses of their cherished and expertly-trained dogs. They live a simpler, slower way of life, in harmony with their loyal animals and their picture-perfect land, seemingly straight out of a fairy tale. They’re untethered to cell phone screens or the Internet, opting instead to make their food and drink by hand and prioritizing in-person connections and community.

The demand for white truffles increases year after year, even as the supply decreases. As a result of climate change, deforestation, and the lack of young people taking up the mantle, the truffle hunters’ secrets are more coveted than ever. However, as it soon becomes clear, these ageing men may just hold something much more valuable than even this prized delicacy: the secret to a rich and meaningful life.

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Science on Screen:
A Birder’s Guide To Everything

Real Art Ways Science on Screen® season invites you to experience the unique combination of a feature film and a relevant talk from a notable local figure in science.

Pre-Film Talk | 6:30 PM

Effects of Climate Change on the Migratory Patterns of Birds with Dr. Matthew Kamm, Ornithologist/Biologist Instructor at Zoo New England

A Birder’s Guide To Everything | 7:00 PM

“A tender and gentle coming-of-age story” –RogerEbert.com

“An eye-opener for anyone who takes the everyday natural world for granted.” –NY Times

On the eve of his father’s remarriage, a teenage birding enthusiast leads his friends on a road trip to find an extremely rare duck.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Matthew Kamm is a Boston-based wildlife biologist who specializes in ornithology. Matt has studied the natural history of wild birds while working for Mass Audubon and during his Ph.D work at Tufts University, with a focus on understanding songbird migration and the life history of American kestrels. He currently works as the Conservation Outreach Coordinator for Zoo New England.

Science on Screen is an initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.

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Science on Screen:
Dough

Real Art Ways Science on Screen® season invites you to experience the unique combination of a feature film and a relevant talk from a notable local figure in science.

Dough:

“Dough is sweet, often funny and always non-threatening, a movie for those who wish the intractable realities of the world would just disappear.” – NY Times

An old Jewish baker (Jonathan Pryce) sees his struggling business boom when his young apprentice (Jerome Holder) accidentally drops marijuana into the dough.

Pre-Film Talk | 6:30 PM

The Chemistry of Cannabis: The Binding of Cannabinoid Compounds in the Brain and Cannabis’s New Role in Public Health with Dr. Jeff Rawson, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.

Speaker Bio:

Jeff Rawson received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Duke University in 2014. He was a research fellow at Jülich Research Center in Germany from 2015-2018, where he supervised one bachelor thesis and two master theses. Now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, Dr. Rawson has mentored about ten graduate students and several undergraduates.

Science on Screen is an initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.

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2021 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action

OPENING THURSDAY, April 1, 2021

Every year Real Art Ways brings the Oscar-Nominated Short Films to its cinema so you can enjoy some of the finest film making of the year. All three categories are offered – Animation, Live Action, and Documentary. This is your annual chance to see all of these nominees before the Academy Awards on Sunday, April 25 at 8 PM EST.

LIVE ACTION SHORTS (Running Time: 140 minutes with a short intermission)

The Present– Farah Nabulsi (Palestine, 25 min.)

Feeling Through– Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski (USA, 19 min.)

Two Distant Strangers– Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe (USA, 25 min.)

White Eye– Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman (Israel, 21 min.)

The Letter Room– Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan (USA, 33 min.)

Ratings guidelines:

Live Action: R

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