Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
(Spain, 2019, 113 minutes)
PAIN AND GLORY tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void created by the incapacity to keep on making films. PAIN AND GLORY talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
Starring Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, César Vicente, and Asier Flores.
• Shortlisted as Spain’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film Oscar®
NOW SHOWING brings acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema films currently in theaters to the East End.
Join us for this special screening of this Palme d’Or winner and 7-time Oscar® nominee (winner for Best Cinematography for Chris Menges).
HamptonsFilm Co-Chair Alec Baldwin will be in conversation following this special screening.
In director Roland Joffe’s historical epic The Mission, Jeremy Irons stars as Gabriel, an 18th-century Jesuit priest sent to the jungles of Brazil to build a Guarani Indian mission. Upon his arrival, Gabriel meets the slave trader Mendoza (Robert De Niro), a cruel, bloodless man who kills as many of the Guaranis as he enslaves. His brother Felipe (Aidan Quinn) is another of his victims, killed in a duel over a woman. Because of Mendoza’s aristocratic background, he cannot be tried for his crimes; however, the weight of his conscience inspires him to ask Gabriel for the opportunity to do penance at the mission. When Spain sells Brazil to Portugal, the two very different men must join together to defend the mission against aggressors. –RottenTomatoes
HamptonsFilm is pleased to continue to curate the hit screening series NOW SHOWING, featuring acclaimed first-run, art house, independent, and world cinema.
In September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announces the Oslo Accords, which aim to achieve a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians after decades of violence. Yigal Amir, a law student and a devoted Orthodox Jew, cannot believe that his country’s leader will cede territory that he and many others believe is rightfully – by the word of God – theirs.
As the prospect of a peaceful compromise approaches, Amir turns from a hot-headed political activist to a dangerous extremist. Consumed by anger and delusions of grandeur, he recruits fighters and steals weapons to form an underground militia intent on killing Palestinians. After his longtime girlfriend leaves him, Amir becomes even more isolated, disillusioned, and bitter. He soon learns of an ancient Jewish law, the Law of the Pursuer, that he believes gives him the right to murder Yitzhak Rabin. Convinced he must stop the signing of the peace treaty in order to fulfil his destiny and bring salvation to his people, Amir’s warped mind sees only one way forward.
NOW SHOWING brings acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema films currently in theaters to the East End.
Directed by Tom Harper
2019 | UK | English
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and furthering scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.
NOW SHOWING brings acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema films currently in theaters to the East End.
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
2019 | Brazil/Germany | Portuguese
Rio De Janeiro, 1950. Euridice and Guida are inseparable sisters bristling at the conservative rules of their household. Although their parents’ expectations are that they will get married and start a family, both sisters have their own secret dreams, shared only with each other. Euridice dreams of studying the piano at the Vienna Conservatory, while Guida dreams of great love and of traveling across the globe. But while Euridice complies with her parents’ wishes, Guida defies them, embarrassing her father, who resorts to deceit in order to keep the sisters apart. Hélène Louvart’s luscious, light-filtered cinematography shines in Karim Aïnouz’s heady, mesmerizing exploration of arrested dreams, which won him the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Selected as Brazil’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film Oscar®
NOW SHOWING brings acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema films currently in theaters to the East End.
In Search Of
Through a continuous search for spiritual shelter, this piece observes the process in which the understanding of one’s self meets a communal effort.
Anthony Madonna, Sound Artist/Composer
Catarina Sacramento, Visual Artist
Performed at the Barbican Centre’s 2017 Curious Festival
Meeting on the second Wednesday of each month, Circle of Voices, is an evening of collective singing to explore our individual breath and tone, and the connection that has to the people around us. Led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Fellow, Anthony Madonna, the evening will explore a variety of collective vocal practices such as Deep Listening, Circle Singing, and traditional round & part songs.
Open to singers of all backgrounds and experience levels. All that is required is the desire to connect in a welcoming circle of voices.
Circle of Voices is an evening workshop of collective singing, creative writing, and communal dialogue to explore and connect our individual thought, breath, and tone to the peoples and environments around us.
Led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Fellow, Anthony Madonna, the evening will center around tenets of Deep Listening, collective singing, and other participatory arts practices.
Open to singers of all backgrounds and experience levels. All that is required is the desire to connect in a welcoming circle of voices.
Primarily known today as the composer of oratorio such as The Messiah, George Friderich Handel was a prolific opera composer; with around 50 operatic works to his name. In this lecture, Victoria Bond will reveal how the German born composer became a master of Italian Baroque Opera, through the specific lens of his political drama, Agrippina.
Alban Berg’s Wozzeck tells the tale of a soldier, who driven to madness by jealousy, murders his love and in reaction kills himself. Although the story is dark and disturbing, it is illuminated by Berg’s brilliant music and has become one of the few 20th Century works to enter the repertory.
In this lecture, Victoria Bond will discuss the remarkable way the composer uses his intricately organized music to express a rich emotional palette; delving into the intricacies of twelve-tone atonal music.
Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter.
As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching.
Captured live from The Old Vic in London, Present Laughter is a giddy and surprisingly modern reflection on fame, desire and loneliness.
