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Syriana
(126 min. Rated R, English)
March 12 at 1:30
March 13 at 6:30
Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for TRAFFIC, makes his
directorial debut with SYRIANA, an espionage thriller set in the Middle East. George Clooney stars as Bob Barnes, a longtime CIA agent preparing to slow down his life and spend more time with his teenage son. But his last secret mission, getting rid of Prince Nasir, turns out to be more complicated than he imagined, placing him in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy involving government corruption, oil, and international terrorism.
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Mrs. Henderson Presents
(103 min. Rated R, English)
March 19 at 1:30
March 20 at 6:30
Based on the true story of London’s Windmill Theater, the film stars Judi Dench as Laura Henderson, a widowed society woman in the 1930s who purchases the abandoned West End venue as a means to help her pass the time. She enlists experienced stage producer Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins, who also produced the film) to aid her in creating Paris-inspired vaudeville revues–which break taboos in the staid English society of the time by featuring artfully posed nude women amidst the musical
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Agata and the Storm
(118 min., unrated, Italian w/English subtitles)
March 26 at 1:30
March 27 at 6:30
A swirl of pop-art color, madcap magic, and the bittersweet call of life and love. Director Soldini pays careful attention to his cast of characters in this ensemble comedy, creating suspense, laughter and tenderness. When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage. Yet it is Agata’s joy and magnetism in the face of life in all its irony that eventually offers the eye of the storm.
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| Campfire
(96 min., unrated, Hebrew w/English subtitles)
April 2 at 1:30
April 3 at 6:30
The year is 1981. Rachel Gerlik, a 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters, wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West Bank. The settlementÂfs acceptance
committee won’t approve her unless she demonstrates that she and her daughters can meet the group’s religious and ideologicalstandards. Her youngest daughter is accused of seducing some boys from her youth movement, forcing Rachel to weigh her allegiances. Only Yossi, a lonely bachelor, can show Rachel that living as an outcast is not as bad as it seems. |
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Electric Shadows
(93 min., unrated, Mandarin w/English sub-titles)
April 9 at 1:30
April 10 at 6:30
Xiao Jiang and her highly entertaining début feature titled Electric Shadows gives us a storyline – divided between Beijing now and Ningxia thirty years ago – about what it takes to heal grievous emotional wounds within a family. But all of her central characters are movie fans, and the key events in their lives are inextricably linked to the movies they saw and loved. Unless you grew up in China, you may not know the movies in question, but you’fll recognize the syndrome.
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Ballet Russes
(118 min, unrated, English)
April 23 at 1:30
April 24 at 6:30
Ballets Russes is an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists — now in their 70s, 80s and 90s — who gave birth to modern ballet. Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes. What began as a group of Russian refugees who never danced in Russia became not one but two rival dance troupes who fought the infamous “ballet battles” that consumed London society before World War II. |
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OT:our town
(76 min, unrated, English)
April 30 at 1:30
May 1 at 6:30
Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school’s first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder’s famous play about life in rural Grover’s Corner have to do with Compton, California? OT: our town follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit. |