What Would Jesus Buy
When: January, Saturday 2nd, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Rob VanAlkemade
Starring: Reverend Billy
Runtime: 91 min
Year: 2007
Description:
Religion aside for a moment, there's a terrible addiction that has swept across this country, and it's one of the nation's best kept secrets. Mostly everyone will tell you that it's a really bad thing, but nobody can seem to stop doing it. And it doesn't come cheap, nearly sixty percent of us are in long term debt because of it. No, we're not talking booze, drugs or overeating. It's shopping. And over 15 million Americans may in fact be addicted to it.
What Would Jesus Buy?' is a rousing, irreverent and simultaneously sobering documentary about the year round destructive shopaholic obsession that spins into an out of control buying and spending orgy by the time Christmas rolls around. The movie follows performance activist Reverend Billy and his ragtag cross country caravan, The Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir.
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What I Did For Love
When: January, Saturday 9th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Mark Griffiths
Starring: Jeremy London, Dorie Barton
Runtime: 88 min
Year: 2006
Description:
Call him a city slicker. Call him a tenderfoot. But don't call him a member of the family--yet. Rising L.A. lawyer James White is going home for the holidays with his fiancée, Sadie Ryder, to finally meet her family in rural Pine Gap. After blundering through a bad first impression, James attempts to win over Sadie's lawyer-loathing father Karl by pretending to be a horse-riding, hay-baling, game-hunting, seasoned square dancer. But a pair of worn jeans and a ten-gallon hat don't make a cowboy, and it's going to take more than mere posturing to charm Mr. Ryder...in fact, it just may take a miracle.
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Last Chance Harvey
When: January, Saturday 16th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Joel Hopkins
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson
Runtime: 93 min
Year: 2008
Description:
Harvey and Kate are likable, middle-aged professionals who've resigned themselves to being single for the rest of their lives. They keep themselves busy so that they won't notice how lonely they really are. Harvey writes piano compositions in his spare time. Kate takes writing classes and is forever taking phone calls from her mother concerned about her daughter's spinsterhood. When Harvey and Kate coincidentally meet time after time in London, where Harvey is attending his daughter's wedding they soon find themselves drawn to each other and shyly enjoying each other's company.
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You - A Love Story
When: January, Saturday 23rd, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Paula Cole
Starring: Melora Hardin, Gildart Jackson
Runtime: 84 min
Year: 2009
Description:
You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming of age journey for both the father and his daughter, You is filled with the magic of life and love and family. Miranda and Rawdon are meant to be - soulmates - basking in the bliss of their newborn daughter, Quincey. But when Miranda dies suddenly, Rawdon is left to raise Quincey on his own, and by keeping Miranda alive in his imagination he is both helped and hindered in moving on. You is a thought provoking, unsentimental, life-affirming film that draws the audience into the heart of a family.
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When A Man Loves A Woman
When: Saturday, February 6th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Luis Mandoki
Starring: Meg Ryan, Andy Garcia
Runtime: 126 min
Year: 1994
Description:
As Alice and Michael, Ryan and Garcia are a passionate couple whose once-stable marriage is rocked by her increasing dependence on alcohol. The audience sees Meg slowly spiral completely out of control, and how low she has to go until she finally is ready to reach out for help. While Alice goes through the process, she cannot see her family, nor does she particularly want to. When she comes home from rehab, she's a transformed person. She's got an edge to her, a fierceness, she did not have before, and she has to cling to that difference to avoid falling back into her old patterns. Her husband, who has been comfortable in the caretaker role, does not know what to do. He wants to take care of her and help her as he has always done, but she now must take care of herself.
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The Painted Veil
When: Saturday, February 13th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: John Curran
Starring: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton
Runtime: 125 min
Year: 2007
Description:
Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Painted Veil" is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.
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House of D
When: Saturday, February 20th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: David Duchovny
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Robin Williams
Runtime: 125 min
Year: 2004
Description:
The bulk of the story, told in flashback, portrays 13-year-old Tom (Anton Yelchin) as a quick-witted prince of his neighborhood, a delivery boy who knows every eccentric on his bicycle route and a Catholic school kid fond of playing pranks on his clueless French teacher and soulful principal (Frank Langella). His best friend is the school's mildly retarded, 41-year-old janitor, Pappas (Robin Williams), and his advisor on matters of the heart is Lady (Erykah Badu), a prison inmate whom the fatherless Tom (or Tommy, as he's called in 1973) can neither see nor touch. Tommy's vivacity is an asset at home, where
his mother (Tea Leoni), a grieving widow with a mounting addiction to pills, is slipping away from her son's ability to help. Duchovny's screenplay sometimes borders on the precious: A number of scenes are enamored with their own boldness and originality, as if Duchovny has been squirreling away lots of colorfully expressive storytelling details for years, and unloaded them here. But that flaw all but disappears in the glow of House of D's emotional resonance and honesty, not to mention several exceptional performances. Among these is Zelda Williams's work as Tommy's sage-beyond-her-years girlfriend, Melissa, whose name offers a suitable excuse to work a rather lovely Allman Brothers song into the soundtrack.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
When: Saturday, February 27th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet
Runtime: 137 min
Year: 1990
Description:
Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau and cowriter Jean-Claude Carriere had the brilliant idea of casting France's most lovably vulnerable hunk, the massive Gerard Depardieu, in one of French literature's meatiest roles: the sword-wielding poet Cyrano. Equipped with a massive nose and a heart to match, Depardieu soars as the heart-broken soldier who must lend his words of love to another man to woo the woman he yearns for. Rappeneau spared no expense in taking this Edmond Rostand play into realistic locations for the battle scenes in the second act, making the film as exciting as it is romantic and funny. Depardieu attacks the role in great gulps, consuming all the oxygen in any room he enters. Macho but sensitive, he creates a larger-than-life Cyrano, whose wrenching sadness at the lack of interest from his lady love will have you reaching for the tissues.
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Goodbye Solo
When: Saturday, March 6th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Starring: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West
Runtime: 91 min
Year: 2008
Description:
One man is filled with hope for a new life in America. The other is convinced there is nothing left to live for. Together, this odd couple will embark on a journey that will change them both forever. From acclaimed director Ramin Bahrani (CHOP SHOP) comes a powerful story of friendship and forgiveness that earned rave reviews and won the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
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Whaledreamers
When: Saturday, April 03, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Kim Kindersley
Starring: John Hurt, Julian Lennon
Runtime: 89 min
Year: 2006
Description:
This documentary, produced by Julian Lennon, explores the connection between whales and a tribe. The aborigines he features center their culture--as well as their creation myth--on whales, even though both the tribe and the whales are slowly disappearing. WHALEDREAMERS features narration by Australian actor Jack Thompson (DECEMBER BOYS) and appearances from John Hurt, Pierce Brosnan, and Geoffrey Rush.
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Fearless
When: Saturday, March 13th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini
Runtime: 112 min
Year: 2006
Description:
When Max Klein (Jeff Bridges) finds himself facing imminent death as his plane hurls toward the ground, he finds inner calm and release from fear in his acceptance of his own unavoidable end. His panic erased, he helps other passengers to relax, and when he survives the impact, to escape. What follows is his difficult and complex journey back to emotional and spiritual equilibrium. Along the way he helps Carla (Rosie Perez), a woman smashed by the belief that her infant son's death in the accident was the direct result of her inability to hold him tightly enough, and alienates his wife, Laura (Isabella Rossellini), who tries desperately to understand what he's experiencing. Peter Weir's film is emotionally intense in an absolutely unsentimental way (very rare), and the complexity of the protagonist's experience is refreshing (if you don't mind feeling deeply). The handling of the crash sequences is chilling in an unsensational way, and the directing in general is a triumph of story-serving restraint. Not the usual Hollywood fare, but intensely rewarding for those who are tired of mind candy.
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The Winter Guest
When: Saturday, March 20th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Alan Rickman
Starring: Emma Thompson, Phyllida Law
Runtime: 110 min
Year: 1997
Description:
In this astonishingly beautiful drama, recently widowed photographer Frances (Academy Award winner Emma Thompson) lives with her increasingly distant son and finds her life radically changed with the arrival of her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law, Thompson's real-life mother). In a remote Scottish village, this family and the people around them are forever changed on the coldest day of the year as hearts begin to melt.
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Five People You Meet In Heaven
When: Saturday, March 27th, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Lloyd Kramer
Starring: Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn
Runtime: 133 min
Year: 2004
Description:
Based on the bestseller by Mitch Albom (Tuesdays With Morrie), The Five People You Meet in Heaven takes up where It’s A Wonderful Life left off. In the Capra classic, George Bailey gets a vision of life without him. In this Hallmark Hall of Fame production, Eddie (Jon Voight), an amusement park maintenance man and war veteran, ends up in Heaven after an accident takes his life. There he meets five people from his past: the Blue Man (Jeff Richards), the Captain (Michael Imperioli), Marguerite (Dagmara Dominczyk), Ruby (Ellen Burstyn), and Tala (Nicaela and Shelbie Weigel). Each shows him how he impacted their life or they his--and not always for the better. (In these flashbacks, Callahan Brebner and Steven Grayhm play the young Eddie.) The point may seem simplistic--everyone is connected--but The Five People You Meet in Heaven finds a unique and engaging way to make it.
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Whaledreamers
When: Saturday, April 03, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Kim Kindersley
Starring: John Hurt, Julian Lennon
Runtime: 89 min
Year: 2006
Description:
This documentary, produced by Julian Lennon, explores the connection between whales and a tribe. The aborigines he features center their culture--as well as their creation myth--on whales, even though both the tribe and the whales are slowly disappearing. WHALEDREAMERS features narration by Australian actor Jack Thompson (DECEMBER BOYS) and appearances from John Hurt, Pierce Brosnan, and Geoffrey Rush.
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Baraka
When: Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Ron Fricke
Runtime: 104 min
Year: 1994
Description:
From Nepal to Kenya, from Australia to Brazil, people try to cope with the changes that have altered their landscape, crowding them together and speeding up daily life. The film shows us these alienated people, but also images of traditions--whirling dervishes and Tibetan monks--that offer different, peaceful ways of existence. Shot in 70mm in 24 countries, this awesome musical and visual montage in the tradition of KOYAANISQATSI expresses the global existence of nature and man in the broadest sensory terms.
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The Cider House Rules
When: Saturday, April 17, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron
Runtime: 130 min
Year: 1994
Description:
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, an expertly crafted and intelligent adapation of John Irving's novel, explores themes of disappointment, ideas of moral ambiguity, and, indeed, lessons about life itself, woven into a dramatic story that is neither slow nor sentimental. Tobey Maguire is the immensely likable Homer Wells, a lifelong resident of a Maine orphanage who comes of age during WWII under the auspices of its director, Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine). Larch is pragmatic, progressive, highly intelligent, and loathe to let Homer go out into the world. He sees him as a son, and the only one whose medical training allows for him to take over when he retires from his job as physician, obstetrician, and illegal abortionist. When ingenue Candy (Charlize Theron) and air force adventurer Wally (Paul Rudd), come to Larch for help with an abortion, Homer befriends the couple and, against Larch's wishes, sets off with them to see the world, or at least the rest of Maine. Working at an apple orchard owned by Wally's mother (Kate Nelligan), Homer lives and works with a group of African-American migrant workers, among them the morally ambiguous Mr. Rose Delroy Lindo and his beloved daughter Rose Rose (Erykah Badu in a stunning debut). When Wally goes off to war, and Rose Rose gets into a complex and frightening situation, Homer is faced with serious choices and dilemmas that can only be solved by the wisdom he has learned from Larch. A classic, old-fashioned-style American film that deals directly with sensitive and taboo issues, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES is a beautifully acted, carefully paced story full of substance.
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Bee Season
When: Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Scott McGehee
Starring: Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche
Runtime: 104 min
Year: 2005
Description:
Based on the bestselling novel by Myla Goldberg, BEE SEASON follows a family of seekers, each of whom is looking to God, transcendence, or love, in their search for something greater than themselves. Eleven-year-old Eliza Nauman (Flora Cross in a promising debut) is on her way to becoming the national spelling bee champion, much to the delight of her heretofore somewhat dismissive father, Saul (Richard Gere). A professor of religion who wrote his thesis on Jewish mysticism, Saul has previously shown more interest in Eliza's older brother, Aaron (Max Minghella), a serious-minded young scholar and cello player. In what soon becomes clear is his customary manner, Saul takes control of Eliza's spelling career, and focuses on her to the exclusion of the rest of his family. Meanwhile, his wife, Miriam (Juliette Binoche), is quietly facing a spiritual crisis, and unbeknownst to her family is engaging in petty thievery in her quest for beauty and salvation. Saul is unwilling to admit that anything is wrong-and thus out of his control-while the unmoored Aaron turns to the beatific Chali (Kate Bosworth), a hare Krishna, for spiritual sustenance and comfort. As Saul attempts to tap Eliza's uncanny knack with words and create a pipeline to God according to the tenets of an ancient Kabbalah scholar, Eliza blames herself for everyone's troubles. As the final competition draws nigh and the family disintegrates, however, it might just be that Eliza is the only one who can save them.
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Qué tan lejos
When: Saturday, May 1, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Tania Hermida
Starring: Pancho Aguirre, Tania Martinez
Runtime: 92 min
Year: 2006
Description:
Based A story like no other in which reality and drama blend in a fascinating way. Esperanza and Tristeza, two young adventurers, set on a trip through the mountains and coasts of Ecuador. Ironically, when the bus they are traveling on breaks down, they decide to continue on their own and that is when that their real journey begins. Every character they meet along the way will make them discover a different facet of themselves and the true meaning of love.
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Amal
When: Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Richie Mehta
Starring: Rupinder Nagra, Naseeruddin Shah
Runtime: 101 min
Year: 2008
Description:
Based Award Winning Canadian Film.
Autorickshaw driver Amal is content with the small, but vital, role he serves - driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire G.K., who, moved by Amal's humility, in one final act of anonymous generosity, bestowed Amal his entire fortune before passing away. But the executor of G.K.'s estate has only thirty days to find one common rickshaw driver in a bustling city of 14 million, otherwise the money reverts back to the millionaire's rightful family. While experiencing the heartwarming street-scenes (for all those who have experienced India), the prospect of the estate executer actually locating Amal is growing slimmer with each passing day and G.K.'s greedy family is willing to get downright vicious in order to claim the inheritance as their own.
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Thomas and the Rainbow
When: Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Vic Sarin
Written by: Vic Sarin, Catherine Spear and Dennis Foon
Runtime: 100 min
Year: 2005
Description:
Maire transforms an Orphan boy’s world when she brings him to live in her small island village, off the coast of Ireland. Her reticent husband Alec can barely hide his disappointment when he meets the frail, shy eight year old. Undiscouraged, Maire introduces Thomas to the wonders of his new world, and shows him that you can find magic anywhere – if you really look.
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Malèna
When: Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro
Runtime: 109 min
Year: 2000
Description:
When 12-year-old Renato, riding through his small Italian town on his new bicycle, sees the voluptuous Malèna, his journey into manhood amid the chaos and intolerance of World War II begins. Malèna's looks spark lust and envy in the townspeople; when her husband dies in combat, the gossip only intensifies, to the point that Malèna is dragged into court to defend herself against accusations of adultery. When the women of the town refuse to sell her edible food at the market, Malèna has little choice but to become what she's been unjustly accused of being. At the end, a twist of fate turns this tale of longing and jealousy into a heartbreaking love story.
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Chicago
When: Saturday, June 05, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Taye Diggs, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Runtime: 113 min
Year: 2002
Description:
The story, all about merry murderesses and tabloid fame, is set in the Roaring '20s, when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines and nightclub sensation. Chicago tells the tale of two ruthless female vaudeville performers -- one past her prime, the other aspiring to stardom -- who compete for notoriety while incarcerated on the city's famed Murderers Row for violently avenging romantic betrayals.
The film's sheer exuberance is intoxicating.
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Invictus
When: Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Runtime: 134 min
Year: 2009
Description:
After South Africa elected Nelson Mandela president, the racially divided country could've easily erupted into civil war. Nelson Mandela rejects revenge, forgives oppressors who jailed him 27 years for his fight against apartheid and finds hope of national unity in an unlikely place: the rugby field. Knowing that his country was set to host the Rugby World Cup in 1995, Mandela believed the national team could provide an example of reconciliation in action. Instead of changing their name or colors, Mandela encouraged them to do the impossible, win for the sake of their homeland.
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New York, I Love You
When: Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Bradley Cooper
Runtime: 103 min
Year: 2009
Description:
Ten directors had two days to shoot and one week to edit individual segments that are linked by transitions. Immerse in the dozen NY tales, sad and joyful, awe inspiring and comical, the vignettes intertwine the lives of ordinary city dwellers into a moving tour of private and public aspects of NY. They serve to paint a composite view of NY life as influenced by immigrants from many corners of the globe. Subtle, varied, sophisticated; just like New York.
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