The May film series Celebrate Golf! honors all things golf-related through four amusing and quirky films. Visit gallery 280 before the films to see the Art of Golf exhibition, including works on loan from the National Galleries of Scotland.
Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission.- Happy Gilmore (1996), 92 minutes
- Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Adam Sandler stars in Happy Gilmore, raucous comedy about a diehard hockey player who turns the snobbish world of an upscale golf course into absolute mayhem. (Rated PG-13.)
- Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
This lyrical and emotionally moving documentary explores the methods and motivations of artist Lily Yeh and her revolutionary work. It documents the two sides of her life: her international ventures mending the broken and helping to heal weakened spirits in Philadelphia, Africa, China, and India as well as a personal journey to repair her fractured family. This film shows Yeh working with children in a challenged North Philadelphia community, with survivors in the post-genocide villages of Rwanda, and with drug-addicted youths along the garbage dumps of shantytowns on the outskirts of Nairobi. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Yeh and filmmakers Glenn Holsten and Daniel Traub. The Wednesday Night film series is supported by the Dean and Zoë Pappas Family Foundation.
The July film series, "Portrait of the Artist," will be introduced by longtime Philadelphia Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey. The Wednesday Night film series is supported by the Dean and Zoë Pappas Family Foundation.
- Rembrandt (1936), 85 minutes
- Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Directed by Alexander Korda, this film focuses on Rembrandt's later life, particularly at the height of his fame in the mid-1600's. The artist is portrayed by actor Charles Laughton.
- Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
- Vincent and Theo (1990), 138 minutes
- Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
The relationship between the obsessive yet brilliant painter Vincent van Gogh (Tim Roth) and his more practical businessman brother Theo (Paul Rhys) is the main focal point of director Robert Altman's biography.
- Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
- Frida (2002), 123 minutes
- Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Director Julie Taymor presents a biography of one of Mexico's most prominent and original artists, Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek). The film focuses on Kahlo's determination to paint, despite being bedridden at times, and her tumultous yet romantic relationship with older artist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina).
- Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
- Pollock(2000), 122 minutes
- Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Ed Harris directs and stars in this biographical film about Jackson Pollock, who revolutionized American painting in the 1940s with his innovative abstract canvases that used dripped and splattered paint. The film looks at his professional triumphs, personal tragedies, and marriage to artist Lee Krasner (played by Marcia Gay Harden, who won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for the role). Pollock also stars Harris's real-life wife Amy Madigan as art collector Peggy Guggenheim, Jeffrey Tambor as art critic Clement Greenberg, Val Kilmer as artist Willem de Kooning, and Jennifer Connelly as artist Ruth Kligman.
- Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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