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Hugo
(PG) 3:20, 6:25
A Dangerous Method
(R) 12:55, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35. Please note: there will be no
6:50 show of A Dangerous Method on Thurs. 2/9.
Albert Nobbs
(R) 12:25, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35
Shame (NC17)
12:50, 9:20
The Artist (PG13)
12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 9:25
The Iron Lady
(PG13) 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
(R) 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
(R) 3:00, 8:30
My Week With Marilyn
(R) 12:35, 6:20
The Descendants
(R) 12:30, 3:25, 6:45, 9:30
And
for one show only:
I Am Bruce Lee
Thurs. 2/9 at 7:00
Hugo
in 3D (PG)
Times: 3:20, 6:25
Golden Globe Winner: Best Director -
Martin Scorsese
Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture and
Best Director.
Throughout
his extraordinary career, Academy Award winning director Martin
Scorsese has brought his unique vision and dazzling gifts
to life in a series of unforgettable films. For his latest
film, Scorsese utilizes 3D technology to take us on a thrilling
journey into the magical world of Hugo. Based on Brian Selznick's
imaginative bestseller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret,
the film follows this wily and resourceful boy on his quest
to unlock a secret left to him by his father, a secret that
will transform him and all those around him. Scorsese has
assembled an impressive acting ensemble comprised of rising
new talent working alongside venerated stars, including Ben
Kingsley, Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë
Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer and Michael Stuhlbarg.
"A masterpiece! Bursting with emotion and exquisitely
inhabited by Butterfield and the rest of the cast, this beautiful
film is a mechanism that comes to life at the turn of a key
in the shape of a heart." Richard Corliss, Time.
"Hugo will take your breath away. It truly is the stuff
that dreams are made of. A spectacular adventure for film
lovers of all ages." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone.
126 min.
  

A
Dangerous Method (R)
Times: 12:55, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35. Please note: there will
be no 6:50 show of A Dangerous Method on Thurs. 2/9.
Viggo
Mortensen, Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbinder star in
David Cronenberg's (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence,
Crash) new film. On the eve of World War I, Zurich and
Vienna are the setting for a dark tale of sexual and intellectual
discovery. Drawn from true-life events, A Dangerous Method
takes a glimpse into the turbulent relationships between
fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud,
and Sabina Spielrein, the troubled but beautiful young woman
who comes between them. Into the mix comes Otto Gross (Vincent
Cassel), a debauched patient who is determined to push the
boundaries. In this exploration of sensuality, ambition and
deceit set the scene for the pivotal moment when Jung, Freud
and Sabina come together and split apart, forever changing
the face of modern thought. From a screenplay by Academy Award
winning writer Christopher Hampton (Atonement, Dangerous
Liaisons), who adapted his own stage play The Talking
Cure for the screen. 99 min.
 

Albert
Nobbs (R)
Times: 12:25, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35
Glenn
Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of
a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland, directed
by Rodrigo Garcia. After thirty years of keeping up the charade,
a new love threatens to destroy everything she's worked so
hard to build. Also starring Mia Wasikowska, Janet McTeer,
Brendan Gleeson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. 113 min.
  

Shame
(NC17)
Times: 12:50, 9:20
2011 Venice Film Festival: Best Actor, Michael Fassbender.
One of the Top 10 Independent Films - National Board of Review.
Director Steve McQueen's (Hunger) highly acclaimed
film, an explicit look at sexual addiction, stars Michael
Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. Fassbender stars as Brandon,
a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires
with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger
sister (Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories
of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals
out of control. "A great act of filmmaking and acting." Roger
Ebert, Chicago Sun Times. "Provocative and powerful."
Total Film. 101 min.
  

The
Artist (PG13)
Times: 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 9:25
Nominated
for 10 Academy Awards including: Best Picture, Best Actor,
Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director.
Winner of 3 Golden Globe awards: Best Motion Picture (Comedy
or Musical), Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical (Jean Dujardin),
Best Original Score.
Winner: Best Actor Jean Dujardin, Cannes Film Festival.
This critically acclaimed, already beloved film, director
Michel Hazanavicius' valentine to the movies, is set in 1920s
Hollywood. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie
superstar. But the advent of the talkies will soon sound the
death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion.
For young extra Peppy Miller (Bérénice
Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom
awaits. "The Artist tells the story of their interlinked
destinies. Pure unadulterated joy." The London Times.
101 min.
 

The
Iron Lady (PG13)
Times: 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Actress.
Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama (Meryl
Streep)
Meryl
Streep stars in this compelling story of Margaret Thatcher,
a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class
to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns
the price that is paid for power and is a surprising and intimate
portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman. Streep heads
the cast as Lady Thatcher; Jim Broadbent is Denis Thatcher.
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia). 105 min.


Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy (R)
Times: 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Actor.
Tomas
Alfredson (Let the Right One In) directs this long-awaited
feature film version of John le Carré's classic bestselling
novel. The stellar cast includes Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin
Firth, Tom Hardy and Ciaran Hinds. The time is 1973. The Cold
War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international
relations. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI6,
and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other
countries' espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure.
The head of the Circus, known as Control (Hurt), sends dedicated
operative Jim Prideaux into Hungary. But Jim's mission goes
bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus as
is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Oldman), a career spy
with razor-sharp senses. There is a gnawing fear that the
Circus has long been compromised by a double agent working
for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. In trying to track
and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier
interaction with the shadowy Russian spymaster Karla. 127 min.
  

The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (R)
Times: 3:00, 8:30
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including
Best Actress.
David
Fincher (The Social Network) directs this first film
in the three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary
blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Daniel Craig and
Rooney Mara head the all-star cast, which includes Christopher
Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright and
Joely Richardson. Hoping to distance himself from the fallout
of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig)
retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the
unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist
uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island
where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation
draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful,
and throws him together with one unlikely ally tattooed, punk
hacker, Lisbeth Salander (Mara). 158 min.
  

My
Week With Marilyn (R)
Times: 12:35, 6:20
Nominated
for 2 Academy Awards: Best Actor and Best Actress.
Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or
Musical (Michelle Williams).
Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne and Judi
Dench star in this film about one idyllic week in the life
of Marilyn Monroe. Set in the summer of 1956, the action takes
place on the set of the film that famously united Sir Laurence
Olivier (Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Williams). At the time
Monroe was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright
Arthur Miller. But when Arthur Miller leaves England, the
coast is clear for Marilyn - desperate to get away from her
retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work
- to experience some of the pleasures of British life. The
collision of the two worlds, old England and new Hollywood,
is as incongruous as it is delightful. 99 min.
  

The
Descendants (R)
Times: 12:30, 3:25, 6:45, 9:30
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including:
Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.
Winner of 2 Golden Globe awards: Best Motion Picture (Drama),
Best Actor in a Drama (George Clooney).
The
creator of the Oscar-winning Sideways, Alexander Payne's
latest film is set in Hawaii and stars George Clooney. It
tells the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey of
Matt King (Clooney), an indifferent husband and father of
two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace
his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off Waikiki.
The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters
while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land
that was handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
"The Descendants is one of those satisfying, emotionally rich
films that works on multiple levels." Peter Debruge,
Variety. 115 min.
 

I
Am Bruce Lee - One Show Only!
Thurs. 2/9 at 7:00
Bruce
Lee's spirit remains an inspiration to untold numbers of people
around the world and when he died on July 20, 1973, the world
mourned the passing of a true renaissance man. This compelling
film uncovers Bruce's life, his enormous impact, and his ever-expanding
legacy in the world of martial arts, entertainment and beyond
-- despite his tragic and sudden death at the age of 32. The
film features interviews with people who knew Bruce intimately,
along with a broad array of international icons from the entertainment
and athletic fields -- people whose lives, careers and belief
systems have been forever altered by the legend UFC President
Dana White calls the "Father of Mixed Martial Arts."
Interviews include basketball superstar Kobe Bryant, acclaimed
actors Mickey Rourke and Ed O'Neill, world boxing champion
Manny Pacquiao, UFC's Dana White, world champion Jon Jones,
and a host of Bruce Lee's family, friends and associates.
Using a combination of rarely seen archival footage, classic
photos, and cutting edge visuals and graphics, the film goes
more deeply into the story of this legendary master than ever
before. Movie website: http://www.iambruceleemovie.com/
90 min.

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