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A SINGLE MAN
Rated PG-13  -  99  minutes


Friday, March 5 through Thursday, March 11
Monday thru Thursday  -  5:15

Friday, March 12 through Thursday, March 18
Friday & Saturday  -  *2:30, 7:30  &  9:30
Sunday  -  *2:30 & 7:30
Monday thru Thursday  -  7:30
Oscar Nominated  -  Best Actor
Won - Best Actor - Venice Film Festival


Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Ginnifer Goodwin
Directed by Tom Ford
see the preview here:  http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1097663769/


Set in Los Angeles in 1962, A SINGLE MAN is the story of George Falconer, a 52-year-old British college professor who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long-time partner, Jim.  George dwells on the past and cannot see his future as we follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately leads him to decide if there is a meaning to life after Jim.  George is consoled by his closest friend Charley, a 48-year-old beauty who is wrestling with her own questions about the future, while a young student of George’s, who is coming to terms with his true nature, stalks George as he feels in him a kindred spirit.  While the resonating story is infused with warmth and humor, the film belongs to Firth in an eloquent performance, in both its heartbreak and its magnificence.  Uncanny at showing the heart crumbling under George's elegant exterior, he gives the performance of his career.  -  Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

Consensus: Though the costumes are beautiful and the art direction impeccable, what stands out most from this debut by fashion designer Tom Ford is the leading performance by Colin Firth.

Bob Mendelo of NPR called A SINGLE MAN - "Wrenching and ravishing"

also Friday, March 5 thru Thursday, March 11 . . .



THE LAST STATION
Rated R  [for one scene of sexuality]  -  112  minutes


Friday, March 5 through Thursday, March 11
Friday, Saturday, Sunday  -  *2:30  &  7:15
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday  -  7:30
No show on Tuesday, March 9 - see instead NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
Oscar Nominated  -  Best Supporting Actor  &  Best Actress
SAG Nominated  -  Best Actor  &  Best Actress


Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy
Wrirtten & Directed by Michael Hoffman  [SOAPDISH, RESTORATION]
see the preview here:  http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2454521113/


He was the celebrated author of "War and Peace," but the last years of Leo Tolstoy's life were all war and no peace. The savage rivalry for his attention and legacy between his redoubtable wife and his craftiest disciple that overshadowed his final days has now been turned into a showcase for tasty acting by performers who really know how to sink their teeth into roles.  Under the accomplished direction of Michael Hoffman, who also wrote the script, the film's centerpiece is the spectacular back and forth between Christopher Plummer as the great man and Helen Mirren as Sofya, his wife of 48 years and always a force to be reckoned with.  While Count Leo Tolstoy - living under the sway of a rigid Tolstoyan acolyte named Chertkov - supports anarchy, pacifism, and the abolishment of property rights, Countess Sofya fights, tigress-style, for the security of well-ordered laws regarding copyrights and inheritance - specifically her inheritance from her husband's estate, which she would lose if Chertkov and his ilk got their way.  The notion for this film came from writer Jay Parini, who was so fascinated to discover that numerous people around Tolstoy in the fatal year of 1910 kept diaries with their versions of events that he wrote a novel telling the story from six points of view. Hoffman's screenplay simplifies this a bit but keeps the story's fine sense of the complexities of human relationships, of the war in Tolstoy's household between the welfare of family and the welfare of mankind. - Kenneth Turan - LA TIMES

Classics Night  - Tuesday, March 9 . . . 3:00 & 7:30 p.m.




NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
1955  -  92 minutes

Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Peter Graves
Directed by Charles Laughton

see the preview here:  http://www.trailerfan.com/movie/the_night_of_the_hunter/trailer
In the entire history of American movies, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER stands out as the rarest and most exotic of specimens.  It is, to say the least, a masterpiece - and not just because it was the only movie directed by flamboyant actor Charles Laughton or the only solo screenplay by the legendary critic James Agee (who also cowrote THE AFRICAN QUEEN).  The truth is, nobody has ever made anything approaching its phantasmagoric, overheated style in which German expressionism, film noir, religious hysteria, fairy-tale fantasy (of the Grimm-est variety), and stalker movie are brought together in a furious boil.  The American gothic, Biblical tale of greed, innocence, seduction, sin and corruption tells the suspenseful tale of a demented preacher, who weasels his way into a family because he's certain the kids know where their late bank-robber father hid a stash of stolen money. So compelling, haunting, primal, and unforgettable are its images - the preacher's shadow looming over the children in their bedroom, the magical boat ride down a river whose banks teem with fantastic wildlife, those tattoos of  L O V E  and  H A T E  on the unholy man's knuckles, a woman's golden locks waving in the current along with the indigenous plant life  - that they're still haunting audiences (and filmmakers) today.  -  Jim Emerson, rogerebert.com

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