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Beat the Heat: THE SECRET OF KELLS

Watch Trailer Director: Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey
Writer(s): Tomm Moore and Fabrice Ziolkowski
Cast: Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson and Mick Lally
Awards: Academy Award Nominee, Best Animated Feature
Language: Dubbed in English

Magic, fantasy and Celtic mythology come together in a riot of color and detail that dazzle the eyes in this sweeping story about the power of imagination and faith to carry humanity through dark times. Features the voices of Brendan Gleeson (HARRY POTTER, IN BRUGES), Mick Lally, Evan McGuire and Christen Mooney.

Young Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide. It is here that he meets the fairy Aisling, a mysterious young wolf-girl, who helps him along the way. But with the barbarians closing in, will Brendan’s determination and artistic vision illuminate the darkness and show that enlightenment is the best fortification against evil?

 

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Running Time: 75 minutes75 MIN
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'The Secret of Kells' discloses strange new vistas that nonetheless seem to have existed since ancient times.

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Beat the Heat: MIA AND THE MIGOO

Watch Trailer Director: Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Writer(s): Benoît Chieux, Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Antoine Lanciaux, Stephanie Sheh and Iouri Tcherenkov
Cast: Featuring the voices of: John DiMaggio, Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew Modine, Wallace Shawn, James Woods
Awards: Won Best Animated Film at the European Film Awards, 2009

One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.

From the distributors of the Academy Award nominated THE SECRET OF KELLS comes the gorgeous second feature from renowned French animator Jacques-Rémy Girerd. Created from an astounding 500,000 hand-painted frames of animation, MIA AND THE MIGOO is a work of art, breathtaking to behold, with backgrounds that invoke Van Gogh, Monet, and Cezanne. Figures are outlined in pastel and bathed in rustic watercolors for a handcrafted look that bursts at the seams with painterly detail. The film is a fable-like journey of a young girl who must overcome her fears on a quest to find her father and save the world from destruction.

 

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Running Time: 92 minutes92 MIN
PG Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

A hand-painted film that draws inspiration from Van Gogh and Cezanne, MIA AND THE MIGOO is genuinely beautiful, with eye-popping color and motion and dreamscapes; really inspired stuff.

The Oregonian
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Finding Vivian Maier: Last Night, May 29th

Watch Trailer Director: John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Writer(s): John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Cast: John Maloof, Mary Ellen Mark, Phil Donahue
Awards: Won the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival 2014

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER is the critically acclaimed documentary about a mysterious nanny, who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that were hidden in storage lockers and, discovered decades later, is now among the 20th century’s greatest photographers. Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, Maier’s strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never before seen photographs, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.

Maier’s massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.

Currently, Vivian Maier’s body of work is being archived and cataloged for the enjoyment of others and for future generations. John Maloof is at the core of this project after reconstructing most of the archive, having been previously dispersed to the various buyers attending that auction. Now, with roughly 90% of her archive reconstructed, Vivian’s work is part of a renaissance in interest in the art of Street Photography.

Coming May 2.

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Running Time: 83 minutes83 MIN
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The Wind Rises

Watch Trailer Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer(s): Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt and Mae Whitman
Awards: Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

In THE WIND RISES, Jiro (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni (Stanley Tucci). Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko (Emily Blunt), and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo (John Krasinski).

Writer and director Hayao Miyazaki pays tribute to engineer Jiro Horikoshi and author Tatsuo Hori in this epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world.

“To see “The Wind Rises” is to simultaneously marvel at the work of a master and regret that this film is likely his last.”-Kenneth Turan

“Perhaps the greatest animated film ever made.”-David Elrich, Film.com

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Running Time: 126 minutes126 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

Watch Trailer Director: Sophie Fiennes
Writer(s): Slavoj Zizek
Cast: Slavoj Zizek

The makers of THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA return with THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes use their interpretation of moving pictures to present a compelling cinematic journey into the heart of ideology – the dreams that shape our collective beliefs and practices.

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Running Time: 136 minutes136 MIN
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Gloria

Watch Trailer Director: Sebastián Lelio
Writer(s): Sebastián Lelio and Gonzalo Maza
Cast: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández and Diego Fontecilla
Language: Spanish

Gloria is a “woman of a certain age” but still feels young. Though lonely, she makes the best of her situation and fills her nights seeking love at social dance clubs for single adults. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives her all, leaves her vacillating between hope and despair – until she uncovers a new strength and realizes that, in her golden years, she can shine brighter than ever.

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Running Time: 110 minutes110 MIN
R Rated

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Universal Premiere: NON-STOP

Watch Trailer Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Writer(s): John W. Richardson, Christopher Roach and Ryan Engle
Cast: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong'o and Michelle Dockery

Global action star Liam Neeson stars in NON-STOP, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes.

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Running Time: 106 minutes106 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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Universal Premiere: ENDLESS LOVE

Watch Trailer Director: Shana Feste
Writer(s): Shana Feste and Joshua Safran
Cast: Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer and Bruce Greenwood

Endless Love stars Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

Directed by Shana Feste (Country Strong), the romantic drama co-stars Robert Patrick, Bruce Greenwood, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby and Joely Richardson.

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Running Time: 103 minutes103 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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The Invisible Woman

Watch Trailer Director: Ralph Fiennes
Writer(s): Abi Morgan and Claire Tomalin
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones and Kristin Scott Thomas
Awards: Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design

Nelly, a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.

Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success – falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens as a brilliant amateur actor; a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on the stage than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them the secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of invisibility.

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Running Time: 111 minutes111 MIN
R Rated

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Science on Screen®: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Watch Trailer Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer(s): Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and William Sylvester
Awards: Won an Academy Award for Best Special Visual Effects, 1969

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Anthropology and Human Evolution: Past, Present, and Future

A discussion on how far we’ve come and what the next step in evolution will look like with paleo-artist John Gurche.

About the film

Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award-winning achievement is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a compelling drama of man vs. machine. Kubrick first visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.

About the speaker

John Gurche’s award winning work has appeared on the covers of National Geographic, Discover and Natural History Magazines and his work can be seen at the Smithsonian, the Field Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History, among others. Of prime importance in this work are scientific accuracy and a high degree of realism that will transport the viewer in time. His work focuses especially on human origins and on dinosaurs, but includes other ancient life as well.

 

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Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Science on Screen program pairs films with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging, offering dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

 

Free admission to this event is provided by Arts for OHIO.

 

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Running Time: 160 minutes160 MIN
G Rated
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