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Kill Your Darlings: Playing at the Athena Now Through December 12th

Watch Trailer Director: John Krokidas
Writer(s): John Krokidas, Austin Bunn
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Ben Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick, David Cross, and Michael C. Hall

Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg in this biopic set during the famed poet’s early years at Columbia University, and centering on a murder investigation involving Ginsberg, his handsome classmate Lucien Carr, and fellow Beat author William Burroughs. The year is 1944. Ginsberg (Radcliffe) is a young student at Columbia University when he falls hopelessly under the spell of charismatic classmate Carr (Dane DeHaan). Alongside Carr, Ginsberg manages to strike up friendships with aspiring writers William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) that would cast conformity to the wind, and serve as the foundation of the Beat movement. Meanwhile, an older outsider named David Krammerer falls deeply and madly in love with the impossibly cool Carr. Later, when Krammerer dies under mysterious circumstances, police arrest Kerouac, Burroughs, and Carr as potential suspects, paving the way for an investigation that would have a major impact on the lives of the three emerging artists. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick, David Cross, and Michael C. Hall co-star.

“Sex, lies, betrayal and murder set among the gods of the Beat Generation. That’s Kill Your Darlings, a dark beauty of a film that gets inside your head and stays there.”-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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Running Time: 100 Minutes100 MIN
R Rated

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Enough Said

Watch Trailer Director: Nicole Holofcener
Writer(s): Nicole Holofcener
Cast: James Gandolfini, Julie Louis-Dreyfus, Catherine Keener, Toni Collette

A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter’s impending departure for college. She meets Albert (James Gandolfini) – a sweet, funny and like-minded man also facing an empty nest. As their romance quickly blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne (Catherine Keener), her new massage client. Marianne is a beautiful poet who seems “almost perfect” except for one prominent quality: she rags on her ex-husband way too much. Suddenly, Eva finds herself doubting her own relationship with Albert as she learns the truth about Marianne’s Ex. ENOUGH SAID is a sharp, insightful comedy that humorously explores the mess that often comes with getting involved again.

“Feisty, funny, fizzy and deeply wise, “Enough Said” sparkles within and without, just like the rare gem that it is.”-Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

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Running Time: 93 Minutes93 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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All Is Lost: Playing at the Athena Now Through December 12th

Watch Trailer Director: J.C. Chandor
Writer(s): J.C. Chandor
Cast: Robert Redford

Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. With his navigation equipment and radio disabled, the man sails unknowingly into the path of a violent storm. Despite his success in patching the breached hull, his mariner’s intuition and a strength that belies his age, the man barely survives the tempest. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the face.

“There is incredible tension in this ordeal, this effort to survive, to find rescue, and Redford – an icon of the American film experience for more than half a century now – makes that tension deeply palpable.”-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
“It’s a classic tale of survival that draws on how movies, in the right hands, can make viewers see the world through others’ eyes, and to feel what keeps them grasping as it threatens to slip away.”-Keith Phipps

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Running Time: 106 Minutes106 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Dads Weekend: CADDYSHACK

Director: Harold Ramis
Writer(s): Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney
Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray
Language: English

Take your Dad to a movie that never grows old!

At an exclusive country club for WASPish snobs, an ambitious young caddy (Michael O’Keefe) from an overpopulated home eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favor of the elitist Judge Smails (Ted Knight), then the caddy golf tournament which the good judge sponsors. Of course, there are love interests as well — one good, one naughty — not to mention several foes he must vanquish along the way. The story itself serves to string along a series of slapstick scenes involving an obnoxious nouveau riche land developer (Rodney Dangerfield) who wants to turn the site into a condominium community; an oddball, Zen-quoting, millionaire slacker/golf ace (Chevy Chase); and a psychotic groundskeeper (Bill Murray) with a gopher-fixation.

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Running Time: 98 min98 MIN
R Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

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How I Live Now

Watch Trailer Director: Kevin Macdonald
Writer(s): Jeremy Brock
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, George MacKay, Harley Bird

Set in the near-future UK, Ronan plays Daisy, an American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside. Initially withdrawn and alienated, she begins to warm up to her charming surroundings, and strikes up a romance with the handsome Edmund (George MacKay). But on the fringes of their idyllic summer days are tense news reports of an escalating conflict in Europe. As the UK falls into a violent, chaotic military state, Daisy finds herself hiding and fighting to survive.

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Running Time: 100 Minutes100 MIN
R Rated

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Populaire

Watch Trailer Director: Régis Roinsard
Writer(s): Régis Roinsard, Daniel Presley
Cast: Roman Duris, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo
Awards: Best Narrative Feature Audience Award San Francisco International Film Festival
Language: French

Spring, 1958: 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that’s not the life Rose longs for. When she travels to Lisieux in Normandy, where charismatic insurance agency boss Louis Echard is advertising for a secretary, the ensuing interview is a disaster. But Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at extraordinary speed. Unwittingly, the young woman awakens the dormant sports fan in Louis. If she wants the job she’ll have to compete in a speed typing competition. Whatever sacrifices Rose must make to reach the top, Louis declares himself her trainer. He’ll turn her into the fastest girl not only in the country, but in the world! But a love of sport doesn’t always mix well with love itself.

“Even when there’s tragedy around the turn, it doesn’t matter. Populaire plays like a musical – you expect anyone, at any time, to break into song.”-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

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Running Time: 111 Minutes111 MIN
R Rated

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Haute Cuisine

Watch Trailer Director: Christian Vincent
Writer(s): Etienne Comar, Christian Vincent
Cast: Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Jean d'Ormesson
Language: French

Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot), a renowned chef from Perigord, is astonished when the President of the Republic (Jean d’Ormesson) appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Elysée Palace. Despite jealous resentment from the other kitchen staff, Hortense quickly establishes herself, thanks to her indomitable spirit. The authenticity of her cooking soon seduces the President, but the corridors of power are littered with traps…

“Haute Cuisine is an epicurean dream where the dishes conjured up by the characters are as essential to the experience as the characters themselves.”-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Writer-director Christian Vincent and co-writer Étienne Comar, aided by Frot’s quiet intensity, imbue Hortense’s quest to pull off culinary miracles with an urgency that’s almost absurdly compelling, and all the more entertaining for it.”-Chuck Wilson, Village Voice

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Running Time: 95 Minutes95 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Wadjda

Watch Trailer Director: Haifaa Al Mansour
Writer(s): Haifaa Al Mansour
Cast: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed
Awards: Winner of over 15 International Film Festival Awards including Directors to Watch at Palm Springs
Language: Arabic

WADJDA is a movie of firsts. This first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia is the story of a young girl living in a suburb of Riyadh determined to raise enough money to buy a bike in a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. Even more impressive, WADJDA is the first feature film made by a female Saudi filmmaker. In a country where cinemas are banned and women cannot drive or vote, writer- director Haifaa Al Mansour has broken many barriers with her new film.

“This is not just the first feature by Haifaa Al Mansour but the first feature to be directed by a woman from Saudi Arabia. That is quite a burden, and yet by some miracle the movie bears it with lightness and grace.”-Anthony Lane, New Yorker

“A simple, solid, deeply affecting film, Wadjda is something rare: the work of a female Saudi filmmaker, Haifaa Al Mansour, and a feature from a country that has long outlawed cinemas.”-Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

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Running Time: 98 Minutes98 MIN
PG Rated

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Muscle Shoals

Watch Trailer Director: Greg Camalier
Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Gregg Allman, Jimmy Cliff

MUSCLE SHOALS is a documentary about a place filled with magic and music, legend and folklore, where the river is inhabited by a Native American spirit who has lured some of the greatest Rock and Roll and Soul legends of all time, and drawn from them some of the most uplifting, defiant, and important music ever created. In Muscle Shoals, Alabama, music runs through the hills, the river, and the spirit of the people. It is a place where, even before the Civil Rights Movement really took shape, the color of your skin didn’t matter inside the studio.

“It is hands down one of the best music documentaries ever made.”-Paul de Barros, Seattle Times

“Just as “Sweet Home Alabama” speaks for itself without revealing its meaning, so does this American story of ferment and feuding and amazing pop music.”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

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Running Time: 111 Minutes111 MIN
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Blue Is The Warmest Color

Watch Trailer Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer(s): Julie Maroh, Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalia Lacroix
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche
Awards: Lea Seydoux - Breakthrough Performer, Abdellatif Kechiche - FIPRESCI Prize, Kechiche/Adèle Exarchopoulos Exarchopoulos, Lea Seydoux - Palme d'Or
Language: French

The sensation of the Cannes Film Festival and the most controversial film of the year, Blue is the Warmest Color made cinema history as the first film ever awarded the Palme d’Or to both its director and its actresses. In a star-making role, Adèle Exarchopoulos is Adèle, a passionate young woman who has a yearning she doesn’t quite understand until a chance encounter with the blue-haired Emma ignites a flame and brings her to life. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) gives a fearless performance as Emma, the older woman who excites Adèle’s desire and becomes the love of her life. Abdellatif Kechiche’s (The Secret of the Grain) intimate epic of tenderness and passion charts their relationship over the course of several years, from the ecstasy of a first kiss to the agony of heartbreak. Pulsing with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation, Blue is the Warmest Color is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life.

“Remarkable…the first great love story of the 21st century”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

“From the moment when Adèle first catches sight of Emma, on a busy crosswalk, the movie restores your faith in the power of the coup de foudre and yet redoubles your fear of its effect; love, like lightning, can both illuminate and scorch.”–Anthony Lane, New Yorker

“Somehow Seydoux and Exarchopoulos manifest an idea of desire, a mood that performers and directors often fail to capture even when there’s good on-set chemistry.”-Stephanie Zacharek ,Village Voice

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Running Time: 179 min179 MIN
NC-17 Rated

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