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Winter's Bone   8/6
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Jennifer Lawrence stars as seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly. Ree sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. Directed by Debra Granik.

Eat Pray Love   8/13
Julia Roberts stars in this adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best selling memoir. Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a successful career, yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy, the power of prayer in India, and finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali. Directed by Ryan Murphy and also starring James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis, Billy Crudup and Javier Bardem.

Neil Young Trunk Show   Buy Tickets Now!
One Show Only   8/18 at 7pm
Director Jonathan Demme offers us Neil Young, the musical and spiritual soul. Young on a stage full of personal icons: alone in the center of a circle of his beloved acoustic guitars; in the midst of stellar musicians Ben Keith, Ralph Molina, Rick Rosas, Pegi Young and Anthony "Sweet Pea" Crawford, plus an onstage painter portrayed by Eric Johnson. There are delicately offered acoustic numbers like "Sad Movies" and "Mexico"; mesmerizing electric travelogues into the artists psyche ("No Hidden Path"); searing, chaotic anthems including "Like a Hurricane" and "Cinnamon Girl"; and rarely performed pieces like "Kansas" and "Ambulance Blues" that provide glimpses of Young's less public persona. In addition to his distinctively blistering and plaintive guitar, Neil draws deep melancholy from an old piano, and he sings his heart out again and again. "Gorgeous! Demme beautifully captures the shows casual intimacy, which allows viewers to feel like Young is singing directly to them." Elizabeth Weitzman, Daily News.

The Switch   8/20
Jennifer Aniston stars alongside Jason Bateman in this offbeat comedy as Kassie, a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally's (Bateman) objections, decides it's time to have a baby even if it means doing it by herself with a little help from a charming sperm donor (Patrick Wilson). But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie's plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn't discovered until several years later when Wally finally gets acquainted with Kassies cute though slightly neurotic son. Also starring Jeff Goldblum and Juliette Lewis.

Flipped   8/27
Rob Reiner directs this lovely period piece about first love. When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. But Bryce isnt so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does every thing he can to keep this outspoken young girl at arm's length - for the next six years - which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other. This poignant, funny film takes Bryce and Juli from grade school to junior high, through triumph and disaster, family drama and first love, as they make the discoveries that will define who they are and who they are to each other.

Get Low   8/27
Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black star in the true story of Felix Bush Breazeale, who attracted national attention when he threw himself a living funeral party in 1938 in Roane County, Tennessee. For years the townsfolk had been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush, believing he had done all manner of unspeakable things. Then, one day, Felix rode into town with a shogun and a wad of cash, saying he wanted to buy a funeral. Not your usual funeral for the dead. Felix wanted a living funeral, in which anyone who ever heard a story about him would come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn gets ready to take advantage of the situation.

The American   9/1
The suspense thriller stars Academy Award winner George Clooney in the title role for director Anton Corbijn (Control), adapted from Martin Booth's 1990 novel A Very Private Gentleman. Mr. Clooney plays Jack, an assassin who is constantly on the move and always alone. After a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside. He relishes being away from death for a spell as he holes up in a small medieval town. While there, Jack takes an assignment to construct a weapon for a mysterious contact, Mathilde (Thekla Reuten). Savoring the peaceful quietude he finds in the mountains of Abruzzo, Jack accepts the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli) and pursues a torrid liaison with a beautiful woman, Clara (Violante Placido). Jack and Clara's time together evolves into a romance, one seemingly free of danger. But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate.

Suck   (R) Buy Tickets Now!
One Show Only  9/2 at 7pm
Don't miss the outrageous rock 'n' roll vampire spoof about a down and out band, The Winners, who will do anything for a record deal. When their disgruntled manager (Dave Foley) tells them that they are getting "long in the tooth", he doesn't know that his words are truly prophetic. During a road trip, their humdrum image radically changes when Jennifer (Jessica Paré), the bass player, disappears one night with a hip vampire (Dimitri Coats). She emerges with a sexually charged charisma that drives the audiences wild. Also starring Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins, Rob Stefaniuk, Malcolm McDowell, and Iggy Pop. 90 min.

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky   9/3
Coco Chanel is devoted to her work and madly in love with the handsome and very wealthy Arthur "Boy" Capel. It's 1913 when, at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Igor Stravinsky premieres his Rite of Spring. Coco 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 and Stravinsky is inconsolable. Seven year later, after Boy Capel's untimely death, Coco meets Stravinsky again. The attraction between them is immediate and electric. And so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins. Directed by Jan Kounen. In English and French and Russian with subtitles.

Wild Grass   9/10
A wallet lost and found opens the door - slightly - to a romantic adventure. After Georges examines the ID of its owner, he declines to turn in the red wallet he has found to the police. And Marguerite finds it difficult to retrieve her wallet without her curiosity being piqued about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives. Directed by Alain Resnais. In French w/subtitles.

Jack Goes Boating   9/17
Philip Seymour Hoffman makes his directorial debut with this tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples. The film stars John Ortiz (American Gangster), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Broadway's Rent), Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote). Jack (Hoffman) and Connie (Ryan) are two single people who on their own might continue to recede into the anonymous background of the city, but in each other begin to find the courage and desire to pursue their budding relationship. In contrast, the couple that introduced them, Clyde (John Ortiz) and Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega), are confronting unresolved issues in their marriage. Jack is a limo driver with vague dreams of landing a job with the MTA and an obsession with reggae that has prompted him to begin a half-hearted attempt at growing dreadlocks. He spends most of his time hanging out with his best friends Clyde and Lucy. The couple set Jack up with Connie, Lucy's co-worker at a Brooklyn funeral home. Being with Connie inspires Jack to learn to cook, pursue a new career and take swimming lessons so he can give Connie the romantic boat ride she dreams of. But as Jack and Connie cautiously circle commitment, Clyde and Lucy's marriage begins to disintegrate. From there, we watch as each couple comes face to face with the inevitable path of their relationship.

London's National Theatre Series

- Future showings from London's National Theatre Series will be posted as available.

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