Films at Amherst Cinema

Perhaps the year’s most stunning international debut, Michael R. Roskam’s BULLHEAD is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate.

In early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) — just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business — worked as a lowly assistant on the set of THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL, the film that famously united Sir Lawrence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and the recently married Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), still honeymooning with new husband, playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott).

ART ON SCREEN Andrei Rublev is universally acknowledged by Russians as their greatest icon painter, and lived in the early 1400s. Tarkovsky re-imagines Rublev as a Christ-like cypher for the sufferings of a divided Russia under the Tartar invaders: a troubled visionary reduced to years of silence by the horrors that he witnesses, who finally rediscovers the will to speak - and to paint.

Attempts to describe the plot of this particularly grisly slice of Italian horror often come off as mere exercises in futility, and those looking for the clean answers provided by a lot of American horror are advised to quit before the opening credits have ended. Those who are willing to be carried away by director Lucio Fulci’s visions, however, will find a haunted house thrill ride that takes viewers through surreal and metaphysical vistas inhabited by all types of mysterious, otherworldly and unexplained events that continue the themes introduced by his previous film City of the Living Dead. 

Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment.

ART ON SCREEN  Trained in Dharamsala, India for nine years, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is one of the few female thangka makers in the world and one of the only fabric thangka makers in the west.

Our SCIENCE ON SCREEN Film Series is an unexpected pairing of current, classic, cult and documentary film with lively introductions by notable experts in science, technology and medicine.

Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival.  An openhearted coming-of-age story about friendship and sisterhood, FOREIGN LETTERS shares the childhood experiences of 12-year-old immigrant girls who forge an inseparable bond in early 1980s America.

Bert Stern's film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival features Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Eric Dolphy, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson, Anita O'Day, Gerry Mulligan, Chico Hamilton, and many others.

In this 1993 Steven Spielberg directed feature an amusement park / safari is opened on a remote island.  The catch, it's populated by real live dinosaurs brought to life by huge advances in technology.  On a preview tour of the island everything goes amiss as embryos are stolen, the power lines that contain the dinosaurs go down and the question "what happens when man trys to play god?" gets answered.  I will tell you a part of that answer is "a man gets eaten by a dinosaur while he is sitting on a toilet."

The theatrical release of the Academy Award nominated short films has met with enthusiastic audiences ever since its launch 6 years ago, giving people around the world an opportunity to see the nominated films prior to the Academy Awards ceremony on February 26th. A Morning Stroll Director(s): Grant Orchard UK / 7 mins When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we are left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.

The theatrical release of the Academy Award nominated short films has met with enthusiastic audiences ever since its launch 6 years ago, giving people around the world an opportunity to see the nominated films prior to the Academy Awards ceremony on February 26th.

This 1987 Paul Verhoeven glanced into the (not-so) distant future of Detroit and saw it on the verge of collapse due to financial ruin and unchecked crime. 

Amherst Cinema & Pleasant Street Theater present : SCREEN TEST: Movie Trivia Madness A Movie Trivia Bee Sunday, March 11th 3:00 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Smith College

By Oliver Goldsmith To come to my house, to call for what he likes, toturn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, “This house is mine, sir”. By all that’s impudent it makes me laugh.

A new play by Nicholas Wright How had a twenty–two–year–old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come?      

A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay’s WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her evil son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller).