Here is a quickie update on this week's film schedule. Then I will start putting together the details of the next schedule...it runs into MAY! Do you hear a whooshing sound? I do, and it is melting snow.
Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? Perhaps you would like to celebrate it by coming to see this midweek's highly lauded film about an older woman who finds strength and purpose through writing poetry. See details below.
4/8 - 4/14
4/8 - 4/11
4/12 - 4/14
Fri April 8 - Thurs April 14
THE LINCOLN LAWYER (R) 119min 5:30 and 8:00
Matthew McConaughey stars as a scrappy and charismatic LA criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his sedan. After a career defending petty criminals, he unexpectedly lands the job that will solve his financial woes, defending a rich kid (Ryan Phillippe) accused of rape and attempted murder, but what initially appears to be a straightforward case develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation. This gripping new thriller based on the popular best-seller by Michael Connely, is directed by Brad Furman.
Fri April 8 - Mon April 11
BLUE VALENTINE (R) 114min 6:00 and 8:30
This commanding film is a hard-hitting love story about a marriage slowly yet undeniably falling apart. Oscar-nominee Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, Wendy and Lucy) and Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl, Half Nelson) bury themselves in their roles both as the current weary, working couple with a young daughter – he's content, with no ambition beyond free-lance house painting while she feels held back – as well as their characters at the beginning of their relationship when their love was sweet and happy. Co-writer (with improvisational input from his leads) and young Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker Derek Cianfrance fills the intimate story with telling details that make what happens feel absolutely real.
Tues April 12 - Thurs April 14
POETRY (NR) 149min [in KOREAN with subtitles] 5:15 and 8:15
This exceptional film, for which the great Korean actress Yun Jung-hee came out of retirement, explores the emotional setbacks of an older woman and the direction these challenges take her. Winner of the best screenplay prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival for writer-director Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine, Oasis), the story is of a seemingly unremarkable, aging pensioner raising her sullen teenaged grandson, implicated in the death of a schoolmate, who finds strength and purpose through a poetry class she takes at the local cultural center.
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