An interview with the director of A Quiet Passion, the just-released film about nineteenth century American poet Emily Dickinson.
Movies
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Film (2017)
Directed by Niki Caro
With Jessica Chastain
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
Under the Nazis in Warsaw in the 1940s, a zookeeper and his wife seek to protect members of the threatened population.
The Sense of an Ending
Film (2017)
Directed by Ritesh Batra
With Jim Broadbent , Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter,
Michelle Dockery
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A psychological drama about an older divorced man who reflects on the penetrating effects of his earlier life on his current one.
A United Kingdom
Film (2017)
Directed by Amma Asante
With David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike
The moving historic account of an African tribal king studying in England who marries a white woman and returns to his homeland.
Hidden Figures
Film (2016)
Directed by Theodore Melfi
A moving account of the influential role played by African-American women who, as NASA employees in the early 1960s, provided crucial scientific support to the early space missions.