...OUR SPRING SCHEDULE...
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING (2007; PG-13)
Tuesday Feb. 26, Thursday Feb. 28, Saturday Mar. 1 @ 7:30PM;
Sunday Mar. 2 @1, 3:10PM.
Direction: Andrew Wagner; screenplay: Fred Parness & Andrew Wagner
Frank Langella has earned some of the best notices of his career as an aging novelist struggling to recapture his creative fire, while baffled and bemused by the sudden appearance of a forward young graduate student (Lauren Ambrose) who's chosen him as the subject of her master's thesis - and perhaps more. "Refreshingly subtle.... It's not what you expect, and it's not something you've seen before"- Newsweek. "Intelligent, involving and conspicuously adult - almost shocking in its distinctiveness, its ability to create high drama from an unlikely source"- LA Times. "Langella delivers a master class in acting"- Rolling Stone. National Board of Review, Top Ten Independent Films 2007. 111 minutes.
JOURNEY FROM THE FALL (2007; R)
Tuesday Mar. 4, Thursday Mar. 6, Saturday Mar. 8 @ 7:30PM;
Sunday Mar. 9 @ 1, 3:40PM.
Direction & script: Ham Tran
When Saigon falls in 1975, a South Vietnamese family endures hell and high water to reach freedom in California. "Sweeping camerawork, gorgeous yet forbidding natural vistas, and enough shocking tragedies, brazen escapes and crowd-pleasing acts of defiance to feed several action-adventure pictures"- NY Times. "Sophisticated, impassioned filmmaking....Powerfully illustrates the refugee/immigrant experience"- LA Times. 135 minutes. English and subtitles.
BLAME IT ON FIDEL (France 2007; NR)
Tuesday Mar. 11, Thursday Mar. 13, Saturday Mar. 15 @ 7:30PM;
Sunday Mar. 16 @ 1, 3PM.
Direction: Julie Gavras; Screenplay: Domitilla Calamai
Young Nina Kervel delivers a remarkably mature and knowing performance as the curious nine-year-old daughter of leftist activists in Paris in 1970, obliged to sort out many questions of life and politics on her own while her parents commit all their energies to the cause of Salvador Allende. "The thoroughly engaging, clear-eyed and charming story of a little girl grappling with the domestic fallout of tumultuous political times"- LA Times. "A wrenching, funny and wise little picture, with a diva-like junior star at its center"- Salon.com. 99 minutes. Subtitles.
NANKING (2007; R)
Tuesday Mar. 18, Thursday Mar. 20 @ 7:30PM; Saturday Mar. 22 @ 9PM;
Sunday Mar. 23 @ 1, 2:50PM.
Direction & screenplay: Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman
A distinguished cast including Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway and Jurgen Prochnow gives voice to the journals of westerners acting bravely to save as many helpless lives as they could, when they were caught amid the chaos of Japan's attack on one of China's great cities in 1937. "Not only is the film a powerful historical record and a warning for future generations, it is an essential reminder to people, including many in Japan today, who might deny that this massacre ever occurred.... honors the highest calling of documentary filmmaking"- Hollywood Reporter. "Crafts an impossible-but-true hymn to the power of the individual conscience"- Salon.com. "The voices in Nanking speak for the persistence of good in times and places where a moral crevice opens to reveal a vision of hell on earth"- NY Times. 88 min. English and subtitles. NOTE: 9PM START TIME THIS SATURDAY EVENING.
•••••INTERMISSION - March 24-31
Cinema 320 takes a one-week break, but world cinema continues in Jefferson 320 with the 13th Annual Latino Film Festival! Call (508) 793-1900 for more details.
PERSEPOLIS (France 2007; PG-13)
Tuesday Apr. 1, Thursday Apr. 3, Saturday Apr. 5 @ 7:30PM;
Sunday Apr. 6 @ 1, 2:55PM.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi; Screenplay: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
Marjane Satrapi teams with co-director Vincent Paronnaud to animate her rueful and perceptive memoir of a free-thinking adolescent coming of age during the Khomeini Revolution in Iran. "Not to be missed.... in a year that has given us such marvelous animated movies as Ratatouille and Paprika, this vibrant, sly and moving personal odyssey takes pride of place"- Newsweek. "Superb.... a riveting odyssey in pictures and words. It's unlike any journal you've read or any animated movie you've seen"- Philadelphia Inquirer."Sparkles with witty self-awareness"- Entertainment Weekly. Academy Award nominee, Best Animated Film of 2007. 95 min. Subtitles.
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Romania 2007; NR)
Tuesday Apr. 8, Thursday Apr. 10, Saturday Apr. 12 @ 7:30PM;
Sunday Apr. 13 @ 9PM only.
Direction & screenplay: Cristian Mungiu
Amid the wreckage of Nicolae Ceausescu's corrupt and crumbling Romanian Communist dictatorship in 1987, two college roommates go through a tensely illicit scheme to obtain an illegal abortion for one of them. Cristian Mungiu's piercing anecdotal drama has earned overwhelming critical acclaim. "Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted.... A stunning achievement, helmed with purity and honesty"- Variety. "No lover of greatness in filmmaking will want to look away from one of the very best movies of 2007" - Entertainment Weekly. "A remarkably engrossing and thoughtful picture"- Premiere. Golden Palm - Grand Prize Winner, Cannes Film Festival 2007. 113 minutes. Subtitles. NOTE SPECIAL START TIME 9PM SUNDAY.
OUTSOURCED (2007; PG-13)
Tuesday Apr. 15, Thursday Apr. 17, Saturday Apr. 19 @ 7:30PM;
Sunday Apr. 20 @ 1, 3PM.
Director: John Jeffcoat; Screenplay: George Wing & John Jeffcoat
A young Seattle executive (Josh Hamilton) caught in a corporate downsizing gets both a cultural and a romantic education when he must supervise the transfer of the customer service department to India. John Jeffcoat's clever satire of globalism triumphant is "a sweetly acted and neatly executed social comedy"- Boston Globe. "Unaffected charmer treats a hot-button contemporary issue with old-fashioned grace and benevolent wit, rendering it a sure-fire word-of-mouth crowd-pleaser"- Variety. 103 min. English & subtitles.
ARRANGED (2007; NR)
Tuesday Apr. 22, Thursday Apr. 24, Saturday Apr. 26 @ 7:30PM;
Sunday Apr. 27 @ 1, 2:50PM.
Directors: Diane Crespo & Stefan C. Schaefer; screenplay: Stefan C. Schaefer
Despite the fact that they come from antagonistic cultures, young Brooklyn schoolteachers Rochel (Zoe Lister Jones) and Nasira (Frances Benhamou) are friends with a lot in common - chiefly a parental mandate to find a husband without further ado! This light comedy is a remarkably charming and unforced delight. "A lovely little gem of a film, beautifully shot and perfectly cast.... I can't remember the last time I screened a similarly low-budget film that pulled all the pieces together so well"- Filmcritic.com. "A pure pleasure to watch.... Splendidly natural performances"- Variety. "Surprisingly winning.... the understated, natural performances lend the film a sense of intimacy that serves it well"- New York Magazine. 89 minutes.
CARAMEL (Lebanon 2007; PG)
Tuesday Apr. 29, Thursday May 1, Saturday May 3 @ 7:30PM;
Sunday May 4 @ 1, 2:55PM.
Direction & screenplay: Nadine Labaki
Likeable characters, universal situations, and an inviting atmosphere that manages to combine luxuriance with thoughtfulness spark this highly enjoyable ensemble comedy about the regulars at a Beirut beauty salon. "It may be a first film but Labaki, employing a cast that is full of non-professional actresses, is a slick and knowing filmmaker"- Time. "The penetrating musical score, the snappy and confident pacing, and the emergence of 33-year-old Labaki as an international talent to watch all combine to make the film a satisfying confection"- Premiere. "The actresses are, to a woman, enchanting. So is this Lebanese comedy"- Wall Street Journal. 95 minutes. Subtitles.
STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME (2007; NR)
Tuesday May 6, Thursday May 8, Saturday May 10 @ 7:30PM;
Sunday May 11 @ 1, 2:50PM.
Direction & screenplay: Michele Ohayon
When a Dutch Jewish married couple and the husband's girlfriend are all deported to the dreaded Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1943, an ordinary romantic triangle continues under the most extraordinary and forbidding conditions any love story could imagine. "If Michele Ohayon's absorbing documentary didn't provide the proof, you'd never believe the story she tells about Holocaust survivors Jack Polak and Ina Soep"- NY Daily News. "Tells this most unusual love story with grace and compassion"- LA Times. 94 min. English & subtitles.
•••••OUR SUMMER BREAK STARTS - Monday May 12. Have a great summer! We'll see you at the drive-in.
TICKETS: $5.50 adults, $3.50 seniors and Clark students (with ID)