Happy Valentine's Day...we love you all!
Don't forget that tonight is the special V-Day Improvision with Jen and Larrance of ImprovAcadia and some of their brave, bold, local students who dare to accept the challenge of Improvision. It will be in the romantic comedy genre, but beyond that is anyone's guess! And this winter edition has a more appropriate start time...8pm, which in February is kindof like 11pm in July! This will pre-empt our 8pm screening of Descendants for tonight.
This coming week is packed with films; we are looking forward to the Tournee Festival of French Film co sponsored with College of the Atlantic. If you want to see all the films (each is to be shown once) ask at the box office for a discount pass. Hope you can make time to see one! (I apologize for the crazy font size and spacing....I am not sure why sometimes it comes up wierd....or how to make it be like the rest again without retyping ...get out your magnifying glass, I guess!)
xo
-Lisa
Fri Feb 17 - Thurs Feb 23
WAR HORSE (PG-13) 146min 5:00 and 8:00
This remarkable, heartfelt story of a young man and his horse, a Best Picture Oscar nominee, is an old-fashioned odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. Steven Spielberg directs this emotional adaptation of the 1987 young adult novel turned award-winning stage play with bold and sweeping strokes. In rural England as WW1 is about to begin, young Albert (Jeremy Irvine) acquires his beloved horse when his drunken father foolishly outbids their evil landlord for it at auction. Later she must be sold for rent money and is taken to the battlegrounds of France, but Albert vows to see her again, and as soon as he is old enough, enlists to find his friend.
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG) 104min 5:30 and 7:45
Using two of Belgian comic Hergé’s tomes Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure, director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson have created a classic epic adventure on land and sea and air that is loads of fun. Utilizing a much improved motion capture technique, the film follows Tintin (Jamie Bell) a young reporter who is always accompanied by his trusty terrier Snowy, perpetually intoxicated Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), and bumbling investigators Thomson and Thompson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), as his relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into the clutches of the nefarious Sakharine (Daniel Craig).
TOURNÉES FESTIVAL OF FRENCH FILM A three day festival of French film co-sponsored by College of the Atlantic, with a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture. Each film screens one time. A pass for all six films is available for $30 at the boxoffice.
Tuesday Feb 21
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (NR) 101min [in French with subtitles] 5:30
A rugged and burly homebuilder who takes pride in his work, and devoted family man, becomes romantically attracted to his young son’s lithe and intellectual teacher. Director Stéphane Brisé with Florence Vignon won the César for best adapted screenplay.
INSPECTOR BELLAMY (NR) 110min [in French with subtitles] 7:30
This last film of French New Wave director Claude Chabrol stars Gérard Depardieu as an inspector nearing retirement who is still haunted by a childhood incident with his obnoxious brother and determined to find the answers.
Wednesday Feb 22
NÉNETTE (NR) 70min [in French with subtitles] 5:30
Documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have) has made a captivating study of this enigmatic orangutan and our relationship to her. Born in the jungles of Borneo, she has spent her life as the oldest and most beloved resident of the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
HADEWIJCH (NR) 105min [in French with subtitles] 7:30
Hadewijch, a novice nun, is expelled from her order for being too ardent. She returns to the secular world as Céline, the daughter of a Parisian diplomat; through meeting some rebellious teens, she is invited to join a Koran discussion group and becomes fascinated by the leader’s intense theological debates and his support of jihad. Bruno Dumont’s powerful film explores the relentless pursuit of faith in both Christianity and Islam.
Thursday Feb 23
QUEEN TO PLAY (NR) 96min [in French with subtitles] 5:30
Sandrine Bonnaire and Kevin Kline star in the debut feature of director Caroline Bottaro. She plays a dutiful wife and maid at an exclusive resort who learns to play chess. When her husband will not play with her, she beseeches the reclusive American resident where she cleans to be her partner; their games become increasingly erotically charged.
WHITE MATERIAL (NR) 102min [in French with subtitles] 7:30
Two titans of French cinema, director Claire Denis and star Isabelle Huppert, collaborate in this haunting, enigmatic look at the horrors of colonialism’s legacy. Set In an unnamed African country in the throes of a volatile regime change, Huppert plays a coffee plantation owner blindly determined to continue her business as civil war rages around her.
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