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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.

Hugo in 3DThroughout 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.

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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.
A Dangerous MethodViggo 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.

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Albert Nobbs   (R)
Times: 12:25, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35
Albert NobbsGlenn 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.

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Shame    (NC17)
Times: 12:50, 9:20
Shame 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.

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The Artist   (PG13)
Times: 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 9:25

The ArtistNominated 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.

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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)

Iron LadyMeryl 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.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy   (R)
Times: 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTomas 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.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo   (R)
Times: 3:00, 8:30
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Actress.
The Girl with the Dragon TattooDavid 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.

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My Week With Marilyn   (R)
Times: 12:35, 6:20
My Week With MarilynNominated 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.

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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 DescendantsThe 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.

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I Am Bruce Lee  - One Show Only!
Thurs. 2/9  at 7:00

I am Bruce LeeBruce 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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