Fall 2009 Film Schedule

 

Fall Film Passes are SOLD OUT

Fall Single Movie Tickets

 


The Horse Boy


Friday, September 25 at 7 pm

 

Premiere screening co-sponsored by the Cody
Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities.



The story of parents who will go to the end of the earth to find a way into their son’s life. The Isaacsons take their autistic son to Mongolia to trek on horseback and seek the counsel of a variety of shamans. A highly acclaimed documentary directed by Michael Orion Scott. With Rupert Isaacson, Kristin Neff, Rowan Isaacson.

93 minutes – Unrated.

Adoration


Friday, September 25 at 9:15 pm


In this disconcerting, unpredictable and hard-hitting film, a young man’s attempt to make sense of himself and his family’s history turns strange when his re-imagined version of that history becomes a combustible topic for online chatter. Directed by Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter). With Devon Bostick, Ansinée Khanjian, Kenneth Welsh.


100 minutes - Rated R.

Easy Virtue


Friday, October 2 at 7 pm


In English and French with subtitles.


In 1920s Britain, a matriarch disapproves of her son’s free-spirited American wife. A sweeping, effervescent adaptation of a Noel Coward Jazz Age play. Directed by Stephan Elliott. With Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas.


93 minutes – PG-13.

Sin Nombre


Friday, October 2 at 9:00 pm

 

In Spanish with subtitles.


Sayra, a Honduran teenage girl, and Willy, a new member of a violent gang, both dream of better lives for themselves. A fateful event will find the two strangers united on a train bound for the U.S. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. With Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan.


96 minutes - Rated R.

Everlasting Moments


Friday, October 9 at 7 pm


In Swedish and Finnish with subtitles.


In a time of social change and unrest early in the 1900s, a young working class woman from a Swedish family wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it transforms her life. Directed by Jan Troell. With Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt,
Jesper Christensen.


130 minutes – Unrated.

American Violet


Friday, October 9 at 9:30 pm


Injustice and exploitation in a small Texas town. A feisty African-American woman stands strong, aided by an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and her minister. Based on true events. Directed by Tim Disney. With Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Xzibit, Charles S. Dutton, Alfre Woodard.


103 minutes – Rated PG-13.

Lemon Tree


Friday, October 16 at 7 pm

 

In Arabic, Hebrew, French and English with subtitles.


The Israeli defense minister and his wife move into a fancy new house across from a lemon grove owned by a Palestinian widow. The grove, on the Green Line
of the West Bank, poses a security threat. Directed by Eran Riklis. With Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael.


106 minutes - Unrated.

Away We Go


Friday, October 16 at 9:15 pm


A winning romantic comedy about a couple expecting their first child who travel around the U.S. searching for a perfect place to start their family. Directed by Sam Mendes. With John Krasinski and Maya Randolph.

 
98 minutes – Rated R.

Summer Hours


Friday, November 20 at 7 pm

 

In French and English with subtitles.


A matriarch leaves behind a charming country house full of lovely things. Her family must decide what to do with the bounty. An “extraordinary film packed nearly to bursting with rich meaning and deep implication.” –The New York Times Directed by Olivier Assayas. With Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob.


103 minutes - Unrated.

The Brothers Bloom


Friday, November 20 at 9:15 pm


A clever, twisting story about fortune-hunting brothers—a charming romance and jaunty adventure story that takes a rapturous trot around the globe. Directed by Rian Johnson. With Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody.


113 minutes - PG-13.

Julie & Julia


Friday, December 4 at 7 pm


Based on the true stories of Julia Child, the beloved American TV chef who authored “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” and Julie Powell, a temp
secretary who embarks on a culinary quest to cook every recipe in Childs’ book and write a blog about it. Directed by Nora Ephron. With Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci.


123 minutes - Rated PG-13.

The Hurt Locker


Friday, December 4 at 9:30 pm


Riveting, suspenseful portrait of the chaos of the Iraq War, where an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential
enemy and every object a potential bomb. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes.


131 minutes - Rated R.


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