WHBPAC Presents FINEST IN WORLD CINEMA Series

The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center is thrilled to announce its July "Finest in World Cinema" Series! Back by popular demand, Andrew Botsford of Quogue, visiting professor and communications consultant for the graduate arts program at Stony Brook Southampton and co-host of the annual Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival, will introduce our summer films each Tuesday night and discuss the films afterwards with guest commentators, followed by an informal audience discussion. An actor with the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue since 1985, Andrew has written extensively about film and theater and was for 20 years the associate editor of The Southampton Press and editor of its Arts & Living section.

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.

Join our Film Society and receive 20 discounted admissions per calendar year, free admittance to a film on your birthday, and two free film tickets for each new member you refer. Start enjoying member perks today! Call (631) 288-1500 to sign up.

July 8-10, 8pm

The Immigrant

Directed by James Gray

Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream, but when they arrive Ewa's ill sister is not allowed into the country. With no friends and no options, Ewa is taken in by Bruno, who hides a ruthless streak behind a friendly facade. But a charming stage magician soon offers her a glimmer of hope for a better life. Starring Academy Award Winner Marion Cotillard, and Academy Award Nominees Joaquin Phoenix, and Jeremy Renner.

"A great movie rising before you...like a dream." - Time Out New York

NYT Critics Pick, English/Polish, 120 Minutes, Rated R

July 15-17, 8pm

Ida

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski

Set in 1960's Poland, 18-year old Anna, a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative. Naive, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her worldly and cynical aunt who shocks Anna with a revelation about her past. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside and into the past.

"It haunted me...I can't wait to see it again." - New York Times

NYT Critics Pick, Polish, 80 Minutes, Rated PG-13

July 22-24, 8pm

We are the Best

Directed by Lukas Moodysson

This sweet, rambunctious film, set in Stockholm in 1982, follows two young misfits on the cusp of adolescence who set out to form a punk band despite having no instruments-or discernible musical talent. They recruit their shy, classical guitar-playing schoolmate as the third wheel. Emerging from the innocent context of girlhood notions, a punk act is born!

"A joyous heart-swelling story of youthful rebellion." - New York Times

NYT Critics Pick, Swedish, 102 Minutes, Not Rated

July 29-31, 8pm

The Only Real Game

Directed by Mirra Bank

The Only Real Game is a fighters' and dreamers' story about the magic of baseball for people in a remote and troubled place. Once princely Manipur, a strife-torn border state in northeast India, defies civil war, drugs, gun traffic, and HIV/AIDS through love of our national pastime. Dreams chase reality in this ancient region when a small group of baseball-loving New Yorkers and two Major League Baseball Envoy coaches team up with Manipuri men, women and children to "Play Ball." It's a far away story that brings us to the heart of the great American Game, or as Babe Ruth put it, "the only real game in the world."

"Inspiring! Unlike anything you've ever seen. This is a story which must be told." - Jeffrey Lyons

Manipuri/English, 82 Minutes, Not Rated

Funding provided, in part, by Suffolk County.

Tickets: $15 adults, $9 students/seniors, $5 WHBPAC Film Society members.

Purchase Tickets 3 Ways:

On-Line: www.whbpac.org

Call Box Office: 631-288-1500

Visit: 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach, NY 11978

(Seven Days a Week, Noon - 8pm and later on show nights.)

SUPPORT WHBPAC: Learn about the creative ways to contribute http://www.whbpac.org/pages/ways.php