Academy Winter Film Series - Weekends January 12-27
Shows Saturday and Sunday nights at 7:30PM
Admission: Adult-$6.00, Student/Seniors-$5.00
Allegheny College International Film Series - Tuesdays at 7:30pm
Allegheny Students: free admission with College Id |
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The Jane Austen
Book Club
January 12 & 13, 2008
Pre-Film Book Reading
Saturday, January 12 at 7:00PM
Written and Directed by: Robin Swicord
Cast: Lynn Redgrave, Maria Bello, Kathy Baker, Jimmy Smits and Amy Brenneman
Based on Karen Joy Fowler's best selling novel. Six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings and wisdom about their own trajectories within Austen's beloved narratives.
Rated PG-13
www.sonyclassics.com/thejaneaustenbookclub/ |
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I'm Not There
January 19 & 20, 2008
Live Dylan-esque music, both nights
Beginning at 6:30PM
Directed by: Todd Haynes
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere
An unconventional journey into the life and times of Bob Dylan. Six actors portray Dylan as a series of shifting personae - from the public to the private to the fantastical - weaving together a rich and colorful portrait of this ever-elusive American icon. One of the most critically acclaimed films of the year.
Rated R
www.imnotthere-movie.com
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Margot at the Wedding
January 26 & 27, 2008
Written & Directed by: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black
Margot Zeller, (Nicole Kidman) a savagely bright, razor-tongued short-story writer who creates chaos wherever she goes, sets off on a surprise journey to the wedding of her estranged and free-spirited, unassuming sister Pauline(Jennifer Jason Leigh). From the minute she meets Pauline's fiancé--the unemployed artist Malcolm (Jack Black)--Margot starts to plant seeds of doubt about the union. As the wedding approaches the two sisters find themselves at the precipice of an unexpected transformation ultimately revealing that even when your family is about to implode the one thing you can cling to for solace and comfort is your imploding family.
Rated R
www.margotatthewedding.com
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Control Room
January 29, 2008
Directed by: Jehane Noujaim
A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.
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Paris, Je t'aime
February 5, 2008
Segment Directors Include: Ethan & Joel Coen, Wes Craven, Gerard Depardieu, Gus Van Sant
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elijah Wood, Natalie Portman, Gena Rowlands
Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened. A group of internationally renowned directors rediscover the city of Paris in a collective work about love.
www.firstlookstudios.com/pjt/
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The Lives of Others
February 26, 2008
Directed by: Florion Henckle von Donnerscmark
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muehe, Sebastian Koch
2006 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. The horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don't always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more...
www.sonyclassics.com/thelivesofothers/
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Live In Maid
March 4, 2008
Directed by: Jorge Gaggero
Cast: Norma Alleandro, Norma Argentina
Beba knew how to handle her well-to-do life. Once the boss of her own cosmetics company, she now finds herself selling beauty products door-to-door. Short on cash, she promises to pay her live-in housekeeper Dora back wages but never seems to pony up any money. With a heavy heart, Dora is forced to bow out after 30 years of service. The only problem is that Dora cannot finish the house she has been building over the last many years because of her lack of income. Sometime later, Dora finds herself further compromised when her homeless ex-boss moves into her home.
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Warriors of Heaven
and Earth
March 11, 2008
Directed by: Ping He
Cast: Wen Jiang, Wei Zhao, Kiichi Nakai
Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, a tale of two first-class warriors, Lieutenant Li and Japanese emissary Lai Xi, who are master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the West to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a violent mutiny when he refused orders to kill female and child prisoners.
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