7 pm  – Friday, May 18^th 

Louder Than a Bomb by Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs

Feature Documentary | 2010 | 99 min., USA

Louder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare for the world’s largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the tempestuous lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. Louder Than a Bomb is not about “high school poetry” as we often think of it. It’s about language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance. While the topics they tackle are often deeply personal, what they put into their poems – and what they get out of them is universal: the defining work of finding one’s voice.

Tickets: $12/$10 members

To purchase tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Wednesday, June 13  7pm

The Cape Cod Premiere screening of “For the Love of the Music – the Club 47 Folk Revival” will be followed by a conversation with Cotuit’s own Betsy Siggins, founder of the New England Folk Music Archives

For more information about the film, click here

For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival, is a documentary exploring the rich history of Club 47, the iconic Cambridge, MA folk music mecca from 1958-1968.  Narrated by Peter Coyote, it explores the influence the Club had on a unique group of folk musicians, fromt eh evolution of the 60s folk revival to the singer-songwriter era. Featured are interviews with Joan Baez, Taj Mahal, Judy Collins, Tom Rush, Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Jackie Washington, Jim rooney, Peter Rowan and many more.

7 pm on Tuesday, June 19^th

Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology by Tiffany Shlain

Feature Documentary | 2011 | 82 min., USA

With wonderful heart and an impressive sense of scale, Tiffany Shlain’s vibrant and insightful documentary, Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time-the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy-while searching for her place in the world during a transformative time in her life. Employing a splendidly imaginative combination of animation and archival footage, plus several surprises, Shlain constructs a chronological tour of Western modernization through the work of her late father, Leonard Shlain, a surgeon and best-selling author of Art and Physics and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. With humor and irony, the Shlain family life merges with philosophy to create both a personal portrait and a proposal for ways we can move forward as a civilization. Connected illuminates the beauty and tragedy of human endeavor while boldly championing the importance of personal connectedness for understanding and coping with today’s global conditions.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

For tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669. Tickets will also be available at the door.

7 pm on Thursday, July 12^th

Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream by Vinnie Straggas and Jimmy Tingle

Feature Documentary, | 2010 | 73 min. USA

Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream is a one hour tour de force of comedy, commentary and conversation with some of America’s most iconic personalities and social critics, as well as family, friends and total strangers as they speak up and speak out on the American Dream.As he weaves his stand up comedy career into the fabric of the American Dream, you’ll meet Oscar winners and comedians, historians and the homeless as he aspires to make us laugh, to make us think, and encourages us to dream.Interviews with Robert Altman, Howard Zinn, Al Franken, Janeane Garafalo, Columnist Margery Egan, Sister Lena Divey, Jimmy’s mother Frances and more.Music by Willy Nelson, The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, The Neighborhoods, and Jimmy Tingle on harmonica.

SCREENING FOLLOWED BY A SPECIAL STAND UP SHOW BY JIMMY TINGLE

Tickets for this show only are $25

For tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669. Tickets will also be sold at the door if available.

Tuesday, September 18^{th, 7pm}

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison by Bestor Cram

Feature Documentary | 2008 | 87 min., USA

January 1968; a year that was saturated in violence and historical change. Tucked away in a gray prison cafeteria in Northern California, isolated from the tumult outside, hard men doing hard time witnessed the making of a legendary album that would catapult a country singer to international stardom. Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison remains one of the greatest live albums ever made, and the man himself one of America’s greatest troubadours and advocates for prison reform. Forty years later, the album still resonates today with a rawness and authenticity that few recordings have ever achieved. This film will expose a lesser known “Man in Black” through an exciting, visually compelling examination of this historic concert.

Tuesday, October 16, 7pm

The Drummond Will by Alan ButterworthF

Feature Comedy | 2010 | 81 min., UK

Two prodigal brothers, Danny and Marcus, are reunited with each other and their uncle at their father’s funeral in a remote English village. Marcus, a frustrated would-be businessman, is less than impressed when Danny, his mooching, partially-estranged dilettante of a brother cannot even manage to turn up on time. Their uncle, however, is simply very happy to see them both together, and insists that they stay the night before going their separate ways once more. At the very least, they should stay long enough to meet with the solicitor, and discuss the matter of their father’s will.

So it is that the brothers, hung-over from the wake and already grating on each other’s nerves, find themselves the proud owners of their late father’s dilapidated cottage. As expected, they initially discover precious little of any value inside. What they certainly did not expect to find was an enormous sum of cash hidden in a bag in a cupboard and more surprising still is the belligerent old man they find holding onto it. They have a predicament: knowing their father, the money is highly unlikely to be of legal providence, so simply going to the police presents a problem if they want to keep it. However, they also have the furious and pugilistic Malcolm the Bastard one of the disreputable gang of pensioners who represent the closest thing their father had to friends to contend with. The Drummond Will is a black comedy set in decaying rural England, a collision between old and new. The film follows estranged brothers Marcus and Danny Drummond as they find themselves on a surprisingly dangerous undertaking to unravel the mystery surrounding their father’s unlikely wealth.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

Friday, November 16^{th, 7pm}

A Good Man by Bob Hercules and Gordon Quinn

Feature Documentary | 2011 | 86 min., USA

A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones (Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Still/Here, FELA!) as he and his company create their most ambitious work, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial. Through two tumultuous years, we witness raw moments of frustration as Jones struggles to communicate his vision to his dancers and collaborators, as well as moments of great exhilaration when movement transcends the limitation of words. Jones and his company come face to face with America’s unresolved contradictions about race, equality and the legacy of our 16th President. Premiering on the heels of Jones’s Tony Award for FELA! and 2010 Kennedy Center Honor, A Good Man is a window into the creative process and, indeed, the creative crisis of one of our nation’s most enduring, provocative artists as he explores what it means to be a good man, to be a free man, to be a citizen.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

Tuesday, December 18^{th, 7pm}

Becoming Santa by Jeff Myers and Jack Sanderson

Feature Documentary |2010 | 82 mins.,USA

When Christmas rolled around again after his father’s death, Jack Sanderson realized he was not looking forward to the holiday. It seemed to Jack that Christmas had become a burden. He had only two choices, avoid it entirely or dive into the deepest part of the Christmas pool. In such a commercial culture, avoiding it seemed impossible so Jack decided the best way to get through Christmas was to be the eye of the Christmas Season storm. Jack would become Santa Claus and do as many of the things Santa is asked to do as possible.

For the documentary “Becoming Santa”, director Jeff Myers followed Jack on his journey to become Santa which entailed getting a custom Santa suit from Adele Saidy of ‘Adele’s of Hollywood’, attending the ‘American Events Santa School’ taught by Susen Mesco in Denver, Colorado and then Santa jobs. Along the way, Santa Jack rides in the 57th Annual Quincy Christmas Parade, rings a bell on a street corner in New York City for Volunteers of America and appears on the Susquehanna Railroad’s ‘Polar Express’ in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

At Mesco’s School, Jack learns that there is a lot more to being a good Santa than a great suit and an excellent ‘Ho, Ho, Ho’. Susen Mesco teaches her novice Claus’ how to answer really tough questions from children (Can you get my parents back together?), the right way to pose for pictures, how to handle screaming babies and petulant parents and proper make-up techniques for Santa.

Rachel Weinstein, at Volunteers of America, dresses Jack in their version of Santa’s suit and sends him out to the streets of New York on the coldest day of the year to ring a bell. John Stocker, a Conductor on the Susquehanna Polar Express, guides Jack through six grueling hours of Santa visits on a moving train. In Quincy, MA, Parade Organizer, George White sacrifices an unsuspecting Santa Jack to a crowd of a hundred tots and then puts him atop a fire truck in a position of dubious safety.

Wrapped around Jack’s journey into Christmas, like the red stripe around a candy cane, are interviews with professional Santas, Santa aficionados and historians who provide the fascinating little known history of Santa Claus in America and how the Civil War helped to shape the Christmas holiday as we know it today.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

This year we will present a series of film screenings to be shown on our new 28 foot movie screen, projector and sound system.

We are  excited to partner with the Woods Hole Film Festival who will offer monthly screenings of their “Best Of the Fest” as well as special events throughout the year.

ALL SCREENINGS SCHEDULED FOR 7:00 PM

The “Best of” screenings are scheduled for:

Tuesday, February 7^{th, 7pm}

Feed The Fish by Michael Matzdorff, starring Tony Shalhoub (Monk, Cars), Barry Corbin (No Country for Old Men), Kathryn Aselton, Ross Partridge

Feature Romantic Comedy | 2009 | 92 min., USA

Joe Peterson, is a burned-out kids book writer who’s approaching his mid-life crisis. With his career at a standstill and his relationship in shambles, he leaves town with his best buddy to do the Polar Bear Plunge in the dead of winter in northern Wisconsin in an attempt to reignite his fire. On his quest he meets: Axel, an inspirational mentor; The Sheriff, an obsessed law enforcement professional; and Sif, his muse and a hockey player. Good thing they’re all related!

Joe finds his lost passion, survives an assault by his obsessed ex-girlfriend, and tries to stay out of the way of the law. He pulls it together and finally gets the girl, and thank goodness, publishes again. But not before testing the icy waters of Lake Michigan on a snowy winter day.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

To purchase tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669.

Friday, March 16th, 7pm

Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner

Feature Documentary | 2005 | 79 min., USA

This delightful story of the annual International Whistling Competition opens a window on an astonishing world. Including explanations and tips from a sound-effects expert and champion whistlers, hilarious archival footage of whistling in its heyday, and portraits of current contestants, the directors move the film from fun frivolity to a celebration of a fading art form. Follow the efforts of competitors drawn from all walks of life: a turkey hauler, an investment banker, and a Dutch social worker: who share the amazing ability to whistle everything from pitch-perfect opera and Vivaldi to rollicking Texas swing. With great footage of Harpo Marx, Monty Python, and Elvis, as well as the whistling languages of Turkey and the Canary Islands, this family film offers great fun for young and old. You’ll leave the theater ready to pucker up and blow!

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

To purchase tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669.

Tuesday, April 17^{th, 7pm}

Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie by Michelle Esrick

Feature Documentary | 2008 | 88 min., USA

Saint Misbehavin’ reveals the true story of cultural phenomenon Wavy Gravy, a man whose commitment to making the world a better place has never wavered. We experience the impact one person can have and connect to the hope that each one of us can make a difference while keeping our sense of humor. Wavy Gravy is known as the MC of the Woodstock Festival, a hippie icon, clown and even a Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream flavor. In Saint Misbehavin’ we meet a true servant to humanity who carries his message through humor, compassion and a song he sings, called ‘Basic Human Needs.’ Saint Misbehavin’ weaves together intimate verite footage, reflections from an array of cultural and counter-cultural peers, and never-before-seen archival footage to tell a story that is bigger than the man himself.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

Friday, May 18^{th, 7pm}

Louder Than a Bomb by Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs

Feature Documentary | 2010 | 99 min., USA

Louder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare for the world’s largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the tempestuous lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. Louder Than a Bomb is not about “high school poetry” as we often think of it. It’s about language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance. While the topics they tackle are often deeply personal, what they put into their poems – and what they get out of them is universal: the defining work of finding one’s voice.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

To purchase tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669.

Tuesday, June 19^{th, 7pm}

Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology by Tiffany Shlain

Feature Documentary | 2011 | 82 min., USA

With wonderful heart and an impressive sense of scale, Tiffany Shlain’s vibrant and insightful documentary, Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time-the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy-while searching for her place in the world during a transformative time in her life. Employing a splendidly imaginative combination of animation and archival footage, plus several surprises, Shlain constructs a chronological tour of Western modernization through the work of her late father, Leonard Shlain, a surgeon and best-selling author of Art and Physics and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. With humor and irony, the Shlain family life merges with philosophy to create both a personal portrait and a proposal for ways we can move forward as a civilization. Connected illuminates the beauty and tragedy of human endeavor while boldly championing the importance of personal connectedness for understanding and coping with today’s global conditions.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

To purchase tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669.

Thursday, July 12^{th, 7pm}

Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream by Vinnie Straggas and Jimmy Tingle

Feature Documentary, | 2010 | 73 min. USA

Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream is a one hour tour de force of comedy, commentary and conversation with some of America’s most iconic personalities and social critics, as well as family, friends and total strangers as they speak up and speak out on the American Dream.As he weaves his stand up comedy career into the fabric of the American Dream, you’ll meet Oscar winners and comedians, historians and the homeless as he aspires to make us laugh, to make us think, and encourages us to dream.Interviews with Robert Altman, Howard Zinn, Al Franken, Janeane Garafalo, Columnist Margery Egan, Sister Lena Divey, Jimmy’s mother Frances and more.Music by Willy Nelson, The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, The Neighborhoods, and Jimmy Tingle on harmonica.

SCREENING FOLLOWED BY A SPECIAL STAND UP SHOW BY JIMMY TINGLE – Tickets for this show only are $25

To purchase tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669.

Tuesday, September 18^{th, 7pm}

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison by Bestor Cram

Feature Documentary | 2008 | 87 min., USA

January 1968; a year that was saturated in violence and historical change. Tucked away in a gray prison cafeteria in Northern California, isolated from the tumult outside, hard men doing hard time witnessed the making of a legendary album that would catapult a country singer to international stardom. Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison remains one of the greatest live albums ever made, and the man himself one of America’s greatest troubadours and advocates for prison reform. Forty years later, the album still resonates today with a rawness and authenticity that few recordings have ever achieved. This film will expose a lesser known “Man in Black” through an exciting, visually compelling examination of this historic concert.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

To purchase tickets, please click here or call 508-428-0669.

Tuesday, October 16, 7pm

The Drummond Will by Alan ButterworthF

Feature Comedy | 2010 | 81 min., UK

Two prodigal brothers, Danny and Marcus, are reunited with each other and their uncle at their father’s funeral in a remote English village. Marcus, a frustrated would-be businessman, is less than impressed when Danny, his mooching, partially-estranged dilettante of a brother cannot even manage to turn up on time. Their uncle, however, is simply very happy to see them both together, and insists that they stay the night before going their separate ways once more. At the very least, they should stay long enough to meet with the solicitor, and discuss the matter of their father’s will.

So it is that the brothers, hung-over from the wake and already grating on each other’s nerves, find themselves the proud owners of their late father’s dilapidated cottage. As expected, they initially discover precious little of any value inside. What they certainly did not expect to find was an enormous sum of cash hidden in a bag in a cupboard and more surprising still is the belligerent old man they find holding onto it. They have a predicament: knowing their father, the money is highly unlikely to be of legal providence, so simply going to the police presents a problem if they want to keep it. However, they also have the furious and pugilistic Malcolm the Bastard one of the disreputable gang of pensioners who represent the closest thing their father had to friends to contend with. The Drummond Will is a black comedy set in decaying rural England, a collision between old and new. The film follows estranged brothers Marcus and Danny Drummond as they find themselves on a surprisingly dangerous undertaking to unravel the mystery surrounding their father’s unlikely wealth.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

Friday, November 16^{th, 7pm}

A Good Man by Bob Hercules and Gordon Quinn

Feature Documentary | 2011 | 86 min., USA

A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones (Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Still/Here, FELA!) as he and his company create their most ambitious work, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial. Through two tumultuous years, we witness raw moments of frustration as Jones struggles to communicate his vision to his dancers and collaborators, as well as moments of great exhilaration when movement transcends the limitation of words. Jones and his company come face to face with America’s unresolved contradictions about race, equality and the legacy of our 16th President. Premiering on the heels of Jones’s Tony Award for FELA! and 2010 Kennedy Center Honor, A Good Man is a window into the creative process and, indeed, the creative crisis of one of our nation’s most enduring, provocative artists as he explores what it means to be a good man, to be a free man, to be a citizen.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

Tuesday, December 18^{th, 7pm}

Becoming Santa by Jeff Myers and Jack Sanderson

Feature Documentary |2010 | 82 mins.,USA

When Christmas rolled around again after his father’s death, Jack Sanderson realized he was not looking forward to the holiday. It seemed to Jack that Christmas had become a burden. He had only two choices, avoid it entirely or dive into the deepest part of the Christmas pool. In such a commercial culture, avoiding it seemed impossible so Jack decided the best way to get through Christmas was to be the eye of the Christmas Season storm. Jack would become Santa Claus and do as many of the things Santa is asked to do as possible.

For the documentary “Becoming Santa”, director Jeff Myers followed Jack on his journey to become Santa which entailed getting a custom Santa suit from Adele Saidy of ‘Adele’s of Hollywood’, attending the ‘American Events Santa School’ taught by Susen Mesco in Denver, Colorado and then Santa jobs. Along the way, Santa Jack rides in the 57th Annual Quincy Christmas Parade, rings a bell on a street corner in New York City for Volunteers of America and appears on the Susquehanna Railroad’s ‘Polar Express’ in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

At Mesco’s School, Jack learns that there is a lot more to being a good Santa than a great suit and an excellent ‘Ho, Ho, Ho’. Susen Mesco teaches her novice Claus’ how to answer really tough questions from children (Can you get my parents back together?), the right way to pose for pictures, how to handle screaming babies and petulant parents and proper make-up techniques for Santa.

Rachel Weinstein, at Volunteers of America, dresses Jack in their version of Santa’s suit and sends him out to the streets of New York on the coldest day of the year to ring a bell. John Stocker, a Conductor on the Susquehanna Polar Express, guides Jack through six grueling hours of Santa visits on a moving train. In Quincy, MA, Parade Organizer, George White sacrifices an unsuspecting Santa Jack to a crowd of a hundred tots and then puts him atop a fire truck in a position of dubious safety.

Wrapped around Jack’s journey into Christmas, like the red stripe around a candy cane, are interviews with professional Santas, Santa aficionados and historians who provide the fascinating little known history of Santa Claus in America and how the Civil War helped to shape the Christmas holiday as we know it today.

Tickets: $12/$10 Members

A drama by Reginald Rose

October 4-21 , 2012

A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. “He doesn’t stand a chance,” mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others’ eyes to the facts. “This is a remarkable thing about democracy,” says the foreign-born juror, “that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing.” But personal  it does become, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes!  Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors’ final verdict and how they reach it—intense scenes that will electrify your audience and keep them on the edge of their seats—add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature, an experience you’ll be proud to present.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8pm; Sunday matinees at 4pm

Tickets: $22/$19 Seniors/$17 Members/$15 Students. Group rates available for parties of 10 or more with one payment.

To purchase tickets, please click here or call the box office at 508-428-0669.