Endless Summer is a historical movie about surfing coming to the forefront and creating a culture. This year is the movies 50th Anniversary and will be showing again only for one night! The film has been inducted into the Smithsonian and is still the most recognizable surfing image. Come out and join the viewing of this timeless film!
Long Beach Island is typically known for the sun and fun but for one weekend they will also be hosting this film festival. All different types of films will be showed from award-winning to independent to documentaries and dramas! Along with all the great films the weekend will be filled with networking, parties and special events.
Asbury Shorts New York is New York City’s longest running exhibition of award-winning short films and producer Doug LeClaire brings the World’s Best Short Films back to Algonquin Arts Theatre.
Produced as a fast-paced event in a “Short Film Concert” format, the program features the best in comedy, drama and animation by combining classic shorts with new international festival winners.
A rare opportunity to see world-class films on the big screen in a theatrical setting, each of the titles ranges from two to 25 minutes long and is presented back to back much like a musician’s set list. Come this year to see what great films are in this year’s edition!
World Cinema Series 2016-2017
“Breaking the Silence, Confronting the Past”
A global look at five filmmakers who defy repressive regimes and their “official line” to promote human freedom, historical truth, and social justice
“Leviathan” (Director: Andrei Zviagintsev, Russia 2014)
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Rated R (140 minutes)
Film: SLAPSHOT starring Paul Newman, presented in association with the Asbury Park Film Initiative. Free admission! Doors at 7 pm, film starts at 7:30.

The Historic Organ Restoration Committee will conclude their 2017 series with their annual Christmas Spectacular. Showing off the versatility of the W.W. Kimball Opus 7073 we will have silent film shorts, a Christmas Carol Sing Along as well as other various acts with both the curatorial and outreach staff as well as their volunteers serving up plenty of Chirstmas Cheer!

- The Christmas cult-classic shown on the silver screen in the historic Joseph A. Palaia Theater in the Jersey Shore Arts Center. As seen on Mystery Science Theater 3000, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, and Elloise at Christmas. Perfect for the family or your sci-fi nerd best friend. This film is sure to put you in the cosmic Holiday spirit!

China, 1999. Childhood friends Liangzi and Zhang are both in love with Tao, the town beauty. Tao eventually decides to marry the wealthier Zhang. They soon have a son he names Dollar… From China to Australia, the lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of a family over two generations in a society changing at breakneck speed.

Monmouth University will be hosting the “Black Maria Film Festival” this March 29th in Pollack Theatre. The festival was founded in 1981 as a tribute to Thomas Edison’s development of the motion picture at his laboratory, dubbed the “Black Maria” film studio, the first in the world, in West Orange, NJ. It is a free event and will start at 6:30 PM.

Dino Ossola, a small-time real estate agent who dreams of bigger things; Serena Ossola, his teenage daughter who dates a spoiled rich brat; Carla Bruneschi, an actress who has given up her career to marry a wealthy businessman; Massimiliano Giovanni Bernaschi, her husband, a powerful player; Massimiliano Bernaschi, the troubled son of the Bernaschis; Roberta Ossola, a psychologist, Dino’s second wife; Donato Russomano, a brilliant drama teacher who is stuck on Carla; Luca Ambrosini, a teenager frowned upon by others; an anonymous cyclist… They are all shareholders of the human capital.

This May at Count Basie Theatre, step into the world of DEA special agents Javier Peña and Steve Murphy, who were instrumental in the take down of one of the most gruesome and prolific drug lords of all time, ”The King of Cocaine,” Pablo Escobar. Come see their presentation and discussion on their experiences and what was the inspiration for the hit NETFLIX series “Narcos.”










