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Stand by Me (1986)

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Friday, March 8
11:15 pm
Saturday, March 9
11:00 pm

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Directed by Rob Reiner

88 Minutes, BluRay

Based on Stephen King’s Short story “The Body”, “Stand By Me” tells the tale of Gordie Lachance, a writer who looks back on his preteen days when he and three close friends went on their own adventure to find the body of a kid their age who had gone missing and presumed dead. The stakes are upped when the bad kids in town are closely tailing – and it becomes a race to see who’ll be able to recover the body first.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUVnfaA-kpI

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Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Midnight Cowboy
Friday, February 22
11:00 pm
Saturday, February 23
11:00 pm

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Directed by John Schlesinger

Starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight

113 Minutes, BluRay

Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real ‘hustler’, he finds that he is the one getting ‘hustled’ until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial ‘country cousin meets city cousin’ relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2yBydiEJrI

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Emmanuelle (1974)

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Thursday, February 14
11:00 pm

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Directed by Just Jaeckin

94 Minutes, BluRay

Emmanuelle is a beautiful young model and lives in Bangkok together with her husband Jean, who’s several years older. She likes him because he’s taught her much, and he likes her because she’s learning so well – and wants to often. Both are very tolerant in matters of extramarital affairs, so he doesn’t mind the young Marie-Ange coming over every so often, although she obviously wants more than talk from his wife. But Emmanuelle is more fascinated by the older Bee, and joins her on a trip into the jungle.

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Wake in Fright (1971)

WAKE-IN-FRIGHT
Friday, January 25
11:00 pm
Saturday, January 26
11:00 pm

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Directed by Ted Kotcheff

109 Minutes, 35MM

WAKE IN FRIGHT tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia.

“The quintessential Australian exploitation film…a harrowing journey, but one you’ll likely want to take again, very soon.” —Drew Taylor, Indiewire

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqWvWR8KYFw

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Rust and Bone

Rust and Bone
Friday, March 8
9:00 pm
Saturday, March 9
4:00 pm
8:30 pm
Sunday, March 10
5:00 pm
Tuesday, March 12
9:00 pm
Wednesday, March 13
7:00 pm
Thursday, March 14
9:00 pm

Directed by Jacques Audiard

Starring Marion Cotillard

French w/ English subtitles

120 Minutes, DCP

 

 

Ali, a man of formidable size and strength, gets a job as a bouncer in a nightclub. He comes to the aid of STEPHANIE (Marion Cotillard) during a nightclub brawl. Aloof and beautiful, Stephanie seems unattainable, but in his frank manner Ali leaves her his phone number anyway. Stephanie trains orca whales at Marineland. When a performance ends in tragedy, a call in the night again brings them together.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7skcyYolU

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Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice
Friday, March 8
7:00 pm
Saturday, March 9
6:30 pm
Sunday, March 10
3:00 pm
Tuesday, March 12
7:00 pm
Wednesday, March 13
9:30 pm
Thursday, March 14
7:00 pm

CO-SPONSERED BY LANDLOCKED FILM FESTIVAL

Directed by Jeff Orlowski

76 Minutes, BluRay

 

 

 

Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of climate change. Using time-lapse cameras, his videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.

“Stunning…Timely…A solitary quest with global implications.” – The New York Times

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZTMVNBjc4

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The Intouchables

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Friday, March 1
9:30 pm
Saturday, March 2
6:30 pm
Sunday, March 3
3:00 pm
Tuesday, March 5
7:00 pm
Wednesday, March 6
9:45 pm
Thursday, March 7
7:00 pm

Directed by Olivier Nakache

Starring François Cluzet and Omar Sy

French w/ English subtitles

113 Minutes, DCP

 

A true story of two men who should never have met — a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

Trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34WIbmXkewU

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8½ (1963)

8 and a half
Friday, March 1
7:00 pm
Saturday, March 2
4:00 pm
9:00 pm
Sunday, March 3
5:30 pm
Tuesday, March 5
9:30 pm
Wednesday, March 6
7:00 pm
Thursday, March 7
9:30 pm

Directed by Frederico Fellini

English, Italian, French, German
w/ English subtitles

138 Minutes, 35MM

 

 

 

40th Anniversary
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtDQOF_pU8A

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Middle of Nowhere

Middle of Nowhere
Friday, February 22
7:00 pm
Saturday, February 23
4:00 pm
8:00 pm
Sunday, February 24
3:00 pm
Tuesday, February 26
9:00 pm
Wednesday, February 27
7:00 pm
Thursday, February 28
9:00 pm

Directed by Ava DuVernay

Starring Emayatzy Corinealdi and David Oyelowo

99 Minutes, BluRay

 

 

 

As Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) rides a bus through the inner city streets, she wills herself to push away memories that crowd her.  Four years earlier, she was a vibrant medical student married to the love of her life, Derek (Omari Hardwick). Now, she makes her way to the maximum security prison on the outskirts of town. This is where her love now resides. Behind coiled razor wire and forty foot concrete walls.  As the couple stares into the hallow end of an eight-year prison sentence, Ruby must learn to live another life, one marked by shame and separation.

But through a chance encounter with hard-working bus driver Brian (David Oyelowo) and a stunning betrayal that shakes her to the core, she is soon propelled in new and often frightening directions of self-discovery. As we chronicle her turbulent yet transformative journey, we witness the emergence of a broken woman made whole.

Trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYu8axSs9qw

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Tchoupitoulas

Tchoupitoulas
Friday, February 22
9:00 pm
Saturday, February 23
6:00 pm
Tuesday, February 26
7:00 pm
Wednesday, February 27
9:00 pm
Thursday, February 28
7:00 pm

Directed by Bill Ross

80 Minutes, BluRay

 

 

 

 

 

A kaleidoscopic odyssey into another side of New Orleans, this is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys are our wide-eyed guides to a parade of entertainers and revelers as they dance through the lamp-lit streets and doorways of the Crescent City. From dusk to dawn, from Rampart to the river, they explore the lives and locales of one of the world’s most unique cities.

“A fever-dream tour of nocturnal New Orleans.” – Eric Hynes, New York Times

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRD0wbbZqw

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