The Sedona
International Film Festival is proud to partner with Old Town Center for the
Arts to bring movies to Cottonwood!
“Monday Movies on Main”
continues on Monday, Oct. 30 with the Cottonwood premiere of “The Duke” at 7
p.m. at Old Town Center for the Arts.
“The Duke” stars
Academy Award-winners Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent, along with Fionn
Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Goode.
In 1961, Kempton
Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington
from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only)
theft in the Gallery’s history.
Kempton sent ransom
notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government
invested more in care for the elderly — he had long campaigned for pensioners
to receive free television.
What happened next
became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge —
Kempton had spun a web of lies. The only truth was that he was a good man,
determined to change the world and save his marriage — how and why he used the
Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale.
“A perfectly nimble
entertainment about a working-class Englishman who stole a Goya from the
National Gallery. The pairing of Jim Broadbent with Helen Mirren makes ‘The Duke’
a major attraction.” — Guy Lodge, Variety
“All rise for ‘The
Duke’! Lovely, rousing, moving.” — Xan Brooks, The Guardian
“Difficult to resist!
Expertly crafted and highly polished.” — Nicholas Barber, Indiewire
“Jim Broadbent will
charm you senseless.” — Jessica Kang, The Playlist
Old
Town Center for the Arts is located at 633 N. 5th Street (just off
Main) in Cottonwood.