here is the next schedule of films that runs Sept 29 - October 20, 2011.
The final IMPROVISION for this year is coming up October 14th, and BONUS
it is back to Friday night. If you haven't checked out the genius of the
ImprovAcadia troupe, this would be a good opportunity!
Hope you find something that piques your interest on these increasingly
dark autumn days. No times until we know what is playing on our other
screen. Back with you next week and See you soon!
-Lisa and Chris
ps. Would you all be interested in receiving a pdf file of the completed
movie schedule, like what I snail-mail out? I don't want to burden your
inbox, but you might find it helpful....
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Friday Oct 14 IMPROVISION 11pm LAST EDITION OF THE YEAR!
Come check out our occasional, wacky collaboration with the talented
ImprovAcadia crew. 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 much funnier than they were ever
anticipated. Its a totally new show every time. Don't miss out on all
the fun!
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Fri Sept 30 - Mon Oct 3
THE GUARD (R) 96min [partly in Gaelic with subtitles]
Brendon Gleeson and Don Cheadle both give excellent performances in this
entertaining and offbeat buddy-cop comedy. Set in County Galway in rural
Ireland, this fun film follows an unorthodox, small town cop (Gleeson) who
inserts himself into a drug investigation and must join forces with a
straight-laced FBI agent (Cheadle) to take on an international smuggling
gang. The direction is by John Michael McDonagh, brother to the director
of the also fun film, In Bruges.
Tues Oct 4 - Thurs Oct 6
MEEK'S CUTOFF (PG) 104min
Three families travel by covered wagon across the Cascades in search of a
new home or even just some water in American independent filmmaker Kelly
Reichardt's (Wendy and Lucy) newest release. Based on the diaries of
Oregon Trail settlers, this poetic and evocative original follows the
arduous journey as these families follow hired guide Stephen Meek to lead
them across the mountains. When they become lost they are faced with a
decision, to continue following Meek who they know is unreliable or
entrust themselves to a Native American, who they always considered a
natural enemy.
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Fri Oct 7 - Mon Oct 10
MY IDIOT BROTHER (R) 95min
This big-hearted comedy that is true to life stars Paul Rudd as a too
trusting and generous organic farmer whose best intentions with everyone
always seem to lead to chaos. His main goal in life is to be reunited
with his beloved pet dog, lost in a custody battle with his former
girlfriend. When they break up, he also loses his place to live, so heads
to mom's (Shirley Knight), then to each of his sister's (Zooey Deschanel,
Emily Mortimer, and Elizabeth Banks) each of whom have secrets. As he
causes disarray in one household, he moves on to the next. Director Jesse
Peretz (The Chateau) has made a smart and charming film from an honest and
funny script by his sister Eugenia Peretz.
Tues Oct 11 - Thurs Oct 13
SARAH'S KEY (PG-13) 111min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
In Paris, July 1942, ten-year-old Sarah and her family are targeted by the
occupying Nazis and rounded up and imprisoned by the French police.
Before they are taken away, she locks her little brother in a secret
closet, promising to return to free him. In present-day Paris, American
journalist Julia Jarmond (an excellent Kirsten Scott Thomas) has been
commissioned to write an article about the notorious Velodrome d'Hiver
roundup of French Jews by their countrymen. She soon realizes she and her
husband live in an apartment that his family has owned since that summer
in 1942, one once owned by these deported people. Based on the
best-selling detective story by Tatiana de Rosnay, director Gilles
Paquet-Brenner has made a powerful and absorbing film.
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Fri Oct 14 - Mon Oct 17
THE FUTURE (R) 92min
Magical, charming and a little strange describes the second film from
performance artist Miranda July (Me, You and Everyone We Know). Blending
whimsy with deep emotion about growing up, she and Hamish Linklater star
as a middle-aged LA couple, Sophie and Jason, somewhat bored with life and
feeling they should add some responsibility. They decide to adopt a stray
cat they find; this cat, Paw-Paw, is ailing and may only have a few months
to live, one of its selling points. When they discover it could live
longer (even though they won't take possession for 30 days) their lives
are thrown into disarray, and they quit their day jobs; she takes on art
projects, he, volunteer activism and their lives change. This is a movie
that will stay with you long after you leave the cinema.
Tues Oct 18 - Thurs Oct 20
NAMES OF LOVE (R) [in FRENCH with subtitles] 102min
Energetic, young star Sara Forestier won the actress César this year for
her performance in this multi-cultural, star-crossed love story. She
plays free-spirit Baya Benmahmoud, an extroverted liberal who lives by the
old adage, "make love not war" to convert conservative right-wing men to
her left-leaning causes by sleeping with them. Then she meets Arthur
Martin, a middle aged biologist who specializes in avian diseases, but he
is not so easily seduced; this only encourages her further. Michel
Leclerc directs this clever and witty romantic comedy.
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Coming during this schedule on our second screen?
CONTAGION (PG-13) 106min
Director Stephen Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovich) has made an
engrossing, harrowing medical thriller with a top shelf cast. Gwyneth
Paltrow is Patient Zero, the first to die from an easily spread virus that
starts off innocently with slight cold symptoms that within days morphs
into convulsions and death. Matt Damon is her husband, apparently immune.
Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard. Elliot Gould, and
Jennifer Ehle work on the medical side, trying to figure out what is
happening and how to stop an apparent pandemic. Jude Law is a blogger
selling a homeopathic remedy whose writing does not calm the masses. This
is a intelligent, entertaining disaster movie that might make you a
believer in antibacterial soap.
THE DEBT (R) 113min
Helen Mirren and Jennifer Chastain (The Help) play Mossad agent Rachel
Singer in two different eras. A 1997 event celebrating the publication of
a story written by her daughter of her heroic efforts on behalf of Israel
thirty years ago makes her uncomfortable. As she reads aloud, the story
of the 1966 capture by Ms. Singer and her ex-husband Steven (Tom Wilkenson
and Marton Csoka) and the mysterious David (Ciarin Hinds and Sam
Worthington) of a fugitive Nazi-era war criminal masquerading as a
gynecologist in Berlin (Jesper Christensen) becomes clearer. This taut,
riveting thriller from director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) is based
on a well-regarded 1997 Israeli film Ha-Hov.
DRIVE (R) 100min
Ryan Gosling (Crazy, Stupid, Love) shifts gears again to play Driver, the
main character in this contemporary film noir set on the back streets of
Los Angeles. His days are spent as a stunt man for Hollywood pictures,
while in his evenings he moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals.
His cool is shaken a bit when he meets his pretty new neighbor (Carey
Mulligan) who has a young son and a husband in jail. Albert Brooks and
Ron Perlman are two shades of bad guy that cross Driver's path. This
stylishly suspenseful and entertaining film, based on the pulp novel by
James Sallis, won Nicholas Winding Refn the directing prize at this year's
Cannes Festival.
MONEYBALL (PG-13) 133min
This new film, directed by Bennett Miller (Capote) is based on a
best-selling true story by Michael Lewis. Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane,
the general manager of the Oakland A's baseball team in the late 1990's
and the guy who assembles the team. He is forced to reinvent his team on
a tight budget and forms an unlikely partnership with Ivy League grad
Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), creating a specialized analytical computer
program to choose bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of
whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and hopefully will win
games. It is a revolution that challenges old school traditions and puts
Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he is tearing out the heart and
soul of the game. Also starring are Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin
Wright.
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Coming Next Schedule?
Mozart's Sister
The Three Musketeers
Higher Ground
The Ides of March
The Big Year
The Whistleblower
Amigo
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