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Check out the latest exclusive engagements and premieres, including the best in new indies, foreign films, documentaries and restored classics, by downloading a PDF of Landmark’s Twin Cities Film Calendar, with all-new programming from December 2 through March 22! |
RENOVATION OF THE UPTOWN THEATRE: Landmark Theatres and Swervo Development have announced plans to completely refurbish and renovate the historic Uptown Theatre adding a variety of new amenities, including an expanded concession stand, full service bar, giant screen, completely new luxury seating and digital projection. The theatre will be closed from February 1 until late Spring 2012. For complete details, read the official press release. |
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An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage in contemporary Iran. Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave Iran to provide better opportunities for her daughter. When her husband Nader (Peyman Moadi) refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father, Simin sues for divorce. But her request fails, so she returns to her parents' home—without her daughter. Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, hoping that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage. Winner of four awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, including the Golden Bear for Best Film. Official Web Site Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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Best Actress nominee Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man, Albert Nobbs, in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. After thirty years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard to build, and she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making. Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Aaron Johnson (Joe) and Brendan Gleeson (Dr. Holloran) join a prestigious, international cast that includes Best Supporting Actress nominee Janet McTeer, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Brenda Fricker and Pauline Collins. Rodrigo Garcia directs from a script that Glenn Close, along with Man Booker prize-winning novelist John Banville and Gabriella Prekop, adapted from a short story by Irish author George Moore. Official Web Site
Writer/producer/actress Glenn Close on a film's 14-year journey to screen Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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| Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Alexander Payne, creator of the Oscar-winning Sideways), The Descendants is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (Best Actor nominee George Clooney), a distracted husband and back-up parent to two girls who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a life-threatening boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land, which was handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries. Co-starring Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Judy Greer and Beau Bridges. Official Web Site |
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The contemporary drama Pariah stars Adepero Oduyeas as Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. A good student at her local high school and with a flair for poetry, Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes boisterous support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura (Pernell Walker), Alike is especially eager to find a girlfriend. At home, her parents' marriage is strained and there is further tension in the household whenever Alike's development becomes a topic of discussion. Pressed by her mother into making the acquaintance of a colleague's daughter, Bina (Aasha Davis), Alike finds Bina to be unexpectedly refreshing to socialize with. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity—sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward. Winner of the Excellence in Cinematography Award (U.S. Dramatic Competition) at the Sundance Film Festival. Written and directed by Dee Rees, based on her award-winning short film of the same name. Official Web Site Chris Hewitt's Pioneer Press review... |
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The bitterly amusing story of two families who become locked in a showdown after their children are involved in a playground squabble, Carnage shines a spotlight on the risible contradictions and grotesque prejudices of four well-heeled American parents. Shot in real time as the four adults meet to settle the dispute, Carnage pits power couple Nancy (Kate Winslet, The Reader) and cell phone-addicted Alan (Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds) against the liberal writer and campaigner Penelope (Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs) and her wholesaler husband, Michael (John C. Reilly, Chicago). Unpredictable and shocking, the film hilariously exposes the hypocrisy lurking behind their polite façade. Briskly-paced, Carnage is a real acting tour-de-force—reminiscent of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but lighter in tone. Directed by Roman Polanski (The Ghost Writer, The Pianist), who co-wrote the screenplay with Yasmina Reza, based on her smash comedy play God of Carnage. Winner of the Leoncino Prize at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. Official Web Site Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carré's classic bestselling thriller. The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th century continues to threaten international relations. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries' espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim's mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus—as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Best Actor nominee Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses. Estranged from his absent wife, Smiley is soon called in to see Undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney), who tells him that he is to be rehired in secret. There is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets, jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley pores over Circus activities past and present, trying to find the mole. Also starring Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Toby Jones, Kathy Burke and Ciarán Hinds. Directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). Official Web Site
Director Tomas Alfredson re-imagines a classic spy thriller Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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Hollywood 1927. Silent movie matinee idol George Valentin (Best Actor nominee Jean Dujardin, the charismatic star of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) is enjoying the good life, although he seems fonder of his faithful dog than of his trophy wife (Penelope Ann Miller). He meets funny, sexy young extra Peppy Miller (Best Actress nominee Bérénice Bejo), a dancer set for a big break, and sparks fly. With the advent of the talkies George's career nosedives, while Peppy's takes off. The Artist is the charming and poignant story of their interlinked destinies—a delightful valentine to the love of cinema, with a tip of the hat to Singin' in the Rain and A Star Is Born. Writer/director Michel Hazanavicius (nominated for both!) daringly shot the film completely in the style of a silent feature, in black and white and without sound (with a few striking exceptions), filmed on location in Hollywood, set to a wonderful original score by Academy Award nominee Ludovic Bource. Co-starring John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, and James Cromwell. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Official Web Site Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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The cities of Zurich and Vienna on the eve of World War I are the setting for a dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery. Drawn from true-life events, A Dangerous Method takes a glimpse into the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender of Shame and Jane Eyre), his mentor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, A History of Violence) and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley, Atonement), the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between them. Into the mix comes Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel, Black Swan), a free-thinker who encourages Jung to cross therapist-patient boundaries. This exploration of sensuality, ambition and deceit sets the scene for the pivotal moment when Jung, Freud and Sabina come together and split apart, forever changing the face of modern thought. Screenplay by Christopher Hampton (Atonement, Dangerous Liaisons), based on his play The Talking Cure. Directed by David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence). Official Web Site
Director David Cronenberg on Freud's strangely modern chair Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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In the early summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) came down from Oxford determined to make his way in the film business. He worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Best Supporting Actor nominee Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Best Actress nominee Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn. This is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life—an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work. Simon Curtis' directorial debut also stars Judi Dench, Julia Ormond and Dominic Cooper. Official Web Site Tom Horgen's Star Tribune review... |
Twin Cities Premiere! Fri & Sat, Feb 3 & 4
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| Down a seedy city street, a young woman is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees the front door slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the vast, eerie auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an odd marionette-like man who will introduce her to six tales of the truly bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees crosses paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep. But as the stories unfold, something strange is happening to the woman. Something irreversible and horrific. Something that awaits its next audience in The Theatre Bizarre. Official Web Site |
Fri & Sat Midnight Movies at the Lagoon Cinema!
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Feb 3 & 4: The Theatre Bizarre, Twin Cities Premiere! Six Twisted Tales! Feb 10 & 11: Father's Day, Twin Cities Premiere! Sons, lock up your fathers! Feb 17 & 18: Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox. Sat, Feb 25: The Rocky Horror Picture Show with live shadow cast Transvestite Soup! |
Wed, Feb 8 at 7:00 & 10:00pm at the Lagoon Cinema!
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| From Jean-Pierre Melville, master storyteller of the French underworld, comes an ethereal tale of intrigue and deceit. Le Cercle Rouge traces the tangled paths of a blue-blooded thief (Alain Delon) who joins forces with an escaped murderer (Gian Maria Volonté) and a former marksman (Yves Montand) to perform a jewel heist. With both an irate mob boss and an incompetent police force in their pursuit, this band of crooks must remain hidden or face vengeful entrapment. John Woo presents for the first time in the U.S. the complete, French language version of Melville's thriller in a newly restored 35mm print. Official Web Site |
Films Exploring the Fine Art of Grand Theft
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Wed, Feb 8: Le Cercle Rouge (1970) at 7:00 and 10:00pm Wed, Feb 15: The Killing (1956) at 7:00 and 9:30pm Wed, Feb 22: Dog Day Afternoon (1975) at 7:00 and 10:00pm |
One Week Only!
Starts Friday, February 10 at the Lagoon Cinema
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| Don't miss this rare opportunity to see all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short and more! Program includes: "Dimanche/Sunday" (Canada), in which every Sunday, it's the same old routine—the train clatters through the village, Grandma will get a visit, and Dad dreams about his toolbox in church; "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" (USA), a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story, inspired in equal measures by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz and a love for books; Pixar's "La Luna" (USA), a timeless coming-of-age fable of a young boy whose Papa and Grandpa take him to work for the very first time, rowing in an old wooden boat far out to sea; "A Morning Stroll" (UK), a whimsical tale in which a New Yorker meets a chicken on his morning walk; and "Wild Life" (Canada), the story of an Englishman who moves to Calgary on the Canadian frontier in 1909, but is singularly unsuited to it. Official Web Site |
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Starts Friday, February 10 at the Lagoon Cinema
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| Don't miss this rare opportunity to see all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Live Action Short! Program includes: "Pentecost" (Ireland), in which Damian, forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish, must either conform to the status quo or give up his passion in life, football; "Raju" (Germany/India), a dramatic tale about a German couple in Kolkata who adopt an Indian orphan, but their child suddenly disappears; "The Shore" (Northern Ireland), the uplifting story of two boyhood best friends—Joe (Ciarán Hinds) and Paddy (Conleth Hill)—divided for 25 years by the tumult of "The Troubles"; "Time Freak" (USA), in which a neurotic inventor creates a time machine, only to get caught up traveling around yesterday; and "Tuba Atlantic" (Norway), in which seventy-year-old Oskar is told that he has only six days left to live, and wants to put things right with his brother who lives in New Jersey. Official Web Site |
Twin Cities Premiere! Fri & Sat, Feb 10 & 11
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| Troma's comic slasher Father's Day, directed by Astron-6 (Adam Brooks and Jeremy Gillespie, with sketch-comedy duo Matthew Kennedy and Conor Sweeney), is a bloody, bizarre and hilarious revenge film that pays homage to the VHS "golden age." An urban legend known as "The Father's Day Killer" begins some years after the demise of serial rapist/murderer Chris Fuchman (Mackenzie Murdock). The story becomes a fire-side cautionary ritual on camping trips, often used by fathers to warn their sons of the dangers of unplanned pregnancy. That deep fear of violation and eventual death waned as the murder and rape of fathers continued to decline all over the world. But those numbers don't remain low, and it would seem that the legend is not yet complete. Ahab (co-director Brooks), a man obsessed with exacting a brutal violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins eager priest John (co-director Kennedy) and hot-headed street hustler Twink (co-director Sweeney) on an epic quest to find and defeat the mythical monster known as The Father's Day Killer. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, February 17 at the Lagoon Cinema
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| Blending dark comedy and delirious Midwestern noir, Thin Ice stars Greg Kinnear as Mickey Prohaska, a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Lea Thompson) and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of spin believes that salesmanship is about selling a story—all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer (Alan Arkin) who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission. But Mickey's attempt to con the old man spins out of control when a nosy, unstable locksmith (Billy Crudup) with a volatile temper dramatically ups the stakes, trapping him in a spiral of danger, deceit and double-crossing. Directed by Jill Sprecher (Thirteen Conversations About One Thing). Official Web Site |
One Week Only!
Starts Friday, February 17 at the Lagoon Cinema
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| Valérie Donzelli's Declaration of War is an exuberant and deeply moving film following a young couple, Romeo (co-writer Jérémie Elkaïm) and Juliette (director/co-writer Donzelli), who must face the ultimate test when they discover their newborn child is very ill. Gathering their friends and family together, they confront this ordeal together as a form of warfare. Donzelli infuses the story with unexpected verve using a host of cinematic techniques, music and heartbreaking performances that results in a film about a contemporary couple who surprises even themselves with their ability to fight not only for the life of their child but for each other. The film will bring tears to your eyes but will dazzle you with its contagious vitality for life. It also establishes Donzelli as one of the most promising new filmmakers of her generation. A massive critical and box office hit in France, the film is the country's official entry to the 2012 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film consideration. Official Web Site |
Fri & Sat, Feb 17 & 18
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| When high school student Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) gets transported into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean created by his inventor friend, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), he meets his future parents and has a tough time getting them back together so that he can be born! Co-starring Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson. |
Wed, Feb 22 at 7:00 & 10:00pm
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| Al Pacino gives one of his greatest performances as a crazy robber who holds bank employees hostage while cops, a media army and his gay lover (Chris Sarandon) wait for him outside. Inspired by a true incident that occurred in New York City. Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay. Directed by Sidney Lumet. |
Friday, February 24 at Midnight at the Lagoon Cinema!
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| The Room is an electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies, starring writer/director Tommy Wiseau as a successful banker with a great respect for—and dedication to—the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa (Juliette Danielle). As the film depicts friendships and relationships in the lives of its five major characters, it raises life's real and most-asked question: "Can you really trust anyone?" A midnight cult sensation, this quirky black comedy has been running for over 6 years in Los Angeles and is ready to take the rest of the country by storm. You'll want to be there for the devastation it will leave in its wake! Official Web Site |
Sat, Feb 25 at Midnight at the Lagoon Cinema!
Featuring live shadow cast Transvestite Soup!
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| The longest-running midnight movie of all time stars Tim Curry as the kinky yet endearing “transsexual from Transylvania” Dr. Frank N. Furter, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as his hapless guests Brad and Janet, Meat Loaf as motorcycle-riding rough trade and author Richard O’Brien as the hunchbacked butler Riff Raff. It’s harmless musical fun—a delightful spoof of Hollywood horror movies and Old Dark House melodramas. All of our engagements feature live casts who perform scenes during the movie, and the audience is always welcome to respond to the on-screen action. The Rocky Horror Picture was the first—and is still the best—interactive movie experience! Official Web Site |
Films to Occupy the Infatuated
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Wed, Mar 7: Fitzcarraldo (1982) at 7:00 and 10:00pm Wed, Mar 14: The Treasure of the Seirra Madre (1948) at 7:00 and 9:45pm Wed, Mar 21: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) at 7:00 and 10:00pm Wed, Mar 28: Apocalypse Now (1979) at 7:00 and 10:00pm |
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