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SPECTRUM
8 THEATRES
290 Delaware Ave., Albany, NY
Winner
of the Best Movie Theatre Award in the
Albany Times Union, Metroland, and Capital Region Living Magazine!
website: www.spectrum8.com
Film Information: (518) 449-8995
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our Café!
Mon - Thurs .........8 am - 10 pm
Fri ......................8 am - 11 pm
Sat ....................10 am - 11 pm
Sun....................10 am - 10 pm
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Café: (518) 434-0333
Wednesday
is student night at the Spectrum! Students with a valid ID receive a
discounted ticket price as well as a discount at the Ultraviolet Café.
SHOWTIMES
for 3/5 - 3/11
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
2010 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films (R) 4:00, 9:35
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
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
Total
running time 101 minutes.
•
"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" - Oscar 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.)
2010
Oscar Shorts Live Action Program (R)
Times: 4:00, 9:35
Total running time 101 minutes.
•
"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" - Oscar Winner for best live action
short film - Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson (English, 20 min.)
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
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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