HUGO will actually screen at 5:30 and 8:00 (not 7:45 as previously
advertised)
My apologies.
-Lisa
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Here is the plan of films for the next few weeks. We have another special
event coming on Jan 29th that I hope you will be able to attend; see the
details below.
Also, we are working on several events in February that we want to let you
know about now. We are making plans for a special winter episode or two
of IMPROVISION, which I will let you know about as soon as we have all the
details ironed out. All you "early to beds" will be glad to know it won't
be at 11pm this time of year! We are also getting ready for OSCAH' NIGHT
2012 which is Sunday Feb 26th. Almost time to dust off those ol' jewels!
The nominations will be announced in the morning of Jan 24th. We will do
our best to screen as many of the nominees as we can before the big night.
Finally our annual collaboration with College of the Atlantic, the
TOURNEE FESTIVAL OF FRENCH FILMS, will be coming up Feb 21 - 23. Save the
dates!
Sunday January 29th EMERSON SCHOOL 8TH GRADE BENEFIT 1:00 – 4:00 Emerson
School Eighth Graders (of which we are the parents of TWO!) are raising
money to be able to take a class trip and have a graduation party in the
spring. Reel Pizza will be hosting a Sunday afternoon matinee featuring
the best animated action adventure ever with an incredible family who
sport classy red suits in one auditorium for the kids (PG 111min starts at
1:30). On the other side, adults please come for some bingo and a silent
auction of gifts and services from local businesses. It is sure to be a
fun time for a good cause!
This is a complete schedule. We have bookings on all films on both
screens, so it has all the showtimes included. I have also included a pdf
of the printed schedule that you can print out. See you soon!
-Lisa
++++++++++++++++++
Friday Jan 20 - 26
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R) 99min 5:30 and 7:45
In an Oscar-worthy performance, Michelle Williams (Meek's Cutoff) is
extraordinary, enchantingly embodying the role of iconic film superstar
Marilyn Monroe in her heyday. Set during the 1956 filming of The Prince
and the Showgirl which famously united her with Sir Laurence Olivier
(Kenneth Branaugh) soon after her marriage to Arthur Miller, the story is
told from the perspective of a young assistant director, Colin Clark,
whose job was as liaison between director/star Olivier and heartthrob
Monroe. His memoirs of his time with these celebrities are the basis for
this feature film debut of London stage director Simon Curtis.
Friday Jan 20 - Mon Jan 23
LIKE CRAZY (PG-13) 89min 6:00 and 8:00
A British visiting student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American
classmate (Anton Yelchin). Becoming inseparable, they embark on a
passionate and life-changing journey, until she violates the terms of her
visa and is returned to England. Immigration issues keep them apart and
they need resilience in carrying out a very long distance relationship
where jealousy and betrayal loom, yet a true connection exists. This
semi-improvised Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner from director Drake
Doremus is a sweet, honest, inventive and irresistible romantic drama.
Tues Jan 24 - Thurs Jan 26
SILENT SOULS (NR) 75min [in Russian with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:00 The
Volga region of West-Central Russia is a land where there are only two
gods: love and water. When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks
his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the
rituals of the Merja culture, whose myths and traditions live on in their
descendants' modern life. The two men, along with two small birds in a
cage, set out on a road trip thousands of miles across the boundless
lands. But as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will
forever part with the body, Miron realizes he wasn't the only one in love
with Tanya… This was the most popular film in last fall's MIFF By-the-Sea
Film Festival.
++++++++++++++++++
Friday Jan 27 - Thursday Feb 2
MI:4 GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13) 133min 5:30 and 8:00
Oscar-winning Pixar director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)
moves from animation to live-action with this fourth installment in the
high-flying, stunt-filled adventure. Tom Cruise is joined by Simon Pegg
(Shaun of the Dead), Paula Patton (Precious) and Jeremy Renner (Hurt
Locker) as agents for the IMF (Impossible Mission Force). This terrific,
exhilarating thriller unflaggingly sustains amazing visual and dramatic
energy as this team, disenfranchised by the government, works to stop the
Russian bad guy (Michael Nyqvist, original Girl with a Dragon Tattoo) from
blowing up a nuclear bomb on the US and bringing on the apocalypse,
because he can.
Friday Jan 27 - Mon Jan 30
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R) 117min [in Spanish with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:30
Provocative Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's darkly hypnotic new film is
bizarre, colorful and unsettling. Based on Thierry Jonquet's French novel
Mygale, it stars Antonio Banderas, in his first film with his breakout
director since 1990's Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, as Dr. Ledgardan unethical
plastic surgeon who, after his beloved wife was fatally burned in a car
crash, has developed an extra-resilient, fire-resistant artificial skin.
Vera (Elena Anaya) is a beautiful woman mysteriously imprisoned in his
house and Marilia (Marisa Paredes) is his lifelong housekeeper who keeps
his secrets too.
Tuesday Jan 31 - Thursday Feb 2
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R) 101min
This powerful, gripping psychological thriller is the feature writing and
directing debut of Sean Durkin, who won the 2011 Sundance prize for
direction. Elizabeth Olsen gives a transfixing performance as Martha, who
has just run away from a controlling cult in rural NY State and its
charismatic leader. She seeks help from her older sister Lucy (Sarah
Paulson) and her husband (Hugh Dancy). Not knowing where she'd been the
past two years, they somewhat reluctantly invite her to stay at their
Connecticut lakeshore house. As Martha tries to reconnect to the normal
world that is totally uncomfortable to her, she fights a paranoia about
being returned to the commune.
++++++++++++++++++
Friday Feb 3 - Thurs Feb 9
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R) 158min 5:00 and 8:00
A disgraced journalist (Daniel Craig) joins forces with a punk, pierced
computer hacker (Rooney Mara) to solve the mystery surrounding the
disappearance of the teenaged niece of a wealthy industrialist
(Christopher Plummer) at his rural island compound many decades earlier,
and finding lots of unsavory behavior. Director David Fincher (Social
Network, Se7en) with screenwriter Steve Zaillian (Moneyball) have
stylishly and faithfully adapted the first volume in Stieg Larsson's
international sensation crime thriller. It would be hard to top the
Swedish language original, but this English language version holds its own
in every way.
Friday Feb 3 - Mon Feb 6
THE WAY (PG-13) 115min [partly in Spanish with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:15
Father and son team up on this thoughtful and offbeat story. Emilio
Estevez directs his father Martin Sheen in this story of travel and
transformation, an adaptation of Jack Hitt's story Off the Road. Sheen
plays an irascible Southern California doctor dad who is called to France
to collect the remains of his estranged son, who died while hiking the 500
mile Camino de Santiago that traverses the Pyrenees and across northern
Spain. Instead of returning home straight away, he impulsively decides
to continue the pilgrimage, honoring his son's desire to complete the
journey, and meets several other dysfunctional pilgrims who all have
reasons for making the trek. It is a moving, beautiful and fun small
film.
Tues Feb 7 - Thurs Feb 9
THE HEDGEHOG (PG-13) 100min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:!5
Precocious eleven year old Paloma is bent on ending it all on her next
birthday. Before then, she needs to complete her latest project, using
her father's old cam-corder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in her
family. Meanwhile, she forges new friendships with Renee, the gruff, but
secretly, surprisingly sweet building concierge, and the taciturn yet
dapper new neighbor Mr. Ozu, which gain her a new look on life. This
debut feature of director Mona Achache is irreverent, witty and magical.
++++++++++++++++++
COMING SOON:
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS
THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN
WAR HORSE
THE DESCENDANTS
YOUNG ADULT
LE HAVRE
THE ARTIST
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
First a reminder that we have begun our weekly Senior Matinees. They will
run through March or so, on Thursdays, with the film usually starting at
1:30 (although if the film is too long, we will have to shift to a 1:00
start). The film for Thursday Jan 12 is THE IDES OF MARCH at 1:30.
And we have a special program this weekend. On Sunday afternoon (Jan
15th) starting at 1:30pm, as part of THE BIG READ, a program of Island
Readers and Writers, we will be hosting a free screening of Ken Burn's
documentary on Mark Twain. Jan Coates, the program director told me
yesterday that over 1100 copies of THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER have been
distributed across the county for this group read. In addition to Reel
Pizza's participation, there are many other events happening over the next
several weeks. check islandreadersandwriters.org for more info.
We will be screening SHERLOCK HOLMES: GAME OF SHADOWS this week, along
with HUGO and SUMMER PASTURE. We weren't able to get a preview trailer
for SUMMER PASTURE, but I added a link to one on the film's page on our
website that you can check out. Looks wonderful.
Here is the week's schedule. Barring complications, I will be sending out
the next "full" schedule shortly.
-Lisa
==================
Friday Jan 13 - Thursday Jan 19
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13) 128 min 6:00 and 8:30
Friday Jan 13 - Monday Jan 16
HUGO (in 2D) (PG) 98min 5:40 and 7:45
Tuesday Jan 17 - Thursday Jan 19
SUMMER PASTURE (NR) 85min [in Tibetan with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:30
==================
Fri Jan 13 - Thurs Jan 19
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13) 128min 6:00 and 8:30
Director Guy Richie and stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law reteam for
another similarly inventive and entertaining foray into Victorian
intrigue. Holmes is in a tizzy because his partner Watson is about to be
married (he cannot imagine why!) Then the Crown Prince of Austria is
found dead; suicide is suspected, but Holmes thinks otherwise, and deduces
that the mastermind is his arch-enemy, the nefarious Professor Moriarty
(Jared Harris). Watson is hijacked from his honeymoon and bedlam ensues.
Fri Jan 13 - Mon Jan 16
HUGO (PG) 98min 5:30 and 7:45
Martin Scorsese brings his unique vision and winning talents to his first
family film, based on Brian Selznick's Caldecott-winning "The Invention of
Hugo Cabret," sharing with this story a love of and appreciation of the
magic of films at the dawn of moviemaking. Wiley orphan Hugo (Asa
Butterfield) lives in the rafters of a 1930s Paris Metro station, winding
the clocks daily while trying to discover the secrets of a broken machine
left to him by his father. But when he is caught stealing needed parts
from a local toy seller (Ben Kingsley), his quest might be over. Sasha
Baron Cohen, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Lee, and Emily Mortimer co-star.
Tues Jan 17 - Thurs Jan 19
SUMMER PASTURE (NR) 85min [in Tibetan with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:30
In the poorest and most remote area of China's Sichuan Province lives a
charming and resilient nomadic family of eastern Tibetan yak herders.
Documentary filmmakers Lynn True, Nelson Walker, and Tsering Perlo have
crafted an accessible and intimate portrait of hardworking Yama, her
illiterate but charming husband Locho, and, following Tibetan Buddhist
tradition, their yet unnamed baby daughter. They continue their
hardscrabble lifestyle while many of their peers have relocated to the
city. This exquisite film chronicles a summer spent in the Zachukha
grasslands while the pressures of modernization create challenges that
threaten to reshape their existence.
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Continuing through Thursday, we have ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG) at 5:30 and
7:45 and TOWER HEIST (PG-13) at 6:00 and 8:15.
On Friday 12/30 we start THE MUPPETS (PG) at 5:30 and 7:45 which plays
through Thursday 1/5, and J EDGAR (R) at 5:45 and 8:30, through Monday
1/2. Tuesday 1/3 through Thursday 1/5 we screen THE MILL AND THE CROSS
(NR) at 6:00 and 8:00.
On Thursday January 5th we will start Senior Matinees up again; the film
on 1/5 will be THE MUPPETS starting at 1:30.
We send out to all of you the very best wishes for a happy and healthy
2012. Cheers!
-Lisa and Chris
Mon Dec 26 - Thurs Dec 29
ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG) 97min 5:30 and 7:45
Aardman Animation, the legendary British studio (Wallace and Gromit,
Flushed Away) puts its own unique spin on the family Christmas genre with
this fresh and funny new film. Arthur (James McAvoy) is the black sheep
son of the current Santa (Jim Broadbent) who runs an ultra-high tech
operation out of the North Pole with his other son (Hugh Laurie) to get
all the presents delivered in one night. When things don't go as they
should, it seems up to Arthur to put things right in this clever and
wonderful for the whole family film.
and
TOWER HEIST (PG-13) 105min 6:00 and 8:15
There won't be a Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) version of the Academy Awards,
but we can see his satisfyingly entertaining and funny send-up of the
Bernie Madoff scandal. Alan Alda plays an amazingly successful investment
banker who lives in the luxury penthouse of a ritzy apartment complex
managed by Josh (Ben Stiller). Josh invests the pension fund of all his
employees (including homeless accountant Matthew Broderick, bellhop
Michael Peña, maid Gabourey Sidibe, and concierge Casey Affleck) with his
profitable tenant. When the FBI (agent Tia Leoni) arrests him and it
becomes apparent that the money is *poof* gone just like that, these
losers enlist the help of a local street criminal (Eddie Murphy) to help
them steal it back.
Fri Dec 30 - Thurs Jan 5
THE MUPPETS (PG) 102min 5:30 and 7:45
Gary (Jason Segal), his girlfriend (Amy Adams), and his brother Walter
(Walter the Muppet) take a vacation to Hollywood where Walter can visit
the Muppet Museum (he's a fan). He discovers the Muppet Theater
disheveled, and learns of a nefarious plan by the Tex Richman (Chris
Cooper) to buy the building and raze it so he can drill for oil. This
cannot be! Walter spearheads a fundraising telethon, convincing Kermit
the Frog to reunite his now far-flung buddies, including Miss Piggy,
Fozzie Bear, Animal, Gonzo and others to raise the millions needed to save
the beloved space. True to its roots, this is silly, slapstick, musical,
innocent felted puppet fun.
Fri Dec 30 - Mon Jan 2
J EDGAR (R) 137min 5:45 and 8:30
Leonardo DiCaprio gives a formidable performance as the nation's top
police officer, a former librarian whose career at the top of the FBI
spanned three wars, eight presidential administrations, and over fifty
years, snooping into the private lives of his enemies to keep them in
fear. Director Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black
(Oscar-winner for Milk) ambitiously and with nuance explore the life of
this controversial figure whose private relationships with his domineering
mother (Judi Dench), his fiercely loyal personal secretary (Naomi Watts),
and his deputy and longtime companion Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer) would
have made him a target of his own investigations were he anyone else.
This is an absorbing portrait of a complex man.
Tues Jan 3 - Thurs Jan 5
THE MILL AND THE CROSS (NR) 92min 6:00 and 8:00
This brilliantly complex and fascinatingly multi-layered dreamscape takes
the viewer directly into the Dutch master Pieter Bruegel the Elder's
iconic painting The Way to Calvary. Bruegel set his image of the
crucifixion in 16th century Flanders during the brutal Spanish
Inquisition, with the Spanish soldiers standing in for the Romans, and
Jesus and Mary just two in a crowd of locals. Polish filmmaker Lech
Majewski worked with art historian Michael Francis Gibson in adapting his
book; it is a detailed view of this particular piece, a glimpse into the
everyday life of rural 1564 Flanders, and an examination of this artist's
process, as part of this spectacular film includes Bruegel (Rutger Hauer)
explaining his methods to his financial patron (Michael York). Charlotte
Rampling plays the artist's muse and is the model for Mary.
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Happy Solstice! We have at long last returned from our travels. Utah was
quite fabulous, Cleveland, not so much; Needless to say we are glad to be
home! We have booked a schedule of films to share with you over the next
few weeks, and are getting ready to reopen this coming Monday. Only a few
more days to go. Can't wait to see everyone and get back into the swing.
For those procrastinators who would still like (or need) gift
certificates, I will be around the office all day Thursday 8am-3pm, Friday
morning 9-12ish, and Saturday morning 9-12ish. If you see my Passat wagon
in the parking lot, I am "IN". Come in the side door (Congo Church side)
and up the stairs to find my office; I would be glad to help you out.
We do have a SPECIAL PROGRAM planned for Sunday afternoon January 15th at
1:30pm. As part of the county-wide THE BIG READ 2012, we will host a free
screening the PBS/Ken Burns documentary "Mark Twain." This dynamic and
engaging film fully presents the life and writings of the great American
writer and humorist. The film includes a stunning collection of
photographs and interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, Russell
Banks, and William Styron. A brief discussion will follow the viewing of
the film.
Below is the brief schedule of films, most with times. Following are all
the films' descriptions. We will be booking the last full week Mon for
Fri, so you will get the outstanding title and times in a future email.
Here's to a great weekend...white Christmas???
See you soon!
-Lisa and Chris and the gang
12/26 - 12/29 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG) 97min 5:30 and 7:45
12/26 - 12/29 TOWER HEIST (PG-13) 105min 6:00 and 8:15
12/30 - 1/5 THE MUPPETS (PG) 102min 5:30 and 7:45
12/30 - 1/2 J EDGAR (R) 137min 5:45 and 8:30
1/3 - 1/5 THE MILL AND THE CROSS (NR) 92min 6:00 and 8:00
1/6 - 1/12 THE IDES OF MARCH (R) 98min 6:00 and 8:15
1/6 - 1/9 THE TWILIGHT SAGA:BREAKING DAWN PT1 (PG-13) 117min 5:30 and 8:00
1/10 - 1/12 MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE (R) 82min [in French with
subtitles] 5:30 and 7:30
1/13 - 1/16 HUGO (PG) 98min
1/17 - 1/19 SUMMER PASTURE (NR) 85min [in Tibetan with subtitles]
Mon Dec 26 - Thurs Dec 29
ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG) 97min 5:30 and 7:45
Aardman Animation, the legendary British studio (Wallace and Gromit,
Flushed Away) puts its own unique spin on the family Christmas genre with
this fresh and funny new film. Arthur (James McAvoy) is the black sheep
son of the current Santa (Jim Broadbent) who runs an ultra-high tech
operation out of the North Pole with his other son (Hugh Laurie) to get
all the presents delivered in one night. When things don't go as they
should, it seems up to Arthur to put things right in this clever and
wonderful for the whole family film.
and
TOWER HEIST (PG-13) 105min 6:00 and 8:15
There won't be a Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) version of the Academy Awards,
but we can see his satisfyingly entertaining and funny send-up of the
Bernie Madoff scandal. Alan Alda plays an amazingly successful investment
banker who lives in the luxury penthouse of a ritzy apartment complex
managed by Josh (Ben Stiller). Josh invests the pension fund of all his
employees (including homeless accountant Matthew Broderick, bellhop
Michael Peña, maid Gabourey Sidibe, and concierge Casey Affleck) with his
profitable tenant. When the FBI (agent Tia Leoni) arrests him and it
becomes apparent that the money is *poof* gone just like that, these
losers enlist the help of a local street criminal (Eddie Murphy) to help
them steal it back.
Fri Dec 30 - Thurs Jan 5
THE MUPPETS (PG) 102min 5:30 and 7:45
Gary (Jason Segal), his girlfriend (Amy Adams), and his brother Walter
(Walter the Muppet) take a vacation to Hollywood where Walter can visit
the Muppet Museum (he's a fan). He discovers the Muppet Theater
disheveled, and learns of a nefarious plan by the Tex Richman (Chris
Cooper) to buy the building and raze it so he can drill for oil. This
cannot be! Walter spearheads a fundraising telethon, convincing Kermit
the Frog to reunite his now far-flung buddies, including Miss Piggy,
Fozzie Bear, Animal, Gonzo and others to raise the millions needed to save
the beloved space. True to its roots, this is silly, slapstick, musical,
innocent felted puppet fun.
Fri Dec 30 - Mon Jan 2
J EDGAR (R) 137min 5:45 and 8:30
Leonardo DiCaprio gives a formidable performance as the nation's top
police officer, a former librarian whose career at the top of the FBI
spanned three wars, eight presidential administrations, and over fifty
years, snooping into the private lives of his enemies to keep them in
fear. Director Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black
(Oscar-winner for Milk) ambitiously and with nuance explore the life of
this controversial figure whose private relationships with his domineering
mother (Judi Dench), his fiercely loyal personal secretary (Naomi Watts),
and his deputy and longtime companion Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer) would
have made him a target of his own investigations were he anyone else.
This is an absorbing portrait of a complex man.
Tues Jan 3 - Thurs Jan 5
THE MILL AND THE CROSS (NR) 92min 6:00 and 8:00
This brilliantly complex and fascinatingly multi-layered dreamscape takes
the viewer directly into the Dutch master Pieter Bruegel the Elder's
iconic painting The Way to Calvary. Bruegel set his image of the
crucifixion in 16th century Flanders during the brutal Spanish
Inquisition, with the Spanish soldiers standing in for the Romans, and
Jesus and Mary just two in a crowd of locals. Polish filmmaker Lech
Majewski worked with art historian Michael Francis Gibson in adapting his
book; it is a detailed view of this particular piece, a glimpse into the
everyday life of rural 1564 Flanders, and an examination of this artist's
process, as part of this spectacular film includes Bruegel (Rutger Hauer)
explaining his methods to his financial patron (Michael York). Charlotte
Rampling plays the artist's muse and is the model for Mary.
Fri Jan 6 - Thurs Jan 12
THE IDES OF MARCH (R) 98min 6:00 and 8:15
This drama of insider politics, with all the backstabbing, betrayals and
intrigue that go along with it, was adapted from the play by Beau
Willimon, who worked on Howard Dean's 2004 campaign. The fourth
directoral effort by George Clooney (Good Night and Good Luck, Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind) is sharp and gripping. Ryan Gosling, in his third
film this year (Drive, Crazy Stupid Love) stars as an ambitious but
idealistic press secretary for a Democratic presidential nominee (Clooney)
in a tight primary race. He gets himself involved in a political scandal
that threatens his candidate's shot at the nomination. Marisa Tomei,
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and Evan Rachel Wood co-star.
Fri Jan 6 - Mon Jan 9
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PT1 (PG-13) 117min 5:30 and 8:00
Director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, Dreamgirls) takes the
reins in this visually lush, deeply romantic, occasionally humorous and
finally horrific adaptation of the first half of the final book of
Stephenie Meyers' uber-popular romance series. Human Bella, vampire
Edward and their family must deal with the chain of consequences brought
by their magical wedding, private, tropical honeymoon, and resulting
tumultuous pregnancy, which also brings on unforeseen and shocking
developments for werewolf Jacob.
Tues Jan 10 - Thurs Jan 12
MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE (R) 82min [in French with subtitles] 5:30
and 7:30
In a small French town, Germain (Gerard Depardieu), a nearly illiterate
man considered to be the village idiot by his friends, takes a walk to the
park one day and happens to sit beside Margueritte (Giselle Casadesus) a
little old lady who is feeding his favorite pigeons and reading excerpts
from her novel aloud. Lured by her passion for life and the magic of
literature from which he has always felt excluded, Germain slowly realizes
that he is smarter that he has ever allowed himself to be. Both their
lives are transformed and take off on new journeys. This is a sweet,
small uplifting gem from French director Jean Becker about chance
encounters and how they can unexpectedly change us.
Fri Jan 13 - Mon Jan 16
HUGO (PG) 98min
Martin Scorsese brings his unique vision and winning talents to his first
family film, based on Brian Selznick's Caldecott-winning "The Invention of
Hugo Cabret," sharing with this story a love of and appreciation of the
magic of films at the dawn of moviemaking. Wiley orphan Hugo (Asa
Butterfield) lives in the rafters of a 1930s Paris Metro station, winding
the clocks daily while trying to discover the secrets of a broken machine
left to him by his father. But when he is caught stealing needed parts
from a local toy seller (Ben Kingsley), his quest might be over. Sasha
Baron Cohen, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Lee, and Emily Mortimer co-star.
Tues Jan 17 - Thurs Jan 19
SUMMER PASTURE (NR) 85min [in Tibetan with subtitles]
In the poorest and most remote area of China's Sichuan Province lives a
charming and resilient nomadic family of eastern Tibetan yak herders.
Documentary filmmakers Lynn True, Nelson Walker, and Tsering Perlo have
crafted an accessible and intimate portrait of hardworking Yama, her
illiterate but charming husband Locho, and, following Tibetan Buddhist
tradition, their yet unnamed baby daughter. They continue their
hardscrabble lifestyle while many of their peers have relocated to the
city. This exquisite film chronicles a summer spent in the Zachukha
grasslands while the pressures of modernization create challenges that
threaten to reshape their existence.
Coming on our second screen?
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13) 128min
Director Guy Richie and stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law reteam for
another similarly inventive and entertaining foray into Victorian
intrigue. Holmes is in a tizzy because his partner Watson is about to be
married (he cannot imagine why!) Then the Crown Prince of Austria is
found dead; suicide is suspected, but Holmes thinks otherwise, and deduces
that the mastermind is his arch-enemy, the nefarious Professor Moriarty
(Jared Harris). Watson is hijacked from his honeymoon and bedlam ensues.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13) 132min
Oscar-winning Pixar director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)
moves from animation to live-action with this fourth installment in the
high-flying, stunt-filled adventure. Tom Cruise is joined by Simon Pegg
(Shaun of the Dead), Paula Patton (Precious) and Jeremy Renner (Hurt
Locker) as agents for the IMF (Impossible Mission Force). This terrific,
exhilarating thriller unflaggingly sustains amazing visual and dramatic
energy as this team, disenfranchised by the government, works to stop the
Russian bad guy (Michael Nyqvist, original Girl with a Dragon Tattoo) from
blowing up a nuclear bomb on the US and bringing on the apocalypse,
because he can.
Coming Soon?
THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN
THE DESCENDANTS
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
LIKE CRAZY
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
THE ARTIST
and many more!
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