USA, Rated R, 114 Minutes
Director: Sebastian Lelio
Cast: Raachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Allessandro Nivola

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 5:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 5:30
Thursday - 5:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

From Sebastián Lelio, the director of the Academy Award-winning A Fantastic Womn, the film follows a woman as she returns to the community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. Written by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz and based on Naomi Alderman's book, the film stars Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams and Alessandro Nivola.

United Kingdom, Rated R, 121 Minutes
Director: Andrew Haigh
Cast: Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 7:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 7:30
Thursday - 7:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray, both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean On Pete. The horse's gruff owner Del Montgomery and his seasoned jockey Bonnie help Charley fill the void of his father's absence-until he discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, prompting him to take extreme measures to spare his new friend's life.

US, Rated R, 106 minutes
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Cast: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo

Showtimes:
Thursday, June 28, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

In LA, Nic and Jules are a couple with a daughter, Joni, on her way to college and a son, Laser, at 15 a good athlete but maybe hanging out with the wrong pal. Laser wants Joni, who's now 18, to find out who their biological father is - a sperm donor. Without initially telling their moms, they meet him. He's Paul, a cool guy with a motorcycle, a restaurant, and an organic garden. Although Nic doesn't like the idea, the five of them get together a few times and the kids spend time with Paul. He hires Jules, who's had many brief vocations, to landscape his back yard, and Nic, who's an OB/GYN, decides to be a good sport and get to know Paul better. Can a family add a new member?

USA, Rated R, 104 Minutes
Director: Chloe Zhao
Cast: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 5:30
Wednesday - 5:30 ***No matinee today as Catamount is closed until 5 pm
Thursday - 5:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

Based on his a true story, The Rider stars breakout Brady Jandreau as a once rising star of the rodeo circuit warned that his competition days are over after a tragic riding accident. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

US, Rated PG, 124 minutes
Director: Harold Prince
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Lesley-Anne Down

Showtimes:
Tuesday, July 3, 1:30 pm & 7:00 pm

In the movie, in the early 1900s, a group of friends bound together by complicated romantic entanglements, have come together for an elegant dinner at a country estate. The men present are the current, previous, or prospective lovers of the beautiful actress, Desiree (Elizabeth Taylor), and the other women are all united by their jealousy of her. Sadly, Desiree herself wants to simplify things and settle down -- she envies the wives. The adapted score later won an Oscar. The musical's well-known songs include Every Day a Little Death, A Weekend in the Country, and You Must Meet My Wife. The most famous song from the musical, Send in the Clowns, is sung here by Elizabeth Taylor.

UK, Rated PG-13, 104 minutes
Director: Charles Dance
Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone

Showtime:
Wednesday, July 4, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

Two aging spinster sisters have their peaceable Cornwall existence disrupted in 1936 when they take a young Polish violinist into their care. After a particularly violent storm, Ursula and Janet Widington awake to find young man Andrea half-drowned and badly injured on the beach. They slowly discover that he is a Polish Jew with a gift for music as an accomplished violinist, hoping to find his way to America. But the village isn't used to visitors and everyone, with the exception of the sisters, is full of suspicions, especially when Andrea develops a friendship with a beautiful Russian woman vacationing nearby. Eventually, the two must make a choice between trying to keep their new charge for themselves or setting him free in the world.

2018 WHITE MOUNTAIN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Thursday, July 5
Patio Reception - 6:00 pm
Speaker - 6:30 pm
Film - 7:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $10 adults, $9 BHC Members

"It’s an ode to self-discovery and acceptance that’s as funny as it is sweet." - Variety - Nick Schager

Director: Rachel Israel
Writer: Rachel Israel
Stars: Brandon Polansky, Samantha Elisophon, and Jessica Walter
Rating: R some sexuality
Genre: romantic comedy/drama
Language: English
Length: 1 hr. 35 min.
Rating: NR

SYNOPSIS:
Two young adults with autism strike up an unlikely and transformative relationship, in KEEP THE CHANGE, a heartfelt, humorous and wonderfully surprising reinvention of the New York romantic comedy. Showcasing naturally spontaneous performances by actors with autism, writer-director Rachel Israel’s inclusive and fresh debut is a unique and universal love story full of vibrant characters under-represented in cinema. A winning entry at many film festivals, including Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Best New Narrative Director prizes at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Guest Speakers: Elisophon, co-star, and her mother, Marguerite Elisophon, author ofMy Picture Perfect Family: What Happens When One Twin Has Autism
Samantha’s real life story is an inspirational one. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, confronting dire predictions and negative stereotypes, Samantha started singing with perfect pitch at age 7 and graduated Pace University, cum laude.

Friday, August 30 6:00 pm - It's a special end of the season party. Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary! Open to all ticket holders.

UK, Rated PG-13, 104 Minutes

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Cast: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent

Showtime:
Thursday, July 5, 7:00 pm

Tickets: Free

Nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress

This film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

France, Not Rated, 94 Minutes
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Phillippe Katerine

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 7:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 7:30
Thursday - 7:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film. Isabelle is a divorced Parisian painter searching for another shot at love, but refusing to settle for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift in and out of her life. There's a caddish banker who, like many of her lovers, happens to be married; a handsome actor who's working through his own hang-ups; and a sensitive fellow artist who's skittish about commitment. What reads like a standard romantic comedy premise is transformed, in the hands of master filmmaker Denis, into something altogether deeper, more poignant, and perceptive about the profound mysteries of love.

In French with English subtitles.

USA, Rated R, 113 Minutes
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 5:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 5:30
Thursday - 5:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

Reverend Ernst Toller is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence.

USA, Rated G, 93 Minutes

Directors: Kief Davidson & Daniel Junge

Cast: Jason Bateman, Jamie Berard, Alice Finch.

Showtime:
Tuesday, July 10, 7:00 pmSince the birth of their trademark toy in 1958, The LEGOGroup has produced over 400 billion bricks. But more andmore, LEGO bricks aren’t just for kids, and some take themvery seriously. Adult Fans of LEGO around the globe are unashamedlydeclaring their love of the brick, brick artists arecreating stunning and surprising creations, and LEGO masterbuilders are building human scale and larger structures.LEGO bricks are being used educationally, therapeutically,and have provided a universal system for human creativityand our innate desire “to build.”

USA, Rated PG, 105 minutes
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Chris Egan

Showtime:
Thursday, July 12, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

When a young American travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. When she answers one letter dated 1957, she inspires its author to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives, unlike anything they ever imagined.

USA, Rated PG-13, 98 Minutes
Director: Michael Mayer
Cast: Elizabeth Moss, Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 5:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 5:30
Thursday - 5:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

One summer at a lakeside Russian estate, friends and family gather for a weekend in the countryside. While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a tragicomedy unfolds about art, fame, human folly, and the eternal desire to live a purposeful life. Adapted by Tony-winning playwright Stephen Karam from Anton Chekhov's classic play and directed by Tony-winner Michael Mayer, The Seagull explores, with comedy and melancholy, the obsessive nature of love, the tangled relationships between parents and children, and the transcendent value and psychic toll of art.

USA, Unrated, 115 minutes
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katherine Hepburn, Joan Bennet, Fraces Dee

Showtimes:
Tuesday, July 17, 1:30 pm & 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a prime example of the classic Hollywood style at its best. The story concerns the lives of four New England sisters -- Jo (Katharine Hepburn), Amy (Joan Bennett), Meg (Frances Dee), and Beth (Jean Parker) -- during the time of the Civil War. Jo desires to leave home to become a writer, but decides to stay to help the family. But Meg announces her plans to get married, so Jo leaves for New York City. As she settles down to a writing career, she meets Professor Fritz Bhaer (Paul Lukas), who helps her with her work. While Jo is away, Amy falls in love and marries Jo's old flame Laurie Laurence (Douglass Montgomery). But Jo is forced to return to New England when she discovers Beth is dying.

2018 WHITE MOUNTAIN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Thursday, July 19
Patio Reception - 6:00 pm
Speaker - 6:30 pm
Film - 7:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $10 adults, $9 BHC Members

"One of the most delicate, approachable and rewarding Holocaust movies of recent years." - Wally Hammond, TIME OUT

Director: Jeremy Poweswa
Writer: Jeremy Podeswa, based upon the novel by Anne Michaels
Stars:Stephen Dillane, Rosamund Pike, Rade Serbedzija
Genre:Drama
Languages:English, Greek, Yiddish
Rating:R, some sexuality
Length:104 minutes

SYNOPSIS
Fugitive Piecesis an emotionally charged film about love, loss, and redemption, driven by radiant performances and nuanced writing. It is based upon Anne Michaels’ best-selling novel. It is the of story of Jakob, a writer living in post-war Canada, who cannot shake off the terrifying memories of his childhood during World War II. His adventures take him from Poland to Greece to Montreal. Over the years Jakob attempts to deal with the losses he has endured. The film glides between the past and different periods in Jakob's later life, as it tries to show this man whose love for his family has essentially frozen him at the time he last saw them. Through his writing and his discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past.

Such a summary barely captures the qualities of "Fugitive Pieces." written and directed by Jeremy Podeswa, writer and director, doesn't tell, he evokes, with the nostalgic images of his cinematographer, Gregory Middleton; the understated melancholy of the score by Nikos Kypourgos, and the seamless time transitions of his editor, Wiebke von Carolsfeld.

GUEST SPEAKER PROFESSOR LORI HOPE LEFKOVITZ

Lori Hope Lefkovitz holds the Ruderman Chair in Jewish Studies at Northeastern University, where she directs the Humanities Center and the Jewish Studies Program and is a professor of English. Her book, In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Women’s Studies category. A graduate of Brandeis University, Lefkovitz received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University and was a recipient of a Woodrow Wilson dissertation fellowship in women's studies, a Golda Meir post-doctoral fellowship at Hebrew University, a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, a senior Fulbright Professorship at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and an honorary doctorate from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She and Rabbi Leonard Gordon are the parents of two adult daughters.

Friday, August 30 6:00 pm - It's a special end of the season party. Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary! Open to all ticket holders.

US, Rated R, 110 minutes
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin

Showtimes:
Thursday, July 19, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams in former music video directorial team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' quirky feature debut, starring Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, and Toni Collette. Despite early career success as an outspoken motivational speaker, family patriarch Richard (Kinnear) continues to cling to his "Refuse to Lose" philosophy, much to the chagrin of his increasingly annoyed spouse, Sheryl (Collette). Add into the mix a Nietzsche-reading teenage son (Paul Dano) who has taken a vow of silence until he finds his fate as a fighter pilot; a horny, heroin-happy grandfather (Alan Arkin) with a penchant for creative profanity; and a suicidal genius (Carell) and Proust scholar still reeling about losing both his male lover and his MacArthur Foundation genius grant -- and the stage is set for a road trip in which sanity is sure to take the back seat.

Italy, Rated PG, 96 Minutes
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Pope Francis, Joe Biden, Evo Morales

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 7:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 7:30
Thursday - 7:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

Wim Wenders' new documentary, Pope Francis – A Man of His Word is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him. The pope's ideas and his message are central to this documentary, which sets out to present his work of reform and his answers to today's global questions. From his deep concern for the poor and wealth inequality, to his involvement in environmental issues and social justice, Pope Francis engages the audience face-to-face and calls for peace.

Partially in Italian with English subtitles.

NZ, Rated PG-13, 165 minutes
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen

Showtime:
Tuesday, July 24, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

Assisted by a Fellowship of heroes, Frodo Baggins plunges into a perilous trek to take the mystical One Ring to Mount Doom so that it and its magical powers can be destroyed and never possessed by evil Lord Sauron. The astonishing journey begins in the first film of director/co-writer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy that redefined fantasy filmmaking. This imaginative foray into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth won 4 Academy Awards (R)* and earned 13 total nominations including Best Picture.

NZ, Rated PG-13, 180 minutes
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen

Showtime:
Wednesday, July 25, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

Frodo and Samwise press on toward Mordor. Gollum insists on being the guide. Can anyone so corrupted by the ring be trusted? Can Frodo, increasingly under the sway of the ring, even trust himself? Meanwhile, Aragorn, drawing closer to his kingly destiny, rallies forces of good for the battles that must come. Director Peter Jackson delivers an amazing second movie that won 2 Academy Awards (R)* and earned 6 total nominations including Best Picture. The journey continues. So do the astonishing spectacle and splendor.

NZ, Rated PG-13, 201 minutes
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen

Showtime:
Thursday, July 26, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

The final battle for Middle-earth begins. Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, continue their dangerous mission toward the fires of Mount Doom in order to destroy the One Ring.

United Kingdom, Rated R, 110 Minutes
Director: Dominic Cooke
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 5:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 5:30
Thursday - 5:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

Adapted by Ian McEwan from his bestselling novel, the drama centers on a young couple of drastically different backgrounds in the summer of 1962. Following the pair through their idyllic courtship, the film explores sex and the societal pressure that can accompany physical intimacy, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.

US, Rated R, 102 minutes
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi

Showtime:
Tuesday, July 31, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

After making a striking directorial debut with her screen adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola offers a story of love and friendship blooming under unlikely circumstances in this comedy drama. Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a well-known American actor whose career has gone into a tailspin; needing work, he takes a very large fee to appear in a commercial for Japanese whiskey to be shot in Tokyo. Feeling no small degree of culture shock in Japan, Bob spends most of his non-working hours at his hotel, where he meets Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) at the bar. Twentysomething Charlotte is married to John (Giovanni Ribisi), a successful photographer who is in Tokyo on an assignment, leaving her to while away her time while he works. Beyond their shared bemusement and confusion with the sights and sounds of contemporary Tokyo, Bob and Charlotte share a similar dissatisfaction with their lives; the spark has gone out of Bob's marriage, and he's become disillusioned with his career. Meanwhile, Charlotte is puzzled with how much John has changed in their two years of marriage, while she's been unable to launch a creative career of her own. Bob and Charlotte become fast friends, and as they explore Tokyo, they begin to wonder if their sudden friendship might be growing into something more.

2018 WHITE MOUNTAIN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Thursday, August 2
Patio Reception - 6:00 pm
Speaker - 6:30 pm
Film - 7:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $10 adults, $9 BHC Members

"…a marvelously evocative study of Jewish immigrant life in turn-of-the-century New York, mainly told in delightfully subtitled Yiddish, features an outstanding lead performance from the Oscar-nominated Carol Kane." - Tony Sloman, Radio Times

Director:Joan Micklin Silver
Writers:Joan Micklin Silver (Screenplay), based on the novella, YEKEL, by Abraham Cahan
Stars: Carol Kane, Doris Roberts, Steven Keats
Genre: Drama, Romance
Languages: English, Yiddish
Length: 1 hr, 30 min.
Rating: PG

SYNOPSIS
“Hester Street”, through the delightful story of the Americanization of Jake and Gitl, illuminates the struggles and transformations of the Jewish immigrants who settled in the Lower East Side, as they try to reconcile the ordered values they which brought along with the unmarked opportunities that they found in the slums of the Lower East Side at the turn of the 20th Century.

It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, immigrated to the United States 3 years ago, settling on Hester Street in the crowded slums of New York City’s Lower East Side. “Jake”, as he now calls himself, has assimilated to American life, learned English, Anglicized his name, and even shaved off his beard. He has also fallen in love with a dancer named Mamie Fein, a thoroughly modern girl. Nevertheless, he has been saving what he can from his $12 weekly pay to bring over his son and his wife, Gitl, to America. When his wife finally arrives, but she is as old world as he is the slick Yankee. Jake pushes Gitl to give up her hair‐covering, her shawls, and her Yiddish but Gitl resists. Can their marriage survive these differences, and if not, will Gitl be able to manage in this new land on her own?

HESTER STREET marked Joan Miklin Silver’s filmmaking debut. It’s stars, Carol Kane, delivers an indelible performance as the greenhorn, Gitl. Big‐eyed, scared and inaudible at first, a spark of allure pops out here, a spark of anger there, until by the end of the picture she is a triumphant bonfire.

GUEST SPEAKER: RICK WINSTON,FILM HISTORIAN
Rick is co-founder of Montpelier’s Savoy Movie Theater and co-founder of the Green Mountain Film Festival. As Programming Director for the festival, he brought in nationally known film writers, critics, and historians to speak. He now teaches courses in film history, and is a frequent guest speaker on film throughout New England. This is Rick’s third engagement with the White Mountain Jewish Film Festival.

Friday, August 30 6:00 pm - It's a special end of the season party. Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary! Open to all ticket holders.

2018 WHITE MOUNTAIN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Thursday, August 16
Patio Reception - 6:00 pm
Speaker - 6:30 pm
Film - 7:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $10 adults, $9 BHC Members

Director: Reginald Hudlin
Writers: Michael Koskoff, Jacob Koskoff
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Kate Hudson, Josh Gad,
Rating: PG - 13
Genre: courtroom drama
Length: 160 min.

Synopsis
It’s 1940. Thurgood Marshall is a rising star (played by BLACK PANTHER star, Chadwick Boseman) that travels the nation for the NAACP, defending African Americans wrongly accused of crimes. In this true story, we get to see the multi-faceted personality of Marshall long before he became the first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court.

Marshall has been sent to Bridgeport, Connecticut, to defend a black chauffeur accused of kidnapping and raping the high society wife of his employer. Marshall’s usual confidence is shaken when the court refuses to let him be the lead attorney. Instead, the court appoints Sam Bernstein, a local jewish lawyer who has never handled a criminal case, to be the lead counsel. Working for and with Marshall, Sam makes some important decisions about what kind of man he wants to be, and can become.

The pitch perfect directing by Reginald Hudlin (BLACK PANTHER, DJANGO UNCHAINED) creates edge-of-your-seat suspense. Gripping performances are delivered by this top cast, from Chadwick Boseman, Kate Hudson, and Josh Gad to Sterling K. Brown, who steals the film with his portrait of the chauffeur.

Guest Speaker: Michael Koskoff
Michael Koskoff, co-writer of Marshall, Michael Koskoff is a partner in Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, PC. A renowned litigator specializing in personal injury and medical malpractice, Koskoff earned a reputation early in his career as a civil rights advocate. In 2008, Koskoff was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work by the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association. He has also received the National Association of Black Patrolmen Dedicated Service Award, the Greater Bridgeport NAACP Waverly Jones Freedom Award, and the Afro-American Educators Association Dedicated Service Award.

Friday, August 30 6:00 pm - It's a special end of the season party. Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary! Open to all ticket holders.

2018 WHITE MOUNTAIN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Thursday, August 30
Patio Reception - 6:00 pm
Film - 7:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $10 adults, $9 BHC Members

“Be it dip-pen on paper writing in Yiddish from Minsk in the 1940s or sheets of paper in a manual typewriter in NYC in 2006 or a Spanish-language volume from Chile being translated via computer, the importance of fashioning and transmitting words runs through the story with a brand of cinematic heft no text message is likely to equal.” - LISA NESSELSON, Screen Daily

Director:Radu Milhaileanu
Writers:Radu Milhaileanu, Marcia Romano
Based on the novel by Nicole Krauss
Stars:Gemma Arterton, Derek Jacobi, Eliot Gould, Sophie Nelisse, Mark Rendall
Genre:Drama
Languages:English, Yiddish
Length:2 hrs. 15 min
Rating:NR

Synopsis
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.The scope of this multi-layered story spans decades and continents. It is filled with romance, suspense and humor, centered on the enduring power of love.

Friday, August 30 6:00 pm - It's a special end of the season party. Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary! Open to all ticket holders.

Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 pm

Film screening and discussion hosted by VT CARES

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Admission: Free

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE chronicles the activism of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power? And TAG (Treatment Action Group), whose innovation revolutionized early HIV/AIDS activism and created access to life saving medical treatments. It is a powerful account of self-made activists demanding rights and healthcare for people living with HIV/AIDS. After the film screening VT CARES will host a panel to answer questions and provide more information about HIV awareness and AIDS advocacy work that is going on locally here in Vermont. Film run time is 2 hours.

For more information on the film check out https://surviveaplague.com/