I /could/ blame the heat (but I won't)! Sorry for the delay and hope to
see you soon~
-Lisa
And here you go...
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SPECIAL PROGRAMMING:
Sunday August 14th, we have two specials. We will have the third film in
our SIERRA CLUB SUMMER FILM SERIES, GREENFIRE a new film about
conservationist Aldo Leopold, at a 2pm matinee, and later that evening
another installment of IMPROVISION at 11pm.
SIERRA CLUB SUMMER SERIES #3
GREENFIRE (NR) 72min Sunday 8/14 2pm
Aldo Leopold is considered by many to be the father of wildlife management
and the US wilderness system. After a career in the US Forest Service in
the southwest, he transferred to Wisconsin and worked in ecological
restoration on his family farm, while teaching game management at
University of Wisconsin. A collection of his essays examining humanities
relationship to the natural world, A Sand County Almanac, was published
just after his death, and remains one of the most respected books about
the environment ever written. Led by Leopold's biographer Dr. Curt Meine,
this new film provocatively examines the legendary conservationist's
thinking, renewing his idea of a land ethic for a population facing 21 st
century ecological challenges. Using archival documents and photographs
as well as historical and contemporary footage of the landscapes that
influenced him as well as those he influenced, this film traces his
journey toward the key insight that was the culmination of his life's
work, that we are responsible for the health of our natural world.
IMPROVISION Sunday 8/14 11pm
Improvision is 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 way funnier than they were ever
anticipated. It's a totally new show every time.
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Fri 7/29 - Thurs 8/4
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER PG-13 124min 5:30 and 8:00
In the early days of the Marvel Universe, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans, Star
Trek) volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him
into a Super Soldier. But after a successful transformation, the military
decides he is far too expensive a creation to risk in battle, so he is
given a red, white and blue costume and used as a morale builder in USO
shows during WWII. Eventually he must break away to fight the Nazi menace.
He joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the
evil HYDRA organization, led by the diabolical Red Skull (Hugo Weaving,
LOTR). Directed by Joe Johnson (Hildago, October Sky), this is an
exciting period epic that fully captures patriotic fervor prevalent in the
1940s.
Fri 7/29 - Thurs 8/4
COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG-13) 118min 6:00 and 8:30
Jon Favreau directs Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in an original film
that crosses a classic Western with an alien-invasion movie. In the
Arizona Territory 1873, a stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past,
with only a shackle on his wrist as a clue, stumbles into the desert town
of Absolution, where the town's folk don't do anything unless ordered to
do so by the town's ironfisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). But when the
town is attacked by marauders from the sky, the stranger is their only
hope. Slowly he starts to remember who he is and where he has been, and a
secret he holds might give the town a fighting chance against the alien
forces.
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Fri 8/5 - Thurs 8/11
THE TREE OF LIFE (PG-13) 139min 5:15 and 8:00
Acclaimed director Terrence Malik (The Thin Red Line, The New World)
presents only his fifth feature, winner of the top prize at this year's
Cannes Film Festival. It is an ambitious, transporting, impressionistic
story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s that follows the life journey of
eldest son Jack, through the innocence of childhood to the disillusioned
adult years (Sean Penn) as he tries to reconcile a complicated
relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Through the director's stunning
imagery, the nature of faith and the meaning of life are questioned as he
considers how both nature and grace shape not only our individual lives
but also all life.
Fri 8/5 - Mon 8/8
THE TRIP (R) 112min 6:00 and 8:30
Steve Coogan is one of the funniest guys around. When asked by revered
British Sunday paper, The Observer, to tour the country's finest
restaurants, he envisions a perfect getaway with his girlfriend. But she
backs out and he can't find anyone else to accompany him except his best
buddy, also a comic, Rob Brydon. Director Michael Winterbottom (Tristran
Shandy, 24 Hour Party People) reunites with the pair on a hysterical
odyssey, freestyling with flair, where they drive each other mad with
constant competition while eating a lot of delicious food. This
side-splitting road comedy will have you rolling in the aisles.
Tues 8/9 - Thurs 8/11
SUBMARINE (R) 97 min 6:00 and 8:15
Oliver, resident of Swansea Wales, is 15 and has two goals. One is to
lose his virginity before his next birthday; the other is to save his
parent's marriage. His research leads him to sense that his parent's sex
life has become dormant, and with his marine-biologist father falling
deeper into depression, he also imagines his mother (Sally Hawkins) to be
having an affair with a new age guru neighbor (Paddy Considine). He also
has a crush on the totally unromantic, domineering and pyromaniacal
schoolmate, Jordana Breven. His wry, observant narration is hardly
reliable but very funny. Adapted from Joe Dunthorne's acclaimed novel,
this original debut directed by British comic Richard Ayoade is a
delightfully offbeat and refreshing coming of age story.
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Fri 8/12 - Thurs 8/18
HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) 98min 6:00 and 8:00
Three horrible bosses (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, and Jennifer
Aniston)…that is what three friends (Jason Batemen, Charlie Day and Jason
Sudeikis) have and complain about. They can't quit because they know
there are no other jobs out there. What starts off as an imaginary and
far-fetched premise developed over beers at the pub devolves, with the
help and advice from a terrifying ex-con (Jamie Foxx), into unsavory,
doomed-to-fail and absolutely silly pandemonium. TV and Documentary
director Seth Gordon (King of Kong) gets pitch perfect performances from
his cast in a fun film where the wildly outrageous situations spiral into
increasing chaos.
Fri 8/12 - Mon 8/15
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13) 94min 5:30 and 7:45
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
The City of Lights in three separate eras is the setting for Woody Allen's
latest literate gem, a charming and engaging romantic comedy that muses on
nostalgia. Owen Wilson stars as Gil, a hack screenwriter who is working
on but unsatisfied with his first novel. He and his irritable fiancée
(Rachel McAdams) have travelled to Paris with her parents for a vacation.
While he revels ins the artistic history surrounding them (he yearns to
have lived in the Jazz Age of the 1920s), she has plans to shop. One
night out for a walk alone, he is invited by a costumed American couple in
a stylish old car to a party and the magic begins.
Tues 8/16 - Thurs 8/18
BRIDE FLIGHT (R) 130min [partly in Dutch with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:15
Eager to escape the damp and suffocating atmosphere of post-war Holland,
three young Dutchwomen look to a better life in New Zealand. They meet on
the immigration flight to their new country, where they are to join their
fiancés and marry. During the flight, the three women form a bond of
friendship among themselves, and with Frank, an attractive young man who
wants to set up a winery. On their arrival, all four part ways to start a
new life. Yet their paths continue to cross. An outing that reunites all
four turns into a near. Only 50 years later do they all come together
again, perhaps closer now than ever before. This was a well-received
title in last year's MIFF-by-the-Sea film festival, now in general
release.
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Coming Next Schedule?
THE HELP
CRAZY STUPID LOVE
ANOTHER EARTH
MEEK'S CUTOFF
A BETTER LIFE
REJOICE AND SHOUT
WINNIE THE POOH
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