Hi all.
We have an almost completely booked schedule here, so have included times for as much as I can (all but the unknown last full-week film). Never fear, I will still send out weekly email reminders, although I am not expecting to have any new information until early April. We shall see. See you soon.
-Lisa and Chris
SPECIAL EVENT Saturday March 27 Its a Swap, Sing and be Merry (Mary)
FROCK SWAP and SING-ALONG! to Benefit the
Women's Health Center. Proceeds will go towards their community outreach and education programs. In one theatre there will be a Frock Swap. Bring up to 10 worn once or nearly new clothing items to swap. Drop off begins at 10:00am, doors open to swap at
11:00. Kids will be supervised at the 11:30 movie so serious swapping can happen!! $10.00 entree fee. (if you don't have swappable items come anyway, we will have a system for purchasing). On the other side we will have the entertainment. Dig out your parasols and bonnets so you can come in Costume! Its going to be great fun!
11:30-1:00 $2 per child Select, VERY kid friendly videos. Supervised.
1:30-4:00 $6.00 its a SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS Sing-Along!
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Fri March 26 - Thurs April 1
THE LAST STATION (R) 112min
6:00 and
8:30
Rich, funny and emotional, this historical drama follows two romances a century ago. First is the nearly 50 year union between iconic Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (Oscar Nominee Christopher Plummer) and his devoted wife Countess Sofya (Oscar Nominee Helen Mirren). In the name of a new religion championed by Tolstoy's trusted disciple Chertkov (Paul Giamatti) that espouses poverty, vegetarianism, communal living and celibacy, the cunning acolyte has convinced the old man to change his will giving his estate not to his family, but to the Russian people. This has ejected some conflict into the long-standing relationship. Tolstoy's worshipful new assistant Bulgakov (James McAvoy) is used by both sides of the property rights battle for information, even as his beliefs are overwhelmed by his feelings for another Tolstoyan (Kerry Condon). Director Michael Hoffman has made a complex, dynamic, totally entertaining and unmissable film.
Fri March 26 - Mon March 29
PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: The Lightning Thief (PG) 120min
5:30 and
8:00
Director Chris Columbus (Harry Potter 1 & 2, Mrs. Doubtfire) brings thrilling excitement to this adaptation of the first of Rick Riordan's popular mythology-based adventure series, which predates H. Potter by several years. When dyslexic teen Percy (Logan Lerman) learns his dad is the Greek God Poseidon, and he is a demi-god, he also discovers that Zeus (Sean Bean) has accused him of stealing his lightning bolt. He is taken to a special school for safety where he learns about his new superpowers. When Hades (Steve Coogan) kidnaps his mom (Catherine Keener) to the underworld, he and his friends must rescue her and clear his name.
Tues March 30 - Thurs April 1
FISH TANK (NR) 123min
5:30 and
8:00
Winner of a 2003 Oscar for Short Film, young British director Andrea Arnold has made an excellently crafted and overall superb second feature (following Red Road), that like its predecessor won the Cannes Jury Prize. Her story of 15 year old Mia (terrific new actress Katie Jarvis), a rough, troubled, and angry girl living in the projects with her hard-partying single mom and her bratty younger sister is realistic yet poetic. Mia is heading down a bad path, already kicked out of school and spending her time alone practicing dance moves, when Mom brings home a new, handsome boyfriend (Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds) who both unnerves and interests her. Both the director and her young actress deserve attention.
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Fri April 2 - Thurs April 8
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (PG) 108min [in 2D]
5:30 and
8:00
With his trademark macabre imagination, visual master Tim Burton oddly, brilliantly brings the twisted vision of Lewis Carroll to life. Alice (Mia Wasikowska, Amelia, That Evening Sun), about to be engaged to a dreadful bore, exits the party and follows the White Rabbit back down the hole to Underland, a place she once visited as a child, remembered as a dream. She meets the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the vanishing, smiling Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), a smoking caterpillar (Alan Rickman), and twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Alice's job as fortold in legend is to destroy the Jabberwocky to return power to the benevolent White Queen (Anne Hathaway) from her tyrannical sister the Red Queen (Helene Bonham Carter) and her evil side-kick the Knave of Hearts (Crispin Glover).
Fri April 2 - Mon April 5
DEAR JOHN (PG-13) 109min
6:00 and
8:30
Over spring break, idealistic college girl Savannah (Amanda Seyfried, Mamma Mia!) meets John (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and they fall in love, even as he must return to his deployment and she back to school. Over the years, they maintain a romantic correspondence with consequences neither could have foreseen. Director Lasse Hallström (Cider House Rules) adapts Nicholas Spark's (The Notebook) novel into a comforting, sentimental, romantic melodrama.
Tues April 6 - Thurs April 8
THAT EVENING SUN (R) 105min
6:00 and
8:30
Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild) gives a commanding performance in director Scott Teem's fine feature debut. He plays an aging widower discarded by his lawyer son to a nursing home. Fleeing back to his farm to live out his days in peace, he is astonished to discover at his arrival that his son has leased the farm to his long-time nemesis and his white trash family. Angry with his son, haunted by his wife, he moves into an old shack on the property and, drawing a line in the sand, refuses to leave until the property is returned to him.
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Fri April 9 -- Mon April 12
TOURNÉES FESTIVAL OF FRENCH FILM (NR) [in French with subtitles]
The Tournées Festival was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC) through a grant awarded to the College of the Atlantic. Tickets are $6 each or $25 for a pass for all five films. COA students free (*must show ID).
-THE ROMANCE OF ASTREA AND CELADON 106min
Sat 9:00; Sun 6:45.
The final film from New Wave veteran Eric Rohmer; an exquisite, enthralling, thoroughly cinematic exploration of love, freedom, and honor set in idyllic French pastures, where romance grows like roses on a vine.
-ELDORADO 80min
Fri 7:45; Sun 5:00.
When gruff, unsuspecting Belgian car dealer Yvan comes back from work one evening, his home has been ransacked and a series of clues indicate that the burglar is still on the premises… written and directed with a wonderfully modern, absurdist sense of humor by its star actor.
-A GIRL CUT IN TWO 110min
Sat 6:45; Mon 5:30.
A playful, sexy triangle that turns darkly foreboding and dangerous, until it builds to a fever pitch with disastrous and melodramatic results.
-FEAR(S) OF THE DARK 80min
Sat 5:00; Mon 7:45
Six leading graphic artists and cartoonists turn their personal terrors into reality in this nightmarish animated anthology.
-THE BEACHES OF AGNES 110min
Fri 5:30; Sun 9:00.
On the eve of her 80th birthday, Agnès Varda, often referred to as "the godmother of the French New Wave," decided to make this lively, autobiographical film, guiding us through her extraordinary 55-year career.
FRIDAY 4/9
5:30 -- The Beaches of Agnes (110 min.)
7:45 -- Eldorado (80 min.)
SATURDAY 4/10
5:00 -- Fear(s) of the Dark (80 min.)
6:45 -- A Girl Cut in Two (110 min.)
9:00 -- Romance of Astrea & Celadon (106 min.)
SUNDAY 4/11
5:00 -- Eldorado (80 min.)
6:45 -- Romance of Astrea & Celadon (106 min.)
9:00 -- The Beaches of Agnes (110 min.)
MONDAY 4/12
5:30 -- A Girl Cut in Two (110 min.)
7:45 -- Fear(s) of the Dark (80 min.)
Tues April 13 - Thurs April 15
TREELESS MOUNTAIN (NR) 89min [in KOREAN with subtitles]
5:30 and
7:30
In Korean-born, Brooklyn-based director So Yong Kim's beautiful, evocative and thought-provoking second feature, two young girls are taken by their mother to live with their lazy Big Aunt while she goes to find their absent father. Promising to return when their piggy bank is full, they are confused and angry when she doesn't. Eventually Big Aunt can no longer cope, taking them to their grandparent's farm where against the grandfather's wishes, the grandmother takes them in and they come to learn the importance of family bonds.
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COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
GREEN ZONE (R) 115min
Inspired by the non-fiction book
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (LA Confidential), director Paul Greengrass (Bourne Supremacy, Bloody Sunday), and star Matt Damon (Invictus) have made an entertaining, action-packed fictional thriller that recreates the chaos that was central Iraq in 2003, just after the fall of Saddam Hussein as our troops were looking for the weapons of mass destruction that the government claimed was the reason to go to war. Damon plays a Chief Warrant Officer who becomes suspicious that the intelligence has been falsified as they fight lethal battles over empty storehouses. Brandon Gleeson is a CIA op who sees the chaos coming; Greg Kinnear is the crony who is running the show.
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COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
How to Train Your Dragon
Ghost Writer
Ajami
The White Ribbon
Hot Tub Time Machine
The Secret of Kells
The Prophet
The Runaways
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