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In this quirky dark comedy inspired by a real life story you will hardly
believe is actually true, astonishing revelations about a top-secret wing
of the U.S. military come to light when a reporter encounters an enigmatic
Special Forces operator on a mind-boggling mission. Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan
McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady
(George Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental
U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the
way wars are fought. A legion of "Warrior Monks" with unparalleled
psychic powers can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and
even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program's founder, Bill
Django (Jeff Bridges), has gone missing and Cassady's mission is to find him.
Intrigued by his new acquaintance's far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides
to accompany him on the search. When the pair tracks Django to a clandestine
training camp run by renegade psychic Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey), the reporter
is trapped in the middle of a grudge match between the forces of Django's
New Earth Army and Hooper's personal militia of super soldiers. An eye-opening
and often hilarious exploration of the government's attempts to harness paranormal
abilities to combat its enemies, inspired by Jon Ronson's non-fiction bestseller
of the same name. Official
Web Site Moira Macdonald's Seattle Times review... |
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Now Playing at the Egyptian Theatre
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An Education is the story of a teenage girl's coming-of-age set in
1961 London, a city caught between the drab, post-war 1950s and the glamorous,
more liberated decade to come. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) stands on the brink
of becoming a woman: a brilliantly witty and attractive 16-year-old whose
suburban life is about to be blown apart by the utterly unsuitable 30-something
David (Peter Sarsgaard). Urbane and witty, David manages to charm her conservative
parents Jack (Alfred Molina) and Marjorie (Cara Seymour). David introduces
Jenny to a glittering new world of classical concerts and late-night suppers
with his attractive friend and business partner, Danny (Dominic Cooper) and
Danny's girlfriend, the beautiful but vacuous Helen (Rosamund Pike). Just
as Jenny's family's long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into
Oxford seems within reach, Jenny is tempted by another kind of life. Written
by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity) and directed by Lone Scherfig
(Italian for Beginners). Official Web Site Moira Macdonald's Seattle Times review... |
Now Playing at the Varsity Theatre
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How far would you travel to heal someone you love? An intensely personal
yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple
and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in
a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing. When two-year-old
Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson, a writer and former horse
trainer, and his wife Kristin Neff, a psychology professor, sought the best
possible medical care for their son-but traditional therapies had little effect.
Then they discovered that Rowan has a profound affinity for animals—particularly
horses—and the family set off on a quest for a possible cure. The
Horse Boy is part travel adventure, part insight into shamanic tradition
and part intimate look at the autistic mind. In telling one family's extraordinary
story, the film gives voice to the thousands who display amazing courage and
creativity everyday in the battle against this mysterious and heartbreaking
epidemic. Produced by Rupert Isaacson and directed by Michel Orion Scott.
Official Web Site The director and producer/author discuss their spiritual journey Jeannette Catsoulis's Seattle Times review... |
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The award-winning drama Skin tells one of the most unusual and moving true stories to
emerge from apartheid South Africa. Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo, The Secret
Life of Bees) is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners (Sam
Neill, Alice Krige) who are unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are
rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her
up as their 'white' little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out
of white society. The film follows Sandra's thirty-year journey from rejection
to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her
place in a changing world. Official
Web Site Ted Fry's Seattle Times review... |
Now Playing at the Neptune Theatre in 3D!
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Disney's A Christmas Carol, a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned
by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back
to the Future, The Polar Express), captures the fantastical essence of
the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event. Ebenezer
Scrooge (Jim Carrey) begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt,
barking at his faithful clerk (Gary Oldman) and his cheery nephew (Colin Firth).
But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on
an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face,
he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late. Also
starring Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes and Bob Hoskins. Official Web Site Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review... |
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| Structured unlike any film before it, The Fourth Kind is a provocative thriller set in modern-day Nome, Alaska, where—mysteriously since the 1960s—a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Here in this remote region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented. Using never-before-seen archival footage that is integrated into the film, The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of multiple witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by alien figures all share disturbingly identical details, the validity of which is investigated throughout the film. Co-starring Elias Koteas and Will Patton. Official Web Site |
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| What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars...but simultaneously take the life of someone you don't know? Would you do it? And what would be the consequences? The year is 1976. Norma Lewis (Cameron Diaz) is a teacher at a private high school and her husband, Arthur (James Marsden), is an engineer working at NASA. They are, by all accounts, an average couple living a normal life in the suburbs with their young son...until a mysterious man with a horribly disfigured face (Frank Langella) appears on their doorstep and presents Norma with a life-altering proposition: the box. With only 24 hours to make their choice, Norma and Arthur face an impossible moral dilemma. What they don't realize is that no matter what they decide, terrifying consequences will have already been set in motion. They soon discover that the ramifications of this decision are beyond their control and extend far beyond their own fortune and fate. Written and directed by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko). Official Web Site |
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| Eliza Welch (Uma Thurman) is like any other mom with two kids, a loving but absent-minded husband (Anthony Edwards), and her own mom-blog ("The Bjorn Identity")—yet she's having a day that would challenge even the toughest multi-tasker. Eliza has to throw her daughter's 6th birthday party while a movie crew takes over her block, chase her tireless two-year-old son, navigate playground politics, walk an incontinent dog, juggle a new career opportunity, and realize what is truly valuable in her life...all in one day. Motherhood is a comedy that embraces the joys and heartache of female parenthood. Sometimes hilarious but always touching in its discovery of what one woman loses and gains in choosing to be a mother. Co-starring Minnie Driver. Written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann (Diggers, A Good Baby). Official Web Site |
Now Playing at the Varsity Theatre
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A grieving couple retreat to 'Eden,' their isolated cabin in the woods, where
they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature
takes its course and things go from bad to worse… Willem Dafoe and Charlotte
Gainsbourg (winner of the Best Actress Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival)
give brave, outstanding performances in the new provocation from writer/director
Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville). Antichrist
is a totally uncompromising psychological horror film conceived and made while
the director was experiencing emotional challenges in his own life. Reviewing
the intense and controversial film at its Cannes premiere, Roger Ebert called
it "powerfully made" and continued: "The performances by Willem
Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are heroic and fearless…Von Trier's visual
command is striking…And if you can think beyond what he shows to what
he implies, its depths are frightening…Von Trier has reached me and shaken
me." Official
Web Site Brian Zitzelman's Seattle Movie Examiner review... |
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Michael Jackson's This Is It offers Jackson fans and music lovers
worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed,
created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place
in London's O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June 2009,
the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson
and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring
Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given
a privileged and private look at Jackson as he has never been seen before.
In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson's This Is It captures the
singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at
work as he creates and perfects his final show. Directed by Kenny Ortega,
who was both Michael Jackson's creative partner and the director of the stage
show. Official Web
Site Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review... |
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| An extraordinary life of adventure, celebrity and continuing mystery comes to light in Amelia, a vast, thrilling account of legendary aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (two time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank). After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart—the legendary "goddess of light," known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own, outspoken woman never changed. She was an inspiration to people everywhere, from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Cherry Jones) to the men closest to her heart: her husband, promoter and publishing magnate George P. Putnam (Richard Gere), and her long time friend and lover, pilot Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). In the summer of 1937, Amelia set off on her most daunting mission yet: a solo flight around the world that she and George both anxiously foresaw as destined, whatever the outcome, to become one of the most talked-about journeys in history. Directed by Mira Nair (The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding). Official Web Site |
Now Playing at the Varsity Theatre
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| Set in 1960s and 1970s England, The Damned United tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44-day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football, Leeds United. Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie (Colm Meaney), and on the back of their most successful period ever as a football club, Leeds was perceived by many to represent a new aggressive and cynical style of football—an anathema to the principled yet flamboyant Brian Clough (Michael Sheen, Frost/Nixon), who had achieved astonishing success as manager of Hartlepool and Derby County, where he built teams in his own vision with trusty lieutenant Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall). Taking the Leeds job without Taylor by his side, with a changing room full of what in his mind were still Don's boys, would lead to an unheralded examination of Clough's belligerence and brilliance over 44 days. Official Web Site |
Now Playing at the Harvard Exit Theatre
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A little girl who is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the heart of
France, who waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come for her…
A cabaret performer with a weak voice who sings to an audience of drunken
soldiers… A humble seamstress, who stitches hems at the back of a provincial
tailor's shop… A young, skinny courtesan, to whom protector Étienne
Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde) offers a safe haven, amongst the idle and
decadent… A woman in love who knows she will never be anyone’s wife,
refusing marriage even to Arthur 'Boy' Capel (Alessandro Nivola), the man
who returned her love… A rebel who finds the conventions of her time
oppressive, and instead dresses in her lovers' clothes… This is the story
of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (Audrey Tautou, Amélie),
who begins her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey
becomes the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a
timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. Official
Web Site Moira Macdonald's Seattle Times review... |
Fri & Sat Midnight Movies at the Egyptian!
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Patrick Swayze in Road House · Nov 13 & 14 The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night · Nov 20 & 21 New 35mm print! Molly Ringwald is Pretty in Pink · Nov 27 & 28 Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting · Dec 4 & 5 |
Wednesday Classics Continue at the Metro Cinemas!
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Chungking Express (1994) • Nov 11 7:00 & 9:10pm City Lights (1931) • Nov 18 at 7:00 & 9:10pm Sherlock Jr. (1924) plus The General (1926): Nov 25 at 6:50 & 9:15pm Gone With The Wind (1939) • Dec 2 at 7:00pm |
Starts Friday, November 13
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A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a
brooding new music composer in this comic take on the state of contemporary
art. Adam Goldberg (Two Days In Paris) plays the composer, whose work
calls for paper crumpling, glass breaking and bucket kicking. Marley Shelton
(Grindhouse) plays the gorgeous Chelsea gallerist, whose latest show
features an artist (Vinnie Jones, Snatch) who employs taxidermy and
household objects. Further complicating the affair is the composer's brother
Josh (Eion Bailey, "Band of Brothers"), whose highly commercial
art work—the financial backbone of the gallery—is sold to corporate
clients discreetly out of the gallery's back room. Directed and co-written
by Jonathan Parker (Bartleby). Official
Web Site Director/co-writer Jonathan Parker on creativity and success |
Starts Friday, November 13 at the Metro Cinemas
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| 2012 is an epic science-fiction adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists and governments. Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson. Directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day). Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 13 at the Metro Cinemas
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| Pirate Radio is a high-spirited, laugh-out-loud ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and writer/director of Love Actually), spinning the irreverent yet fact-based tale of a seafaring band of rogue rock and roll deejays whose "pirate radio" captivated and inspired 1960s Britain. Broadcasting live 24/7 from an old tanker anchored in the middle of the North Sea (just beyond British jurisdiction), Radio Rock sends out a vibrant and unifying signal to millions across the nation. The Radio Rock roster, overseen by unflappable station owner Quentin (Bill Nighy), includes a risk-prone American known only as The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman); mystic deejay royalty Gavin (Rhys Ifans); slyly amorous Dave (Nick Frost) and others. One night in 1966, Quentin's teenaged godson Carl (Tom Sturridge) comes aboard. While Carl harbors romantic aspirations that he hopes will be fulfilled during one of the biweekly visits by Radio Rock's prettiest fans, he also hopes to find out more about his long-absent father… As the ship sails on and rocks out, what Carl and the freewheeling, free-loving Radio Rock gang don't know is that back in London, a landlocked government minister (Kenneth Branagh) has embarked on a vehement crusade to silence their signal—permanently. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 13 at the Varsity Theatre
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| From writer-director Ti West comes a satanic thriller set in the 1980s starring Jocelin Donahue as Sam, a pretty college sophomore so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman (cult actors Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creeky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan (indie ingénue Greta Gerwig) is Sam’s best friend who gives her a ride out to the house—and reluctantly leaves her there despite suspecting that something is amiss. Victor (AJ Bowen) at first seems like just a creepy guy lurking around the house, but quickly makes it clear that Sam will end this night in a bloody fight for her life.... Official Web Site |
One Week Only!
Starts Friday, November 13 at the Varsity Theatre
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| We Live In Public is the story of the internet's revolutionary impact on human interaction as told through the incredible and tumultuous life story of internet pioneer and visionary Josh Harris. As far back as the early '90s, Harris predicted a future dominated by life online and created the companies that were direct predecessors to MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. The tale turns ugly when his underground NYC bunker, housing dozens of permanent "citizens" and outfitted with hundreds of surveillance cameras, is busted by FEMA as a millennial cult. Harris decides to take the experiment a step further by rigging his loft with 24-hour surveillance live on the web, and in doing so becomes a media casualty, losing his girlfriend, money and mind. Both a visionary and a walking cautionary tale, Harris proved how in the not-so-distant future of life online, we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including the six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we may well pay for living in public. Directed by Ondi Timoner (DiG!). Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 13 at the Metro Cinemas
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| In the new comedy from director/co-writer Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), Michael Angarano stars as Benjamin, a teenager being home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge). A loveable loner, Benjamin's passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by legendary fantasy novelist Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement), and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker. Official Web Site |
One Week Only!
Starts Friday, November 20 at the Varsity Theatre
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| William Kunstler was one of the most famous and controversial lawyers of the 20th century. In the 1960s and '70s, Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed "Chicago 8" activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer. To his daughters, filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, it seemed that he was at the center of everything important that had ever happened. But when they were growing up, Kunstler represented some of the most reviled members of society, including rapists, assassins and accused terrorists. This powerful film not only recounts the historic causes that Kunstler fought for, it also confronts a man that even his own daughters did not always understand, a man who believed that, however unpopular, justice should serve all. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 27
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| Frustrated with religious turmoil, fanaticism and fundamentalism, filmmaker Peter Rodger set out on a global quest to understand why the concept of God has become politicized. In his stunningly beautiful documentary film, Rabbis, Christian Fundamentalists, Catholic Priests, Buddhist Llamas, Hindu Swamis, Zen Masters, Muslim radicals, Shamans and ordinary people across the globe share their unique perspectives and understanding of God, along with several celebrities including Hugh Jackman, Seal, Ringo Starr, Sir Bob Geldof, Princess Michael of Kent, David Copperfield and Jack Thompson. The film is set amongst beautiful backdrops around the world, filmed in 23 countries over three years. From the 9th ward of New Orleans to the Guatemalan Jungle, to the Himalayan region of Ladahk, Rodger searches for the common thread in our diverse humanity and reveals that which often divides us can also unite us. The film features inviting faces and personalities that are a touching reminder of the melting pot that we call humanity and the mystery that we have given many names. Official Web Site |
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