The “Larger Than Life” Series
October 2022 – April 2023 | Tickets On Sale Now!
Monthly Movie Screenings at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury
MNFF Selects 2022-23 Films
Thursday, October 20, 7pm
Maya Angelou: And Still I RiseDirected by Rita Coburn, Bob Hercules
Featuring a remarkable series of interviews with friends and family including President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Common, Alfre Woodard, Cicely Tyson, Quincy Jones, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, John Singleton and Dr. Angelou’s son, Guy Johnson. Vermont Premiere. Audience discussion following the film will be led by Natasha Ngaiza, Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media Culture, Middlebury College.
VERMONT PREMIERE
SCREENING INFORMATION
MNFF Selects “Larger Than Life” Series
Thursday, October 20
7pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
Thursday, November 10, 7pm
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In TimeDirected by Robert Weide, Don Argott
Featuring footage from Vonnegut’s childhood in Indianapolis, his experience as a Prisoner of War in World War II, his marriage, family, and divorce, his early careers as a publicist for General Electric and a car salesman, and his long years as a struggling writer, leading to eventual superstardom in 1969 following the publication of his lightning-bolt anti-war novel “Slaughterhouse-Five”. Audience discussion following the film will be led by Jay Parini, D. E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing, Middlebury College.
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MNFF Selects “Larger Than Life” Series
Thursday, November 10
7pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
Thursday, December 8, 7pm
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A SongDirected by Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Featuring Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, John Cale, Brandi Carlile, Eric Church, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Glen Hansard, Sharon Robinson and Rufus Wainwright.
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MNFF Selects “Larger Than Life” Series
Thursday, December 8
7pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
Sunday, January 8, 2pm
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I AmDirected by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Featuring interviews with Hilton Als, Angela Davis, Fran Lebowitz, Walter Mosley, Sonia Sanchez and Oprah Winfrey, who turned Morrison’s novel “Beloved” into a feature film. Audience discussion following the film will be led by Bill Hart, Professor Emeritus of History, Middlebury College
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MNFF Selects “Larger Than Life” Series
Sunday, January 8
2pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
Sunday, February 5, 2pm
Ted KDirected by Tony Stone
Featuring a tour-de-force performance from Sharlto Copley [as Ted Kaczynski] who portrays the complexity of this unique outsider, raging at the forces of both the inescapable technological society that plague him and his own inner demons. Vermont Premiere. Director Tony Stone will attend and participate in a Q&A session following the screening, moderated by MNFF Artistic Director Jay Craven.
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MNFF Selects “Larger Than Life” Series
Sunday, February 5
2pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
Sunday, March 5, 2pm
GoldaDirected by Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir, Shani Rozanes
Featuring never-before-seen materials, testimonies of supporters and opponents and rare archival footage, Golda tells the story of Golda Meir’s dramatic and eventful premiership – from her surprising rise to power and iconic international stature as
VERMONT PREMIERE
SCREENING INFORMATION
MNFF Selects “Larger Than Life” Series
Sunday, March 5
2pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
Thursday, April 13, 7pm
NavalnyDirected by Daniel Roher
Featuring astonishing and incredibly revealing footage, director Daniel Roher’s enthralling and intimate documentary Navalny unfolds with the pace of a thriller as it follows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in his quest to identify the men who poisoned him in August 2020.
SCREENING INFORMATION
MNFF Selects “Larger Than Life” Series
Thursday, April 13
7pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
About the Series
The popular MNFF Selects monthly screening series returns to Town Hall Theater in Middlebury for the ’22-23 season with a “Larger Than Life” theme, featuring seven films about individuals whose lives and presence genuinely impacted our culture: Maya Angelou, Kurt Vonnegut, Leonard Cohen, Toni Morrison, Ted Kaczynski [The Unabomber], Golda Meir and Yogi Berra. Three of the films will be having their Vermont Premieres at MNFF Selects: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Ted K and Golda.
Passes and Tickets
Series Pass: $90 [7 Film Package]
Advance Tickets: $14
At the Door: $16
Thank You, MNFF Selects ’22-23 Sponsors!
