BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Goings On//goingson.co//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:GoingsOn — Greater Boston — Belmont X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6278d348a96c0738@goingson.co DTSTAMP:20261110T052513Z DTSTART:20261112T230000Z DTEND:20261113T023000Z SUMMARY:Ty Burr's Film Club: Seven Samurai DESCRIPTION:This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa seamlessly weaves phil osophy and entertainment\, delicate human emotions\, and relentless action \, into a rich\, evocative\, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope. LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA 024 65\, USA\, Belmont URL:https://www.goingson.co/greaterboston/belmont/west-newton-cinema/ty-bur rs-film-club-seven-samurai-2026-11-12?utm_source=ics&utm_medium=referral END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7d9336d1d316e136@goingson.co DTSTAMP:20261110T052513Z DTSTART:20261115T180000Z DTEND:20261115T213000Z SUMMARY:Behind The Screen: La Bola Negra DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FILM\nLA BOLA NEGRA\, the bold new film from Spanish writer-directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi\, won the Best Director award at Cannes and the People's Choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Inspired by the surviving pages of an unfinished play by F ederico García Lorca and by Alberto Conejero's award-winning play La pied ra oscura\, the film tells the interconnected stories of three gay men in Spain in 1932\, 1937\, and 2017. Moving from the years before the Spanish Civil War\, through the war itself\, to the present day\, LA BOLA NEGRA is a sweeping\, passionate triptych about desire\, repression\, historical m emory\, and what one generation carries forward to the next.\n\nPANEL DISC USSION FOLLOWS\nOur panel will explore the film's roots in Lorca's work\, its portrayal of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco era\, and how it bri ngs queer history and historical memory to the screen.\n\nCARLOS RAMOS\nMa rgaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Litera ry Studies and Professor of Spanish\, Wellesley College\nCarlos Ramos's te aching and research focus on the literature and cultural history of contem porary Spain. His published work includes Construyendo la modernidad: Escr itura y arquitectura en el Madrid moderno (1918-1937) and Poesía insomne. \n\nWAN SONYA TANG\nAssociate Professor of Hispanic Studies\, Boston Colle ge\nWan Sonya Tang teaches courses on Spanish literature and culture from the nineteenth century onward. She is the author of Specters\, Monsters\, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in 19th-Century Spai n and co-editor of Televising Restoration Spain\, which examines how herit age film and television explore Spain's relationship to modernity in the l ate 1800s and early 1900s.\n\nModerator:\nFERNANDO ROSENBERG\nProfessor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature\, Brandeis University\nFernan do Rosenberg is the author of After Human Rights: Literature\, Visual Arts \, and Film in Latin America\, 1990-2010. LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA 024 65\, USA\, Belmont URL:https://www.goingson.co/greaterboston/belmont/west-newton-cinema/behind -the-screen-la-bola-negra-2026-11-15?utm_source=ics&utm_medium=referral END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:078308d7370860c0@goingson.co DTSTAMP:20261110T052513Z DTSTART:20261118T233000Z DTEND:20261119T013000Z SUMMARY:Riverdogs & The Same River Twice DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FILMS\nIn 1978 Robb Moss filmed a group of friends\, young river guides\, on a 35-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon\, a nd he has kept filming them ever since.\n\nTHE SAME RIVER TWICE (2003\, 78 min.) catches up with five of those friends\, Barry\, Cathy\, Danny\, Jef f and Jim\, twenty years later. Two have served as mayors and one as a cou nty commissioner\, and all five are weighing the free lives they once led against the ones they have built. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.\n\nRIVERDOGS (1982\, 32 min.) is Moss's original record of that summer on the Colorado River\, a lyrical and unselfconscious portrait of y outh and the canyon. RIVERDOGS contains nudity. LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA 024 65\, USA\, Belmont URL:https://www.goingson.co/greaterboston/belmont/west-newton-cinema/riverd ogs-and-the-same-river-twice-2026-11-18?utm_source=ics&utm_medium=referral END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1f3574163b4786b6@goingson.co DTSTAMP:20261110T052513Z DTSTART:20261118T233000Z DTEND:20261119T023000Z SUMMARY:Riverdogs & The Bend in the River DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FILMS\nIn 1978 Robb Moss filmed a group of friends\, young river guides\, on a 35-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon\, a nd he has kept filming them ever since.\n\nRIVERDOGS (1982\, 32 min.) is M oss's original 16mm record of that summer on the Colorado River\, a lyrica l and unselfconscious portrait of youth and the canyon. RIVERDOGS contains nudity.\n\nA short break follows.\n\nTHE BEND IN THE RIVER (2025\, 83 min .) returns to Barry\, Cathy\, Danny\, Jeff and Jim\, now in their seventie s. Moss weaves together footage from across their lives into a portrait of friendship and aging that is often funny and finally very moving. Executi ve produced by Frances McDormand and Joel Coen\, the film premiered at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival.\n\nCONVERSATION WITH THE FILMMAKER FOLLOWS\ nRobb Moss joins Anne Marie Stein to talk about filming the same people ac ross a lifetime\, and what it is like to watch his friends\, and himself\, grow older on screen.\n\nROBB MOSS\nRudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking \, Harvard University\nRobb Moss is a documentary filmmaker who teaches fi lmmaking at Harvard. His films include RIVERDOGS\, THE SAME RIVER TWICE\, which premiered at Sundance\, and SECRECY and CONTAINMENT\, both made with Peter Galison. He has been an advisor at the Sundance Institute Documenta ry Labs since their first year and has served on documentary juries at Sun dance and many other festivals.\n\nModerator:\nANNE MARIE STEIN\nFormer Ex ecutive Director\, Boston Film/Video Foundation\nAnne Marie Stein is a New ton resident who led the Boston Film/Video Foundation from 1988 to 2001 an d co-founded the Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema. LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA 024 65\, USA\, Belmont URL:https://www.goingson.co/greaterboston/belmont/west-newton-cinema/riverd ogs-and-the-bend-in-the-river-2026-11-18?utm_source=ics&utm_medium=referra l END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b1e3ad8490735e7d@goingson.co DTSTAMP:20261110T052513Z DTSTART:20261119T233000Z DTEND:20261120T020000Z SUMMARY:Behind The Screen: Once Upon A Time In Harlem DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FILM\nONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM captures an extraord inary evening in 1972\, when pioneering documentarian William Greaves gath ered surviving luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance at Duke Ellington's Ha rlem townhouse. Over four hours\, artists\, writers\, and intellectuals\, many of whom had not seen one another in fifty years\, reminisced\, argued \, laughed\, and debated their place in a rapidly changing cultural landsc ape. Greaves considered it the most important event he ever filmed. Decade s later\, his son David Greaves\, one of the original camera operators\, r estored the 16mm footage and completed the film\, creating both a vivid ti me capsule and a searching inquiry into one of the most creative periods i n American history.\n\nPANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS\nOur panelists will discus s the Harlem Renaissance and its legacy\, the remarkable figures gathered in Greaves's footage\, and the story of how this film was made and\, fifty years later\, finally completed.\n\nKENDRA FIELD\nAssociate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History\, Tufts University\n Kendra Field is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at Tufts University. She is author of Growing Up with t he Country: Family\, Race\, and Nation after the Civil War and the winner of numerous awards\, including the 2025-26 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation F ellowship at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Field co-founded t he Du Bois Forum\, a retreat for writers\, scholars\, and artists\, and se rves as chief historian for the 10 Million Names Project. She has advised and appeared in historical documentaries including Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" and "Roots: A History Revea led."\n\nKHARY JONES\nProfessor of the Practice\, Theatre\, Dance\, and Pe rformance Studies\, Tufts University\nKhary Jones is Professor of the Prac tice\, Theatre\, Dance\, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. As a writer-director\, his work includes the award-winning documentary Night F ight and the short films Hug\, Three and a Half Thoughts\, and Chrysalis. He has also served on the editorial teams behind the documentary features Where the Pavement Ends\; Black Memorabilia\; Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart\; He Named Me Malala\; Sembene!\; and The World Accordi ng to Dick Cheney.\n\nJESSE MCCARTHY\nJohn L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies\, Harvard University\nJesse McCarthy is the John L. Loeb Associate Professo r of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Stud ies at Harvard University. He is the author of The Blue Period: Black Writ ing in the Early Cold War\; Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? Essays\, which won the 2022 Whiting Award for Non-Fiction\; and the novel The Fugit ivities\, featured on NPR. He is editor of the Norton Library edition of W . E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and the co-editor with Henry Lou is Gates Jr. of The Norton Critical Edition of Jean Toomer's Cane. LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA 024 65\, USA\, Belmont URL:https://www.goingson.co/greaterboston/belmont/west-newton-cinema/behind -the-screen-once-upon-a-time-in-harlem-2026-11-19?utm_source=ics&utm_mediu m=referral END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6e696aa62ac2ecdb@goingson.co DTSTAMP:20261110T052512Z DTSTART:20261120T000000Z DTEND:20261120T010000Z SUMMARY:SciFi Fantasy Adventures DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 19\, 2026 7:00—8:00 PM\nClaflin Local His tory Room\nBelmont Public Library - 336 Concord Ave\n336 Concord Ave\, Bel mont\, MA\, 02478\nJoin us for this new multimedia discussion group! Explo re Science Fiction and Fantasy narratives in print\, film\, and beyond!\n\ nFor this meeting\, we will discuss The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin.\nRegister online between 11/5/2026 9:00 AM and 11/19 /2026 5:00 PM. LOCATION:Belmont Public Library\, 336 Concord Ave\, Belmont\, MA\, 02478\, Belmont URL:https://www.goingson.co/greaterboston/belmont/belmont-public-library/sc ifi-fantasy-adventures-2026-11-19?utm_source=ics&utm_medium=referral END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a707966447edfa68@goingson.co DTSTAMP:20261110T052512Z DTSTART:20261124T233000Z DTEND:20261125T003000Z SUMMARY:Dial M for Movies DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 24\, 2026 6:30—8:30 PM\nWaverley Oaks Meet ing Room -112\nBelmont Public Library - 336 Concord Ave\n336 Concord Ave\, Belmont\, MA\, 02478\nJoin the Library Director Peter Struzziero for a vi ewing of the 1957 classic\, 12 Angry Men\, featuring Henry Fonda.\n Bring yourself\, and we'll supply the snacks! \nThis event is generously spons ored by the Friends of the Belmont Public Library. LOCATION:Belmont Public Library\, 336 Concord Ave\, Belmont\, MA\, 02478\, Belmont URL:https://www.goingson.co/greaterboston/belmont/belmont-public-library/di al-m-for-movies-2026-11-24?utm_source=ics&utm_medium=referral END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR