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National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra

From the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly anticipated production, following previous broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and Superman and The Beaux’ Stratagem.

National Theatre Live Screening: Allelujah!

Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run, don’t miss Alan Bennett’s ‘rousing chorus line for the NHS’ (Observer) in your local cinema.

The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.

Alan Bennett’s celebrated plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George III, all of which were also seen on film. Allelujah! is his tenth collaboration with award-winning director Nicholas Hytner.

Letterpress graphic by Alan Kitching, art directed by Michael Mayhew.

HIFF Now Showing Classic Screening The Shining

Stanley Kubrick‘s screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining has been called many things. An old-fashioned haunted house movie. A depiction of domestic abuse. The ultimate take on writer’s block. Indiewire recently went so far as to call it the greatest horror film of all time. Ultimately, The Shining is a Kubrick film, which means that some of the most penetrating and complex cinematography, compelling production design and deft editing combine with Jack Nicholson’s outrageous performance to create scenes that have bled into the fabric of pop culture and will haunt you, forever. 

Q+A with series co-hosts Alec Baldwin and HIFF Artistic Director, David Nugent. 

Image credit Warner Brothers

HIFF Now Showing CAPERNAUM

(Lebanon, 2018, 119 minutes)
Directed by Nadine Labaki

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, CAPERNAUM (“Chaos”) is a new film by Nadine Labaki about the journey of a clever, gutsy 12-year-old boy, Zain, who survives the dangers of the city streets by his wits. He flees his parents and to assert his rights, takes them to court suing them for the “crime” of giving him life.

HIFF NOW SHOWING: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

A film by Joel and Ethan Coen
(France, 2018, 133 minutes)

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a six-part Western anthology film, a series of tales about the American frontier told through the unique and incomparable voice of Joel and Ethan Coen. Each chapter tells a distinct story about the American West.

Q+A with Academy Award-nominated Composer Carter Burwell

HIFF Now Showing: Shoplifters

Throughout the winter and spring, HIFF presents NOW SHOWING, a series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the East End. Curated by HIFF, NOW SHOWING features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

Synopsis:
(Japan, 2018, 121 minutes)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. Winner of the Palme D’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

HIFF Now Showing: Shoplifters

Throughout the winter and spring, HIFF presents NOW SHOWING, a series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the East End. Curated by HIFF, NOW SHOWING features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

Synopsis:
(Japan, 2018, 121 minutes)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. Winner of the Palme D’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

HIFF Now Showing: Shoplifters

Tonight’s Screening of SHOPLIFTERS has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Throughout the winter and spring, HIFF presents NOW SHOWING, a series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the East End. Curated by HIFF, NOW SHOWING features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

Synopsis:
(Japan, 2018, 121 minutes)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. Winner of the Palme D’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

Scrooge…The Relapse

And Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew. – A Christmas Carol

But did it stick? In an homage to Charles Dickens and his classic holiday ghost story, co-creators John McCaffrey and Jack Gwaltney conjure up a comic drama that imagines Scrooge backsliding into bitterness and miserdom after his holiday breakthrough, with Jacob Marley forced to send three new “spirits”…Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Charles Darwin. Can they help Scrooge rekindle love in his heart for mankind? Can they help Scrooge learn about the past, the present and the future?

With: Gerard Doyle, Tina Jones, Brian Keane, and Jack Gwaltney

 

Jack Gwaltney was born in Virginia, went to UVa and lives in New York City. He is fortunate to perform as an actor on stage, television and in film. Jack spent nine years as a director and dramaturge for The Greylock Project at the Williamstown Theater Festival, an offshoot of Willie Reale’s 52nd St. Project. Collaborating with John McCaffrey is one of the wisest things Jack does. Thanks to Josh, Guild Hall and all their team!

John McCaffrey grew up in Rochester, New York, attended Villanova University, and received his MA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. He is the author of The Book of Ash and Two Syllable Men. He is the Director of Development for the Training Institute for Mental Health in New York City, and teaches creative writing at the College of New Rochelle’s Rosa Parks Campus. He lives part-time in Wainscott, NY.

 

Tina Jones (Woman, Sigmund Freud) has performed on the east end at Guild Hall, Bay Street Theater and Hampton Theater Company. Ms. Jones has worked across the country. Regional theaters include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, American Conservatory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Company, Arizona Theatre Company; as well as Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, film, and television. She holds a Masters Degree from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and studies with the Barrow Group in New York City.

Brian Keane (Jacob Marley, Karl Marx, Man 3) appeared in the North American tour of the National Theatre’s War Horse. New York credits include Timon of Athens (Public/NYSF), Happy Now? (Primary Stages), The Misanthrope (Classic Stage Company), Cyrano de Bergerac and All My Sons (Roundabout). Regional credits include Frost/Nixon (Bay Street Theater), A Streetcar Named Desire (Guthrie), Macbeth (Old Globe), The Winters Tale (Yale Rep), Book of Days (Arena Stage), How I Learned to Drive (Centerstage). Television and film credits include House of Cards, Ray Donovan, The Young Pope, Chicago PD, Gypsy, The Blacklist, Elementary, Brain Dead, Gotham, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Lights Out, Law & Order series, Queens Supreme, Downsized, Hustling, Urbania, Going Under, Brain Off, Public Property, and the BearCity trilogy.

HIFF Now Showing: Maria by Callas

Throughout the winter and spring, HIFF presents NOW SHOWING, a series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the East End. Curated by HIFF, NOW SHOWING features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

Synopsis:
Upon her untimely death in 1977, the name Maria Callas was inseparable from the art form that she helped to define in the 20th century. One of the most celebrated opera singers of the modern era, Callas rose to prominence in the years following World War II, as her unrivaled voice—and much discussed private life—captivated audiences worldwide. Culled from a treasure trove of archival footage, interviews, rare live footage, and personal Super 8 recordings, director Tom Volf creates a loving portrait of Maria through her own words, never losing sight of the woman behind the voice.