First I want to apologize to anyone who missed CAIRO TIME on Friday night, when our print got misplaced and didn't arrive in time for our scheduled screenings. I did send out a notice to you all on the email list that afternoon, but the mail program decided it needed "additional administrative attention" before it could be delivered (???!?) yet didn't tell me until the next day, after the film had already arrived. Ahhhh, I love computers!
Anyhow we've all made it to Columbus Day weekend (hurrah!) and here are the films we are going to be screening for you. See you soon!
-Lisa
Fri Oct 8
Fri Oct 8 - Thurs Oct 14
Fri Oct 8 - Mon Oct 11
Tues Oct 12 - Thurs Oct 14
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The season's finale of IMPROVISION, our occasional and wacky collaboration with ImprovAcadia, is coming up on Friday Oct 8th at 11pm. If you haven't been, this is the last time this season to find out what all the excitement is about! We appreciate and have had a blast with the ImprovAcadia crew this summer. Come watch them do that thing they do so well...With the sound turned off, this ever-changing group of up-and-coming comedians improvise the dialogue, music tracks and sound effects to a cheesy, grade-B movie, THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! Their talents make the pictures on the screen way funnier than they were ever anticipated. It's a totally new show every time. If you haven't seen it yet, now's definitely the time. Don't miss out on all the fun.
GET LOW (PG-13) 100min 5:30 and 8:00
Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Bill Murray star in first time feature director (and Short Film Oscar winner) Aaron Schneiders's fictionalized account of a true Southern Gothic story set in Depression-era Tennessee. Duvall is Felix Bush, an elderly loner who has led the life of a crotchety hermit for 40 years, decides he's going to die soon and wants to throw himself a funeral party, while he's still alive to enjoy it. He plans to invite the townsfolk to tell all the stories he knows have been circulating about him for years. Bill Murray plays the funeral director who sees his way out of his debts with this job, and Sissy Spacek is a widow who once, long ago, had a fling with Felix and has been trying to forget him ever since. It's a charming and good-natured film with excellent performances all around.
Fri Oct 8 - Mon Oct 11
GOING THE DISTANCE (R) 97min 6:00 and 8:15
Drew Barrymore shines in this first-rate, quite funny, and rather raunchy romantic comedy about a long-distance relationship. She is grad student Erin, in New York for a summer internship at a newspaper publisher. At a bar one night she meets Garrett (Justin Long), who works a low-level job at a record label; they hit it off and spend a bliss-filled summer together. Unfortunately her school is in San Francisco, and he does have a job in New York, so they decide to stay together, over the phone and via texting and Skype, with an occasional visit when they can afford it. Needless to say, his friends and her sister are not encouraging. This debut feature from documentarian Nanette Burstein, and first time screenwriter Geoff LaTulippe is daring, natural and convincing.
Tues Oct 12 - Thurs Oct 14
THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN (NR) [in FRENCH with subtitles] 110min 6:00 and 8:30
Inspired by a true story, this poignant Cannes Special Jury Prize-winning film from director Mia Hansen-Løve explores the complex emotions of people and how they cope with the circumstances that life has laid out. Grégoire is a charismatic film producer who enjoys constantly juggling the many details of his independent production company. His employees are like family. He also is a devoted husband to Sylvia, and father to three beautiful daughters, and spends loving weekends with them at their country home. However, it becomes apparent that he can no longer keep all the balls in the air, as his family needs him to be more a part of their lives, and the financial situation of his prestigious company is in more dire shape than obstinate Grégoire will admit; everyone pitches in to help, but then calamity strikes.
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