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A
Christmas Tale 11/21
Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell And
The Butterfly), and Chiara Mastroianni star in this bittersweet,
darkly comic tale of a family in crisis, directed by Arnaud
Desplechin, with a nod to Charles Dickens's A Christmas
Story. Deneuve and Amalric play Abel and Junon Vuillard,
who, as a young couple, conceived a child in the hope of saving
another of their children with a rare genetic condition. The
Vuillard family has never quite recovered from this tragedy
and although many years have passed, family relationships
are more strained than ever. Masterfully directed and acted,
by turns savage, bittersweet and very moving. "...a big
hearted, formally frisky family tale with pitch-perfect work
by some of France's plum performers, among them Mastroianni's
indomitable mother, Catherine Deneuve." Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly. In French w/subtitles.
  

The
Boy in the Striped Pajamas 11/21
Adapted
from John Boyne's best-selling novel, this moving film is
a fictional story told through the eyes of an eight-year-old
boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II. It
follows the friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of
a Nazi commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish boyheld captive in
a concentration camp. Though a barbed wire fence separates
the two physically, their friendship grows and their lives
become inescapably intertwined. Starring David Thewlis, Vera
Farmiga, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Jack Scalon.
  

ROMEO
& JULIET (Gounod) 11/23,
11/24
See opera listings below
From the Salzburg Festival, an Opera in 5 Acts (3 hours)
Sunday, November 23 at 12:00pm
Monday, November 24 at 6:30pm

Australia
11/26
Nicole
Kidman and Hugh Jackman star in Baz Luhrmann's (Moulin
Rouge) latest film, a romantic epic set in northern Australia
before World War II. An English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits
a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a cattle driver (Jackman)
in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot.
As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over an unforgiving
landscape, they experience firsthand the bombing of Darwin,
Australia, by Japanese forces.
  

Synecdoche
11/28
The
directorial debut of Academy Award Winner Charlie Kaufman
premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival. It
is an extremely ambitious film that challenges the viewer
in many different ways. The title is defined as a figure of
speech in which a part is used for the whole, but the film
also references the city of Schenectady. Philip Seymour Hoffman
plays theater director Caden Cotard, who is mounting a new
play. His life catering to suburban audiences at the local
regional theater in Schenectady is looking bleak. His wife
Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting
in Germany; his therapist, Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis),
is better at plugging her best-selling book than she is at
counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid
Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground. And a
mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each
of his autonomic functions, one by one. Also starring Michelle
Williams, Emily Watson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. "Kaufman
has created a seamless and complicated alternate reality,
unsettling nearly every expectation a moviegoer might have
about time, psychology, and narrative structure. The feelings
it explores are clear and accessible. A movie bristling with
paradoxes and conundrums. Extremely funny." A.O. Scott,
The New York Times.
  

OTELLO
(Verdi) 11/30,
12/1
See opera listings below
From the Salzburg Festival, an Opera in 4 Acts (2 hours, 10
minutes)
Sunday, November 30 at 12:00pm
Monday, December 1 at 6:30pm

A
Secret 12/5
Adapted
from Philippe Grumbert's best selling novel, set during the
Holocaust, this is a story of passion and guilt in troubled
times. The story unfolds as a young teenager uncovers the
truth about his parents past. He finds out that before the
war, his father Maxime was married to Hanna, when he fell
madly in love with his mother Tania. As a young Jewish couple
living in Nazi-occupied France, Maxime and Tania had to make
difficult choices to survive the war and the Holocaust. In
French w/subtitles. Directed by Claude Miller.
  

DON
GIOVANNI (Mozart) 12/7,
12/8
See opera listings below
From the Salzburg Festival, an Opera in 2 Acts (3 hours)
Sunday, December 7 at 12:00pm
Monday, December 8 at 6:30pm

Ashes
Of Time Redux 12/12
Wong
Kar Wai's film is his only martial arts film and was inspired
by characters from Louis Cha's martial arts novel, The
Eagle-Shooting Heroes. It is set in five parts - five
seasons that are part of the Chinese almanac. The story takes
place in the jianghu, the world of martial arts, and centers
on a man named Ouyang Feng, who has left his home in the White
Camel Mountains when the woman he loved chose to marry his
elder brother. His wounded heart has made him pitiless and
cynical, but his encounters with friends, clients and future
enemies make him conscious of his solitude. Wong Kar Wai's
original film has a legendary reputation among his fans, and
is known as an abstract masterpiece rarely seen in the West.
In this version, the acclaimed director has returned, restored
and clarified his masterpiece. In Chinese w/subtitles.
  

Milk
12/12
Sean
Penn stars in Gus Van Sant's electrifying film about Harvey
Milk, who became the first openly gay man to be voted into
major public office in America. In 1977, Milk was elected
to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. His victory was
not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across
the political spectrum and, before his untimely death in 1978,
became a fighter for equal rights and opportunity for all.
Also starring Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna and James
Franco.
  

I've
Loved You So Long 12/12
Kristin
Scott Thomas gives an outstanding performance as Juliette,
a woman who, just released from a long prison sentence, is
trying to reconcile with her sister. The film begins with
Lea (Elsa Zylberstein), the younger sister by fifteen years,
picking Juliette up at the airport. We soon realize that the
two sisters are almost complete strangers to each other. Lea
was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was sent off
to prison. Juliette's gradual reconnection with her sister
and reintegration into a free life is profoundly moving and
psychologically complex. Expertly directed by Philippe Claudel
and masterfully acted by the two leads. In French w/subtitles.
  

Slumdog
Millionaire 12/19
Danny
Boyle's latest film is part exhilarating love story, part
eye-catching journey into the underbelly of the so-called
"maximum city" of Mumbai. It is a sweeping, intoxicating
tale of an Everyman's triumph against a harsh, cynical world,
a Dickensian epic for the 21st Century. At the heart of its
exuberant storytelling lies the intriguing question of how
anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
The story follows a penniless, eighteen year old orphan from
the slums of Mumbai who is one question away from winning
a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To
Be A Millionaire?
  

The
Reader 12/25
Stephen
Daldry (The Hours, Billy Elliot) directs this powerful,
disturbing film, with a screenplay by David Hare, and starring
Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. The film is set in Post WWII
Germany. Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman
came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Burk is reunited
with his former lover (Winslet) as she defends herself in
a war-crime trial.
  

The
Spectrum 8 Theatres is proud to announce our 2008-2009 Opera
Calendar.
All
operas are presented in Digital High Definition, with Dolby
Digital Surround Sound.
Tickets
to the opera showings are $20 each. To reserve opera tickets,
please call: 449-8995 x10. There is a limit of 4 tickets per
reservation. On the day of the show, tickets must be claimed
at the box office at least 20 minutes before showtime. When
you claim your tickets, you will need to pay by cash or check.
Please note that at this time, the Spectrum does not accept
credit cards. We do have an atm in our lobby.
ROMEO
& JULIET (Gounod)
From the Salzburg Festival, an Opera in 5 Acts (3 hours)
Sunday, November 23 at 12:00pm
Monday, November 24 at 6:30pm
OTELLO
(Verdi)
From the Salzburg Festival, an Opera in 4 Acts (2 hours, 10
minutes)
Sunday, November 30 at 12:00pm
Monday, December 1 at 6:30pm
DON
GIOVANNI (Mozart)
From the Salzburg Festival, an Opera in 2 Acts (3 hours)
Sunday, December 7 at 12:00pm
Monday, December 8 at 6:30pm
HANSEL
AND GRETEL (Glyndebourne Festival)
Sunday, January 18 at 12:00pm
Monday, January 19 at 6:30pm
GIULIO
CEASARE (Glyndebourne Festival)
Sunday, February 1 at 12:00pm
Monday, February 2 at 6:30pm
DON
CARLO (La Scala)
Sunday, February 22 at 12:00pm
Monday, February 23 at 6:30pm
RIGOLETTO
(Italy's Grand Operas)
Sunday, March 15 at 12:00pm
Monday, March 16 at 6:30pm
LADY
MACBETH OF THE MTSENSK DISTRICT (Italy's Grand Operas)
Sunday, March 29 at 12:00pm
Monday, March 30 at 6:30pm
DAS
RHEINGOLD (Wagner)
Sunday, April 19 at 12:00pm
Monday, April 20 at 6:30pm


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