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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 E Street Cinema Film Calendar, with all-new programming from February 10 through May 10! |
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| Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, director Steven Spielberg's War Horse is an epic adventure, a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert (Jeremy Irvine), who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. War Horse is one of the great stories of friendship and war—a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful theatrical hit, on Broadway and internationally. Official Web Site |
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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 Ann Hornaday's Washington Post review... |
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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 Ann Hornaday's Washington Post review... |
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Must End Thursday, February 9!
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| In 1994, scientist Victor DeNoble became the first whistleblower to reveal the tobacco industry's efforts to manufacture "a maximally addictive" product. Tasked in the 1980s by a major tobacco company to invent a safer form of nicotine—one that would decrease the danger of heart failure while remaining just as addictive (so smokers could live, and smoke, longer)—DeNoble succeeded. But, in doing so, he inadvertently created something the tobacco companies had been avoiding for years—indisputable scientific evidence that nicotine was addictive. Their reaction was swift: his position was terminated, his lab was closed, and both his research and the "safer cigarette" were buried in the vaults and kept from the public...until he broke his confidentiality agreement and became the ultimate whistleblower. If you think you know everything there is to know about cigarettes and nicotine, Addiction Incorporated will startle you with its vital, previously undisclosed information. Straight from the mouths of the key players behind the scenes (including Steven C. Parrish, the former Senior VP and General Counsel for External Affairs at Philip Morris, and Jeffrey Wigand, the subject of the Academy Award-nominated film The Insider), this film reveals exactly how the tobacco industry achieved behemoth power through scientific secrecy...and what their next move may be. Official Web Site |
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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 Ann Hornaday's Washington Post 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 Ann Hornaday's Washington Post review... |
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| 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 |
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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 Ann Hornaday's Washington Post 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 Ann Hornaday's Washington Post 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 Ann Hornaday's Washington Post review... |
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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 Ann Hornaday's Washington Post review... |
One Week Only! Starts Friday, February 10
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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 |
One Week Only! Starts Friday, February 10
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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 |
Fri & Sat, Feb 10 & 11
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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, Feb 10 & 11
at Midnight at the E Street Cinema!
With Live Shadow Cast Sonic Transducers!
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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 |
Fri & Sat, February 10 & 11 at Midnight
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| From the opening strains of Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's haunting, Oscar-winning song "Moon River", you'll once again be under the alluring spell of that madcap, carefree New York play girl known as Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) in this 24-carat romantic comedy based on Truman Capote's best-selling novella. George Peppard is the struggling and "sponsored" young writer who finds himself swept into Holly's dizzying, delightfully unstructured lifestyle as she determinedly scours Manhattan for a suitable millionaire to marry. Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam and Mickey Rooney co-star; Mancini won an additional Academy Award for his enthralling musical score. Directed by Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, The Party). |
Fri & Sat Midnight Movies at the E Street Cinema!
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Feb 10 & 11: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with live shadow cast Sonic Transducers! Feb 17 & 18: Say Anything..., starring John Cusack. Feb 24 & 25: The Room, "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!" |
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Feb 10, 11 & 12: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard Feb 17, 18 & 19: Rear Window (1954), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Feb 24, 25 & 26: All About Eve (1950), it's going to be a bumpy night! |
One Week Only! Starts Friday, February 17
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| This dramatic documentary chronicles the true rags-to-riches-to-rags story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oil oligarch who spoke out against state corruption, only to be arrested and convicted on transparently false tax and embezzlement charges. Weaving together in-depth interviews (including one with Khodorkovsky in his glass cell in the courtroom), archival material, and stylized computer-animated reenactments, filmmaker Cyril Tuschi shows us a man who embodies the paradox that is modern Russia—condemning the very corruption that helped make his fortune and envisioning a new Russia with respect for the rule of law. Tuschi effortlessly integrates investigative journalism with in-depth political analysis. Stolen twice from the filmmaker's office before its Berlin premiere, Khodorkovsky is investigative journalism as political thriller—and an unflinching look at the state of the still-infant capitalist Russia. Official Web Site |
Fri & Sat, Feb 17 & 18 at Midnight
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| John Cusack plays Lloyd Dobler, an average guy with a penchant for kickboxing, in Cameron Crowe's (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) first film. There is only one thing that all-around nice guy Lloyd wants for his high school graduation: a date with beautiful valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye). Lloyd's dream comes true when Diane accepts his invitation to a graduation party. Diane falls for Lloyd, whose goal is to spend as much time with her as possible. Their budding romance is put to the test when Diane has to choose between pursuing her academic dreams and spending time with him. |
Fri & Sat, February 17 & 18 at Midnight
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| Alfred Hitchcock's classic, spellbinding tale of voyeurism stars James Stewart as an immobilized man who watches his neighbors through the rear window of his apartment. Fascinated by one particular room, he begins to suspect that the man across the way has murdered his wife. A humorous and macabre tale, co-starring the beautiful Grace Kelly! |
Starts Friday, February 24
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From acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland (The Secret Garden, Europa Europa) comes In Darkness, an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. The drama is based on the true story of Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, who one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected: the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha's conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger. Official Web Site
Director Agnieszka Holland creates a journey for viewers |
Fri & Sat, Feb 24 & 25
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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 |
Two Shows Only! Thu, March 1 & Mon, March 5
at 7:00pm at the E Street Cinema
Director Robert H. Lieberman In Person at Both Shows!
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| Shot clandestinely over a 2-year period by best-selling novelist and filmmaker Robert H. Lieberman, They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain provides a rare look at the second-most isolated country on the planet. It lifts the curtain to expose the everyday life in a country that has been held in the iron grip of a brutal military regime for 48 years. This unique feature-length documentary, culled from over 120 hours of striking images, is an impressionistic journey. Interviews and interactions with more than 100 people throughout Burma, including an interview with the recently released Aung San Suu Kyi, are interwoven with spectacular footage of this little-seen nation and its people. Though Burma has tumbled from one of the most prosperous and advanced countries in Southeast Asia to one of the world's poorest, They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain is a story of beauty, courage and hope. Official Web Site |
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