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STORIES WE TELL
Directed by Sarah Polley
PG-13, 108 min
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One of the best reviewed films of the year starts Friday!
In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. As each relates their version of the family mythology, present-day recollections shift into nostalgia-tinged glimpses of their mother, who departed too soon, leaving a trail of unanswered questions. Polley unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: always complicated, warmly messy and fiercely loving. Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.
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| 05/17 |
Friday |
4:45, 7:15, 9:40 |
| 05/18 |
Saturday |
2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 |
| 05/19 |
Sunday |
2:15, 4:45, 7:15 |
| 05/20 |
Monday |
4:45, 7:15
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| 05/21 |
Tuesday |
4:45, 7:15
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| 05/22 |
Wednesday |
4:45, 7:15
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| 05/23 |
Thursday |
4:45, 7:15
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THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
Directed by Mira Nair
R, 128 min
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One week only
We begin in 2011 in Lahore. At an outdoor café a Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) tells Bobby (Liev Schreiber), an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back ten years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking fortune and glory on Wall Street. The American Dream seems well within his grasp, complete with a smart and gorgeous artist girlfriend, Erica (Kate Hudson). But when the Twin Towers are attacked, a cultural divide slowly begins to crack open between Changez and Erica. Changez's dream soon begins to slip into nightmare: profiled, wrongfully arrested, strip-searched and interrogated, he is transformed from a well-educated, upwardly mobile businessman to a scapegoat and perceived enemy. With time, he begins to hear the call of his own homeland. Taking us through the culturally rich and beguiling worlds of New York, Lahore and Istanbul, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a story about conflicting ideologies where perception and suspicion have the power to determine life or death. (c) IFC Films
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| 05/17 |
Friday |
7:00 |
| 05/18 |
Saturday |
7:00 |
| 05/19 |
Sunday |
7:00 |
| 05/20 |
Monday |
7:00
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| 05/21 |
Tuesday |
7:00
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| 05/22 |
Wednesday |
4:20
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| 05/23 |
Thursday |
6:30
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THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
Directed by Robert Redford
R, 125 min
In English
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Jim Grant (Robert Redford) is a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York. Grant's world is turned upside down,when a brash young reporter named Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder. After living for more than 30 years underground, Grant must now go on the run. With the FBI in hot pursuit, he sets off on a cross-country journey to track down the one person that can clear his name. Shepard knows the significance of the national news story he has exposed and, for a journalist, this is an opportunity of a lifetime. Hell-bent on making a name for himself, he is willing to stop at nothing to capitalize on it. He digs deep into Grant's past. Despite warnings from his editor and threats from the FBI, Shepard relentlessly tracks Grant across the country. As Grant reopens old wounds and reconnects with former members of his antiwar group, the Weather Underground, Shepard realizes something about this man is just not adding up. With the FBI closing in, Shepard uncovers the shocking secrets Grant has been keeping for the past three decades. As Grant and Shepard come face to face in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, they each must come to terms with who they really are.
| Showtimes |
| 05/17 |
Friday |
4:25 |
| 05/18 |
Saturday |
4:25 |
| 05/19 |
Sunday |
4:25 |
| 05/20 |
Monday |
4:25
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| 05/21 |
Tuesday |
4:25
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| 05/22 |
Wednesday |
No show
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| 05/23 |
Thursday |
4:00 PM
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FROM UP ON POPPY HILL
Directed by Goro Miyazaki
PG, 91 min
Dubbed, In English
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5/18 and 5/19 only
The setting is Yokohama in 1963, and the filmmakers lovingly bring to life the bustling seaside town, with its misty harbor, sun-drenched gardens, shops and markets, and some of the most mouthwatering Japanese home-cooking set to film. The story centers on an innocent romance beginning to bud between Umi and Shun, two high school kids caught up in the changing times. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics - and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. While the children work together to save a dilapidated Meiji era club house from demolition, their tentative relationship begins to blossom. But - in an unexpected twist that parallels what the country itself is facing - a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart. (c) GKids
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| 05/18 |
Saturday |
2:25 |
| 05/19 |
Sunday |
2:25 |
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