Two brand new films were added to our Virtual Cinema this week. Both offer a first-class ticket to Europe from the safety of your home.
One film has you in a thrilling hot air balloon escape from eastern Germany to the West and the other is a femme fatale psychological thriller adapted from the bestselling novel by Leïla Slimani. Both are based on true stories.
Thank you for your support and enjoy the films!
The proceeds from our virtual cinema will continue to support the Sea View Theatre, our beloved local cinema during this challenging time when their doors must remain closed to protect the community.
A thriller-like true story of one of the most spectacular escapes of the 20th Century. BALLOON is based on the true events of one of the most daring escapes of the Cold War in which two families living in Communist East Germany sailed over the heavily fortified border in a homemade hot-air balloon.
Adapted from the eponymous novel by Leïla Slimani and based on a true story that took place in Manhattan, this psychological thriller stars the luminous actress Karin Viard as the seemingly perfect Mary Poppins nanny. She is an instant hit with both the kids and the parents... but appearances can be deceiving and even dangerous as her perfection gradually cracks into something much more disturbing.
In this heartfelt and uplifting dramedy based on the best selling novel by José Luis Sampedro, Brian Cox (HBO’s SUCCESSION) delivers a career-defining performance as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory’s life will be transformed, just when he least expects it, through a newly found love for his baby grandson. Also starring JJ Feild, Thora Birch, Peter Coyote and Rosanna Arquette.
The Best of Cat Video Fest 2020
USA | 2020 Comedy | 45min
For the first time ever, CatVideoFest is available to screen virtually outside of theaters! Long time CatVideoFest curator extraordinaire Will Braden has crafted a 40-min “treat” of a reel specifically designed for home-viewing, which includes the very best videos from CVF’s illustrious history. The Best of CatVideoFest is being offered on a sliding scale with 75% of the proceeds going to support The Sea View Theatre. The suggested ticket price is $7.50 BUT you can pay as little as .99 cents or as much as $100 or even more to support The Sea View.
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes Canada | 2019 Documentary | 150min
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes Anne (now 86) retraces her steps, and with letters and stunning, original 16mm film footage offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first-hand look at the devastating reality that giraffes are facing today. Both the world’s first “giraffologist,” whose research findings ultimately became the foundation for many scientists following in her footsteps, and the species she loves have each experienced triumphs as well as setbacks. The Woman Who Loves Giraffes gives us a moving perspective on both.
Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive-compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex. Writer-Director-Star James Sweeney delivers a razor-sharp rom-com that’s equal parts Classical Hollywood and distinctly 21st century, exploring just how elastic our definitions of love and sexuality can get.
Orcas Island Film Festival 2019 Vanguard Award Winner. A passionate coming-of age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, Georgia, AND THEN WE DANCED follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak. Official Academy Award Subission for Best International Film, Sweden.
Set in the aftermath of World War II, this dazzling, richly burnished and harrowing film centers on two women who are each scarred by war trauma. As the film begins, Iya works as a nurse in a shell-shocked hospital. A shocking accident brings the two women closer and also seals their fates. Russian director Kantemir Balagov won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard Section. Official Academy Award Submission from Russia for Best International Film.
The 1981 Academy Award-winning Best Foreign Language Film MEPHISTO, by Hungarian master István Szabó, concerns a passionate but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of this Faustian pact by finally achieving the stardom he has long craved. Sparkling new 4K restoration.
The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of renowned filmmaker Ken Loach’s SORRY WE MISSED YOU, an absorbing, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy.”
