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Strangers With Candy (USA – R – 97 Minutes – Comedy) Oct. 22 at 1:30 Oct. 23 at 6:30 STRANGERS WITH CANDY is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the tale of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. As part of her decision to turn her life around by picking it up exactly where she left off – as a high school freshman. She’s going to start Once re-enrolled in high school, not surprisingly, she finds that the path is fraught with the many adolescent problems and temptations that plague |
(Germany – Unrated – 117 Minutes – War/Drama) Oct. 29 at 1:30 Oct. 30 at 6:30 Munich, 1943: Sophie and Hans Scholl are members of the “White Rose”, a resistance group against the Nazi regime. When the siblings lay out fliers at the university, they are caught by the caretaker who calls the Gestapo. After their imprisonment, they are interrogated for days. In the beginning, Sophie manages to bluff the questioning official Robert Mohr, but Hans finally confesses everything. Now Sophie vindicates her ideals, but also tries to protect the other group members. On February 22nd, the Scholls and their aide Christoph Probst are accused of high treason and sentenced to death. As the execution takes place the same day, Sophie has to take leave of her family… |
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Heading South (France – Unrated – 108 Minutes – Drama) Nov. 5 at 1:30 Nov. 6 at 6:30 Haiti, late 1970’s. Sea, sex and sun for Ellen, Brenda and Sue, three North American ladies, on the wrong side of forty or fifty-odd, going through an enchanted interlude. Lonely, forsaken, neglected by men in their native countries, they can indulge here in carnal exultation without shame, thanks to handsome local young men they pay a few dollars. Ellen is a Boston French literature professor, Brenda, an unfulfilled wife from Savannah, Georgia and Sue, a sexually frustrated but good-natured Canadian factory worker. In this second garden of Eden they don’t care too much about the neighboring poverty nor about Baby Doc’s violent dictatorship. The trouble is that that two of the three women have sights on a single man, Legba. And Legba is beginning to be fed up with being a stud… |
| Mongolian Ping Pong (China – Unrated – 102 Minutes – Drama/Foreign/Comedy) Nov. 12 at 1:30 Nov. 13 at 6:30 Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. But life in the middle of nowhere can be exciting for a young boy. The smallest of details become big events for curious Bilike and his best friends Erguotou and Dawa. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief… |
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House of Sand (Brazil – R – 115 Minutes – Drama) Nov. 19 at 1:30 Nov. 20 at 6:30 Ãurea arrives at a town in the dunes of State of Maranhão, Brazil, in 1910, having for female company only her mother Maria. She is pregnant and wants a way out of that arid place. But leaving is difficult and, somehow, she still hopes to find happiness there. The film follows these two lives for three generations, presenting Ãurea’s daughter and, later, her granddaughter. |
| The Motel (USA – Unrated – 75 Minutes – Comedy/Drama) Nov. 26 at 1:30 Nov. 27 at 6:30 Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood. |
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