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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
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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
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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.
  


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