Tonight (Thursday) is the last night for SEX & THE CITY 2, at 5:30 and 8:30, and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, at 5:15 and 8:15.
Tomorrow night (Fri) we start our summer Late Night events with an installment of IMPROVISION, our fun collaboration with ImprovAcadia where we choose a cheesy grade B movie from Chris's extensive collection, and the talented comics make up their own dialogue, sound effects and musical score, sometimes even songs when the situation arises! They have the amazing ability to make the movie on the screen even funnier than it was originally, and definitely funnier than it was ever intended. Maybe you will be the one to get to spin the Genre Wheel...will they make it be a film noir, a coming-of-age story, a Western? Every show is different, and you won't know unless you show up! The fun all gets started at 11pm; you can get in once the earlier show lets out.
Here is the film schedule for this coming week. We hope to see you soon!
-Lisa and Chris
Fri 6/4 - Thur 6/10
Fri 6/4 - Mon 6/7
Tues 6/8 - Thur 6/10
Fri 6/4 - Thur 6/10
SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:45
Ogre Shrek (Mike Myers) has become a domesticated family man, much to his dismay. Now instead of scaring villagers, he has reluctantly been reduced to autographing pitchforks. While longing for the days when he was a real ogre, he is duped by smooth talking Rumpelstiltskin into signing a pact, and he ends up in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king, and Shrek has never even met Fiona (Cameron Diaz). He must undo all he has done in hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one True Love. Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas return to voice Donkey and Puss-in-Boots.
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Fri 6/4 - Mon 6/7
CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION (PG-13) 114min 6:00 and 8:30
Director James Ivory (Remains of the Day, Room with a View, Howard's End), in his first film since the death of his producing partner Ishmael Merchant, collaborates with his long-time screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and cinematographer Javier Aquirresarobe (The Sea Inside, Talk to Her). Like his others, his new film, based on Peter Cameron's 2002 novel, is a charming, sophisticated, intelligent, and gorgeous drama. Omar is a graduate student whose continuing financial aid depends on him getting published; he lied to his committee that the estate of a Latin American author has agreed to let him write a biography; in fact they rejected him. His girlfriend urges him to travel to Uruguay, unannounced, to plead his case to the family (played by Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourgh) hoping to change their minds; once there, he becomes entwined into a web of secrets, complicated relationships and unexpected romance.
Tues 6/8 - Thur 6/10
NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (NR) 101min [in Farsi with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:15
Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses) secretly filmed this docudrama about music in Iran, based on a screenplay he wrote with his fiancée, journalist Roxana Saberi (who was recently released after a 5 month stint in an Iranian jail for espionage). In Iran, rock music is against the law, as is singing in English, as well as any single female singing. This wonderful small movie tells a story of Negara and Ashkar, two young, bohemian artists who want to sing indie-folk-rock and dream of playing in Europe at a festival, but are unable to make the arrangements legitimately. They connect with Nader, a fast-talking manager who takes them on a revelatory journey through the actual underground music scene of Tehran. Making this clandestinely filmed story landed the crew in jail twice, and won the Un Certain Regarde Special Jury Prize at Cannes
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