Like many film theaters across the world, Jane Pickens Theater has closed its doors temporarily to ensure the health and safety of all during the global pandemic. That doesn't mean the historic art house cinema isn't bringing us an array of films though.
Grab your popcorn and make your way over to the JPT's Virtual Screening Room for a variety of documentaries on-demand.
Here's everything that's showing in their virtual screening room:
MY WONDERFUL WANDA
Available: Monday, April 26 - Thursday, May 6
Length: 111 minutes
Winner of awards at Tribeca and Vancouver, My Wonderful Wanda is a delightful satire of the haves and the have-nots set against the backdrop of a gorgeous lakeside villa in Switzerland. At the story’s center is Wanda (Agnieszka Grochowska) a Polish caretaker who has left her own small children in Poland to look after Josef (André Jung) the stroke-ridden patriarch of the wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor dynasty. Wanda is adept in navigating the tricky family dynamics between the two grown (if still childish) offspring and the elegant if controlling matriarch Elsa (an amazing Marthe Keller), along with the sporadic intervention of animals stuffed or alive. But an unexpected turn of events turns everything upside down.
Virtual Ticket: TBA
LA BOHEME - THE MET: LIVE IN HD
Available: Wednesday, April 21 - Tuesday, April 27
Length: 140 minutes
Puccini’s La Bohème, the passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world’s most popular opera. In this live transmission from 2018, Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production stars soprano Sonya Yoncheva as the fragile Mimì and tenor Michael Fabiano as the poet Rodolfo. Marco Armiliato conducts.
Virtual Ticket: $15
SECRET IMPRESSIONISTS: GREAT ART ON SCREEN
Available: Wednesday, April 28 - Tuesday, May 4
Length: 90 minutes
Secret Impressionists reveals the story of the art revolution sparked by the Impressionist movement of the late 1800s. The art-documentary unveils 50 previously unseen works by Impressionist masters Manet, Caillebotte, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Signac, Sisley, and Morisot.
Virtual Ticket: $10
42ND STREET
Available: Wednesday, May 12 - Tuesday, May 18
Length: 155 minutes
Captured live from the London stage and directed by the original author of the show, Mark Bramble, 42ND STREET is one of Broadway's most classic and beloved tales. Full of crowd-pleasing tap dances, popular musical theatre standards including “Lullaby of Broadway”, “We’re in the Money", “42nd Street” and more, plus show-stopping ensemble production numbers.
Virtual Ticket: $15
VERTICAL LIFE FILM TOUR
Available: Wednesday, May 14 - Tuesday, May 27
Length: 43 minutes
The Vertical Life Film Tour is an all new, climbing, mountaineering, slack line and vertical lifestyle film program, created for worldwide adventure audiences. Created and conceived by the team behind Vertical Life Magazine to celebrate the relaunch of the publication following the Covid-19 hibernation, VLFT will make its North American debut on May 14, 2021.
HERMITAGE: THE POWER OF ART
Available: Wednesday, May 26 - Tuesday, June 1
Genre: Documentary
Length: 90 minutes
A spectacular documentary event tours through St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, a wonderful complex of buildings with the largest collection of paintings in the world, to retrace two and a half centuries. Audiences pass through the magnificent interiors that provided a meeting point for foreign artists, architects and intellectuals creating connections through art and culture.
Virtual Ticket: $10
SUPER FRENCHIE
Available: Friday, June 4 - Thursday, June 17
Genre: Documentary
Length: 77 minutes
Super Frenchie provides an intimate look at the life of professional skier and BASE jumper Matthias Giraud, who stops at nothing to pursue his passion for adventure. The film follows Matthias as he dares ever more dangerous stunts while simultaneously falling in love and starting a family. The story takes a turn when Matthias suffers a catastrophic crash just days before the birth of his first child.
