Butterfly
When: Saturday, August 20, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: José Luis Cuerda
Starring: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Manuel Lozano (II)
Duration: 196 minutes
Year: 1999
Description:
Butterfly is a heartwarming tale about a young boy growing up in a small Spanish town. Moncho is timid and fearful as he starts school for the first time. But with the nurturing guidance of his kind and devoted teacher, Don Gregorio, a world of possibilities begins to open up for young Moncho. As the school year comes to a close, however, civil war begins sweeping across the country, forcing the boy's family and community to choose between the fight for freedom and the threat of persecution! An amazing story of family and friendship during a time of extreme conflict.
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Fried Green Tomatoes
When: Saturday, August 27, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Jon Avnet
Starring: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy
Duration: 130 minutes
Year: 1991
Description:
Kathy Bates stars as an unhappy wife trying to get her husband's attention. After befriending a lonely outgoing old woman in a nursing home she hears the story of a lifelong friendship between two women who once ran a cafe in town against many personal odds. The tale inspires Bates and brings assertiveness to her life, makes her take command over her life, but also invites the sweet quality of deep friendship and beauty.
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The Swimsuit Issue
When: Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Mans Herngren
Starring: Jonas Inde, Amanda Davin
Duration: 100 minutes
Year: 2009
Description:
In the wake of a wild bachelor party, Fredrik discovers his passion for synchronized swimming. Convincing his floorball teammates to join him as Sweden's only all-male team, they set their sights on the world championships in this oddball, comedic tale of courage, triumph and gender role reversal.
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The Perfect Game
When: Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: William Dear
Starring: Clifton Collins Jr., Cheech Marin
Duration: 118 minutes
Year: 2009
Description:
Based on a true story. In 1957 a rag-tag, shoeless, poor group of kids from Monterrey, Mexico shocked the world by winning 13 games in a row and the Little League World Series in the only perfect game ever pitched in the Championship. These kids, led by their priest and a down-and-out former major leaguer embark on a journey through the southern US and up into Williamsport, PA for the Championship game. They encountered many adversities including nearly being deported and the bigotry that wouldn't allow them into certain restaurants or travel on certain buses. They never lost their faith and eventually captured the hearts of both nations.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
When: Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Mariano Barroso
Starring: Salma Hayek, Edward James Olmos
Duration: 95 minutes
Year: 2001
Description:
On November 25, 1960, the bodies of three sisters were found near the bottom of a cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official daily 'El Caribe' reports that it had been an accident, but it does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it mention the sisters' fierce opposition to the General Trujillo's dictatorship. This is their story: how Minerva started the tragedy by refusing Trujillo; how Patria became an opponent from the church itself; how Maria Teresa joined the revolution through the love. And how they lost their wings, but not their courage. They were Las Mariposas
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Beautiful Dreamer
When: Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Terri Farley-Teruel
Starring: Brooke Langton, Colin Egglesfield
Duration: 90 minutes
Year: 2006
Description:
Orphan Joe Kelly has an idyllic youth growing up in the country with his grandpa, and can turn his hobby into his profession as crop spray plane pilot. After Pearl Harbor, he joins the US Air Force as bomber pilot. Joe's wife Claire is notified he's missing, presumed killed when his plane is shot down over Germany. Later a military mate reports he saw Joe alive, apparently taken POW. Claire starts searching and finally finds Joe elsewhere in the US, but suffering from amnesia, and living under the name Tommy Warner, as partner of a tiny commercial air freight firm.
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Cocoon
When: Saturday, October 4, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley
Duration: 117 minutes
Year: 1985
Description:
An offbeat and charming comedy with elements of science fiction thrown in, director Ron Howard's (Ransom, Apollo 13) unlikely fantasy ponders the price of immortality and the power of everlasting love. A group of aliens travel to a Florida retirement community to rescue some long-stranded colleagues cocooned and buried beneath the sea. But as the aliens take on human form and stash their counterparts in a swimming pool, a group of elderly retirees discover the pool and after swimming in the water find themselves rejuvenated, with boundless energy and insatiable appetites. Soon the retirees are forced to choose between living out their lives on earth with their families, or leaving with the aliens and attaining immortality. More character driven than dependent on the incredible plot, the film's charm comes from its characters and the wonderful cast, including Don Ameche, who won an Academy Award for his role as one of the randy retirees.
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Little Big Man
When: Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway
Duration: 139 minutes
Year: 1970
Description:
Jack Crabb is the only white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn and the centenarian shares his story in this picaresque fable of the Old West. In Arthur Penn's adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel, Dustin Hoffman plays Jack from teen years into old age in a bravura performance. And Jack's story is a fantastic one: captured by Indians as a boy, reared as an Indian, shuttling back and forth between the white and Indian worlds. In the process, he befriends everyone from Wild Bill Hickock to George Armstrong Custer and is a gunslinger, a snake-oil salesman, and an Army scout. This is a solid blend of comedy and tragedy, with a strong statement to make about America's treatment of Native Americans without sermonizing. A terrific cast includes Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, and Richard Mulligan. But this show is all Hoffman's.
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Zorba the Greek
When: Saturday, November 13, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Mihalis Kakogiannis
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates
Duration: 142 minutes
Year: 1964
Description:
If you think Zorba the Greek is a simple-minded homage to a man with a zest for life, then you haven't seen the movie. Basil (Alan Bates), a reticent British writer, comes to the Mediterranean island of Crete to revive a mine his father owned. On the way, he meets a Greek roustabout named Zorba (Anthony Quinn) and hires him to help, little suspecting that Zorba's exuberance will lead him to some dark and troubling places--frankly, if the last 30 minutes of Zorba the Greek are what it means to embrace life, some viewers will want to shut the door in life's face. But there's no denying the movie's ambitious scope and implacable force, even as it paints an alien and disturbing portrait of life in a Greek village. On top of that, gorgeous cinematography and one of the greatest film scores ever give this movie almost demonic energy.
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Opa!
When: Saturday, November 20, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Udayan Prasad
Starring: Matthew Modine, Richard Griffiths
Duration: 93 minutes
Year: 2011
Description:
In the magical Greek island of Patmos the inhabitants have lived, danced, and laughed for thousands of years. But, with the arrival of a straight-laced, high-tech archaeologist, Eric (Matthew Modine) everything could forever change. Eric soon finds himself swept into a world of picture-postcard scenery and romance. That is, until his satellite-guided equipment reveals that his most important find may be buried under the taverna owned by the object of his affection the beautiful and uncompromising Katerina (Agni Scott). Will Eric toss away a lifetime of work and the hope of fulfilling his father s deepest wish for the love of a vivacious and independent woman? It will take all her passion and all his courage to find out where the real treasure is buried.
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The Caine Mutiny
When: Saturday, November 27, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer
Duration: 125 minutes
Year: 1954
Description:
Humphrey Bogart is heartbreaking as the tragic Captain Queeg in this 1954 film, based on a novel by Herman Wouk, about a mutiny aboard a navy ship during World War II. Stripped of his authority by two officers under his command (played by Van Johnson and Robert Francis) during a devastating storm, Queeg becomes a crucial witness at a court martial that reveals as much about the invisible injuries of war as anything. Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Raintree County) directs the action scenes with a sure hand and nudges his all-male cast toward some of the most well-defined characters of 1950s cinema. The courtroom scenes alone have become the basis for a stage play (and a television movie in 1988), but it is a more satisfying experience to see the entire story in context.
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Biutiful
When: Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 8:00pm
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez
Duration: 146 minutes
Year: 2011
Description:
Uxbal (Bardem) is a dedicated father of two small children who is struggling to make ends meet. But when Uxbal receives some shocking news about his own health, he is forced to rethink life, death - and everything in between - in this powerful, acclaimed tale of redemption from writer/director
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