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Thursday 7/29
Best
Foreign Language Film of the Year
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
(El secreto de sus ojos)
Benjamin Esposito has spent his
entire working life as a criminal court employee. Recently retired
and with time on his hands, he decides to write a novel. He does
not decide to make up a story. There is no need to. He can draw
on his own past as a civil servant for a true, moving and tragic
story in which he was once very directly involved. In 1974, his
court was assigned an investigation into the rape and murder of
a beautiful young woman. At the scene of the crime, Esposito sees
the result of the young woman's rape and murder first hand. He
meets Ricardo Morales, who had married the girl a short time before
and worshipped her body and soul. Moved by Ricardo's grief, Esposito
tries to help him find the culprit despite having to contend with
the apathy and ineptitude of the police and legal system. He knows
that for help the can count on Sandoval, an underling at the office
yet a close friend, who occasionally seeks release from the routine
of his existence by drinking himself unconscious. He can also
turn to Irene, his immediate superior and secretary of the court,
with whom he is secretly deeply in love, although there is no
hope that she will ever love him. The search for the murderer
is anything but simple. No clues remain at the scene of the crime
and Esposito must rely on guesswork and his own instincts to make
any progress. Furthermore, Argentina in 1974 is not a peaceful
place. It is a perfect backdrop for the violence, hate, revenge
and death that rule people's lives and fates. To this ever more
hostile and dark setting, Esposito's investigation takes him deep
into a world of terrible violence. No longer an observer, he becomes
an unwilling central character in a drama in which he is exposed
to ever-greater danger. But it is not only the young Esposito
of 1974 who is swept along by the storm of events, for that storm
also envelops the present-day Esposito, the old would-be writer,
and sets him adrift. By deciding to revive and relive his memories,
he has set in motion the wheels of the terrible mechanism of memory.
And those memories are neither innocent, neutral nor aseptic.
Esposito writes, and as he does so, relives a past that rises
up before his eyes and awakens all his demons; particularly those
involving his past decisions, uncertainties and irreparable mistakes.
As he moves forward, Esposito begins to see that it is now too
late to stop. Telling a story from the past is no longer just
a pastime to fill his empty hours. It becomes a narrow, winding
path he must take if he is to understand and find justification
for his own life, if he is to give any meaning to the years remaining
to him, and if once and for all he is to face up to the woman
who, thirty years on, he is still in love with.
Starring: Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darín, Carla Quevedo
Directed by Juan José Campanella
Running Time: 2 hrs. 7 min.
MPAA: Rated R for a rape scene,
violent images, some graphic nudity and language.
Spanish w/English sub titles
SHOWS DAILY at 3:00 and 7:00
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Starting Friday 8/2
Please Give
Kate has a lot on her mind. There's
the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate
sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store. And how
much markup can she get away with? There's the materialism problem
of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things
that Kate wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership
in parenting, business, and life with her husband Alex but sensing
doubt nibbling at the foundations. And there's Kate's free-floating
21st century malaise - the problem of how to live well and be
a good person when poverty, homelessness, and sadness are always
right outside the door. Plus, there's the neighbors: cranky, elderly
Andra and the two granddaughters who look after her.
Starring: Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca
Hall, Sarah Steele
Directed by: Nicole Holofcener
Running Time: 1 hr. 30 min.
MPAA Rating: R for language, some sexual content and nudity.
SHOWS DAILY at 3:00 and 7:00
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Discussion
group will be held Monday August 2nd on the movie PLEASE GIVE
after the 7:00 pm showing. (around 8:45 pm). Dr Harry L Serio,
past president of the Berks Art Council and Film Festival Chair
of the Greater Reading Film Festival, will lead the discussion. |
Starting Friday August 13
Mother and Child
Almost forty years ago, a young girl of 14
has sex, gets pregnant, and gives her baby up for adoption. Fast-forwarding
to the present day, we meet three very different women, each of
whom struggles to maintain control of their lives. There's Elizabeth
(Naomi Watts), a smart and successful lawyer who uses her body
to her advantage. Any time she feels that she doesn't have the
upper hand, and cannot control the situation, she uses her sex
appeal - whether that be starting a romance with her boss (Samuel
L. Jackson) when she suspects he is trying to start one himself,
or finding some way to control her overly friendly neighbor and
husband (Carla Gallo and Marc Blucas). Karen (Annette Bening),
meanwhile, is a bitter health care professional who obviously
has a lot of heart but never shows it. She gave up a daughter
at the age of 14 (wonderfully shown rather than told, she is the
young girl and mother of Elizabeth), and has never gotten over
it - her bitterness inspiring her to lash out at everyone around
her - even the gentle man at work who is undeniably drawn to her
(Jimmy Smits). Finally, Lucy (Kerry Washington) is a woman who
has failed to conceive with her husband, so she turns to adoption
to make the family she desires.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening,
Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, S. Epatha Merkerson
Directed by: Rodrigo Garcia
MPAA:Rated R for sexuality, brief
nudity, and language.
Runtime:125 min
SHOWS DAILY at 3:00 and 7:00
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Discussion
Group to be announced |
TBA
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, Igor Stravinsky premieres his
The Rite Of Spring. Coco Chanel attends the premiere and is mesmerized.
But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical. The enraged
audience boos and jeers. A near riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable.
Seven years later, now rich, respected and successful, Coco Chanel
meets Stravinsky again - a penniless refugee living in exile in
Paris after the Russian Revolution. The attraction between them
is immediate and electric. Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her
villa in Garches so that he will be able to work, and he moves
in straight away, with his children and consumptive wife. And
so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants
begins.
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis, Yelena Morozova, Natacha
Lindinger, Grigori Manoukov
Directed by: Jan Kounen
Running Time: 1 hr. 58 min.
MPAA Rating: R for some strong sexuality and nudity.
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TBA
THE NEXT CHAPTER
OF THE TRILOGY IGNITES
"more GRIPPING than DRAGON
TATTOO"

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium
magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt
practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist
approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex
trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage
girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.
Hes had no contact with tattooed wild-child
and computer hacker extraordinaire Lisbeth Salander since they
risked their lives on a terrifying hunt for a serial killer a
year earlier (see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). But unknown
to Blomkvist, Salander has had contact with himor at least,
with his computer hard drive, which she has cloned and is monitoring
from the vast new apartment she has bought with her fraudulently
obtained fortune.
Repeatedly abused while young, Salander
is a traumatized survivor of a deranged psychotherapist who treated
her as a child. A punk avenging angel with boxing skills, a photographic
memory and pathologically focused on seeking out and punishing
violent misogynists, Salander is drawn to the investigation on
Blomkvists computer. So while Blomkvist and his fellow Millennium
idealists research the sex industry according to the rules of
good journalism, Salanderspurred on by the appalling case
studies of teenage prostitution she finds on Blomkvist's computertakes
matters into her own hands. She plots punishment for the traffickers,
but before she can carry out her own brand of justice, she is
accused of three murders, all connected to the sex trafficking
exposé about to be published in Millennium.
To avoid capture by the police, Salander
vanishes. While the tabloids go wild at the idea of a psychotic
lesbian S&M Satanist on the run, Blomkvist tries despairingly
to clear her name, though he cant find her anywhere. When
he does eventually make contact, it is to discover that Salander
is more embroiled in his investigation than he could have thought
possible. It turns out that for Salander, the trail of guilt leads
shockingly close to home.
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi
Rapace, Alexa Eisenstein, Paolo Roberto, Tanja Lorentzon
Directed by: Daniel Alfredson
MPAA:Rated R for brutal violence
including a rape, some strong sexual content, nudity and language.Parents
Guide:View content advisory for parents
Runtime:129 min
Language:Swedish | Italian | French
w English sub-titles
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Micmacs
First it was a mine that exploded
in the middle of the Moroccan desert. Years later, it was a stray
bullet that lodged in his brain... Bazil doesn't have much luck
with weapons. The first made him an orphan, the second holds him
on the brink of sudden, instant death. Released from the hospital
after his accident, Bazil is homeless. Luckily, our inspired and
gentle-natured dreamer is quickly taken in by a motley crew of
junkyard dealers living in a veritable Ali Baba's cave. The group's
talents and aspirations are as surprising as they are diverse:
Remington, Calculator, Buster, Slammer, Elastic Girl, Tiny Pete
and Mama Chow. Then one day, walking by two huge buildings, Bazil
recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused
all of his misfortune. He sets out to take revenge, with the help
of his faithful gang of wacky friends. Underdogs battling heartless
industrial giants, our gang relive the battle of David and Goliath,
with all the imagination and fantasy of Buster Keaton...
Starring: Jamel Debbouze, Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier, Julie Ferrier,
Yolande Moreau
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
French with English sub titles
Running Time: 1 hr. 44 min.
MPAA Rating: R for sexuality and brief violence.
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LEBANON
The First Lebanon War - June, 1982.
A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already
been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. What seems to be a simple
mission gradually spins out of control. Shmuel the gunner, Assi
the commander, Herzl the loader and Yigal the driver are the tank's
crew, four 20-something boys who have never fought in a war and
are now operating a killing machine. Though trying to remain brave,
the boys are pushed to their mental limits as they struggle to
survive in a situation they cannot contain, and try not to lose
their humanity in the chaos of war.
Starring Oshri Cohen Itay Tiran Michael Moshonov Zohar Strauss
Ashraf Barhom
Director Samuel Maoz
MPAA Rating: R for disturbing bloody violence, language including
sexual references, and some nudity.
Runtime: 93 min
Language:Hebrew | Arabic | French
| English
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WILD GRASS
Retraces the encounter between a dentist
and amateur pilot whose bag is snatched and its contents thrown
across a car park, and a solitary man with a troubled past who
retrieves her wallet. The unlikely chance meeting of the two leads
to a certain romantic dithering that unfolds in eight phases,
corresponding to the rules of flying, and in particular the safety
procedures before take-off.
Starring: Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier,
Emmanuelle Devos, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric
Directed by: Alain Resnais
MPAA:Rated PG for some thematic
material, language and brief smoking.
Runtime: 104 min |
Language:French with English Sub-Titles
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Get Low
For years, townsfolk have been terrified
of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush. People say he's
done all manner of unspeakable things -- that he's killed in cold
blood; that he's in league with the Devil; that he has strange
powers -- and they avoid him like the plague. Then, one day, Felix
rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants
to buy a funeral. It's not your usual funeral for the dead Felix
wants. On the contrary, he wants a 'living funeral,' in which
anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell
it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing,
fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn enlists his gentlemanly
young apprentice, Buddy Robinson to win over Felix's business.
Buddy is no stranger to Felix's dark reputation, but what he discovers
is that behind Felix's surreal plan lies a very real and long-held
secret that must get out. As the funeral approaches, the mystery
- which involves the widow Maddie Darrow, the only person in town
who ever got close to Felix, and the Illinois preacher Charlie
Jackson who refuses to speak at his former friend's funeral -
only deepens. But on the big day, Felix is in no mood to listen
to other people spinning made-up anecdotes about him. This time,
he's the one who is going to do the telling about why he has been
hiding out in the woods.
Starring: Lucas Black, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray,
Gerald McRaney
Directed by: Aaron Schneider
Running Time: 1 hr. 42 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some thematic material and brief violent
content.
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