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ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 AT 6 PM

MANET

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Running Time: 90 Minutes

Directed by Phil Grabsky and Ben Harding

This extremely popular exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts was the first ever retrospective devoted to the portraiture of Edouard Manet. Spanning this enigmatic and, at times, controversial artist’s entire career Manet from the Royal Academy of Arts, London brought together works from across Europe, Asia and the USA.

Manet’s portraiture has never been explored in exhibition form, despite it forming around half of his artistic output. He painted his family, friends and the literary, political and artistic figures of the day, giving life not only to his subjects but also to Parisian society. The exhibition consisted of more than 50 works; including portraits of his most frequent sitter, his wife Suzanne Leenhoff, luminaries of the period; Antonin Proust, Émile Zola and Stéphane Mallarmé, along with scenes from everyday life revealing Manet’s forward-thinking, modern approach to portraiture.

The film revealed exclusive behind-the-scenes moments of the exhibition’s preparation, which normally go unseen by the public, and interwove a detailed, superbly crafted biography of Manet and 19th century Paris. Host Tim Marlow and special guests looked at the craft of one of the all-time great artists, the ‘father of modern art’.

Tickets: $8 General Admission

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 AT 6 PM

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Working with top international museums and galleries, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN create films which offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from the world’s leading historians and arts critics. Since launching in 2011, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN have released 19 films which have been shown in over 60 countries worldwide.

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 AT 6 PM

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING AND OTHER TREASURES FROM THE MAURITSHUIS

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Running Time: 90 Minutes

Directed by David Bickerstaff

‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Johannes Vermeer is one of the most enduring paintings in the history of art. Even today, its recent world tour garnered huge queues lining up for the briefest glimpse of its majestic beauty – in Japan 1.2 million people came to see the exhibition. Yet the painting itself is surrounded by mystery. This beautifully film seeks to investigate the many unanswered questions associated with this extraordinary piece. Who was this girl? Why and how was it painted? Why is it so revered?

After its world tour, the Girl with a Pearl Earring returned to the much-loved Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, which had just completed extensive renovations. Enjoying unparalleled exclusive access to this historical gallery, the film takes the audience on a journey as it seeks to answer many of the questions surrounding this enigmatic painting and its mysterious creator Vermeer. This film is a gripping detective story and a visual feast.

Tickets: $8 General Admission

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 AT 6 PM

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Working with top international museums and galleries, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN create films which offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from the world’s leading historians and arts critics. Since launching in 2011, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN have released 19 films which have been shown in over 60 countries worldwide.

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 AT 6 PM

THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THE MAN WHO MADE THEM

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Running Time: 90 Minutes

Directed by Phil Grabsky

FROM THE MUSÉE DU LUXEMBOURG & MUSÉE D’ORSAY PARIS, NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON AND PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART.

Uncover the story of art’s greatest revolutionaries. Featuring work by Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro and many more.

Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of their contemporaries, fetch tens of millions of dollars around the globe. But who were they really? Why & how exactly did they paint? What lies behind their enduring appeal?

To help answer these questions, this unique film secured unparalleled access to a major exhibition focussing on the man credited with inventing impressionism as we know it: 19th-century Parisian art collector Paul Durand-Ruel. This eagerly anticipated international exhibition is possibly the most comprehensive exploration of the Impressionists in history.

It was Durand-Ruel’s brave decision to exhibit the Impressionists in New York in 1886 that introduced enlightened wealthy Americans to this modern French painting. In doing so, he not only filled great American galleries with Impressionist masterworks but kept Impressionism alive at a time when it faced complete failure. This energetic and revealing film will tell his remarkable story along with that of the Impressionists themselves.

Tickets: $8 General Admission

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 AT 6 PM

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Working with top international museums and galleries, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN create films which offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from the world’s leading historians and arts critics. Since launching in 2011, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN have released 19 films which have been shown in over 60 countries worldwide.

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 AT 6 PM

THE ARTIST’S GARDEN: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM

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Running Time: 87 Minutes

Directed by Phil Grabsky. Narrated by Gillian Anderson.

Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It’s a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States, UK and France, this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes.

In 1886, the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel brought a selection of his huge stock of impressionist paintings to New York, changing the course of art in America forever. American artists flocked to the French village of Giverny, home to the master impressionist Claude Monet, and cheered the French new wave: painting outdoors with a new found brilliance and vitality. As Europe recoiled against the work of Monet, Degas and Renoir, Americans embraced it and created their own style of impressionism.

The timing of Durand-Ruel’s transformative visit was perfect. As America steamed into the Industrial Age, urban reformers fought to create public parks and gardens: patches of beauty amid smokestacks and ash heaps. These gardens provided unlimited inspiration for artists and a never-ending oasis for the growing middle class, made up of increasingly independent women, who relished the writings of English horticulturalists Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson. Meanwhile the rise of wide-circulation magazines cultivated the idea that gardening was a path to spiritual renewal amid industrial blight and the belief that artists should work in native landscapes.

As America made its epic move from a nation of farmers to a land of factories, the pioneering American Impressionists crafted a sumptuous visual language that told the story of an era.

The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Tickets: $8 General Admission

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 AT 6 PM

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Working with top international museums and galleries, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN create films which offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from the world’s leading historians and arts critics. Since launching in 2011, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN have released 19 films which have been shown in over 60 countries worldwide.

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 AT 6 PM

EASTER IN ART

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Running Time: 85 Minutes

Directed by Phil Grabsky

The story of Christ’s death and resurrection has dominated western culture for the past 2000 years. It is perhaps the most significant historical event of all time, as recounted by the gospels but, equally, as depicted by the greatest artists in history.

From the triumphant to the savage, the ethereal to the tactile, some of western civilization’s greatest artworks focus on this pivotal moment. This beautifully crafted film explores the Easter story as depicted in art, from the time of the early Christians to the present day.

Shot on location in Jerusalem, United States and throughout Europe, the film explores the different ways artists have depicted the Easter story through the ages and thus depicts the history of us all.

Tickets: $8 General Admission

ONE NIGHT ONLY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 AT 6 PM

Presented by

Working with top international museums and galleries, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN create films which offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from the world’s leading historians and arts critics. Since launching in 2011, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN have released 19 films which have been shown in over 60 countries worldwide.

THE CLIMB

Comedy/Drama – 2020– USA – 94 Minutes – Sony Pictures Classics – Rated R

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Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. The Climb is about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (or lack thereof) in all close friendships.

Directed by Michael Angelo Covino

Starring Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin

Thrilling and charming in a way that very few comedies ever are…Covino’s film is an exhilarating anomaly, if not a wake-up call for the visual potential of heartfelt comedy. – RogerEbert.com

This sharp two-hander veers from caustic to sweet with acrobatic filmmaking to spare. – IndieWire

In short, the driving factor of Covino’s relentlessly funny, affecting comedy is neither cinematographic ingenuity, nor its tongue-in-cheek facetiousness, though these elements surely help. No, what’s most persuasive about Kyle and Mike is, simply put, Kyle and Mike themselves. – The Playlist

A clever comic bromance backed by artful filmmaking. – The Hollywood Reporter

Life is an uphill battle says The Climb, a film that gets better as it goes, even if life often does not. – Globe and Mail

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HOPE GAP

Drama/Romance – 2020 – UK – 101 Minutes – Roadside Attractions – PG-13

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The intimate, intense and loving story of HOPE GAP charts the life of Grace (Annette Bening), shocked to learn her husband (Bill Nighy) is leaving her for another after 29 years of marriage, and the ensuing emotional fallout the dissolution has on their only grown son (Josh O’Connor). Unraveled and feeling displaced in her small seaside town, Grace ultimately regains her footing and discovers a new, powerful voice.

Written & Directed by William Nicholson

Annette Bening powers potent story of the breakup of a longtime marriage in riveting film with exceptional acting. – Deadline Hollywood Daily

An affecting, well-acted and timely film. – Flickering Myth

Considerably more nuanced and mature than your typical relationship drama. – Variety

Hope Gap excels in these personal revelations that hinge upon the actors’ performances and the sorrow of pain endured complemented by the recognition of pain wrought. – The Film Stage

A satisfying watch with a lovely cinematic ending. – The Film Experience

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