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Join us for an epic Valentine’s Romance! Whether it’s a first date, a seasoned romance or a movie with friends, The Notebook is sure to offer romance to everyone!

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to an older, invalid woman whom he regularly visits. From a faded notebook, the old man’s words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths. Though her memory has faded, his words give her the chance to relive her turbulent youth and the unforgettable love they shared.

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Following a four year separation, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his estranged French wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo)’s request, in order to finalize their divorce procedure so she can marry her new boyfriend Samir (Tahar Rahim). During his tense brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie’s relationship with her teenage daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet). Ahmad’s efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past.

“Bolstered by performances that convey profound grief and remorse without look-at-me histrionics, The Past is steeped in the believable micro details of its scenario while also expanding to universals”-Nick Schager, Village Voice

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Would you choose your natural child, or the one you believed was your own during six years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the acclaimed director of Nobody Knows and Still Walking, returns with another incredibly touching family drama, winner of the Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Following an unexpected phone call, affluent architect Ryota and his wife, Midori, learn that their six-year-old son, Keita, was switched at the hospital and is not their biological child. Seeing Midori’s devotion to Keita even after the news, and observing the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years, Ryota begins to question his own values on fatherhood as he must choose between ‘nature’ and ‘nurture,’ a decision that will change their lives forever.

“A tender poem about the ebb and flow of paternal love.”-Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

“This is a relentlessly quiet character study that is photographed with Zen remove and scored metronomically to Bach and Beethoven, each scene clipped to the barest essentials.”-Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

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122 MIN

Rating: Unrated

Catch all of the 2014 Oscar-nominated Live Action short films in one feature-length program:

Helium (Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson, Denmark/Danish, 23 min.) — A dying boy finds comfort in the tales of a magical land called HELIUM, told to him by the hospital janitor.

The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill and Baldwin Li, UK/English, 13 min.) — A psychiatrist is called to a prison to examine an inmate named Voorman, who is convinced he is a god. Starring Martin Freeman.

Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) (Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras, France/French, 30 min.) — Miriam has left her abusive husband and taken refuge with her children in the local supermarket where she works.

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me) (Esteban Crespo, Spain/Spanish, 24 min.) — Paula, a Spanish aid worker, has an encounter with an African child soldier named Kaney.

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything (Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari, Finland/Finnish, 7 min.) — Sini tries frantically to get her family ready to leave for a wedding, but her husband and two children are interfering with her efforts.

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113 MIN

Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films before the 86th Annual Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, March 2!

“Thank the gods of cinema for this annual release of Oscar nominees.”

– Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014 program offers viewers the rare opportunity to experience the year’s best short films from across the globe, collected together in this special cinematic showcase courtesy of Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures.
Animated Shorts Program

Get a Horse!
Mickey Mouse and his friends are enjoying a wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete shows up with plans to ruin their day. (Dir. by Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim, USA, in English, 6 mins.)

Mr. Hublot
The eccentric, isolated Mr. Hublot finds his carefully ordered world disrupted by the arrival of Robot Pet. (Dir. by Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares, Luxembourg/France, Non-dialogue, 12 mins.)

Feral
A wild boy who has grown up in the woods is found by a hunter and returned to civilization. (Dir. by Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden, USA, Non-dialogue, 12 mins.)

Possessions
A man seeking shelter from a storm in a dilapidated shrine encounters a series of household objects inhabited by goblin spirits. (Dir. by Shuhei Morita, Japan, Non-dialogue, 14 mins.)

Room on the Broom
A genial witch and her cat are joined on their broom by several friends as they set off on an adventure. Featuring the voices of Simon Pegg and Gillian Anderson. (Dir. by Max Land and Jan Lachauer, UK, in English, 26 mins.)

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An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo.

August 3, 2010, Pima County, Arizona—Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered T-shirt, they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die? And who—or what—is Dayani Cristal?

Marc Silver’s masterful documentary assembles the answers to these questions using beautifully realized dramatic sequences with famed actor Gael García Bernal. Silver and Bernal reconstruct this John Doe, denied an identity at his point of death, into a living and breathing human being with a full and deeply engaging life story. Unfolding like a thrilling crime drama, the film builds to an emotionally devastating climax. Who Is Dayani Cristal? tells the story of one migrant who found himself in that deadly stretch of desert known as “the corridor of death” and how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration.

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82 MIN