In response to the numerous heartwarming messages that we have received asking how people can help The Senator while we are temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic we have teamed up with our distribution partners in a new effort to bring great screenings directly into your home. Each title listed below will direct you to the distributor’s virtual platform where you will be able to rent the movie for a specified time.
How does this help The Senator? All revenue from these screenings will be split between the distributor and the theatre.
Epicentro
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Hubert Sauper
A film about the butterfly effect on geopolitics, the paradox of time, the (almost) end of the world, the cinematograph, sex, and sugar.
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Sean Cisterna
Starring
Joe Pantoliano, Paula Brancati, Marco Leonardi
A downtrodden man experiences an ethical crisis and travels back to his hometown in rural Italy to re-calibrate his moral compass. There he finds new purpose in reviving his grandfather’s old vineyard, offering the small town of Acerenza a sustainable future, and reconnecting with his estranged family in the process.
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
S. Leo Chiang, Yang Sun
Starring
Ma Duo, Tianyi Huang, Ma Ke
When influential Chinese artist Ma Liang (a.k.a. Maleonn) realizes that his father Ma Ke, an accomplished Peking Opera director, is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, he invites his father to collaborate on his most ambitious project to date – a haunting, magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets called “Papa’s Time Machine”. Through the creation of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
Following Chef David Kinch and his team’s journey from their 3 Michelin Star in California on a one of a kind “four hands” collaboration with three legendary chefs at their iconic restaurants in Paris, Provence and Marseille.
LINK TO RENT THIS FEATURE WILL APPEAR HERE ON 9/18. STAY TUNED.
God of the Piano
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Itay Tal
Starring
Naama Preis, Andy Levi, Ze'ev Shimshoni
For Anat, music is everything. Having never been able to reach her father’s musical standards, she rests her hopes on the child she’s about to have. When the baby is born deaf, Anat succumbs to extreme measures to keep the dream alive.
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow alongside her free-drifting descendants.
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Rating
PG
Director
Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Starring
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ann Kittner, Harryette Helsel
The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
John Scheinfeld
This documentary explores Herb Alpert’s abstract paintings and his more figurative bronze sculptures, focusing on the first major retrospective of his work given at the Tennessee State Museum. It shows how music has infused his paintings and sculptures through color, concept, and form.
Opens 10/9 in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Jethro Waters
Year
2018
Starring
Burk Uzzle
Burk Uzzle’s dedication to the medium of photography led him from a small darkroom on his father’s porch into the company and guidance of the 20th century’s most important photographers.
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Kahane Cooperman, John Hoffman
Made in response to the times we are living in, THE ANTIDOTE is a feature documentary that weaves together stories of kindness, decency, and the power of community in America. It’s about everyday people who make the intentional choice to lift others up and make their communities better, despite the fundamentally unkind ways of our society – which are at once facts of life in America, and yet deeply antithetical to our founding ideals.
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Rubika Shah
Starring
Red Saunders, Dennis Bovell, Mykaell Riley
Rock Against Racism was formed in 1976, prompted by Eric Clapton. It blends fresh interviews with archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches.
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
William Greaves
Starring
Amiri Baraka, Charles C. Diggs Jr., Richard Hatche
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered voices from across the political spectrum.
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Year
2009
In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometers through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges – a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears.
Opens 12/4 in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Daniel Vernon
Starring
Ike White, Daniel Vernon, Lana Gutman
Released in 1974, “Changin’ Times” was a stunning album of songs recorded in extraordinary circumstances – the first ever commercial album recorded inside an American prison by an inmate. It’s creator was a musical prodigy, Ike White, who was jailed for life at the age of 19 for murder. With never-before-seen archive, the film charts Ike’s journey out from prison into industry adulation and life as a free man, eventually leading to his reinvention as a performer for hire called David Maestro.
Opens 12/11 in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Seamus Murphy
Accompany PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy on a journey through the creative process behind PJ Harvey’s new album, conceived by their travels around the globe.
Opens 12/11 in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Massoud Bakhshi
Starring
Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi
Maryam is a young woman who is accused of murdering her husband and is sentenced to death. In the Yalda night they bring her to a live TV show so that Mona, who is the only daughter of the victim, can see her and may forgive her crime.
Some Kind of Heaven
Now Streaming in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Lance Oppenheim
Behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America’s largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning.
Opens 2/15 in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Rodney Ascher
Documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher tackles this question “are we living in a simulation?” with testimony, philosophical evidence and scientific explanation in his quest for the answer.
LINK TO RENT THIS FEATURE WILL BE AVAILABE HERE ON 2/5. A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator!
Two of Us
Opens 2/15 in our Virtual Theatre! Link in the description.
Opening
Theatre
Virtual Theatre
Director
Filippo Meneghetti
Starring
Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker
Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades, but their bond is put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move freely between each other’s apartments.
LINK TO RENT THIS FEATURE WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE ON 2/5! A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator.