What Remains of Us?
Now Showing
76 minutes • 2008 • Canada • In English and Tibetan with Subtitles • Unrated
Kalsang Dolma, a young Tibetan refugee in Quebec, crosses the Himalayas. Into the largest prison in the world, she carries a video message recorded by the Dalai Lama. Since 1950, Tibetans inside the country have been hoping that China will allow him to return. Families gather around the tiny screen, transfixed, and for the first time, the voices of this fragile people under the yoke of suffering reach us from across the distance.
- Saturday, Oct 11 @ 1:00 PM
Elegy
Now Showing
113 minutes • 2008 • USA • In English • Rated R (for sexuality, nudity and language)
In place of etchings, Professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley), the aging lothario at the center of "Elegy," brings nubile female students home to see a letter Kafka wrote mounted on a wall. David has been practicing serial tomcatting for decades and knows that flattering a woman's intellect goes far.
Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz), who comes to class late, dressed in a more sophisticated way than other students, is his latest acquisition. He wins her over by comparing her eyes to a Goya painting.
At this point you might be wondering: Do we really need another movie about a May-December romance? In the case of "Elegy," the answer is yes. Absolutely. Letting such a richly textured and compelling film slip by in the summer rush would be a loss.
- Friday, Oct 10 - Tuesday, Oct 14 @ 6:30 PM, 9:10 PM
- Wednesday, Oct 15 - Thursday, Oct 16 @ 4:15 PM, 9:10 PM
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Starts Sunday
115 minutes • 2008 • Australia/ USA • In English • Unrated
SCREENING CANCELLED.
- Sunday, Oct 12 (CANCELLED)
Brave New West
Starts Sunday
80 minutes • 2008 • Unrated
DOCTOBER08: "They began to arrive in the early 1970s, wide-eyed idealists from the East, inspired and angry. The small cult of Ed Abbey followers descended on the American Southwest, most with a worn copy of Desert Solitaire in their backpack, many with dreams of preserving it's natural beauty via any means, a la The Monkey Wrench Gang. Jim Stiles was one of them."
- Sunday, Oct 12 - Tuesday, Oct 14 @ 4:00 PM
The Corporal's Diary
Starts Wednesday
92 minutes • 2008 • USA • In English • Unrated
DOCTOBER 08: Twenty-two year old Corporal Jonathan Santos had documented his 37 days of military service in Iraq in a personal dairy before a roadside bomb took his life and the lives of several of his friends and servicemen on October 15, 2004. Jonathan's mother, Doris, wasn't aware that her son had kept a diary until his Tuff BoxT - a soldier's chest filled with their most valuable items - was sent to her after his death. Upon opening the box, she discovered his "little green book" and a stack of videocassettes on which he had recorded daily life in Iraq.
- Wednesday, Oct 15 - Thursday, Oct 16 @ 7:00 PM
A Man Named Pearl
Starts Friday
78 minutes • 2008 • USA • In English • Rated G
Assembled without frills or fuss, "A Man Named Pearl" is as much a portrait of a small Southern town as of an unassuming black folk artist. Aided by Fred Story's jazzy score, the directors, Scott Galloway and Brent Pierson, keep things moving with appreciative comments from the financial and spiritual beneficiaries of Mr. Fryar's talents (and from the female admirers who find his lithe, 68-year-old body every bit as interesting as his foliage). Those white families who, decades ago, rejected him as a neighbor because "black people don't keep up their yards" must be weeping into their seed catalogs.
- Friday, Oct 17 - Thursday, Oct 23
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Saturday, Oct 18 Only!
78 minutes • 1958 • USA • In English • Unrated
“Neglected masterpiece that was frequently featured on the same bill with THE BLOB in the fifties, this is now considered much the better film even though critics ignore it in droves. One of several films about outer–space aliens invading the bodies of humans, the twist here is that Gloria Talbott finds out that Tom Tryon is “different” only after they are married. Tryon, who would later go on to be a best–selling author, is fine as the zombie, and Talbott, an accomplished B–movie heroine, is superb as the fifties housewife whose marriage has left a lot to be desired. With Ken Lynch, John Eldredge.”
- Saturday, Oct 18 @ 12:00 PM
American Carver
Saturday, Oct 18 Only!
60 minutes • 2008 • USA • In English • Unrated
As compelling as any fictional drama, this film follows Jewell Praying Wolf James and 17 others from Washington State to the Pentagon, wrestling with inner and outer demons in an attempt to carve and transport a 10-ton totem pole as a memorial to 9/11.
- Saturday, Oct 18 @ 2:30 PM
The Exiles
Starts Sunday, Oct 19
72 minutes • 2008 • USA • In English • Unrated
DOCTOBER08
Sherman Alexie will present the film in–person.
“The restoration and long–delayed commercial release of ‘THE EXILES,’ a 1961 film about a largely forgotten corner of that deceptively bright city, is nothing less than a welcome act of defiant remembrance… A beautifully photographed slice of down–and–almost–out life, a near–heavenly vision of a near–hell that Mr. Mackenzie situated at the juncture of nonfiction and fiction. He tapped into the despair of this obscured world while also making room for the poetry and derelict beauty of its dilapidated buildings, neon signs, peeling walls and downcast faces.”
—MANOHLA DARGIS, NEW YORK TIMES
- Sunday, Oct 19 - Tuesday, Oct 21
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