Starting TODAY Friday - next Thurs (Nov 1) we have a movie that has received critical raves and is likely to receive extensive Oscar attention this winter, THE MASTER. For the weekend, the taut, acclaimed END OF WATCH from the writer of TRAINING DAY, and over the Halloween mid-week, an imaginative and eerie Czech animation (dubbed into English with excellent voice-cast) TOYS IN THE ATTIC....so if Sandy comes calling and trick-or-treat is rained out, we have an indoor option...
See you soon!
-L
Fri 10/26 - Thurs 11/1 THE MASTER (R) 138min 5:30 and 8:15
Fri 10/26 - Mon 10/29 END OF WATCH (R) 109min
Tues 10/30 - Thurs 11/1 TOYS IN THE ATTIC (PG) 74min
Fri Oct 26 - Thurs Nov 1
THE MASTER (R) 138min 5:30 and 8:15
Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman shared the acting prize at the Venice Film Festival for their intense, extraordinary portrayals in this latest work from visionary director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights). Phoenix is Quell, an alcoholic WW2 veteran struggling to figure out his future. Hoffman is Dodd, the charming and charismatic leader of “The Cause,” a nascent, pseudo-religious cult that aims to help its disciples purge past trauma from their former lives to reach salvation, who takes Quell under his wing as an acolyte. Quell becomes his fiercest defender. Amy Adams is Dodd’s wife and truest believer. This enigmatic, transfixing film is one of the highest praised of the fall.
Fri 10/26 - Mon 10/29
END OF WATCH (R) 109min
This visceral, riveting and unexpectedly moving film has a good bit of humor in the squad car banter as two Los Angeles cops travel their beat. Michael Peña and Jake Gyllenhaal, who have great chemistry together and both give excellent performances, play long-time partners and best friends Taylor and Zavala newly assigned to patrolling the darkest corners of LA’s South Central neighborhood. Taylor has a new girlfriend that might be serious (Anna Kendrick) and Zavala’s wife (Natalie Martinez) is soon to give birth. One day they stumble upon a situation that puts both their lives at risk. Written and directed by David Ayer (who wrote Training Day) this is a slice of life story where the cops are the good guys and never know what is going to turn up beyond the next corner.
Tues 10/30 - Thurs 11/1
TOYS IN THE ATTIC (PG) 74min
Macabre and creepy, this story of good versus evil in a magical attic is a stop-motion animation from Czech filmmaker Jirí Barta. Actress Vivian Schilling, producing, directing and writing the English translation, has assembled an excellent voice cast, including herself, Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack and Carey Elwes. They are teddy bear, mechanical mouse and marionette puppet, the loyal friends of Buttercup and all residents of the Western Land of Happy Toys in one corner of the attic; Buttercup has been kidnapped by the despotic Head of State who rules over the Eastern lands of Evil, with a band of sinister minions, insects and rotting vegetables. This isn’t slick and polished like Pixar, but is vividly imaginative and slightly disturbing as a Halloween movie should be.
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