Set in the last tumultuous years
of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy's life, centers on the battle
for his soul waged by his wife Sofya Andreyevna and his leading
disciple Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed doctrine
of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth,
his thirteen children and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a
dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the
tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying alone,
while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly
reports on his condition.
Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer,
Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff, James McAvoy
(Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche
Kindergeschichte)
In a village in Protestant northern
Germany on the eve of World War I children and teenagers of a
choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families
experience strange accidents that gradually take on the character
of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?
Don't let anyone tell you too much about this spellbinder from
Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke (Caché). Shot in
stunning black-and-white by the gifted Christian Berger, The White
Ribbon is a toxic blossom of images that burn into your memory.
In pre-World War I Germany, a farm village is beset by accidents
that may not be accidents. The Baron (Ulrich Tukur) dominates
the village economy, just as the Pastor (Burghart Klaussner) holds
brutal sway over the morality of the villagers and their families.
It's on the faces of the children that Haneke tells his story
of corruption and the grip of fascism. This haunting film never
pushes itself on you. It trusts you to suss out the horror that
lies beneath the veneer of innocence. You'll be knocked for a
loop.
Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich
Tukur, Burghart Klaussner, Josef Bierbichler, Ursina Lardi
Directed by: Michael Haneke
Language: German | Italian | Polish
| Latin w/sub-titles
Running Time: 2 hrs. 24 min.
MPAA Rating: R for some disturbing content involving violence
and sexuality.
Shows at 3:00 & 7:00 Daily
GoggleWorks will
hold the discussion group Monday March 22nd on the movie THE
WHITE RIBBON after the 7:00 pm showing. (around 9:30 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.
In a whirlwind week in 1937 in New York City, a young aspiring
actor named Richard is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles
Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles historic
staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. During this week he will
find romance with a worldly older woman, becomes immersed in a
creative experience few are afforded and learn the downside of
crossing the imperious, brilliant Welles. Richard is about to
grow up fast.
Starring: Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Claire Danes,
Kelly Reilly
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Running Time: 1 hr. 49 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual references and smoking
Condemned to six years in prison,
Malik El Djebena, part Arab, part Corsican, cannot read or write.
Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more
fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered
by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison,
he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening
him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in the process.
Malik is a fast learner and rises up the prison ranks, all the
while secretly devising his own plans.