We are back into the swing, and have been delighted to see so many friendly faces these last two weeks. We were especially impressed by all the walkers who came to movies during last week's blizzards. Thank goodness that this current spate of warm weather has cleared the parking lot of much of the ice and snow.
Here is the info on this last week of the first schedule (Jan 11 - 17), first in brief, then in detail. The next schedule will be on its way to you in a day or so. Happy Thawing.
-Lisa and Chris.
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Fri Jan 11 - Thurs Jan 17 LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (PG-13) 106min 6:00 and 8:15
Fri Jan 11 - Mon Jan 14
Tues Jan 15 - Thurs Jan 17 BLAME IT ON FIDEL (NR) 99min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:00
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Fri 1/11 - Thurs 1/17
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (PG-13) 106min 6:00 and 8:15
Lars is a very nice but terribly introverted young man who lives in the garage of his family home, now occupied by his brother (Paul Schneider) and pregnant sister-in-law (Emily Mortimer). When he announces he is bringing home a girl he met on the internet, they are astonished; when they discover that Bianca, a half Danish, half Brazilian missionary on sabbatical to see the world, is in fact an anatomically correct, life-sized plastic doll, they become rather worried. Lars� doctor (Patricia Clarkson) advises them to play along with his delusion, and the whole population of his rural Wisconsin town is changed forever. This sweet, gentle and respectful comedy, the first film from screenwriter Nancy Oliver, is eccentrically funny and altogether winning.
Fri 1/11 - Mon 1/14
INTO THE WILD (R) 123-150min 5:30 and 8:30
Based on a true story and the best-selling book by Jon Krakauer, writer/director Sean Penn has made an exuberant and moving character study. In 1990, after college graduation, idealist Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch, Lords of Dogtown) rejects his family, abandons his possessions, gives his savings to charity, and hitchhikes around the west, eventually heading to Alaska to get as far away from humanity as possible. He meets grain elevator operator (Vince Vaughn), an aging hippie couple (Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker), and an aging widower (Hal Holbrook). Director of photography Eric Gautier (Motorcycle Diaries) has beautifully filmed his journey, from the South Dakota prairie to the canyons and deserts of the Southwest, to the Sea of Cortez, to the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, to the remote Alaskan wilderness north of Mt Denali.
Tues 1/15 - Thurs 1/17
BLAME IT ON FIDEL (NR) 99min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:00
Full of humor, this endearing film about a nine-year old girl and her younger brother coping with their bourgeois parent�s drastic decision to devote their lives to radical activism is the assured feature debut from documentary filmmaker Julie Gavras (daughter of political filmmaker Costa-Gavras). Set in 1970�s Paris, and filmed from the girl�s perspective, young Anna suddenly must give up her comfortable home, beloved religious studies and devoted Cuban nanny for a cramped apartment full of scruffy revolutionaries deep in discussions about group solidarity and communism, after her Spanish uncle is arrested working against Franco. Like any child, she resists this change, but over the course of the film, she comes to her own beliefs.
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