Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) at Real Art Ways

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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 […]
Who We Are
“The film’s content isn’t ritual at all. It’s one man’s answer, eloquent and heartfelt, to the challenge of reframing our discussion of a subject that has us numb from repetition.” – Wall Street Journal  “Both broad-ranging and deep, covering a history that is political, legal, cultural, economic, psychological, emotional, moral and, in the end, also […]
Drive My Car
“Extraordinary. An engrossing and exalting experience.” – The Guardian “An exquisitely observed drama of gently momentous connection.” – NY Times “Superb.” – NY Times “Exquisite.” Los Angeles Times “A masterpiece.” – Rolling Stone Oscar nominated: International Feature Film. Synopsis: Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and […]
The Worst Person in the World
““The Worst Person in the World” strikes me as believable, beautiful, roving, annoying, and frequently good for a laugh. Like most of Trier’s work, it also takes you aback with its sadness, which hangs around, after the story is over, like the smoke from a snuffed candle. ” – The New Yorker “The romantic drama […]
Science on Screen: On a Wing and a Prayer
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. Film: Son of Monarchs “The film’s rich imagery will be imprinted in your memory, returning to you in dreams.” – NY Times After his grandmother’s death, a […]
Flee
“Flee expands the definition of documentary” – The Hollywood Reporter “This is a Special Film” – Deadline “Impossible to forget” – The Guardian “Remarkable” – Time Out “Incredibly Intimate” – Variety “Jaw-dropping” – Time Out “Stunning” – The Wrap “Truly Unique” – Thrillist 3 Oscar Nominations: Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, Best International Film Synopsis: […]
2022 Oscar Shorts – ANIMATION
Attention Parents: The film distributor tells us that Robin Robin, the first animated short, is good for children. The second animated short, Boxballet, less so. The last three are definitely not for kids. Individual film trailers can be viewed HERE. Robin Robin, UK, directors: Daniel Ojari, Michael Please Robin Robin is the tale of a small […]
2022 Oscar Shorts – LIVE ACTION
Opening Friday, Feb 25. Individual trailers can be viewed HERE. Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, Switzerland; director: Maria Brendle Sezim, 19 years old, wants to fulfill her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she gets kidnapped by a group of young men and taken to the hinterland. There, she’s forced to marry […]
2022 Oscar Shorts – DOCUMENTARY A
Opening Friday, Feb 25. Individual trailers can be viewed HERE. Audible, USA, director: Matt Ogens AUDIBLE is a cinematic and immersive coming of age documentary following Maryland School for the Deaf high school athlete Amaree McKenstry and his close friends as they face the pressures of senior year and grappling with the realities of venturing […]
2022 Oscar Shorts – DOCUMENTARY B
Opening Friday, Feb 25. Individual trailers can be viewed HERE.   Three Songs for Benazir, Afghanistan; directors: Gulistan Mirzaei, Elizabeth Mirzaei The story of Shaista, a young man who – newly married to Benazir and living in a displacement camp in Kabul – struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe […]
Lamentations
Tina Freeman
Real Art Ways presents an exhibition by New Orleans-based artist Tina Freeman. Over the past seven years, Tina Freeman has photographed the wetlands of Louisiana and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctica. In Lamentations, Freeman pairs images from these dissimilar regions in a series of diptychs that function as stories about climate change, […]
Licorice Pizza
“A film of immense, swirling complexity, and its elaborateness… comes off as a sort of defiance, of resistance to current modes of easy and consumable viewing.” – The New Yorker “Both [Haim and Hoffman] inhabit the screen with a sympathetic responsiveness and a rare immediacy. Their incarnation of the ardors and audacities of youth is […]
Lunaya: A Yak In The Classroom
“The film is a fable, to be sure, and one that unfolds at a leisurely pace, not a tough-minded psychological drama. But it’s sharp-witted as well as soulful, reasonably suspenseful and brings news from a little-known area of the world.” – Wall Street Journal   Oscar nominated for Best International Feature Film Synopsis: An aspiring […]
Battlegrounds
Elizabeth Flood
Real Art Ways presents a solo exhibition of recent work by 2021 Real Art Award recipient Elizabeth Flood. Through her ongoing practice of painting outdoors in the elements, Flood surveys complex layers of extraction, violence, and expression within the American landscape. The artworks in the exhibition were made at Civil War battlefields in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania […]
Breaking Bread
“Makes a mouthwatering case for dinner table diplomacy.” – LA Times “A captivating and mouth-watering delight that will nourish your heart, mind and soul.” – NYC Movie Guru “Peace in the Middle East has been an elusive dream for decades, but, Hawk suggests, perhaps the answer is peace through food.” – The Australian Synopsis: “Breaking […]
Teeter/Totter
Ken Morgan and Peter Waite
Real Art Ways presents a two-person show of work by artists Peter Waite and Ken Morgan. After four decades of friendship, Waite and Morgan are exhibiting together for the first time. Morgan shares a poetry series completed during quarantine, as well as abstract works from 2020–2021. Waite presents his School Studies series produced from 2018–2021. […]
Parallel Mothers
“Melodramatic genius….Almodóvar leaves us with an overwhelming sense that the pursuit of justice, by right, is women’s work.” – The New Yorker “Everything here is connected and the story flows and flows, achieving a breathless momentum that reveals its intricate design only in retrospect.” – Los Angeles Times “Parallel Mothers is a movie of infinite […]
The Velvet Queen
“Gorgeous, humbling, looking out-, up- and inward, the documentary “The Velvet Queen” is the rare nature film about not only beauty and beasts but also the very human urge to make sense of our place in it all.” – Los Angeles Times “A wondrous nature documentary.” – New York Times “What an epic cat movie!” […]
Red Rocket
“Red Rocket isn’t like any other movie you’ve seen this year. Expect the taste of pink sparkle doughnuts to linger.” – Boston Globe “Baker couldn’t have cast a better performer [than Rex] to encapsulate the world of near-success that Red Rocket evokes, a strange parallel dimension that serves as a cracked mirror to the mainstream […]
Real Wall: Sydney Morris
Real Art Ways presents Reclamation, an installation by Connecticut-based artist Sydney Morris and part of the Real Wall series. Of the use of photographic chemistry in this recent body of cyanotype works, Morris notes: “these pieces are unique in the fact that they are ever-changing. Much like ourselves, their colors may change, become brighter, or […]