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The
White Ribbon (R) 12:20, 3:25, 6:30, 9:30
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call
New Orleans (Not Rated) 3:45, 6:40, 9:40
The Last Station
(R) 12:50, 3:35, 6:45, 9:35
2010 Oscar Nominated Animated
Short Films (PG) 12:55, 7:00 Ends Thurs
2010 Oscar Nominated Live Action
Short Films (R) 4:00, 9:35 Ends Thurs
Shutter Island
(R) 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40
The Hurt Locker
(R) 12:35, 6:40
Valentine's Day
(PG13) 12:40, 6:30 Ends Thurs
An Education
(PG) 4:10, 9:30
Crazy Heart
(R) 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20
A Single Man
(PG13) 1:00
Up in the Air
(R) 3:55, 9:25
The
White Ribbon
(R)
Times: 12:20, 3:25, 6:30, 9:30
Nominated
for 2 Academy Awards: Best Cinematography and Best Foreign
Language Film. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign
Film.
Acclaimed director Michael Haneke (Hidden, Funny Games)
returns to his classic themes of guilt, denial and violence
in this haunting and provocative film which was awarded the
Palme DOr at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The story concerns
strange accidents in a small village in the north of Germany
that gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual.
Who is behind it all? The village schoolteacher observes,
investigates and little by little discovers the incredible
truth. Are we being asked to consider whether these events
heralded something that would explode years later with the
rise of Nazi Germany? Did these events contain the germs of
the tragedies that followed? In German, Italian, Polish and
Latin with subtitles. 145 min.
  

Bad
Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (Not
Rated)
Times: 3:45, 6:40, 9:40
In
Werner Herzog's new film, Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective
who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs all
while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge
as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes an addict who
is also a fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins
of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his
tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves (Eva Mendes). Together
they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion
and madness. Equally sad and manically funny, the combination
of Herzog's uninhibited passion for the story and Nicolas
Cage's unhinged performance is exhilarating. 121 min.
  

The
Last Station
(R)
Times:
12:50, 3:35, 6:45, 9:35
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards: including Best Actress (Helen
Mirren) and Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Plummer).
Written and directed by Michael Hoffman, the film recounts
the drama of the final year in the life of the great Russian
writer, Leo Tolstoy. It is a true story, both dramatic and
humorous, that covers the themes of passion, love, family,
greed, intrigue, conflict and revolution. The movie focuses
on two contrasting love stories - the extraordinary relationship
between Tolstoy and his wife of 48 years, the immensely impassioned
Sofya, and the burgeoning love between Valentin, Tolstoys
idealistic young private secretary, and Masha, a teacher equally
committed to the writer's values. At the same time, the film
shows that Sofya is engaged in a ferocious battle for her
husband's soul. She believes that Tolstoy's wealth should
be left to the family and is fighting tooth and nail against
Chertkov, the zealous keeper of the Tolstoyan flame, who is
adamant that the writer's fortune should be bequeathed to
the Russian people. All these elements come together in a
gripping climax as Tolstoy nears the end of his life at a
remote little railway station in the Russian countryside.
Filmed at stunning locations in the beautiful German countryside,
the movie features an enormously accomplished cast led by
Christopher Plummer (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
as Tolstoy, Academy Award winner Helen Mirren (The Queen)
as Sofya, James McAvoy (Atonement) as Tolstoy's private
secretary Valentin, Paul Giamatti (Sideways), and Anne-Marie
Duff (The Magdalene Sisters). 115 min.
  

2010
Oscar Shorts Animated Program (PG)
Times:
12:55,
7:00 Ends Thurs
"French
Roast" - Fabrice O. Joubert (France, 8 min.)
"Granny
O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" - Nicky Phelan and Darragh
O'Connell (Ireland, 6 min.)
"The
Lady and the Reaper" (La Dama y la Muerte) - Javier
Recio Gracia (Spain, 8 min.)
"Logorama"
- Academy
Award Winner for best
animated short film - Nicolas Schmerkin (Argentina,
17 min.)
"A
Matter of Loaf and Death" - Nick Park (U.K., 29 min.)
"Partly
Cloudy" - Pixar (USA, 6 min.)
"The
Kinematograph" - Tomek Baginski (Poland, 12 min.)
"Runaway"
- Cordell Barker (Canada, 9 min.)
Total
running time 101 minutes.


2010
Oscar Shorts Live Action Program (R)
Times:
4:00,
9:35 Ends Thurs
"The Door"
- Juanita Wilson and James Flynn (Russian, 17 min.)
"Instead
of Abracadabra" - Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjällström
(Swedish, 18 min.)
"Kavi"
- Gregg Helvey (Hindi, 19 min.)
"Miracle
Fish" - Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey (English, 18
min.)
"The
New Tenants" - Academy
Award Winner for
best live action short film - Joachim Back and Tivi
Magnusson (English, 20 min.)
Total
running time 101 minutes.


Shutter
Island (R)
Times: 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40
Martin
Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio collaborate for the fourth
time in this adaptation of a novel by Dennis LeHane (Mystic
River). DiCaprio plays a U.S. marshal who travels to Shutter
Island in search of the person who killed his wife, uncovering
a complex web of deception along the way. Also starring Ben
Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson
and Max von Sydow. 138 min.
  

The
Hurt Locker (R)
Times: 12:35, 6:40
Winner
of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director,
and Best Original Screenplay.
Katherine Bigelow's film is a riveting, suspenseful portrait
of the courage under fire of the militarys unrecognized heroes:
the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge
the odds and save lives doing one of the world's most dangerous
jobs. Three members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance
Disposal squad battle insurgents and one another as they search
for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of
Baghdad. Their mission is clear - protect and save - but it's
anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a
war-zone bomb is zero. "A near perfect movie. Writer Mark
Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow have pooled their complementary
talents to make one of the rare war movies... this one's the
tops." Time. A thriller about the risks and intoxications
of professional passion. Ferociously suspenseful. Kathryn
Bigelow turns the discipline of action filmmaking into a kind
of visceral visual poetry. A.O.Scott, The New York Times.
131 min.
  

Valentine's
Day (PG13)
Times: 12:40, 6:30 Ends
Thurs
Veteran
filmmaker Garry Marshall's latest film follows the intertwining
storylines of a group of Los Angelinos as they find their
way through romance over the course of one Valentines Day.
The film features a star-studded ensemble cast including Jessica
Alba, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey,
Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace,
Anne Hathaway, Carter Jenkins, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah,
George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts
and Bryce Robinson. 125 min.
  

An
Education (PG)
Times:
4:10,
9:30
Nominated
for 3 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress (Carey Mulligan),
and Best Adapted Screenplay.
In the post-war, pre-Beatles London suburbs, a bright schoolgirl
is torn between studying for a place at Oxford and the rather
more exciting alternative offered to her by a charismatic
older man. Written by Nick Hornby (About A Boy, High Fidelity)
and directed by Lone Scherfig, the film stars Carey Mulligan,
Dominic Cooper, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina
and Sally Hawkins. 100 min.
 

Crazy
Heart (R)
Times:
12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20
Winner of 2 Academy Awards: Best Actor (Jeff Bridges) and
Best Original Song. Winner of 2 Golden Globes: Best Actor
in a Drama (Jeff Bridges), and Best Original Song.
Four time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the
richly comic, semi-tragic, romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in
the debut feature film from writer-director Scott Cooper.
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer
who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the
road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet,
Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean
(Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man
behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption,
Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be. Also starring
Robert Duvall. 112 min.
  

A
Single Man (PG13)
Times:
1:00
Nominated
for an Academy Award for Best Actor (Colin Firth).
Based
on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood, Tom
Ford's directorial debut stars Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.
Set in Los Angeles in 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile
crisis, it is the story of a British college professor (Firth)
who is struggling to find meaning after the death of his long-time
partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted,
the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition
and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments
in life. "The movie has a hushed, sensual intensity and
formal elegance that leaves no doubt Ford knows what he's
doing behind the camera." David Ansen, Newsweek.
"A Single Man" is suffused with beauty...
it's a movie conceived in a swoon... Tom Ford, the former
fashion designer... proves a born filmmaker with a rapturous
eye." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly. 99
min.
 

Up
in the Air (R)
Times: 3:55,
9:25
Nominated
for 6 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor
(George Clooney), two nominees for Best Supporting Actress
(Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick), and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay.
Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) directs
this timely odyssey of a corporate downsizer and consummate
modern business traveler who, after years of staying happily
airborne, suddenly finds himself ready to make a real connection.
George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who has long been
content with his unencumbered lifestyle lived out across America
in hotels and rental cars. Ryan thinks he has everything he
needs, and he's close to attaining his lifetime goal of ten
million frequent flyer miles - and yet something is missing.
When he falls for a fellow traveler (Vera Farmiga), Ryan's
boss (Jason Bateman), inspired by a young, upstart efficiency
expert, threatens to permanently call him in from the road.
Faced with the prospect, at once terrifying and exhilarating,
of being grounded, Ryan begins to contemplate what it might
actually mean to have a home. 109 min.
  

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