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 Film Calendar, with all-new programming from February 10 through May 10!

Now Playing at the Albany Twin

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 Amy Biancolli's San Francisco Chronicle review...

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas

In the horror drama The Woman in Black, Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a widowed lawyer whose grief has put his career in jeopardy, is sent to a remote village to sort out the affairs of a recently deceased eccentric. But upon his arrival, it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret. Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost...and no one, not even the children, are safe from her vengeance. Also starring Ciarán Hinds. Official Web Site Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review...

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas
Must End Thursday, February 9!

The life story of legendary performer Carol Channing ("Hello Dolly") is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile. Carol Channing: Larger Than Life captures the magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon—both onstage and off...past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era. It is, above all, a look at an inspiring, incomparable and always entertaining American legend. Director/co-writer Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway, Gotta Dance, Some Assembly Required) is a three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and an award-winning director and producer of film and television. The film is co-written and edited by Adam Zucker. Starring Carol Channing, Harry Kullijian, Loni Anderson, Mary Jo Catlett, Marge Champion, Tyne Daly, Phyllis Diller, Betty Garrett, Tippi Hedren, Jerry Herman, Angela Lansbury, Rich Little, Bob Mackie, Jimmy Nederlander Sr., Debbie Reynolds, Chita Rivera, Harvey Sabinson, George Schlatter, Richard Skipper, Lily Tomlin, Tommy Tune, Bruce Vilanch, Barbara Walters and JoAnne Worley! Official Web Site Leba Hertz's San Francisco Chronicle review...

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas

"Dance, dance, or we are lost." Pina Bausch's final words summarize her life and provide the inspiration for acclaimed director Wim Wenders' (Wings of Desire, Buena Vista Social Club) breathtaking tribute to the legendary choreographer. Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal elevated dance into brilliantly subversive new expressive realms, and in this exhilarating film Wenders captures the raw, heart-stopping intensity of the movement and in stunning 3D transforms it into a transcendent cinematic experience. An official selection of the Berlinale, Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals, and now an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, Pina 3D features interviews with and performances by Bausch's beloved original company members, and offers an indelible image of an artist who went the full distance in her uncommonly rich creative life. Official Web Site Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review...

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas

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

Now Playing at the California Theatre

Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) directs the dynamic action-thriller Haywire. Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive. Using her black-ops military training, she devises an ingenious—and dangerous—trap. But when things go haywire, Mallory realizes she'll be killed in the blink of an eye unless she finds a way to turn the tables on her ruthless adversary. Haywire also stars Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton, Michael Douglas and introduces mixed martial arts (MMA) superstar Carano in her demanding lead role, performing her own high-adrenaline stunts. Official Web Site Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review...

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas

An Academy Award nominee for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor (Max Von Sydow), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close tells the story of one young boy's journey from heartbreaking loss to self-discovery, set against the backdrop of the tragic events of September 11. Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a variety of individuals, all survivors in their own way. Ultimately, Oskar's journey ends where it began, but with the solace of that most human experience: community. Directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Reader, The Hours), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close also stars Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, James Gandolfini, Viola Davis and John Goodman. Official Web Site

Now Playing at the Albany Twin

The Iron Lady revisits recent history through the eyes of the leader who shaped it—charting the compelling rise and fall of trail-blazing politician Margaret Thatcher, the controversial former Prime Minister of the UK and the first woman ever elected as head of government in the West. Best Actress nominee Meryl Streep brings Margaret Thatcher to vivid life over a 40-year span, delivering a performance of great authenticity and sensitivity. Combining fact, fiction and poetic flights of imagination into a new breed of biopic, director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) creates a piercing portrait which reveals the many faces of Thatcher: the hard-nosed conservative; the woman who demolished the barriers of gender and class in a male-dominated world; the spirited wife and mother who longed to change her country for the better. Exposing the private life behind the headlines, The Iron Lady is a moving journey into the heart of an extraordinary, complex woman. Jim Broadbent co-stars. Official Web Site

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas

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 Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review...

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas
and Piedmont Theatre

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 Amy Biancolli's San Francisco Chronicle review...

Now Playing at the California Theatre
and Piedmont Theatre

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 Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review...

Now Playing at the California Theatre
and Piedmont Theatre

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

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas

Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Hugo 3D tells the story of an orphan boy (Asa Butterfield) living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl (Chloë Grace Moretz), he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key. Based on Brian Selznick's award winning and imaginative New York Times bestseller The Invention of Hugo Cabret, this magical tale also stars Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lee and Emily Mortimer. Official Web Site

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas

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

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas

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 Mick LaSalle's San Francisco Chronicle review...

Now Playing at the Shattuck Cinemas

Brandon (Michael Fassbender, A Dangerous Method and Jane Eyre) is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan, Drive and An Education) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control. Winner of 3 awards at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, including Best Actor (Fassbender), Shame is an intense drama from award-winning British director Steve McQueen (Hunger). Co-starring Amy Hargreaves, Hannah Ware, James Badge Dale and Nicole Beharie. Official Web Site Amy Biancolli's San Francisco Chronicle review...

One Week Only!
Starts Friday, February 10 at the Shattuck Cinemas

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

One Week Only!
Starts Friday, February 10 at the Shattuck Cinemas

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

Sat, Feb 11 at Midnight at the Albany Twin!
With Barely Legal LIVE!

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

Starts Friday, February 17 at the California Theatre

From the legendary Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Ponyo) comes The Secret World of Arrietty, an animated adventure based on Mary Norton's acclaimed children's book series The Borrowers. Arrietty (voice of Bridgit Mendler), a tiny but tenacious 14-year-old, lives with her parents (voices of Will Arnett and Amy Poehler) in the recesses of a suburban garden home, unbeknownst to the homeowner and her housekeeper (voice of Carol Burnett). Like all little people, Arrietty (AIR-ee-ett-ee) remains hidden from view, except during occasional covert ventures beyond the floorboards to "borrow" scrap supplies like sugar cubes from her human hosts. But when 12-year-old Shawn (voice of David Henrie), a human boy who comes to stay in the home, discovers his mysterious housemate one evening, a secret friendship blossoms. If discovered, their relationship could drive Arrietty's family from the home and straight into danger. In English. Official Web Site

One Week Only!
Starts Friday, February 17 at the Shattuck Cinemas

Academy Award-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Spain's most famous and successful designer, Javier Mariscal, celebrate their passion for the music and culture of Cuba with an epic animated story of love and heartbreak, set against the color and bustle of Havana, New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early '50s. In Chico & Rita, a gifted songwriter and beautiful singer chase their dreams—and each other—across the globe. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite them, but their journey—in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero—brings heartache and torment. With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer Bebo Valdés, Chico & Rita captures a definitive moment in the evolution of jazz music. Features music by legends Thelonious Monk, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie and Freddy Cole (brother of Nat King Cole). An Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature. Includes some mature sexual content. Official Web Site Director Fernando Trueba recounts a love story of movies and music

Starts Friday, February 17 at the Shattuck Cinemas

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

Starts Friday, February 17 at the Shattuck Cinemas
in 3D and 2D!

Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank). In this successor to the worldwide hit Ghost Rider, Johnny is still struggling with his curse as the devil's bounty hunter, hiding out in a remote part of Eastern Europe. But he may risk everything when he is recruited by the leader of a secret sect of rebel monks (Idris Elba) to save a young boy (Fergus Riordan) from the devil. At first, Johnny is reluctant to embrace the power of the Ghost Rider, but it is the only way to protect the boy and possibly rid himself of his curse forever. Official Web Site

Sat, Feb 18 at Midnight at the Piedmont Theatre!

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

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