Film and Video

MHAF 24 | Film Society of Summit: Daytime Revolution | Sunday December 1 | 5:00 pm

https://youtu.be/GkjiRlTVVnQ?si=rtBmpYARQ2VDauxA For one extraordinary week beginning on February 14th, 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an […]

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MHAF 24 | Film Society of Summit: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat | Friday November 29 | 7:30 pm | Madison Community Arts Center

https://youtu.be/_RwLdIiZk_8?si=tUVKIooUQbwQuyAh United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment

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Film and Video Series | First Run Independent Films | Classic Films | Cult Films

You Can See Great Films in Madison! In a partnership with The Film Society of Summit, The Thomas Edison Film Festival, and others, we are showing films on our 12.5 foot wide screen with stereo sound in our intimate air-conditioned setting.  Our partners often have to wait until a couple of weeks before a scheduled

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Film Society of Summit: The Catskills | Sunday November 17 2024 | 4:30 pm

Tickets An audience-pleasing documentary on the rise and fall of the Borscht Belt. With a trove of lost-and-found archival footage and a cast of characters endowed with the gift of gab, “The Catskills” journeys into the storied mountain getaway north of New York City that served as refuge for Jewish immigrants fleeing poverty as well

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Film Society of Summit: Intercepted | Documentary Directed by Oksana Karpovych | Friday November 1 2024 | 2:00 & 7:30 pm

Tickets Ukrainian intelligence services have intercepted thousands of phone calls Russian soldiers made from the battlefield in Ukraine to their families and friends in Russia, painting a stark picture of the cruelty of war in a dizzying emotional tension. Juxtaposed with images of the destruction caused by the invasion and the day-to-day life of the

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Film Society of Summit: Food and Country | Friday October 18 2024 | 7:30 pm

Get Tickets Ruth Reichl—trailblazing NY Times food critic, groundbreaking Gourmet Magazine editor, best-selling memoirist, and for decades one of the most influential figures shaping American food culture—grows concerned about the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as they wrestle with both immediate and systemic challenges as the pandemic takes hold. Reichl reaches across political

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New Jersey Jazz Society | Film Viewing with Live Music | Jimmy Van Heusen: Swingin’ with Frank & Bing | Sunday October 6 2024 3:00 pm

Tickets A Special Treat This Month A viewing of the Film Jimmy Van Heusen Swingin’ with Frank and Bing with live music accompaniment. Details coming soon. Composer Jimmy Van Heusen wrote such classics as “Swinging on a Star” and “Come Fly With Me.”  A profile of composer Jimmy Van Heusen, who wrote such classics as

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Film Society of Summit | Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) | Friday September 20 2024 | 7:30 pm

Tickets In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year- old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must

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Film Society of Summit: Bibi | Saturday September 14 2024 | 7:30 pm

Get Tickets “Bibi” is a gripping psychological thriller that delves into the harrowing journey of Vivian Ashwood, a grieving woman haunted by tragedy and tormented by a menacing stranger. Battling her own inner demons, Vivian spirals into a dark abyss of prescription medication and alcohol as she desperately tries to cope with her overwhelming loss.

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Film Society of Summit: Taking Venice | Friday June 14 2024 | 7:30 pm

Get Tickets Taking Venice uncovers the true story behind rumors that the U.S. government and a team of high-placed insiders rigged the 1964 Venice Biennale– the Olympics of art—so their chosen artists, Robert Rauschenberg, could win the Grand Prize. At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government is determined to fight Communism with

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