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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 the Shattuck Cinemas Movie Guide, with all-new programming from February 12 through May 13! |
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Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93) re-team for their latest electrifying thriller in Green Zone, a film set in the chaotic early days of the Iraqi War when no one could be trusted and every decision could detonate into unforeseen consequences. During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Hurrying from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission. Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. At this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth. Official Web Site Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
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An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Ajami is a brave, apolitical look at Jews and Arabs in Jaffa's multi-ethnic Ajami neighborhood—a searing debut by Israeli and Palestinian co-directors Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, whose balanced perspective and use of non-professional local actors lend a palpable authenticity to a complex, cross-cultural drama. Shakespearian in its scope and themes—revenge, loyalty, hope and despair—the film draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young Palestinian refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; and a Jewish cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through its unprecedented authenticity and immediacy, Ajami forces us to look at the Middle East conflict through the commonality of the human condition—and the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbors. Official Web Site Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
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Must End Thursday, March 18!
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In 1922 Dr. Albert C. Barnes created The Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, five miles outside of Philadelphia. His astounding collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern art, intended to serve as an educational institution, includes 181 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 59 Matisses, 46 Picassos, 16 Modiglianis, and 7 Van Goghs. Dr. Barnes deliberately built his Foundation away from the city and cultural elite who scorned his collection as "horrible, debased art." But tastes changed, and soon the very people who belittled Barnes wanted access to his collection. When Barnes died in 1951, he left control of his collection to Lincoln University, a small African-American college, with strict instructions that the paintings may never be removed. More than fifty years later, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court in a rancorous, Machiavellian attempt to take the art—recently valued at more than $25 billion—and move it to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Official Web Site Director Don Argott on the passion of Dr. Albert C. Barnes Kenneth Baker's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
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An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last sheepherders to trail their flocks up into Montana’s Beartooth Mountains for summer pasture. Without commentary, this astonishingly beautiful film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. "In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme northwest of the United States. It was a journey of almost 300 kilometers through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges—a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears." —International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam Official Web Site Peter Hartlaub's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
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Roman Polanski directs this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller based on the novel The Ghost by Robert Harris. When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost (Ewan McGregor), agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), his agent assures him it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start—not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang's long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident. The Ghost flies to the East Coast of the United States to work on the project, but the day after he arrives, a former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA—a war crime. The controversy brings reporters and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang is staying with his wife, Ruth (Olivia Williams), and his personal assistant, Amelia (Kim Cattrall). As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA—and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind. Also starring Timothy Hutton, Eli Wallach, Tom Wilkinson and James Belushi. Official Web Site Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
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Condemned to six years in prison, 19-year-old Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), part Arab, part Corsican, cannot read or write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans. Directed and co-written by Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Read My Lips). Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Official Web Site Director Jacques Audiard on the common language of film Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
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Must End Thursday, March 18!
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Prodigal Sons tells the story of three fascinating siblings: filmmaker Kim, a transgender woman; Todd, a gay man; and Marc, their adopted brother who discovers he’s the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. The bond between longtime rivals Marc and Kim, which defies both Kim’s gender and Marc’s pedigree, exists as the fascinating heart of the film, and is orbited by a colorful, articulate cast of characters, including jailhouse chaplains, Montana farmers, intrigued high school classmates, and Orson Welles’ soul-mate Oja Kodar, among others. Carol, the remarkably resilient mother who accepts her children’s surprises with grace and optimism, provides a strong backbone for the family, as well as a clear-eyed entry-point to this drama of Wellesian proportions. All along the way surprising revelations abound: Marc’s innate savant ability to play the piano, Kim’s smooth acceptance from schoolmates and community, and their younger brother Todd’s well-adjusted attitude about being gay. After pulling for this family through its trials and tribulations, we learn that a poignant sense of hope will carry them through. Official Web Site David Wiegand's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
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Must End Thursday, March 18!
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| A love story at its core, The Yellow Handkerchief is about three strangers of two generations who embark on a road trip through post-Hurricane Katrina Louisiana. Brett Hanson (William Hurt), dealing with a painful past, crosses paths with Martine (Kristen Stewart), a troubled teenager, and her new "ride" Gordy (Eddie Redmayne). The trio head out together, each motivated by their own reasons: Brett must decide whether he wants to return to the uncertainty of his life and his ex-wife May (Maria Bello) for whom he longs, Martine yearns to escape her family, and Gordy hopes to get close to Martine. Along the way, relationships forge and change in a myriad of ways, leading to the possibility of second chances at life and love. Directed by Udayan Prasad (My Son the Fanatic). Official Web Site |
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| Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan (Richard Gere) is just one week away from his pension and a fishing cabin in Connecticut. Narcotics officer Sal Procida (Ethan Hawke) has discovered there's no line he won't cross to provide a better life for his long-suffering wife and seven children. And Clarence "Tango" Butler (Don Cheadle) has been undercover so long his loyalties have started to shift from his fellow police officers to his prison buddy Caz (Wesley Snipes), one of Brooklyn's most infamous drug dealers. With personal and work pressures bearing down on them, each man faces daily tests of judgment and honor in one of the world's most difficult jobs. When NYPD's Operation Clean Up targets the notoriously drug-ridden BK housing project, all three officers find themselves swept away by the violence and corruption of Brooklyn's gritty 65th Precinct and its most treacherous criminals. During seven fateful days, Eddie, Sal and Tango find themselves hurtling inextricably toward the same fatal crime scene and a shattering collision with destiny. Also starring Ellen Barkin and Vincent D'Onofrio. From director Antoine Fuqua Training Day. Official Web Site |
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Co-winner of the Freedom of Expression Award from the National Board of Review, Winner of the Special Jury Award at IDFA, and an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, The Most Dangerous Man in America tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, who in 1971 concluded that the war is based on decades of lies, and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times—a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. A riveting story of how this one man’s profound change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America’s newspapers, its president and Supreme Court. With Daniel Ellsberg, Patricia Ellsberg, Tony Russo, Howard Zinn, Hedrick Smith, John Dean and, from the secret White House tapes, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who called Ellsberg “the most dangerous man in America.” Narrated by Ellsberg. Official Web Site Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
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| In 1954, U.S. marshals Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), are summoned to the hospital for the criminally insane on remote and barren Shutter Island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the disappearance of a female murderer. Marshall Daniels is especially keen on cracking the case, for he has personal matters at stake. He suspects rampant unsavory (and illegal) treatment practices at the institution, but then clashes with Dr. John Cawley (Ben Kingsley), who refuses him access to hospital records. As a fierce storm cuts off both communication with and escape to the mainland, and dangerous criminals break loose on the island, Daniels’s grasp of the clues, his memory, his trust in his partner, and his wits begin to unravel. From Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese. Also starring Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Michelle Williams and Max von Sydow. Official Web Site |
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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: French Roast (France), in which an uptight businessman in a fancy Parisian café who is about to pay his check finds out that he has lost his wallet; Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (Ireland), in which a grandmother loses the plot as she tells her version of "Sleeping Beauty" to her terrified granddaughter; The Lady and the Reaper (Spain), in which a sweet old lady who is waiting for death so she can see her beloved husband once again is invited to enter death's domain—if someone doesn't ruin it for her; Academy Award winner Logorama (Argentina), featuring spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, and wild animals rampaging through the city; and A Matter of Loaf and Death (UK), the latest adventure from Nick Park, in which Wallace & Gromit start a new bread baking business. Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that a dozen local bakers have 'disappeared' this year, so he turns sleuth to protect his master and solve the escalating murder mystery. Program also features three bonus shorts: Pixar's Partly Cloudy (USA), Poland's The Kinematograph and Canada's Runaway. Official Web Site |
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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: The Door
(Ireland), about a father who attempts to come to terms with the devastating
affects of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster; Instead of Abracadabra (Sweden),
about a man named Tomas who is a bit too old to still be living at home with
his parents, but his failure to become a magician leaves him with no other
choice. At his father's 60th birthday party Tomas gives him, and all his guests,
a quite bizarre show; Kavi (India/USA), in which a boy in India who wants
to play cricket and go to school is instead forced to work in a brick kiln
as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must either accept
what he's always been told, or fight for a different life even if he's unsure
of the ultimate outcome; Miracle Fish (Australia), in which 8-year-old
Joe has a birthday he will never forget. After friends tease him, he sneaks
off to the sick bay, wishing everyone in the world would go away. He wakes
up to find his dream may have become a reality; and Academy Award winner The New Tenants
(Denmark/USA), in which a prying neighbour, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband
brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta make up the welcome wagon. Amidst
the as-yet-unopened boxes and the hopes for a fresh start for the two men,
it might just be the worst moving day ever. Their new apartment reveals its
terrifying history in a film that is by turns funny, frightening and unexpectedly
romantic. Vincent D'Onofrio and Kevin Corrigan star. Official Web Site |
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Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges stars
as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut
feature film from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down,
hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too
many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet,
Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie
Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician.
As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just
how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart. Co-starring Colin Farrell
and Robert Duvall. Official
Web Site Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
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The Hurt Locker is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military’s unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives doing one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Three members of the Army’s elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and one another as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad—in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear—protect and save—but it’s anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. This thrilling and heart-pounding look at the psychology of bomb technicians and the effects of risk and danger on the human psyche is a fictional tale inspired by real events by journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq. In Iraq, it is soldier vernacular to speak of explosions as sending you to “the hurt locker.” Acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow brings together groundbreaking realistic action and intimate human drama in a landmark film starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty, with cameo appearances by Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly and Guy Pearce. Winner of 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Official
Web Site Director Kathryn Bigelow on the importance of casting the perfect actor |
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After almost fifty years of marriage, Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), the devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and
secretary of Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name
of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his
noble title, his property and even his family in favor of poverty, vegetarianism
and even celibacy. When Sofya then discovers that Tolstoy's trusted disciple,
Chertkov (Paul Giamatti)—whom she despises—may have secretly convinced
her husband to sign a new will, leaving the rights to his iconic novels to
the Russian people rather than his very own family, she is consumed by righteous
outrage. Into this minefield wanders Tolstoy's worshipful new assistant, the
young, gullible Valentin (James McAvoy). In no time, he becomes a pawn, first
of the scheming Chertkov and then of the wounded, vengeful Sofya as each plots
to undermine the other's gains. Complicating Valentin's life even further
is the overwhelming passion he feels for the beautiful, spirited Marsha (Kerry
Condon), a free thinking adherent of Tolstoy's new religion whose unconventional
attitudes about sex and love both compel and confuse him. A tale of two romances,
one beginning, one near its end, The Last Station is a complex, funny,
rich and emotional story about the difficulty of living with love and the
impossibility of living without it. Official
Web Site Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review... |
Starts Friday, March 19 at the Albany Twin
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The most popular European film of 2009, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
is an award-winning mystery thriller based on Stieg Larsson's international
best-selling novel about a disgraced journalist and a troubled young female
computer hacker who investigate the mysterious disappearance of an industrialist's
niece. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering
on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was
never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer
is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced
financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvis) and the tattooed, ruthless
computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to investigate. When the pair
link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost
forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.
But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about
to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. Official
Web Site Director Niels Arden Oplev on making the best possible film |
One Week Only!
Starts Friday, March 19 at the Shattuck Cinemas
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| Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia), who previously filmed Neil Young for Heart of Gold, once again captures Young’s musical and spiritual soul—this time during two shows at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania during the Chrome Dreams II tour. Young surrounds himself with his favorite instruments, played at whim, and a stage set filled with personal icons: a small-scale model of a guitar shop, a red phone and other items. The feeling on the stage is of a favorite place where Young is able to create his music exactly as he wants, supported by long-time touring band friends Ben Keith, Ralph Molina, Rick Rosas, Pegi Young and Anthony "Sweet Pea" Crawford, plus an onstage painter portrayed by Eric Johnson. There are delicately offered acoustic numbers like "Sad Movies" and "Mexico"; mesmerizing electric travelogues into the artist's psyche ("No Hidden Path"); searing, chaotic anthems including "Like a Hurricane" and "Cinnamon Girl"; and rarely performed pieces like "Kansas" and "Ambulance Blues" that provide glimpses of Young's less public persona. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, March 19 at the Shattuck Cinemas
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| The latest film from award-winning Korean director Bong Joon-ho (The Host) is a unique murder mystery about a mother's primal love for her son. Mother is a devoted single parent to her simple-minded twenty-seven-year-old son, Do-joon. Often a source of anxiety to his mother, Do-joon behaves in foolish or simply dangerous ways. One night, while walking home drunk, he encounters a school girl who he follows for a while before she disappears into a dark alley. The next morning, she is found dead in an abandoned building and Do-joon is accused of her murder. An inefficient lawyer and an apathetic police force result in a speedy conviction. His mother refuses to believe her beloved son is guilty and immediately undertakes her own investigation to find the girl’s killer. In her obsessive quest to clear her son’s name, Mother steps into a world of unimaginable chaos and shocking revelations. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, March 19 at the Shattuck Cinemas
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| Émilie Dequenne (Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Winner for Rosetta) is mesmerizing as Jeanne, an aimless girl who spends her time rollerblading, riding the train and (occasionally) looking for work. She lives in the suburbs with her mother (Catherine Deneuve), who hopes to get her daughter a job with her old friend Bleistein (Michel Blanc), now a famous lawyer and Jewish activist. Jeanne is more interested in her handsome new boyfriend Franck (Nicolas Duvauchelle), who soon gets into big trouble. Determined to play the part of an innocent victim and blind to the implications, Jeanne invents a lie that she was attacked on the train by black and Arab youths who mistook her for a Jew. Inspired by one of the most media-blitzed and polarizing events in recent French history. Directed and co-written by André Téchiné (The Witnesses, Wild Reeds). (Fully subtitled) Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, March 19 at the Shattuck Cinemas
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| In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property — with no concern for your comfort or survival. Remy (Jude Law), one of the best organ repo men in the business, suffers a cardiac failure on the job, and awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement — as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart's no longer in his work. When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy's former partner Jake (Forest Whitaker) to track him down. Now that the hunter has become the hunted, Remy joins Beth (Alice Braga), another debtor who teaches him how to vanish from the system. As the chase ensues across a landscape populated by maniacal friends and foes, one man will become a reluctant champion for thousands on the run. Directed by Miguel Sapochnik, based on the novel The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia. Official Web Site |
Fri & Sat Midnight Movies at the Piedmont Theatre!
Plus Selected Titles Sundays at 10:00am!
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Mar 19, 20 & 21*: Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story Mar 26 & 27: Got milk? Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange Apr 2, 3 & 4*: Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park Apr 9 & 10: Ron Perlman in The City of Lost Children Apr 16, 17 & 18*: Anime in English! Howl's Moving Castle Apr 23 & 24: Pam Grier is Coffy Apr 30, May 1 & 2*: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom May 7 & 8: Leonard Nimoy directs Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home May 14, 15 & 16*: Sci-fi comedy classic Ghostbusters May 21, 22 & 23*: Kermit & Miss Piggy in The Muppets Take Manhattan *Also screens Sunday at 10:00am! |
Starts Friday, March 26 at the Shattuck Cinemas
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Greenberg brings actor Ben Stiller together with Academy Award-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) to tell the funny and moving tale of Roger Greenberg (Stiller). Single, fortyish and at a crossroads in his life, he finds himself in Los Angeles, house-sitting for six weeks for his more successful/married-with-children brother. In search of a place to restart his life, Greenberg tries to reconnect with old friends including his former bandmate Ivan (Rhys Ifans). But old friends aren’t necessarily still best friends, and Greenberg soon finds himself spending more and more time with his brother’s personal assistant Florence (Greta Gerwig), an aspiring singer and also something of a lost soul. Despite his best attempts not to be drawn in, Greenberg and Florence manage to forge a connection, and Greenberg realizes he may at last have found a reason to be happy. Official
Web Site Read a brief Q&A with writer/director Noah Baumbach |
One Week Only!
Starts Friday, March 26 at the Shattuck Cinemas
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| In the summer of 1945, with Tokyo under siege by American forces, Japanese Emperor Hirohito remains in seclusion from the world in an underground bunker. Held by his people as a deity, the incarnation of the Sun God, Hirohito is sheltered from the devastation that surrounds him, and waited on hand and foot by his servants. After the razing of Tokyo and bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hirohito finally meets with General MacArthur. And, in August, millions of Japanese citizens hear the voice of their Emperor for the first time as he commands his people to cease all fighting. Acclaimed Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Mother and Son, Alexandra) chronicles the events leading up to Hirohito's monumental speech, the historic renunciation of his divine status and his meetings with General MacArthur, who advises his own President not to declare the Japanese leader a war criminal. Featuring a powerhouse central performance by Issey Ogata (Yi Yi), Sokurov creates an intimate human portrait of the infamous Emperor Hirohito as he faces the unraveling of his own power, and the tragedy that besets his country. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, March 26 at the California Theatre
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| Hot Tub Time Machine follows a group of best friends who've become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can't find the party; Nick's (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) won't leave his basement. After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the men wake up, heads pounding, in the year 1986. This is their chance to kick some past and change their futures — one will find a new love life, one will learn to stand up for himself with the ladies, one will find his mojo, and one will make sure he still exists! Directed by Steve Pink, co-writer of the High Fidelity screenplay. Official Web Site |
Friday & Saturday, March 26 & 27
at Midnight at the Piedmont Theatre!
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| Stanley Kubrick's nightmarish, satiric horror show has lost none of its power to shock. Malcolm McDowell portrays Alex, a Beethoven-loving, head-bashing punk who leads his gang of "droogs" on ultra-violent assaults—until he is captured by authorities and subjected to nasty behavior-modification therapy. Based on Anthony Burgess's novel. Got milk? |
Starts Friday, April 2 at the Albany Twin
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A cinematic tour de force, Vincere is Italian master
Marco Bellocchio's (Good Morning, Night, Fists in the Pocket)
portrait of Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi), and Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno),
the fiery woman who was his secret wife and the mother of his abandoned child.
The closely guarded story of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's secret lover
and son is revealed in fittingly operatic proportions. Thunderstruck by the
young Mussolini's charisma, Dalser gives up everything to help champion his
revolutionary ideas. When he disappears during World War I and later resurfaces
with a new wife, the scorned Dalser and her son are locked away in separate
asylums for more than a decade. But Ida will not disappear without a fight.
The film was a standout selection of the 2009 Cannes, Telluride, Toronto,
New York and AFI film festivals, and received awards for Best Director, Best
Actress and Best Actor at the Chicago International Film Festival. (Fully subtitled) Official
Web Site Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio focuses on the fixation of a woman for a man |
Sat, Apr 10 at Midnight at the Albany Twin!
With Barely Legal LIVE!
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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 |
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