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EXHIBITION ON SCREEN

One of the Harbor Theater’s most popular annual film series is the Exhibition on Screen Art Series. Working with top international museums and galleries, Exhibition on Screen creates 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. 

Harbor Theater’s Exhibition on Screen art film series returns on October 19, 2024 with exciting changes. The screenings are now on Saturday afternoons to accommodate more viewers. Additionally, the series introduces “Art à la Carte” tickets, offering film access along with wine and snacks, such as cheese, fruits, and pastries. These tickets cost $13 for Members and $17 for non-members. Regular “Film Only” tickets are also available at $12 for Adults and $8 for Members. Standard concessions like candy and soda are always available.

Art à la Carte Tickets: $13 Members; $17 Non-Members
Film Only Tickets: $8 Members; $12 Non-Members

All shows are Saturday 2:00 p.m. matinees. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Doors open at 1:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2024

VAN GOGH:
POETS & LOVERS

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Directed by David Bickerstaff, Produced by Phil Grabsky

90 minutes

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood.

This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist. Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionized his style. Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealized spaces and symbolic characters.

Poets and lovers filled his imagination; everything he did in the south of France served this new obsession. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it didn’t hold back his creativity as he created masterpiece after masterpiece. Explore one of art history’s most pivotal periods in this once-in-a-century show.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2025

JAMIE WYETH & THE
UNFLINCHING EYE

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Juno Films, Director: Glenn Holsten (Not an EOS film)

1 hour, 20 minutes

Jamie Wyeth and the Unflinching Eye is the first feature length documentary that embraces the full scope of the American artist’s life and work. As the heir to an unparalleled three-generation dynasty in American art, Jamie Wyeth struggles to find his own voice during the colorful turmoil of pop culture and politics from the 1960s to the present.

The Wyeth name is widely known. And while Jamie Wyeth has given a lot of interviews in his time, “Jamie Wyeth and the Unflinching Eye” is the first film that fully reveals deep personal insights into his artistic thinking. It’s also the first film that establishes his place as a great American artist in his own right apart from his considerable family legacy. The son of Andrew and grandson of N.C., Jamie is the last in line of artists that spans a century of narrative painting. He was nurtured in a world of painting and studios–amongst the gentle hills of the Brandywine Valley and the rocky coasts of Maine.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2025

DAWN OF IMPRESSIONISM:
PARIS, 1874

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Juno Films, Director: Glenn Holsten (Not an EOS film)

1 hour, 20 minutes

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history - millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with, they were scorned, penniless outsiders. 1874 was the year that changed everything; the first Impressionists, “hungry for independence”, broke the mold by holding their own exhibition outside official channels. Impressionism was born and the art world was changed forever.

What led to that first groundbreaking show 150 years ago? Who were the maverick personalities that wielded their brushes in such a radical and provocative way? The spectacular Musée d’Orsay exhibition brings fresh eyes to this extraordinary tale of passion and rebellion. The story is told not by historians and curators but in the words of those who witnessed the dawn of Impressionism: the artists, press and people of Paris, 1874. See the show that changed everything on the big screen.

SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2025

MICHAELANGELO:
LOVE AND DEATH

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Directed by David Bickerstaff, Produced by Phil Grabsky

90 minutes

Michelangelo - Love and Death offers a cinematic journey through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican, to the print and drawing rooms of Europe, to explore Michelangelo's tempestuous life. The film goes in search of a greater understanding of this charismatic and enigmatic figure, both through his relationships with his contemporaries and his ongoing artistic legacy.

The film invites audiences to intimately examine Michelangelo’s art and artistic process - from the Carrara quarries where Michelangelo sourced his marble, to the new technology being used to attribute works. The film also offers a rare chance to get up close to the mesmerizing Rothschild Bronzes, which, following an extensive research project carried out by Academics in Cambridge in 2015, were positively attributed to Michelangelo after over a century of debate.

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Harbor Theater | 185 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538
207-633-0438 | info@boothbaycinema.org