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Away We Go Now Showing
97 minutes • 2009 • USA • In English • Rated R (for language and some sexual content.)
"Like Juno or Little Miss Sunshine, Away We Go is a small film, the kind of gem that's easy to crush with hype or overpraise. But, the fact is that few movies deal with feelings this profound with as much restraint as Mendes and his crew display here." TV Guide
  • Friday, Jul 3 - Sunday, Jul 5 @ 4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:20 PM
  • Monday, Jul 6 - Thursday, Jul 9 @ 7:00 PM, 9:20 PM
Everlasting Moments Now Showing
131 minutes • 2009 • Denmark | Finland | Norway | Sweden | Germany • In Swedish & Finish with Subtitles • Unrated
Troell is one of the world's master directors. I have been championing his movies for more than 30 years, ever since I saw his great two-part epic "The Emigrants" and "The New Land." Only a handful of his films have received theatrical distribution in America, though. That such a great artist, the equal of his fellow countryman Ingmar Bergman, should be relegated, for the most part, to the film festival circuit, is a cultural crime. His 1996 "Hamsun," starring Max von Sydow as the disgraced Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun, who sided with the Nazis, is probably the least-known masterpiece of the past 20 years. And yet, against all odds and the vagaries of the movie business, Troell, at 78, continues to turn out films that will last for as long as there are movies. No wonder he feels such a deep connection to Maria in "Everlasting Moments." The film is one hero's salute to another. Grade: A. Peter Rainer, CSM
  • Friday, Jul 3 - Sunday, Jul 5 @ 1:40 PM
  • Monday, Jul 6 - Thursday, Jul 9 @ 4:00 PM
Moon Starts Friday
97 minutes • 2009 • UK • In English • Rated R (for language)
When I screened this celebrated and buzzed about film at Sundance Film Festival, I felt as if I had stepped into a time machine and instead of going into the future, when Moon is set, I went back to the time when trailblazers like Stanley Kubrick walked the earth. With obvious echoes and nods to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Duncan Jones carves out his own territory with this mesmerizing space tale, starring Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell. Rockwell’s brilliant performance, as an astronaut at the end of a three–year stint on the moon, grounds the film. On the verge of space madness, Sam’s anxious calls back home begin to suggest trouble on the home front, while his daily life at the station is interrupted only by the sinister HAL–like voice of Kevin Spacey. When an accident happens, Sam’s discoveries are surprising—and deadly.
  • Friday, Jul 10 - Thursday, Jul 16 (TBA)

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