Special Events

Exhibition on Screen: Season 5

VINCENT VAN GOGH: A NEW WAY OF SEEING
Tuesday, May 22 & Sunday, June 3
Perhaps more than any other artist, Van Gogh’s life has long captured the imagination of storytellers. Delving deep into his fascinating and sometimes deeply troubled world comes this definitive, award-winning documentary directed by David Bickerstaff.

I, CLAUDE MONET
Tuesday, June 19
Using letters and other private writings I, Claude Monet reveals new insight into the man who not only painted the picture that gave birth to impressionism but who was perhaps the most influential and successful painter of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

NTLive: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Benedict Andrews (A Streetcar Named Desire).
Starring: Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney.

Encore: Saturday, April 21 at 1 PM

Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?
Recommended for Ages 15+

Exhibition on Screen: David Hockney at The Royal Academy of Arts

Sunday, April 22, 3PM

Directed by: Phil Grabsky
Presented by: Tim Marlow

This film allows up-close access to this 21st-century master and his two recent blockbuster exhibitions held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

“This illuminating documentary portrait details the undimmed curiosity and enthusiasm of the grand old man of British painting…” —THE GUARDIAN

Read the full review.

Spring Exhibition: OFF CAMPUS

Student Art from The Hotchkiss School
April 2 – May 30, 2018

Join us for a public reception: Sunday, April 22, 1-3 PM

Our spring exhibit features images by over 30 student artists currently enrolled at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT. These works represent a wide variety of subject matter and media, including digital photography, traditional photography, paintings in oil and acrylic, mixed media collage, assemblage, and drawings in graphite, charcoal, pastels and colored pencil.

Founded in 1891, The Hotchkiss School is a coeducational boarding school, located at 11 Interlaken Road in Lakeville, Connecticut. For more information on the arts and arts events at The Hotchkiss School visit http://www.hotchkiss.org/arts or call 860-435-4423.

Avengers: Infinity War

Rated: PG-13

Premiere: Thursday, April 27, 7PM

Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Olsen, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Tom Holland, Tom Hiddleston, Josh Brolin, Chadwick Boseman, Bradley Cooper, Sebastian Stan, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Paul Rudd, Paul Bettany, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Benedict Wong
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Screenplay: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely

An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.

Met Live 2017/18 Season Finale: Cendrillon

Saturday, April 28, 12:55PM

Music: Jules Massenet

“Glorious,” raved the New York Times when Joyce DiDonato sang the title role of Cendrillon at the Royal Opera in 2011. “Her performance was thoroughly enchanting.” Now, for the first time ever, Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met, with DiDonato starring in the title role. She is paired with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as the imperious Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s imaginative storybook production.

Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

A film by Thomas Piper

Saturday, April 28, 7PM

Revolutionary landscape designer Piet Oudolf is known for designing public works like New York City’s popular High Line and Chicago’s Millennium Park that redefine our conception of gardens as works of art in themselves. This wonderful documentary immerses viewers in Oudolf’s work and takes us inside his creative process, from his beautifully abstract sketches, to theories on beauty, to the ecological implications of his ideas. Intimate discussions take place through all fours seasons in Piet’s own gardens at Hummelo, and on visits to his signature public works in New York, Chicago, and the Netherlands, as well as to the far-flung locations that inspire his genius, including desert wildflowers in West Texas and post-industrial forests in Pennsylvania. As a narrative thread, the film also follows Oudolf as he designs and installs a major new garden at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, a gallery and arts center in Southwest England, a garden he considers his best work yet.

Piet Oudolf has radically redefined what gardens can be. As Rick Darke, the famous botanist, says to Piet in the film, “your work teaches us to see what what we have been unable to see.” Through poetic cinematography and unique access, FIVE SEASONS will reveal all that Piet sees, and celebrate all that we as viewers have been unable to see.

Leaning Into the Wind

A film by Thomas Riedelsheimer

Sunday, April 29, 4PM

Sixteen years after the release of the groundbreaking film Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time director Thomas Riedelsheimer has returned to work with the artist. Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy follows Andy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes at the same time even more fragile and personal and also sterner and tougher, incorporating massive machinery and crews on his bigger projects. Riedelsheimer’s exquisite film illuminates Goldsworthy’s mind as it reveals his art.

Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956, Cheshire, England) lives in Scotland. He makes works of art using the materials and conditions that he encounters wherever he is. Using earth, rocks, leaves, ice, snow, rain, or sunlight, the resulting artworks exist briefly before they are altered and erased by natural processes. He also uses his own body as a medium, as with his Rain Shadows, or through actions such as spitting, throwing, climbing and walking.

Royal Ballet: The Age of Anxiety

Wednesday, May 2 – 7PM
WORLD PREMIERE – Live from the Royal Opera House, London
The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with an all-Bernstein program from Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Christopher Wheeldon.

Choreography: Wayne McGregor
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Conductor: Koen Kessels

Learn more…

The Gardener

Sunday, May 6, 4PM

Writer/Director: Sébastien Chabot

The Gardener is a visually stunning new documentary film. It is a reflection on the meaning of gardening and features influential gardener and horticulturalist, the late Frank Cabot. In the film, Cabot, founder of the nonprofit The Garden Conservancy, recounts his personal quest for perfection at his twenty-acre English style garden – Les Quatre Vents (The Four Winds), aka Cabot Garden, located in the Charlevoix region near Quebec City. The film also features commentary by Cabot’s wife – Anne P. Cabot, his son – Colin Cabot, Penelope Hobhouse, Adrienne Clarkson, Jean Des Gagniers, Raynald Bergeron, Father Louis Genest CSV and Tim Richardson.

TCM Big Screen Classics: Sunset Boulevard

Wednesday, May 16

Cast: Gloria Swanson,
Director: Billy Wilder
Screenplay: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr.

Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen’s most memorable characters in “Sunset Boulevard.” Winner of three Academy Awards®, director Billy Wilder’s powerful orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence — a body found floating in a decayed mansion’s swimming pool — through the inevitable unfolding of tragic destiny, “Sunset Boulevard” is the definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood. Erich von Stroheim as Desmond’s discoverer, ex-husband and butler, and Nancy Olson as the bright spot amidst unrelenting ominousness, are equally celebrated for their masterful performances.

Includes exclusive insight from Turner Classic Movies.

Exhibition on Screen Encore: Vincent Van Gogh - A New Way of Seeing

Tuesday, May 22, 7PM
Sunday, June 3, 1PM

Directed by: David Bickerstaff.

Perhaps more than any other artist, Van Gogh’s life has long captured the imagination of storytellers. Delving deep into his fascinating and sometimes deeply troubled world comes this definitive, award-winning documentary. Enjoying complete and unprecedented access to the treasures of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, this brilliant film about one of the world’s favorite artists, marks both a major re-showing of the gallery’s collection and a celebration of the 125th anniversary of Van Gogh’s death. Experience the wonder of seeing these masterpieces on the big screen while specially invited guests, including world renown curators and art historians, offer their interpretations and explanations of his work. With exclusive new research revealing incredible recent discoveries, the Van Gogh Museum has helped craft a cinema experience like no other.

Royal Ballet: Manon

Wednesday, May 30, 7PM
Kenneth MacMillan’s powerful telling of Manon and Des Grieux’s tragic love is a masterpiece of modern ballet, set to music by Massenet.

Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan
Music: Jules Massenet
Conductor: Martin Yates

Kenneth MacMillan’s source for Manon was the 18th-century French novel by Abbé Prévost, already adapted for opera by Massenet and Puccini. Renowned dance musician Leighton Lucas and his assistant Hilda Gaunt provided a score drawn from across Massenet’s music, including his famous yearning Elégie as the theme for the lovers. The premiere was given on 7 March 1974, with the lead roles of Manon and Des Grieux danced by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell. The ballet quickly became a staple of The Royal Ballet’s repertory, and a touchstone of adult, dramatic dance.

TCM Big Screen Classics: The Producers

A Special 50th Anniversary Event
Wednesday, June 6

Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars, Lee Meredith
Writer/Director: Mel Brooks

“I want… I want… I want everything I’ve ever seen in the movies!” Once the King of The Great White Way, Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is reduced to romancing old ladies to finance his next flop show. But when nervous accountant Leopold Bloom (Gene Wilder) surmises that more money could be made from a flop than a hit, the next step is to produce the Busby Berkeleyesque musical Springtime for Hitler and to cast stoned-out Flower Child “LSD” (Dick Shawn) in the lead. A surefire flop — or is it? Writer/director Mel Brooks nabbed an Oscar® for Best Original Screenplay of 1968, while his movie skyrocketed from controversial cult comedy to Classic, now on the National Film Registry and umpteen lists of the funniest movies ever made, with Mostel & Wilder considered the greatest comedy team since Laurel & Hardy and The Marx Brothers.

See the restored film from Studiocanal and Rialto Pictures in honor of the 50th anniversary of its release. Includes exclusive insight from Turner Classic Movies.

Bolshoi Ballet 2017/18 Season Finale: Coppélia

Sunday, June 10, 12:55PM

Music: Léo Delibes
Choreography: Sergei Vikharev after Marius Petipa and Enrico Cecchetti

Swanhilda notices her fianceé Franz is infatuated with the beautiful Coppélia who sits reading on her balcony each day. Nearly breaking up the two sweethearts, Coppélia is not what she seems and Swanhilda decides to teach Franz a lesson… The Bolshoi’s unique version of Coppélia exhibits a fascinating reconstruction of the original 19th -century choreography of this ebullient comedy involving a feisty heroine, a boyish fianceé with a wandering eye, and an old dollmaker. The company’s stunning corps de ballet shines in the divertissements and famous “dance of the hours,” and its principals abound in youthful energy and irresistible humor in this effervescent production.