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Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer(s): Gustav Hasford (novel), Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) & Michael Herr (screenplay)
Cast: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey & Vincent D'Onofrio
The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker – from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.
116 MIN
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer(s): Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Frederic Raphael (screenplay), and Arthur Schnitzler (novella "Traumnovelle") (inspiration)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field
The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood’s most bankable celebrity couple. Cruise and Kidman play William and Alice Harford, a physician and a gallery manager who are wealthy, successful, and travel in a sophisticated social circle; however, a certain amount of decadence crosses their paths on occasion, and a visit to a formal-dress party leads them into sexual temptation when William is drafted into helping a beautiful girl who has overdosed on drugs while Alice is charmed by a man bent on seduction. While neither William and Alice act on their adulterous impulses, once the issue has been brought into the open, it begins a dangerous season of erotic gamesmanship for the couple, with William in particular openly confronting his desire for new sexual experiences.
“Kubrick, exactly in character, has left us as the unchallengeable champion of the enigma.” -Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
159 MIN
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Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Writer(s): Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello
Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Awards: Won 2014 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Journalist Jep Gambardella (the dazzling Toni Servillo, Il divo and Gomorrah) has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city’s literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
“Go ahead. Soak up the Beauty. It’s one of the best films of the year.” -Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
“Sorrentino’s juxtaposition of contemporary Roman indulgence and the Eternal City’s place in history’s imagination makes for a bittersweet epic in which a solitary character, Jep, stands in for the director, and us, and experiences an epiphany.” -John Anderson, Newsday
142 MIN
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Director: Alexander Payne
Writer(s): Bob Nelson
Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk, Stacy Keach
Director Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) takes the helm for this black and white road trip drama starring Bruce Dern as a tempestuous Missouri father who’s convinced he’s won a million dollar magazine sweepstakes, and Will Forte as the son who grudgingly agrees to drive him to Nebraska to claim his winnings.
115 MIN
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Director: Justin Chadwick
Writer(s): William Nicholson, Nelson Mandela
Cast: Idris Elba
Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes including Best Actor and Best Original Score
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is based on South African President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography of the same name, which chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country’s once segregated society. Idris Elba (PROMETHEUS) stars as Nelson Mandela with Justin Chadwick (THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL) directing.
139 MIN
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Director: Brian Percival
Writer(s): Markus Zusak, Michael Petroni
Cast: Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson
Awards: Nominated for a Golden Globe
Based on the beloved international bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the story of an extraordinary, spirited young girl sent to live with a foster family in WWII Germany. Intrigued by the only book she brought with her, she begins collecting books as she finds them. With the help of her new parents and a secret guest under the stairs, she learns to read and creates a magical world that inspires them all.
125 MIN
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Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Writer(s): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake
Awards: Grand Prix Festival de Cannes, 3 Golden Globe Nominations including Best Picture, 4 Critics Choice Nominations including Best Picture, Included on over 450 top 10 best films of the year lists
105 MIN
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The year is 2027, and women can no longer give birth. The youngest inhabitant of the planet has just died at the age of 18, and all hope for humanity has been lost. As civilization descends into chaos, a dying world finds one last chance for survival in the form of a woman who has become inexplicably pregnant. Now, as warring nationalistic sects clash and British leaders try to maintain their totalitarian stronghold on the country, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) is brought back into the fold of activism by his guerrilla ex-wife (Julianne Moore). Reluctantly, he takes on the daunting task of escorting Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey), the refugee who represents humankind’s last hope for survival, out of harm’s way and into the care of a mysterious organization known as The Human Project. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, and Michael Caine co-star in this adaptation of author P.D. James’s gripping 1992 novel.
From Dr. Willem M. Roosenburg’s Ohio University bio:
“In my research, I investigate the evolution of life history traits (e.g. survivorship, reproductive rates, age of first reproduction etc.) and the conservation biology (extinction and loss of biodiversity due to anthropomorphic causes) of long-lived organisms. My research philosophy is to develop a species of interest as a model system and to gain a mechanistic understanding of how environmental variation affects population dynamics of that species, using a variety of tools. I combine demographic and experimental techniques to observe variation within populations and to predict the outcome of environmental perturbations on survivorship and reproductive rates. The utility of my approach is that it allows me to simultaneously address basic ecological and evolutionary questions as well as conservation and management issues. My research focuses on how population structure, behavior, and offspring phenotype are influenced by the interaction between the incubation environment and environmental sex determination (ESD), a peculiar sex determining system in which the sex of the developing embryos is determined by the incubation temperature after the eggs are laid.”
109 MIN
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Director: Peter Ramsey
Writer(s): David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay), William Joyce (book)
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher
Rise of the Guardians is an epic adventure that tells the story of a group of heroes – each with extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
97 MIN
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