Weekend Sailor

NewportFILM

April 30, 2016

The Weekend Sailor tells the "exciting and often harrowing" true story of a Mexican team’s unlikely win in the first Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race in 1974.

Organized by the United Kingdom, the race was designed as the first head-to-head around-the-world sailing race. A Mexican team, inexperienced and led by self-made millionaire Ramon Carlin, defied all odds and won the inaugural race, known today as the Volvo Ocean Race. Interspersing interviews with period footage, the films tells an inspiring and long-forgotten story.

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Miles Ahead

At the Avon Cinema

Coming this weekend is a treat. Movie and music lovers will both 

In the 1970s, down-and-out jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) tries to recover his new session tape from music producers. 

Directed by Don Cheadle
1 hours, 40 minutes 
Rated R

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For Grown-Ups Only

"For Grown-Ups Only: A Special Evening of Shorts,"

Providence Athenaeum

Saturday, April 30 

For all of us adults who love the Providence Children's Film Festival as much as the children do, Eric Bilodeau, Director of Programming, will lightheartedly showcase what he calls "the best of the worst" --submitted films that left us wondering how ANYONE might have thought they were appropriate for young eyes to watch. It's an eclectic mix that ranges from very good to films with mature themes to films that make one slap their forehead in disbelief. 

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A limited number of tickets are available for $35 each.

6:30 pm - drinks/appetizers followed by screening
Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street, Providence
 

Alvin Ailey

At the Jane Pickens

April 24

Jane Pickens is featuring a new dance series: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for "Lincoln Center at The Movies"

It is your chance to witness an iconic masterpiece of American dance, Alvin Ailey’s Revelations, described by The New York Times as “one of the great works of the human spirit.” This stunning, soulful tour de force draws on African-American spirituals, song-sermons, gospel songs and holy blues. The wide-ranging influences and irrepressible passion of Revelations are evident across the rest of this electrifying programme, which features Wayne McGregor’s sumptuous Chroma, set to a score by Joby Talbot with orchestrations of songs by The White Stripes; Ronald K. Brown’s Grace, a powerful meeting of modern and West African dance with a soundtrack by Duke Ellington, Roy Davis and Fela Kuti; and Robert Battle’s humorous, high-flying Takademe.
 

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Jungle Book

Walt Disney's "The Jungle Book" had a successful opening weekend, earning $103.6 million. This strong opening weekend makes the film the second-highest April opening ever, just behind "Furious 7".