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Beat the Heat: ELEANOR’S SECRET

Watch Trailer Director: Dominique Monféry
Writer(s): Anik Le Ray, Alexandre Révérend, and Murielle Canta
Cast: Paul Bandey, Pascal Berger and Lorànt Deutsch
Awards: Won the Special Distinction award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival
Language: Dubbed in English

From Academy Award nominated director Dominique Monféry comes a sumptuously animated movie about a magic library where all the characters from classic children’s books come alive.

Nat has fond memories of his eccentric Aunt Eleanor reading to him from her enormous collection of storybooks but is frustrated by his inability to read the books himself. So he is less than thrilled when he learns that his aunt has left him the keys to her attic library as a gift. However, just as Nat’s parents are selling the collection to a shady antiques dealer, Nat discovers that the library is magical – the books are all original first editions of history’s most popular fairy tales, and the famous characters come to life! Now with the help of Alice in Wonderland, the Ogre, Peter Pan and others, he must find a way to get back the books and learn to read an ancient spell to keep the characters alive for future generations of children.

 

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Running Time: 80 minutes80 MIN
Not Rated

Charming! Imaginative! The animation appeals to all ages and parents will appreciate the pro-literacy message at the pic's heart.

Variety
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Beat the Heat: NOCTURNA

Watch Trailer Director: Adrià García and Víctor Maldonado
Writer(s): Adrià García, Víctor Maldonado and Teresa Vilardell
Cast: Imanol Arias, Joe Lewis and Molly Malcolm
Awards: Won Best Animated Feature Film at the Barcelona Film Awards, 2007
Language: Dubbed in English

Visually stunning and wildly inventive, this film explores the mystery of the night in a sweeping nocturnal adventure full of Alice in Wonderland-like characters and moody, dream-inspired landscapes. Have you ever wondered why your hair looks funny in the morning or where the sounds outside your window come from at night? A young boy named Tim finds out after an unusual discovery on the rooftop of his orphanage plunges him into the secret world of Nocturna, inhabited by curious creatures who control the night.

There are hairdressers who specialize in bed-heads, dream writers, and a vast herd of guardian cats led by the gigantic Cat Shepherd. Yet this world is in danger: the stars in the sky are disappearing, kids are becoming restless at night, and a mysterious shadow creature is haunting the empty streets, extinguishing anything that gives off light. If Tim and the Cat Shepherd can’t set things right, nighttime will never be the same! Bold anime-influenced character design and beautiful, fluid 2D animation help to create a fantastic dream world that balances the magical with a touch of menace. Tim and the audience ultimately learn that the night doesn’t have to be so scary after all.

 

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Running Time: 80 minutes80 MIN
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Graceful! Entertaining! Handsomely drawn!

Hollywood Reporter
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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
Not Rated

'The Secret of Kells' discloses strange new vistas that nonetheless seem to have existed since ancient times.

New York 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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Blue Ruin

Watch Trailer Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Writer(s): Jeremy Saulnier
Cast: Amy Hargreaves, Devin Ratray, Kevin Kolack, and Macon Blair
Awards: FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival

A beach bum finds his quiet life upended by dreadful news and sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of revenge. Proving an inept assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

“It’s a brilliant, slow-burning American revenge thriller that hardly puts a foot wrong, a work of startling violence and profound conscience that announces the arrival of an exciting young director.” – Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

“A feral and staggeringly well-conceived revenge saga.” – David EhrlichFilm.com

“terrifically ominous and full of low-key, high-quality performances” – Sara Stewart, New York Post

 

Coming May 2nd

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Running Time: 90 Minutes 90 MIN
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The Lunchbox

Watch Trailer Director: Ritesh Batra
Writer(s): Ritesh Batra
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Lillete Dubey, and Nimrat Kaur

Middle class housewife Ila is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage, this time through her cooking. She desperately hopes that this new recipe will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares a special lunchbox to be delivered to him at work, but, unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan, a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a little note in the following day’s lunchbox, in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the mystery. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the mere comfort of communicating with a stranger anonymously soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears, and even small joys. They each discover a new sense of self and find an anchor to hold on to in the big city of Mumbai that so often crushes hopes and dreams. Still strangers physically, Ila and Saajan become lost in a virtual relationship that could jeopardize both their realities.

“a feast of delights” – Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

“a sumptuous treat” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

“A touching and credible story that easily draws the viewer into the lives of its characters.” – Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times

 

Coming May 2

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Running Time: 104 Minutes104 MIN
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College Green Magazine Presents: People of a Feather – One Night Only April 24th

Watch Trailer Director: Joel Heath

Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of the Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Canada’s Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present and future is a unique relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters. Traditional life is juxtaposed with modern challenges as both Inuit and eiders confront changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the massive hydroelectric dams powering New York and eastern North America. Inspired by Inuit ingenuity and the technology of a simple feather, the film is a call to action to implement energy solutions that work with nature.

“Interweaving Inuit life today with re-enactments of the culture 100 years ago, “People of a Feather” warmly portrays a cold, uncertain present and a worrying future.” – Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

This is a FREE showing sponsored by College Green Magazine.

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Le Week-End

Watch Trailer Director: Roger Michell
Writer(s): Hanif Kureishi
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Jim Broadbent, and Lindsay Duncan

Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan), a long-married British couple, revisit Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. During a two-day escapade, diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony to resignation and back again as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness—and even deeper regret. A surprise invitation from Nick’s old friend Morgan (Jeff Goldblum), an amusingly boorish American academic with a fancy Parisian address, soon leads them to an unexpectedly hopeful vision of what their love and marriage might still become.

“Captures Paris in all its sensuous delight…a truly romantic film.” – Harper’s Bazaar

“Smart, substantial and enchanting.” – Rex Reed, New York Observer

 

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Running Time: 93 Minutes93 MIN
R Rated

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Free Universal Premiere: NEIGHBORS

Watch Trailer Director: Nicholas Stoller
Writer(s): Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien
Cast: Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Dave Franco, Lisa Kudrow, and Jake Johnson

Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne lead the cast of Neighbors, a comedy about a young couple suffering from arrested development who are forced to live next to a fraternity house after the birth of their newborn baby. Neighbors is directed by Nick Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek).

“Zac Efron gives one of his most credible and intriguing performances” – Andrew Barker, Variety

“Neighbors is one of the funniest, most visually inventive studio comedies in recent memory.” – Drew Taylor, The Playlist

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Running Time: 96 Minutes96 MIN
R Rated
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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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