MOONSTRUCK 1987 102 minutes With broad, vibrant brushstrokes, Norman Jewison directed this film starring Cher as an Italian-American widow faced with a second chance at love. Set in Brooklyn Heights amidst a tradition-bound family, Cher’s character is engaged to Danny...
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 1999, 113 minutes As cinematic confections go, the two Thomas Crown Affairs are notable in that they are windows into the times that made them. The first film, released in 1968 and set in Boston with...
Wed, Jan 18 (7pm-8pm) Weston Town Hall Auditorium Lillian Rembert and Erin I. Kelly, in conversation with one another, will discuss Winfred Rembert’s memoir, Chasing Me To My Grave: An Artists’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, as told to...
THE AUTOMAT 2021 79 minutes Before there was McDonald’s, before there was Howard Johnson’s, there was Horn & Hardart’s Automat, once the largest restaurant chain in America. The Automats were essentially cafeterias with food portions behind coin-operated glass doors, which...
RADIO DAYS 1987, 88 minutes To do a New York On-Screen series without a Woody Allen film is like depicting FDR without the cigarette holder or the Titanic without the Iceberg. Toxic analogies aside, he is obviously a problematic figure, but seeing...
“Songs from the Inner Sound” An Evening of Meditation Music and Visuals with Jesse Gallagher Jesse will perform this relaxing bath for the senses with an array of synthesizers, bells, harps, flutes & the heavenly voice of Francesca. The sound...
THE THIN MAN 1934, 91 minutes For the week before Valentine’s Day, we screened a number of films depicting a romantic New York. We decided to go with a classic involving a married couple whose chemistry is so engaging and...
THE TERMINAL 2004, 124 minutes Directed by Steven Spielberg and inspired by the experiences of Mehran Nasseri, who lived at Charles De Gaulle Airport for fifteen years, this film stars Tom Hanks as Viktor N., an Eastern European traveler stuck...
WAKING NED DIVINE 1998, 91 minutes In the tiny village of Tullymore, someone has won the Irish National Lottery, and elderly friends Jackie and Michael are determined to find out who it is. They scheme high and low for the...
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS 1995, 103 minutes Based on the novel by Maeve Binchy, this coming-of-age film opens in the small 1950s town of Knockglen. Minnie Driver plays Benny, a teenager whose circle of friends consists of willowy Nan and Eve,...
BELFAST 2021, 98 minutes Directed by Kenneth Branagh and based his own childhood experiences in 1969 Northern Ireland, this film chronicles a working-class Protestant family as seen through the eyes of Buddy, a nine-year-old boy. With his parents trying to...
Launching during Women’s History Month, a second virtual Weston AIC speaker series will take place over a three-month period. The audience will hear from installation artists, Adria Arch, Linda Bond and Christina Watka, during their own individual events, addressing the...
