HD Screenings & Films 2023-2024 Season
The Society of the Four Arts enriches the Palm Beaches community by screening high-definition programs from cultural partners and curating a longstanding film series. This season, the Four Arts proudly presents:
The Met: Live in HD: View world-class opera transmitted live from New York City. All MET screenings are live unless noted. Run times, intermissions, and casting are subject to change. X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Saturday, November 18 at 1 p.m. Florencia en el Amazonas Saturday, December 9 at 1 p.m. The Magic Flute (2006 encore) Saturday, December 16 at 1 p.m. Nabucco Saturday, January 6 at 1 p.m. Carmen Saturday, January 27 at 1 p.m. Champion (2023 encore) Saturday, March 2 at 1 p.m. La forzo del destino Saturday, March 9 at 12 p.m. Roméo et Juliette Saturday, March 23 at 1 p.m. La Rondine Saturday, April 20 at 1 p.m. Dead Man Walking (encore) Saturday, April 27 at 1 p.m.
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National Theatre Live: Enjoy top-notch drama performed in London. All NTL screenings are previously recorded. The Seagull Saturday, December 2 at 2 p.m. The Crucible Saturday, February 10 at 2 p.m. Othello Sunday, March 10 at 2 p.m. Best of Enemies Saturday, April 6 at 2 p.m.
Exhibition on Screen Series: The criticallyacclaimed Exhibition on Screen series delves into the lives of renowned artists and their work. All EOS screenings are previously recorded. Hopper: An American Love Story Saturday, January 20 at 2 p.m. Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition Saturday, February 3 at 2 p.m. Pissarro: Father of Impressionism Saturday, March 16 at 2 p.m. Canaletto and the Art of Venice Saturday, April 13 at 2 p.m.
Holiday Family-Friendly Screening The Nutcracker Sunday, December 10 at 2 p.m. No charge ■ Reservations required
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Friday Film Series This Four Arts curated series presents entertaining selections, including second-run hidden gems, documentaries, and films which complement the season’s programming. With discussions: New this season, these 4:30 p.m. screenings feature a question-and-answer session with a renowned speaker and a wine reception following the film. Empire of Light Friday, December 1 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. Chasing the Thunder Q&A with producer Katie Carpenter follows Friday, December 8 at 4:30 p.m. Delicious Friday, December 15 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. King Richard Friday, January 5 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. The Outfit Friday, January 12 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. Dark Waters Q&A with Dr. Edie Widder follows Friday, January 19 at 4:30 p.m. Resistance Friday, January 26 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. Fire of Love Q&A with producer Jessica Harrop follows Friday, February 2 at 4:30 p.m. Benediction Friday, February 16 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. She Said Friday, March 1 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. Phantom Thread Friday, March 8 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. The Swimmers Q&A with ICFJ’s Mais Katt follows Friday, March 15 at 4:30 p.m.
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Parallel Mothers Friday, March 22 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. Ophelia Q&A with professor Charles E. Pierce, Jr. follows Friday, March 29 at 4:30 p.m. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Q&A with Asia Society’s Orville Schell follows Friday, April 5 at 4:30 p.m. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom Friday, April 12 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. Rebel in the Rye Friday, April 19 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. Project Paradise documentaries Q&A with select filmmakers follows Friday, April 26 at 4:30 p.m.
All HD screenings and films take place in the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium inside the Esther B. O’Keeffe Building, 102 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach.
TICKETS Metropolitan Opera and National Theatre Live: $30, $25 for Four Arts members, $15 for students with valid ID Exhibition on Screen: $20, $15 for Four Arts members or students Friday Film Series $10 unless noted, no charge for Four Arts members ONLINE Select the program at fourarts.org CALL (561) 655-7226 IN-PERSON CUSTOMER SERVICE Visit the desks in the O’Keeffe or Dixon buildings HD Screenings & Films 2023-2024 Season
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NOVEMBER 2023 MET: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Anthony Davis Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 1 p.m. Approximately 3 hours, 40 minutes with two intermissions Libretto by Thulani Davis, story by Christopher Davis
Photo by Zenith Richards
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential 1986 opera finally arrives at the Met. A cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life.
DECEMBER 2023 FILM: Empire of Light Friday, December 1, 2023 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2022 • R • 1 hour, 55 minutes Starring Olivia Colman Directed by Sam Mendes A cinema manager and her new employee find a sense of belonging and experience the healing power of music, cinema, and community in an 1980s English coastal town.
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NTL: The Seagull Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 2 p.m. 2 hours, 30 minutes with one intermission Written by Anton Chekhov, in a version by Anya Reiss Directed by Jamie Lloyd Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) stars in this retelling of Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness. In an isolated home in the countryside, dreams lie in tatters, hopes are dashed, and hearts broken. With nowhere left to turn, the only option is to turn on each other.
FILM: Chasing the Thunder Friday, December 8, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. only 2018 • Not rated 1 hour, 36 minutes Q&A with producer Katie Carpenter follows A thrilling high seas adventure feature documentary where two marine conservation captains go on a hundred-day chase of the illegal poacher and pirate fishing vessel the Thunder. Producer Katie Carpenter is an Emmy-nominated film maker who focuses on marine conservation.
MET: Florencia en el Amazonas Daniel Catán Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 1 p.m. Approximately 2 hours, 35 minutes with one intermission
Photo by Paola Kudacki
Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform — and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. HD Screenings & Films 2023-2024 Season
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Holiday Screening: The Nutcracker Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 2 p.m. No charge ■ Reservations required 2 hours, 13 minutes with no intermission Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreographed by Helgi Tomasson Conducted by Martin West
Photo by Erik Tomasson
Performed by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
This stunning production of Tchaikovsky’s graceful, immortal ballet sets the tale in the time of the 1915 San Francisco World’s Fair. From the lovely “Waltz of the Flowers” to the perfection of the “Snowflake Waltz,” each scene brings to life beloved characters and cherished music. It’s a dazzling journey, beautifully captured on film and perfect for the holiday season.
FILM: Delicious Friday, December 15, 2023 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2021 • Not rated • 1 hour, 52 minutes In French with English subtitles France 1789 before the Revolution: with the help of a surprising young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his master frees himself from his position as a servant and opens the first ever restaurant.
MET: The Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 1 p.m. Recorded in 2006 1 hour, 50 minutes with no intermission Family-friendly Enjoy a special encore screening of this abridged, English language version of Mozart’s fable featuring spellbinding staging, a kaleidoscope of color, and a stellar cast of Met stars.
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JANUARY 2024 FILM: King Richard Friday, January 5, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2021 • PG-13 2 hours, 24 minutes 2022 Oscar Winner for Best Actor (Will Smith)
Photo by Marty Sohl
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams (Will Smith). Training on Compton, California’s neglected tennis courts — rain or shine — the girls are shaped by their father’s unyielding commitment and their mother’s balanced perspective and keen intuition.
MET: Nabucco Giuseppe Verdi Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 1 p.m. Approximately 3 hours, 5 minutes with one intermission Ancient Babylon comes to life in a staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze stars as the imperious king Nabucco, with soprano Liudmyla Monastyrskaas as his vengeful daughter. HD Screenings & Films 2023-2024 Season
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FILM: The Outfit Friday, January 12, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2022 • R • 1 hour, 45 minutes Starring Mark Rylance A master English tailor in 1930s Chicago who makes beautiful clothes for a family of gangsters must outwit them in a deadly game of murder and deception in order to survive a fateful night.
FILM: Dark Waters Friday, January 19, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. only 2019 • PG-13 • 2 hours, 6 minutes Q&A with Dr. Edie Widder follows A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a history of pollution. Dr. Edie Widder is the co-founder of ORCA (Ocean Research and Conservation Association). Widder is an oceanographer and marine biologist based in Vero Beach.
EOS: Hopper: An American Love Story Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 2 p.m. 1 hour, 30 minutes ■ Previously recorded Directed by Phil Grabsky Edward Hopper’s work is the most recognizable art in America. Painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by his art — but who was he, and how did a struggling illustrator create such a bounty of notable work? This film takes a deep look into Hopper’s art, his life, and his Edward Hopper, detail of Nighthawks, 1942, AIC Chicago relationships.
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FILM: Resistance Friday, January 26, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2020 • R • 2 hours In English, multiple languages with English subtitles The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II. Photo by Paola Kudacki
MET: Carmen Georges Bizet Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 1 p.m. Approximately 3 hours, 45 minutes with one intermission
Dazzling mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina leads a powerhouse quartet of stars in the volatile title role in this vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works.
FEBRUARY 2024 FILM: Fire of Love Friday, February 2, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. only 2022 • PG • 1 hour, 38 minutes Q&A with producer Jessica Harrop follows Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion, unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded. Producer Jessica Harrop inspires passion about science through film. Winner of the Peabody Award for Best Documentary. HD Screenings & Films 2023-2024 Season
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EOS: Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 2 p.m. 1 hour, 30 minutes ■ Previously recorded Directed by David Bickerstaff
Johannes Vermeer, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665, Mauritshuis
NTL: The Crucible Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 2 p.m. 2 hours, 50 minutes with one intermission Written by Arthur Miller Directed by Lyndsey Turner
Photo by Johan Persson
In the spring of 2023, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum opened the largest Vermeer exhibition in history, with loans from across the world bringing together his most famous masterpieces. This highlyreviewed and successful film invites audiences to view the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curator of the show.
A witch hunt is beginning in Miller’s parable of power and its abuse. Raised to be seen but not heard, young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta, and accusation spreads, no one is safe from trial.
FILM: Benediction Friday, February 16, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2021 • PG-13 • 2 hours, 17 minutes Legendary 20th-century war poet Siegfried Sassoon’s life-long quest for salvation through experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships goes unresolved, never realizing it can only come from within.
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MARCH 2024 FILM: She Said Friday, March 1, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2022 • R • 2 hours, 9 minutes
MET: Champion Terence Blanchard Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 1 p.m. Recorded in 2023 3 hours, 20 minutes with one intermission Libretto by Michael Cristofer
Photo by Ken Howard
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped ignite a movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
A young boxer (bassbaritone Ryan Speedo Green) rises from obscurity to become a world champion, but his older self (bass-baritone Eric Owens) is haunted by the ghosts of his past.
FILM: Phantom Thread Friday, March 8, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2017 • R • 2 hours, 10 minutes Daniel Day-Lewis is a dressmaker in 1950s London whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strongwilled woman who becomes his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love. HD Screenings & Films 2023-2024 Season
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MET: La forza del destino Giuseppe Verdi Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 12 p.m. Approximately 4 hours, 20 minutes with two intermissions
NTL: Othello Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2 p.m. 3 hours with one intermission Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Clint Dyer
Photo by Myah Jeffers
Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife features stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as the noble Leonora, one of the repertory’s most tormented — and thrilling — heroines.
Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together in this new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy. But love across racial lines has a cost, and as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide.
FILM: The Swimmers Friday, March 15, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. only No charge ■ Reservations required 2022 • PG-13 ■ 2 hours, 14 minutes Q&A with ICFJ’s Mais Katt follows From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use. Mais Katt has closely covered the Syrian war for 10 years. Her ICFJ fellowship focuses on women as advocates for peace, justice International Center for Journalists and freedom.
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EOS: Pissarro: Father of Impressionism Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 2 p.m. 1 hour, 30 minutes ■ Previously recorded Directed by David Bickerstaff Without Camille Pissarro, there is no Impressionist movement. By the age of 43, he had corralled a group of enthusiastic artists into a new collective with a new name: the Impressionists. This film documents the recent major new exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, the first major Pissarro retrospective in over 40 years. Camille Pissarro, detail of Design for a Fan: The Pea Stakers, 1890, courtesy of Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
FILM: Parallel Mothers Friday, March 22, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2021 • R • 2 hours, 3 minutes In Spanish with English subtitles The story of two mothers who bond in an unexpected way after giving birth the same day. Penélope Cruz earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in this film by Pedro Almodóvar, the seventh time the actress and director have worked together.
MET: Roméo et Juliette Charles Gounod Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 1 p.m. Approximately 3 hours, 30 minutes with one intermission Two singers at the height of their powers — radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim — are the star-crossed lovers in this sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation. HD Screenings & Films 2023-2024 Season
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FILM: Ophelia Friday, March 29, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. only 2018 • PG-13 • 1 hour, 46 minutes Q&A with professor Charles E. Pierce, Jr. follows A reimagining of Hamlet told from Ophelia’s perspective, starring Daisy Ridley (Star Wars). Charles E. Pierce, Jr. received his Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard. He was a Professor at Vassar College for 17 years and Director Emeritus of The Morgan Library and Museum in New York for 20 years.
APRIL 2024 FILM: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Friday, April 5, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. only 2012 • R • 1 hour, 31 minutes Q&A with Asia Society’s Orville Schell follows Artist and activist Ai Weiwei prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into clashes with the Chinese government. A long-time friend of Ai Weiwei, Orville Schell is Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society and former Dean at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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NTL: Best of Enemies Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 2 p.m. 2 hours, 25 minutes with one intermission Written by James Graham Directed Jeremy Herrin Photo by Johan Persson
Inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon, David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play political rivals William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal as they debate on TV the moral landscape of a shattered 1968 America.
FILM: Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom Friday, April 12, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2019 • Not rated • 1 hour, 50 minutes A teacher in Bhutan shirks his duties while planning to go to Australia to be a singer. As a reprimand, he is sent to a glacial Himalayan village called Lunana to complete his service, and begins to be transformed through the amazing spiritual strength of the villagers.
EOS: Canaletto and the Art of Venice Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 2 p.m. 1 hour, 25 minutes ■ Previously recorded Directed by David Bickerstaff No artist better captures the essence and allure of Venice than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. The remarkable group of over 200 paintings, drawings and prints on display offer unparalleled insight into the artistry of Canaletto and his contemporaries, and into the city he became a master at capturing. HD Screenings & Films 2023-2024 Season
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FILM: Rebel in the Rye Friday, April 19, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. 2017 • PG-13 • 1 hour, 46 minutes
MET: La Rondine Giacomo Puccini Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 1 p.m. Approximately 2 hours, 45 minutes with one intermission
Photo by Ken Howard
Biopic of author J.D. Salinger details his relationship with socialite Oona O’Neill, his fighting in World War II and his writing process for The Catcher in the Rye. An all-star cast includes Nicholas Hoult, Zoey Deutch, Hope Davis, Eric Bogosian, Kevin Spacey and Sarah Paulson.
Puccini’s bittersweet love story features soprano Angel Blue opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers the courtesan an alternative to her life of excess.
FILM: Project Paradise documentaries Friday, April 26, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. only Various ■ Not rated A panel discussion, Q&A with the filmmakers and wine reception follow Enjoy a selection of short documentaries on Florida’s precious and varied natural resources, wildlife, and ecosystems, including the Everglades. Filmmakers who have received funding through Project Paradise will share perspectives on Florida’s natural surroundings and why it is so important to protect them.
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Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 1 p.m. Previously recorded Approximately 3 hours, 15 minutes with one intermission Libretto by Terrence McNally Based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean
Jake Heggie’s masterpiece about Sister Helen Prejean’s fight for the soul of a condemned murderer — the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years — arrives at the Met.
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FOUR ARTS FOR EVERYONE COVER PHOTOS: Top, The Metropolitan Opera’s Champion screens at The Four Arts on March 2, 2024. Photo Ken Howard / Met Opera. Bottom, Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan star in She Said, screening at The Four Arts on March 1, 2024.