WHBPAC's Finest in World Cinema Series Continues this Fall

The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center continues its "Finest in World Cinema" Series this autumn on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Screening only the best current release art house, foreign, independent, and documentary films that run concurrently at the most prominent film houses in New York City, this year's "Finest in World Cinema" series promises to be the best series ever! Tickets to all films are $15 for adults, $9 for students/seniors, and $5 for WHBPAC Film Society members and can be purchased online at www.whbpac.org.

Boyhood
Directed by Richard Linklater
September 5, 7:30pm
September 6, 4pm & 7:30pm
September 7, 4pm & 7:30pm

Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason, who literally grows up on screen. Snapshots of adolescence, from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between, become transcendent in this ode to growing up and parenting. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

English, Rated R, 165 Minutes

The Trip to Italy
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
September 26, 7:30pm
September 27, 4pm & 7:30pm
September 28, 4pm & 7:30pm

Michael Winterbottom's largely improvised 2010 film, The Trip, took comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on a restaurant tour around northern England. In this witty and incisive follow-up, Winterbottom reunites the pair for a new culinary road trip retracing the steps of the Romantic poets' grand tour of Italy and indulging in some sparkling banter and impersonation-offs. The characters enjoy mouthwatering meals in gorgeous settings from Liguria to Capri while riffing on subjects as varied as Batman's vocal register, the artistic merits of "Jagged Little Pill," and, of course, the virtue of sequels.

English, Not rated, 108 Minutes

The Zero Theorem
Directed by Terry Gilliam
October 3, 7:30pm
October 4, 4pm & 7:30pm
October 5, 4pm & 7:30pm

Set in a future London, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst works on a mysterious project, delegated to him by Management, aimed at discovering the purpose of existence - or the lack thereof - once and for all. But his solitary existence is disturbed by visits from the flirtatious Bainsley and Bob, Management's wunderkind son. Yet it is only once he experiences the power of love and desire that he is able to understand his very reason for being. Starring Academy Award Winners Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton and Matt Damon.

English, Rated R, 107 Minutes